Elliott's kind offer to aid prompts Shea to ask him to help. He finds since writing that Father John Farnan was at Saint James', Brooklyn till 1832. Elliott's reference to Father Peter Potier, S.J. reminds him that Judge John Campbell has a beautiful manuscript of Potier of the revision of Chaumonot's grammar. Shea tried to get it from Campbell but it went to the Archbishop's library. Shea regrets that so little history material about Catholics is preserved, Detroit has had a chapel since 1701 and the wonders if there is a chalice, ciborium, monstrance, or vestment of the French still kept. In Maryland where Catholicity has existed since 1632 one can scarcely find a trace to show what it was in the eighteenth century. Bookplate of Elliott attached. :: III-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.