While enclosing a receipt for $1000, the third payment made by Corrigan this year, he must express how much he and all Catholics owe to Corrigan for the generous friends he has interested in the Church History of this country. The accident made it very difficult for Shea to continue his work, but Corrigan's action enables him to complete the work as he projected it. Besides adding steadily to his stock of documents from Rome and diocesan collections here, he has acquired a rich mine of other material. Since the beginning of the year he has laboured on his third volume. He can finish it next month. He will then set out for the West in search of documents and letters, and upon his return he will begin writing the fourth volume, which he hopes to complete by the first of May. He hopes to be able to issue the final volume early in 1892. His aim is to be able to finish the whole work before the Columbus centenary. He hopes to receive a complete list from Corrigan of those who cooperated with him so that to them he may dedicate his fifth volume. An incomplete copy in the handwriting of James F. Edwards accompanies this letter. :: II-2-o A.L.S., Receipt, Copy 5pp. 12mo.