According to a curious story, Father Richard L. Burtsell is going to Rome to plead Father Terence J. ? Early's case "ab initio." McQuaid first thought that perhaps Burtsell was summoned to Rome to defend himself and others implicated in the Father Edward McGlynn business. No doubt, Bishop Stephen M. Ryan, Burtsell, and Early will do their best to annoy McQuaid. In the last number of the Freeman's Journal, Egan lauded Father Louis A. Lambert. McQuaid closed a forty year patronage after that number. Bishop Patrick A. Ludden visited McQuaid. He laughed a bit over the Father James S. Sullivan case. P.S. The Early case is being prepared as fast as possible. McQuaid thought that both sides had to be forwarded from the Metropolitan court together. :: I-1-i A.L.S.Photostat from Archdiocesan Archives of New York 3pp. 12mo.