McQuaid arrived in Rome on the 5th. He has seen no one yet, except Ella B. Edes. He has received a number of slips including those concerning the McGuire case. Corrigan should send the report of Father Richard L. Burtsell's testimony. McQuaid intends to take up this subject first of all. He has Father Edward McGlynn's speech at the anti-poverty meeting. This amounts to nothing. In it there is language against the Church and its authorities and teachings. If McQuaid doesn't get satisfaction at the Propaganda he will bring the case to the Holy Father. McQuaid will advise the Propaganda to order Burtsell, as a Propagandist, to Rome, send him to a monastery for six months and then to a country mission in New York. Father Louis A. Lambert took passage in La Normandie to annoy McQuaid. Lambert arrived in Rome on Nov. 21, but has not yet been at the Propaganda and got the cold shoulder here. If necessary, McQuaid will remain in Rome until the hot weather. Bishop John J. Keane was here ahead of McQuaid. Continued Dec 13th: It seems impossible for McQuaid to get his trunk. He has been here at the Propaganda and saw the Cardinal. He was firm that Lambert must make ample reparation for the past. The Cardinal would rather not settle the affair before a general congregation. The next day McQuaid saw Cardinal Louis Jacobini, who was firmer. Lambert has not called at the Propaganda. Burtsell and McSweeny both wrote in favor of Lambert. McQuaid had a long talk with Father Bernard Smith on Burtsell, Lambert and the University. The last subject interested him the most. How far the Holy Father will allow McQuaid to speak on the University and other pressing subjects he does not know. McQuaid has asked for an audience. Msgr. Denis J. O'Connell and Keane went to Porto D'Anzio for the air, and possibly for preparation of the University statutes. The Cardinals are quite dist urbed by some of Keane's utterances. Yesterday's "Moniteur de Rome" contained the Pope's letter to the American Bishops on the care to be devoted to Italians who cross the Atlantic. The Pope credits McQuaid's diocese with 2900 Italians, but there are about 300. Corrigan should send the full report of the McGuire case. Corrigan should not be uneasy--all will come out right. Burtsell's last affair is all in Corrigan's favor. Last night Charles Dana and McQuaid called on Cardinals Mariano Rampolla and John Simeoni and the visits were very satisfactory. Dana said the non-Catholic American public approved of Corrigan's course. McQuaid had a talk with Msgr. Donatus Sbarretti. They all seem afraid to have the Lambert case go before the General Congregation. All the American Bishops have left Rome. Father Charles E. McDonnell should send a typewriter, paper and instructions to Edes and it will be a great relief to her. :: I-1-i A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo. 11 Photostat from Archdiocesan Archives of New York