Pax has read Clarke's "Lives of the Deceased Prelates" and suggests that the number of out of print books quoted by Clarke might make it necessary for Clarke to write a book on "Prominent Deceased Priests." Pax was sorry the "Life of Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann, C.S.S.R." did not contain more of his auxiliary life in Williamsville Mission, New York. He had written something about Neumann in memoirs published in a German journal on Father John Nicholas Mertz, founder of the Buffalo Missions. Pax gathered information about the Buffalo Diocese, despite the scarcity of published material on Catholicity, as in Bishop John Timen, C.M. history now out of print, through many correspondences by the order of Bishop Michael Heiss, when he was superior of the Salesianum St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee . Heiss had intended to publish a work, "German Missions and Missionaries in North America," but seemed to give up the plan after he became a bishop. Pax translated the greater part of all these notices into bad English. He also had access to the Archives of the Buffalo Cathedral. He offers these notices to Clarke. Pax also had along recent article published in a German Journal, "America before Columbus" by Father Oswald Moosmuller, O.S.B. a German Benedictine of Rome, who had use of the Vatican Library. Moosmuller gives data on seventeen bishops. Pax believes many of Moosmuller's notices were not translated into English. All of Pax's manuscripts amount to three good sized bound volumes. There is a full life of Father Mertz, biographical notices about Father Peter Helbron, O.Min. Cap. who visited from Pennsylvania the small village of Buffalo Creek, New York in the beginning of the nineteenth century—the first priest of Conewago—the Apostles of Pennsylvania. Nearly the whole life of Father Stephen Theodore Badin, who resided in Buffalo before Mertz, will be found in Bishop John Martin Spalding's "Sketches of Kentucky". Pax feels Clarke might be interested in his manuscripts and he wishes to know if Clarke cares to have them. If not, Pax intends to send them away. Pax has on hand all the manuscripts and writings of Bishop John Timon, C.M.. In sorting them he found materials never published before. Pax feels these would form a good sized volume and Bishop Stephen Michael Vincent Ryan, C.M. will send them to Clarke. He does not believe Charles L. Deuther, whose biography of Timon was not a pecuniary success, would take the trouble of writing a work of this kind. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. 12