Pax received Clarke's letter of Feb. 25 and says that the manuscripts he sent have been received. Whatever Clarke has about Bishop Frederick Rese's life is all that could be got. Some years ago Pax published an article about the "History of Detroit and Bishop Rese" based on many sources. A nephew of Rese, a priest of the United States, wrote a reply to the article giving corrections based on what he had heard from his parents, etc. Both notices were kept by the German journals and, combined, formed what Clarke has in the manuscript. Some even left out his having been in Africa, which however seems to be certain. About his having the "blue eye", Pax heard from a German priest about a deceased bishop who had it. The whole story about Rese is not founded on truth. He is still known among the Germans of Cincinnati as a saintly, zealous, good and pious priest. Whoever made up this story about a blue eye in Rese must have been a trusteeman of the trustee system, probable cause of his resignation. The Redemptorist, now ex or secular, Father Mathias Alig is still living as pastor of the Church of the Mother of God, Washington City. He is busy writing a second book on the Apocalypse and it is hard to get an answer from him. The Le Couteulx who joined the trustee trouble was a son of the first or second wife of the owner of St. Louis church property. Pax knew personally his deceased brother and asks Clarke if this is the one he meant was a Freemason, the head-man of the trustee trouble. Other details can be found on his father's life in Retchman's work. Father Alexander Pax, Pax's paternal uncle, who built St. Louis Church, Buffalo, is still living but is dead to America as he is very old. Clarke has mistakenly mentioned in his work that Pax's uncle was stationed at Eden but he was always at Buffalo. Father John Nepomucene Berger, C.SS.R. is gathering notices to write a German life of his uncle, Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann, C.SS.R. . Such a publication will not interfere with Clarke's English works. Berger is at St. Michael's, Baltimore. A lay brother Wenceslas Neumann C.SS.R. of St. Alphonsus, Baltimore is a brother of Bishop Neumann and had been with him for some months at Northbush. Pax will send 4 or 5 chapters translated from Moosmuller's "America before Columbus" in a week or two from Buffalo. Pax prefers that Clarke leave his and Moosmuller's name out of any of the translation he might publish. Father Oswald Moosmuller O.S.B. lists the Bishops of Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, the introduction of Christianity there, monasteries, etc. This production, if published, will open the eyes and ears of the English speaking people. Moosmuller also wrote articles from time to time for the German "Old and New World" — in correspondence with Benziger Brothers, New York. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.