Pax acknowledges Clarke's letters and the picture of his brother. He will consult Finotti's book. Pax had preserved some private letters addressed to himself from Bishop John Timon and Bishop Stephen M.V. Ryan. Timon's epitaph was composed by the late Father Moore. Father Edward Kelley, Chancellor, St. Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo partly controlled the writings of Timon and would be the best man to make a choice of the well-written letters for Clarke. Father William Faerber, the editor of the German newspaper in St. Louis, has announced that he will publish accounts of German missions. A few remarks about Father Francis Xavier Brosius could be found in the German Life of Rev. Demetrius A. Gallitzin by Father Lemcke, O.S.B. There would be the greatest difficulty in finding even the names of the first priests for they did not even sign their names in the parochial registers. There are German lives of the Princess Amalie, mother of Gallitzin and Father Overberg?. Father P.M. Carbon, who has died, knew the history of his church, the first of Philadelphia. There must have been many good records, documents in his house about the first priests of Philadelphia. Many of the early priests changed their real names or made them English. It was the same with the Indians. Father Jean de Brebeuf was known among them under the hereditary name "Echon". Father N. Sifferath, who was with Pax when he edited his Indian catechism at Buffalo on the Chippewa, said that Father Francis X: Pierz was known among the Indians of Father Frederic Baraga under an Indian name meaning "he who has a good heart". Pax gives some of his own family background and the derivation of his own surname. He quotes an article from the German Baltimore Volkszeitung on the history of the missionaries of southern Pennsylvania. Pax then broke down some of the German names to explain to Clarke the origin of the English names. Father John Francis McGerry, C.M., The first Vicar General of Rochester, and one of the most famous and greatest priests of Western New York, was a most intimate friend of Bishops John Dubois and Timon. About 12 or 15 letters of Dubois addressed to McGerry are in the archives of the Buffalo Cathedral, along with an eccleseastical history of the Rochester of Dubois' time written by the same for Timon. Pax has written Bishop Bernard McQuaid for use of them. They would never be confided to the hands of laymen because they contain scandalous stories of priests—McNamara, etc. and trustee scandals. There would almost be sufficient material for a life of McGerry. His obituary notice is herewith annexed no enclosure. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 4to. 15