Clarke's second note helps Parke remember. He had forgotten their past legal relations in the Mulrine Case. Parke took comfort in the fact that he might be able to rectify his past mistake in this letter. For several years his health and brain have been very imperfect, so much so that he resigned his duties in the fall of 1880 as Senior Vicar General and rector of the Church at Parkersburg. He went to Florida and recovered his health which is better than anytime since he had joined Bishop Whelan's Seminary and College near Richmond in 1848. But old age has its grip on Parke as he is 60 years old, 33 years a priest. Parke's notes on Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan are reliable and will serve as a superstructure for the later apostolic career of Whelan as Bishop of Wheeling until his death in 1874. The notes also show the division of the state in 1850 into two sees. Among others who followed their fortunes West were two students then at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. One of them, Father James Cumming is now dead. The other was Parke. Because of his connection with Whelan, Parke will be glad to help Clarke with information for a life of Whelan. Parke wants to know from what sources Clarke has drawn his data in the Wheeling diocese. Does Clarke have a copy of Parke's notes on the Rise and Spread of the Virginia Missions, 1841-50? If not he will send the last copy he has. The history of the Wheeling Diocese will be a delicate work. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.