Griffin, Martin I. J., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Richard Henry Clarke, New York, New York, 1886 September 17
Scope and Contents
Griffin can supply any missing journals. He has first and second proceedings of United States Catholic Historical Society. Philadelphians can show Clarke some of their work about December 1st—"The Records of A.C.H.S. of Philadelphia", 1884—Vol. 1, a book of 365 pages. It will contain a synopsis of their society's affairs, extracts from the Register of old St. Joseph's and St. Augustine's and St. Peter's, Wilmington, Delaware, St. Patrick's and St. Peter's, Baltimore. Clarke will get a copy. It will not be sold. Griffin doesn't know when his Memoirs of Bishop Michael Egan O.F.M. will be out. He is waiting for copy from Propaganda of Egan's only letter there. He picked up some information at Lancaster. The controversy over whether Egan had red or black hair is still going on. He has information that it was black. Griffin has gathered much new information about Egan. When the Bishop's remains were placed in the Cathedral in 1809, the Archbishop Frederick Wood did not know his name—they called him Cornelius. Griffin asks what Clarke thought of his articles on William Penn and the account of Father Egan's establishment of the Franciscan Monastery in Westmoreland Co. in 1804. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.
Dates
- Creation: 1886 September 17
Language of Materials
English.
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Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository