Doyle thanks Hudson for his promise of hospitality to Bishop Osouf and Father Pettier . Doyle speaks of the work he is trying to accomplish by writing to several periodicals. Doyle quotes details concerning the Church in China which appeared in "Journal de Rome". There are 25 Sees or Vicariates Apostolic in China. There are over one hundred priests in all with about a thousand Chinese Catholics to each priest. Most of the priests are Jesuits. The French predominate and it is the common language except in their Apostolic labors. Altogether there are some 3000 priests in China. The prefect of St. Francis College is Father Pettier, an Irishman by birth. At the local house in Shanghai and the College of St. Francis Xavier the principal preacher is Father Savayard, who had been in the United States nearly a half century ago and was a teacher of the late Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans at Fordham College and his brother General William Rosecrans . Other priests at the college are Fathers Tioyrdy and Stohr, Germans. Father Doselagen is a Belgian and Father Lansing is son of the English inventor of the process for purifying gas. Father Gillien, present pastor of Sacred Heart Church, American town Hong Kew is a Spaniard. Father Mare Deschenreus of the Meterological Observatory at Sikawei is a Swiss and Father Zottoli is an Italian and author of Cursus Litterati Chinvensis. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. folio 13