Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Peter L. Foy, St. Louis, Missouri, 1889 May 10

Onahan asks Foy whether he has heard of the project of a Catholic Congress in Baltimore next fall. Onahan and Mayor Brownson of Detroit have corresponded with leading members of the hierarchy, including Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Ireland, Archbishop Riordan, Bishop Spalding and others. At a preliminary conference the previous week which included Archbishop Ireland, it was agreed to hold a meeting in Detroit on June 5, and to invite some twenty laymen who shall be committed to arrange details for the meeting, making a selection of assignments of papers to be read at the Congress etc. and to issue the formal call for its assemblage. Foy has been named as one of this committee, and Onahan trusts he will attend. Foy may seek further information from Mr. Spaunhorst, also from St. Louis. P.S. Onahan has read Foy's article in the last Catholic Quarterly with great interest. :: IX-1-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.