Hyde, John, Detroit, Michigan, to William J. Onahan, Chicago, Illinois, 1891 December 4

Onahan is his great source of information. Hyde, being unable to attend the meeting at St. Louis, asks Onahan to supply the facts; he is able to gain little definite information from Hughes. He would like to be correctly informed on what was done about the Catholic Congress—not for use of the Michigan Catholic, but for himself. Hyde prides himself as being the first in the United States to have furnished the Vatican and the American College in Rome with the announcement of the first Congress, through the Michigan Catholic, and this information was furnished by Onahan, but Hyde doesn't want Onahan to think he would be previous again. Hughes told him that Mrs. Potter Palmer has refused to allow the Queen Isabella Association to make the desired exhibit at the World's Fair. Miss Starr is the source of this information. Hyde asks to be posted on that, too. He hopes Onahan liked his remarks on Lady Aberdeen and the Irish lace makers. He is told that Archbishop Ireland is pleased with his articles on the "Faribault Plan." :: IX-1-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.