Markoe, William F.: St. Paul, Minnesota to William J. Onahan: Chicago, Illinois, 1893 February 21

As requested by the president of the Catholic Truth Society, Mr. M. W. Cole, Markoe expresses desire to hold the Society's convention during the World's Fair at Chicago. He holds that the Columbian Exposition, along with the simultaneous celebration of the papal jubilee in Europe is a prominent moment for Catholicism. He expects approval of his plan by (Archbishop Ireland) who had written him, saying that it was expected that Rome would grant equal indulgences for the C. T. S. in America as in England. Markoe mentions possible arrangements for the convention, and of establishing an agent of the Society to conduct a bureau of information regarding the Society in one of the offices of the La Salle Institute.