Butler, Cha(rle)s H( ): Washington, D. C. to W(illiam) J. Onahan: Chicago, Ill(inois), 1893 May 29

Butler received a request from Father (John R.) Slattery to prepare a paper for the Columbian Catholic Congress. He does not feel qualified, but he has never failed to respond to a call of duty, so he shall write on "The Condition and Future of the Negro Race in the United States" from a temporal point of view, while Father Slattery will take a spiritual point of view.