Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to James F. Edwards, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1886 January 31

Edwards may obtain Bishop Luke Concanen,O.P. autograph from the Dominican Convent of St. Clement's at Rome; that of Bishop John Connelly, O.P from the same source; that of Bishops Joseph Rosati and Leo De Neckere from St. Louis. Edwards may get a clue from Francis X. Reuss, librarian of the American Catholic Historical Society. Clarke encloses a piece of wood from a case containing a mummy from Pompei obtained in 1853 by Dr. L.Silliman Ives, a small lock of hair of Cardinal Jean Lefevre de Cheverus, first bishop of Boston. He has also a piece of the Old Tower at Newport, Rhode Island believed by many to have been erected by the Christian Northmen in the 10th century as a Christian baptistry. He asks if it is possible to procure complete sets of the "Ave Maria" and the "The Scholastic". :: XI-1-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. 10