Kempker, Father John F. Riverside, Washington, Co., Iowa, to James F. Edwards, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1887 October 31

He has received the money for wich he sends 4 copies of his pamphlet. He had already sent the MS to Philadelphia. He has saved all the letters written by his bishops since 1872 and will arrange that they go to Memorial Hall. Father J. Orth of Keokuk has letters of Bishops Mathias Loras and Clement Smyth. Father J. G. Alleman who sied in 1863 had some letters of interest from loras, but Kempker has not been able to trace them