Brummer, Father John W., Beaver, Noble County, Ohio, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1859 August 1

Brummer says that Father Damien Kleuber tells him that Purcell is not going to ordain him and send him as pastor to Miltonsburg and Wills Creek this fall as he promised. Brummer hopes this is not true because everything is prepared for a new pastor. He says if Purcell cannot send Klueber to please send someone. The trouble at Wills Creek has subsided and he sees that his teachers and his own lack of kindness and humility caused if all. The people have engaged a teacher and finishing the school houses costing some $90. Brummer says the collection at Wills Creek for the Seminary is but $3.64 which he is sending with his own $10 by Father next week. If Purcell sends a priest to Wills Creek, then Brummer will be better able to care for Archers and Cranesnest—the latter he would attend on the request of Father John Jacquet . Brummer thanks Purcell for offering him a better place but he is satisfied and if Purcell gives a priest to Miltonsburg and Wills Creek, he will take Archers and Duckcreek. But if Purcell intends to move him, Brownson would like to have a mission out of Cincinnati or some other city. He should like to know also of any contemplated change because he is building the new altars at Duckcreek, costing some four or five hundred dollars, furnishing the pastor's residence and building a kitchen in it, making a garden for himself, and buying furniture for keeping house, for which he intends getting old Miss Brother to work. Brummer is also going to enlarge the church. These arrangements might not suit his successor. Besides he says his melancholy desposition would make him hard to bear in a large parish. He asks Purcell to pray that he get rid of his faults. He suggests his going into an order and mentions that perhaps Father Hollinan did not need it as much as he. Brummer is proud of Father John Kress and believes he will be another Father Luers, now Bishop of Fort Wayne. Brummer asks why Father Winands leaves the diocese and what Father Birgis is doing. He believes Columbus will do better now and Father Borgess will not be able to spend as much money as he did there. Brummer says Father Jacquet at Beaver is well and teaching. :: II-4-o A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.