Bedini, Cajetan Archbishop of Thebes Secretary Sacred Congregation de, Propaganda Rome, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1860 April 26

Bedini acknowledges the receipt from Purcell of the bank draft for 700 pounds sterling, which was dated March 27. He has presented it to the Holy Father who was greatly peased and has commissioned Bedini to present to Purcell and his flock in token of his peasure two medals one of silver and one of brass to which he attaches the Apostolic benediction. For the rest the letters which have been sent to the Holy Father will be collected and bound into one or several volumes as a testimony in future times to the good will and zeal towards the Holy See. :: II-5-a L.S. Latin 1p. 8vo.