Hughes, John, Archbishop of New York, New York, New York, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1862 October 20

Hughes acknowledges Purcell's letter of October 17. Father George William McCloskey wrote to him on the same subject. Hughes has sent already $1000 and has promised another thousand before Christmas as a personal contribution. Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick of Baltimore has written to Hughes on the same subject and proposes a collection in his diocese on the Sunday within the octave of the Immaculate Conception. For the present year Hughes cannot do this. He will consult his suffragan and appoint a Sunday early in the coming year for a collection. If other metropolitans adopt this course the American College would be on a solid and permanent basis. It would be agreeable to all the metropolitan if they and their suffragan adopt a Sunday for simultaneous collections for this purpose. :: II-5-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.