Fitzgerald, Father Edward, Columbus, Ohio, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1863 February 10

Fitzgerald got Mr. T.J. Cahill paroled for Columbus about three weeks ago and has been unconditionally released and gone home. Fitzgerald just returned from a visit to Lieutenant Doyle. He is glad to learn that the Restrictions of the Paschal Communion time was by mistake. He would like to have some way of knowing what are the Archbishop's orders and what are not. He was called to Cincinnati last year in Holy Week by an official order and then on arriving in Cincinnati found that it was not Purcell's order. Fitzgerald intended writing Purcell about Delaware asking him to appoint a successor to Father John A. Jacquet, but he says he has just written himself. The camps and missions are growing. :: II-5-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.