Juncker, Henry D., Bishop of Alton, Mound City, Illinois, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865 January 1

In Purcell's last letter he spoke about some newspapers. Juncker has always endeavored to banish them from the diocese and would have publicly denounced the German paper of Baltimore but Bishop John M. Henni thought they had no right to do so since it was not published in their dioceses. He was grieved by the letter from Bishop James F. Wood, that the bishops assembled at Philadelphia did not think it proper to make an effort to have priests exempted from the draft. The priests of St. Louis University were exempted by being teachers, not as priests. Juncker has blessed the new academy of the Sisters of Loretto in Cairo, the only such academy in southern Illinois. He is trying to start a hospital and poor house for the sick and refugees in Cairo. :: II-5-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.