McCloskey, Father William American College,, Rome, Italy, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1867 January 19

Enclosed is the draft which Purcell thought had not been paid. It was drawn very soon after it was received and paid by Plowdon Cholmeley Co., the English bankers in Rome. BishopJohn Lamy sails for France on Wednesday and will stay there about three months in effort to recruit his little missionary band in New Mexico. The Pope has been kind to him - giving him three audiences. The Archbishop of the Navahoes said Mass at the Novitiate of the Sacre Coeur and saw Madame Bontonslinn who brought him up to the hall where the novices were that the Archbishop might give them some advice. A Bauave was murdered two evenings ago - stabbed in the same manner as was DeRossi in '48. The murderer is in jail awaiting his punishment. Dr. Smith is still active in showing Rome to his friends, and Dr. Firby is still good and kind. The letter of invitation to the bishops for the canonization and feast of St. Peter in June has been published. It is a dated on the feast of the Immaculate Conception. McCloskey found his brother Father George McCloskey awaiting him in Paris, but he went to Nice in Savoy with the intention of coming to Rome later. His health which became better in Switzerland has grown worse. McCloskey obtained the Pope's blessing for the community in Brown County and for the Sisters of Charity at Walnut Hills, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, the Sisters of Mercy, and for those nuns living in Mrs. Sarah Peter's house, for the Sisters of Notre Dame and the nuns at Columbus where he said Mass on St. Cecilia's Day '65, He asks Purcell to remember him to his friends Father Edward Purcell and Bishop Fitzgerald. :: II-5-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.