Fitzgerald, Edward Bishop of Little Rock, Columbus, Ohio, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1867 February 20

He asks permission to adminster Confirmation and bless the chapel at Pleasant Valley. He will avail himself of Purcell's invitation to collect in the Cathedral for the Arkansas missions. Father M.J.D. Ryan offers his services to Purcell; he was a member of a diocese of the West Indies but left on account of his health. He served in the missions of New York without being formally accepted. He was on his way to Bishop Duggan when Fitzgerald suggested that Bishop Sylvester H. Rosecrans would need priests for his new diocese. But as the diocese is not yet established Rosecrans cannot receive him. Ryan's letters are good. He would make an excellent professor of chemistry and experimental philosophy, but he prefers the missionary life. :: II-5-c A.L.S. 4pp. 16to