Keith Sister M. Agnes, Maysville, Kentucky, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1868 November 5

Sister Agnes, writing from the Convent of the Visitation nuns expresses her gratitude and that of her community for Purcell's kind letters. Their sorrow is lifted and they have now found a friend. She speaks of the rash judgments which were made against them and how the Mother Superior bore all silently. She had not written one word against Father P. McMahon but many for him. They have learned to lean to the side of charity rather than severity. She encloses a letter of a gifted person who learned at Notre Dame from a writer for the Ave Maria the difference between cloistered and non-cloistered sisters and felt called to the Visitandines.She was highly recommended by Father Edward Sorin and Mother Angela . Can they hope for a visit from Purcell? The Mother Superior begs that Purcell say a mass for her as she is in retreat and will then leave them. :: II-5-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.