McCloskey, William Bishop of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1868 November 17

McCloskey encloses a letter of Sister Alphonse who wishes to return to Cincinnati. She is an excellent woman but could not get along as superior at the house on 26th street. He was obliged to remove her and put another in her place. She herself acknowledges the necessity of the change. She is no favorite of the other sisters and she seeks to return to Cincinnati. He was in St. Louis to see Father F. Coosemans S.J. about Bardstown College. They cannot reopen and McCloskey must do his best to begin studies next summer. He does not know where he will get priests. He has received nothing but kindness since his arrival despite the misgivings of Purcell's friend now in North Carolina. He has heard that Mother Ward is in Baltimore. Should she pass through Cincinnati, he asks Purcell to telegraph her arrival and give him the best counsel but not to tell her of this. He has kept out of the Sisters troubles there and wishes to meet her as a perfect stranger. Whatever happens he is resolved to act with coolness and firmness but desires the advice of his archbishop. No enclosure :: II-5-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.