McCloskey, William Bishop of, Louisville, Kentucky, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1869 July 7

McCloskey acknowledges Purcell's two letters. He will write to the cardinal. He asks if there is any rule of law or courtesy requiring a bishop to write or comment upon the action of the bishops of a province after the names for a successor has been settled on. He notes that Purcell married the Colonel from Harrodsburg. Father F.H. Farrelly was the name he mentioned for Covington, not Farrell. He presumes that Purcell alluded to Father Thomas Farrell of St. Joseph's in New York. McCloskey gave Father J. Spalding a letter to him in the hope that his love of the negro would bring some help for his parish. He asks if there is anything in the rumor that the council has been postponed. He notes that Father Richard Gilmour is going to Dayton with his old companion, Father F. Cubero . He asks whom Purcell is going to place in the seminary, if he takes Father Francis Pabisch to Rome. The Little Sisters of the Poor are to come in September and they are badly needed. He wishes Purcell could directly him where to find half a dozen priests. He is not as badly off as Purcell was when he began. :: II-5-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.