McCloskey, William Bishop of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1870 December 19

McCloskey has been at Paducah or he would have answered Purcell sooner. The young man to whom Purcell entrusted his luggage has been locked up in Alsace since August and McCloskey has only now been able to hear from him. He regrets the inconvenience caused Purcell, as well as that to himself in the loss of a young priest. He wishes he could see Purcell but is tied up there. Mrs. Worthington called Saturday but the bad weather keeps him from calling on her. He asks if there is news of the Archbishop of St. Louis Peter Richard Kenrick ; what is to be done about Cleveland, and if Bishop AmadeusRappe gives up willingly. ArchbishopMartin J. Spalding treated McCloskey politely in Rome where his coming was like an apparition. :: II-5-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.