McCloskey, William, Bishop of, Louisville, Kentucky, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell of, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1871 November 11

He has just returned from the dedication of a church in Danville and found Purcell's letter and one from Bishop Maurice de St. Palais enclosing a Roman document. He signs it and sends it on regretting the delay in sending it. St. Palais dined with him Nov. 2 and had heard nothing of it then. McCloskey has had a very fine letter from Cardinal Barnabo expressing his satisfaction with Purcell's and St. Palais's reports. Father Francis Chambige is ecclesiastically dead. McCloskey regrets his course and pities him. He cannot respect him or the prelate who encouraged him. If he had a grievance Purcell was the one to whom he should have submitted it. The trip through the southwestern part of the diocese has restored his strength. He has called Father John Lancaster Spalding to the cathedral. The people are delighted and the negroes cannot complain of his successor. :: II-5-e A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.