Dabande, Father Alphonsus Begonrat, Paris, France, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1872 July 23

Dabande asks a favor of Purcell. He wishes to go to America to teach ecclesiastical sciences. He is 42 years old, has taught rhetoric, received his doctorate in Rome, was made a canon of the Algerian church by Cardinal Lavigierie; he performed parochial functions for a while, there being no place for him to teach except in the regular Sulpician seminary. Now he again feels the urge to teach. Father Englebert Stehle told him of Purcell and in a sense forced him to write to Purcell. He asks Purcell if he will summon him to his seminary to teach. :: II-5-e A.L.S. Latin 2pp. 12mo.