McCloskey, William, Bishop of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1873 February 12

He gives Mr. Burke, the student referred to, full permission to enter Purcell's seminary and trusts he may prove worthy of the confidence McCloskey has in him. The quarter of a million takes a great deal of the glory off the office of Vicar General Father William Starrs of New York, There is no danger of a Kentucky Prelate dying worth more than to bury him decently. He did not read Father Silas M. Chatard's panegyric through as it was handed to him in Rome but since he was very busy he only glanced through it. Father George McCloskey is with him and sends regards to Purcell and to Father Edward Purcell. He is glad that Dr. Michael A. Corrigan is Bishop of Newark, for he will be a splendid one. He is quiet but has enough fire in him. He recalls a meeting in Rome when Purcell asked about Corrigan. He is modest looking but has some of the qualities in him necessary for his post. :: II-5-f A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.