Downing, E B., P.O.B. 535, Norfolk, Virginia, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1873 March 11

He is in great anxiety at not having received a reply to his letter of Feb. 1 asking for a loan of $100 and a letter of recommendation to Bishop James Gibbons of Richmond, who is to open his college at Richmond at the end of August. Downing assures Purcell that he has never before been reduced to such want and assures him that he will have the means of repaying Purcell when he can get the money due to him. :: II-5-f A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.