McCloskey, William, Bishop of Louisville, Bardstown, Kentucky, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1873 September 18

If McCloskey can get away he will accept Purcell's invitation. His vicar general is absent because of ill health, another priest is palsied, and two are disabled from cholera. McCloskey is tired of having runaway nuns from the convent at Mt. Olivet and has taken things into his own hands. He believes the Abbot Benedict Berger is not sound. He calls this convent of Franciscan Sisters the "grasswidow convent" which he described to Cardinal Barnabo. The Paulists in New York have one who claims to have a dispensation from the Pentitentiary at Rome. McCloskey "broke the abbot's back for it" yesterday. P.S.—He asks if Purcell can lend him 3 or 4 altar stones until he can get relics with which to consecrate some new ones. :: II-5-f A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.