McCloskey, William,Bishop of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1873 December 6

McCloskey is just leaving and asks Purcell to affix his signature for him to the form of consecration. He was going to suggest what Purcell has done since he likes to move in good company. Father George McCloskey is well and is a great help to him at the seminary. The disorders at the Gethsemani Franciscan Sisters grew so rapidly that McCloskey has taken matters into his own hands. It is the strangest corporation he ever heard of with the Abbott Benedict Berger , the Mother Superior, the monks and nuns mixed up in it. Even the fools, who are so numerous in the neighborhood, see that the Bishop is right. P.S.—Purcell will let him know if there is any ceremony for the consecration to the Sacred Heart. :: II-5-f A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.