Kenrick, Peter Richard, Archbishop of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1876 October 17

Before receiving Purcell's letter, he was aware that Bishop James O'Connor and expressed himself severely in regard to the Bishop Michael Domenec of Allegheny and to lay as well as clerical persons. He did not know his language was of the character Purcell mentions and attributes it to the differences that arose between Bishop Domenec and the former Bishop of Pittsburg Bishop Michael O'Connor on the latter's resignation. Although O'Connor is terribly indiscreet in speaking of his brethren, he is a good man and Kenrick hopes that removal from the existing circumstances in which his relations to Domenec and Bishop James F. Wood placed him, will secure him from similar indiscretions in the future. Before proposing his name, Kenrick consulted Wood, who bore a very favorable testimony to his fitness for the episcopal office, but expressed his doubts as to the probability of O'Connor's acceptance of it. :: II-5-f A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.