Kenrick, Archbishop Peter Richard, St. Louis, Missouri, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1853 September 27

Kenrick has just sent the Cardinal Prefect the names of three clergymen from among whom a successor may be appointed to Chicago . Father Joseph Melcher having declined to accept the office of Bishop of Quincy, Kenrick has advised that the administration of that newly erected diocese should be committed to the Bishop of Chicago unless the Sacred Congregation should select one of the 3 names proposed for Chicago and thus at once provide for both sees which Kenrick thinks would be best. As religion may be compromised by a delay for Chicago, Kenrick asks Blanc to write to the Sacred Congregation. P.S. Names proposed: Father William Quinn, pastor of St. Peter's, New York; Father Anthony O'Regan, Superior of the St. Louis Theological Seminary; Father William Harnett, O.S.A., Prior of the Monastery of St. Thomas, Philadelphia. :: VI-1-f A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.