Kenrick, Archbishop Francis Patrick, Baltimore, Maryland, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1857 December 5

Kenrick has received the check for $25, the contributions of the Bishop of Natchez to the Relief Fund. If each Bishop would make this contribution annually and each Archbishop give $50 they should easily make up the $1200. Dr. Levi Silliman Ives has special claims and his wife's health has subjected him to additional expenses. The Holy See repeatedly authorized the Visitation Sisters at Georgetown and the other convents to take solemn vows. Insuperable difficulties prevented proceeding with the coadjutorshop. Dr. John B. Byrne returned his Rulla and is now at St. Vincent's with his devoted friend Father L. Obermyer. The new church of the Immaculate Conception is to be solemnly consecrated on the festival. An attempt to burn and destroy it about five weeks ago was frustrated. Father Patrick Neeson Lynch was proposed for Charleston and Father James Whelan, the provincial of the Dominicans, with Father Benedict Spalding for Florida, Father Augustine Verot, with Father Pierre Lavialle and Father Jean Corbe . The nominations were made in August; nothing has yet transpired. :: VI-1-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. 12