Alemany, O.P., Archbishop Joseph Sadoc, San Francisco, California, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1859 May 25

Alemany has petitioned the Sacred Congregation for the division of his diocese and the erection of a new See, comprising all that protion north of the 39th degree and having Marysville for its see. Or, a new diocese north of the 38th degree, 20 minutes and east of the Sacramento River with the see at Sacramento . Marysville has some 8 or 9000 inhabitants; Sacramento has double the advantage and population. He has recommended for the new see: Father James Croke, his Vicar General; Father Eugene O'Connell, a professor in All Hallows College; and Father Thomas Foley, Secretary to Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick of Baltimore giving his opinion of each, in Latin. Alemany named Father Peter DeVos. S.J. as the new vicar-general. He asks Blanc to send his opinions of the proposals to Rome. :: VI-2-a A.L.S. English and Latin 4pp. 8vo.