Kenrick, Peter Richard, Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1863 June 30

Odin's letter of the 6th was delivered today. Kenrick does not think it advisable to make any nomination for the see of Little Rock. Whoever is appointed ought to be there, or free to go there without exposing himself to any inconvenience condition such as would render his ministry liable to distrust on the part of his diocesans. Hence no clergyman should be chosen from any of the northern or border states. The best to be done is to appoint an administrator should the late Bishop Andrew Byrne have failed to do so. For reasons that will suggest themselves he cannot say anything as to the person named in Odin's letter for whom personally he entertains a high opinion. Bishop James Whelan of Nashville has resigned, and Father Joseph A. Kelly, O.P. has been appointed by Kenrick in virtue of special faculties from Rome, administrator of that diocese. :: VI-2-hg A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.