Kenrick, Peter Richard, Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1866 July 5

Kenrick will not fail to urge Father Joseph Melcher, who directs the Ursulines, to recommend to them Odin's application for a branch of their Community. It is a cloistered Community; although they have a school for externs the boarding school is their specific object. The Ladies are highly educated and most of them come from Landshut in Bavaria. Since their first introduction into St. Louis in 1848 by Melcher they have been exclusively under his care. Kenrick hopes to see Odin at the Plenary Council. He lately visited the Barrens and confirmed 464 persons there a few weeks ago. The College St. Mary's Preparatory Seminary is to be transferred to Cape Girardeau next September. He has suggested to Father Stephen V. Ryan to make the Barrens a retreat house for clergymen deprived of faculties. He appeared to like the idea and promised to write to Paris for permission. :: VI-2-l A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.