Alemany, O.P., Archbishop Joseph Sadoc, San Francisco, California, to Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1882 March 9

At a meeting of the Bishops of Alemany's province, they asked the Holy See to grant him a coadjutor and sent the following names to Rome: Bishop John Joseph Kain of Wheeling, Bishop William Hickey Gross, C.SS.R . of Savannah, and Bishop Stephen Vincent Ryan, C.M . of Buffalo. To these they have added Alemany's Vicar-General Father John Prendergast who might be put in third place. Alemany asks Perché to send his news on the above to Cardinal Simeoni. :: VI-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 4to.