Scope and Contents Hendricken had many things to put before the Bishop and is sorry that by illness he had to miss the conference. He asks a dispensation from the banns for Michael Moran and Mary Deigan, because of the short time before Lent. A man half Catholic and Protestant for twenty years has begun to live with his niece as husband and wife. A child will be baptised that night in Waterbury. They are Terence Caffrey and Margaret Reilly. If the Bishop will grant the dispensation he will endeavor to collect...

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McFarland is informed that the regular meeting of the clergy of the New Haven Conference district will be held at the residence of Father J. O'Neill, Stamford, on February 7. The subject will be De justitia et de jure as far as de injusta damnificatione. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Bishop Francis P. McFarland of Hartford, Providence, Rhode Island ` He has no objection to Father Thomas Quinn; he will do all he can do for him as his assistant, as he has with the former assistant, Father Luke Daly. The mission takes place on the 10th and he wants him to be there when Father Daly leaves. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Hendricken took up a collection for their new convent and received over a thousand dollars. He had no idea that a new exertion would be called for to aid New Haven. He must ask indulgence as it would be impossible to announce another collection. Miss Roddan called and asked him to inform the Bishop that the roof of the pastoral residence at Bristol is so old that the rain comes through into every room. Hendricken scarcely thinks that Father Michael B. Roddan will ever be able to take charge...

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The Passionist Fathers of West Hoboken will open a mission there September 8 and he wishes McFarland's approval and faculties of the diocese for them. They ask jurisdiction over reserved cases as arise from marriage unlawfully contracted before a minister of justice or any jurisdiction conferred on missionaries. He is told that Father Michael B. Roddan is improved. He had 500 children at Holy Communion this week. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Although several persons have been telling him that Henry Kinery was ailing he did not think much of it until he informed him that he had had indigestion for the greater part of the winter and difficulty in breathing. This he attributed to want of exercise in Montreal College and fears that if he returns there his health will be completely shattered. He is a good student. He did not report his ill health earlier because he did not want to cause trouble and expected to get better anyway....

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He asks for a dispensation from the banns for Michael Horan and Margaret Henehan. He will be in the middle of his fair during the conference and will have to ask permission to be absent. Father John J. McCabe is not in good health. Hendricken thinks that having charge of some place or a change of air would benefit him. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Father John McCabe's sickness has been decided and he is better and will be able to assist him. In Watertown he received $280 as a start on a church a week ago. This is an offering of about 25 people. There is more to come in. He will place this out at interest. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents In a few days he will send his annual report. He avails himself of Father John McCabe's trip to Providence to send a check for his cathedraticum and a letter written to him from Troy by Henry Kinerny. Kinerny got some necessaries thinking McFarland would allow them and finding that the Bishop had made no such provision he wrote to Hendricken but the President did not think this was right and has ordered Kinerny to pay by the 15th. Hendricken thinks Kinerny will make a good priest and hopes...

Scope and Contents The Bishop may send any one he pleases. If the Belgian priest will do what he tells him and work in harmony he has no choice whatever. Father John McCabe has been very ill since going to Falls Village . Last Friday a telegram came asking for heavy clothes and for the doctor. The doctor says that he was dangerously ill of some internal illness. He may do well on that mission but Hendricken fears he is too far away from restraining influence. He hates solitude. Bourke, who wrote for a...

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Either his trip to Providence or the change in weather brought on him a severe attack of asthma which has kept him in bed since. Father John McCabe has been suffering a week from rheumatism. This explains their absence from the conference. Father Michael B. Roddon is ill with lung fever but thought delirious is not considered dangerously ill. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He has just returned from seeing Father Michael B. Rodden at Bristol. Dr. Doherty thinks that he will be able to celebrate Mass in his own church after two months. The doctors are not clear on what was the matter with him. Previous to the burial of F. Sheridan he was complaining and the bad weather probably increased his trouble. His life now is in no danger. He cannot walk without support and his hands are almost useless, but Doherty thinks that all will be right. Hendricken will take care...

Scope and Contents Miss Roddan called on him and asked him to write to McFarland about her brother Father Michael B. Roddan who has an objection to going to Boston but not to going to New York. The Carney hospital, they say, is attended by young physicians and the four priests who have gone there for treatment have died. They will await further instructions from McFarland. Hendricken will do all he can for the seminaries but the dullness of the times will make the contributions less than he desires. :: I-1-c...

Scope and Contents Hendricken has just come from Bristol where he saw Father Michael B. Roddan with Dr. Doherty. His condition remains the same. He will be driven to Waterbury Sunday next and on Monday Hendricken will take him to New York. Doherty thinks that a few weeks will be sufficient for him in the hospital, that he will soon learn what the physicians can do for him and return home to apply it. The people of Bristol and Plymouth are very anxious for Mass next Sunday and if McFarland can send a priest,...

Scope and Contents Hendricken encloses a draft for $1201. The collection amounted to $1181 and the $20 he borrowed and does not recollect paying. Father Michael B. Roddan is at St. Vincent's, New York. Hendricken went in with him but saw no physician while he was there. The superioress thought little or nothing could be done in his case. She will write in a few days to McFarland. If the doctors there can do nothing for him it will be best to return him to Bristol. Hendricken is sure that he will never do...

Scope and Contents Father Charles L. Lemagie received McFarland's letter last night. He protests that he knows nothing of the cause of his suspension but declined the advice to go and see McFarland. Hendricken has taken him quietly but is not certain he will not leave a legacy of trouble. He says he has the letter of appointment as assistant, that he has work to be done, that he needs not the salary and that he has no idea of leaving the city. Hendricken is not certain he is not speaking in the heat of...

Scope and Contents Hendricken wrote McFarland Wednesday some particulars concerning Father Charles L. Lemagie. One thing is certain, McFarland has done well in suspending him. On Thursday he fell over his stove, tumbled down stairs, and though now sober is lying in bed and refuses to eat. He has just ordered some coffee and asks the sexton to get him a boarding house in the city and is determined to live in Waterbury and do all the harm he can. Father Brady warned him to go where he is not known but he laughed...

Scope and Contents He succeeded in getting Father Charles L. Lemagie away this noon. He looked like a man cast ashore from shipwreck. Hendricken never passed such a week of worry. Even yesterday he threatened him with a double guard to keep him still. He has gone without scandal to Winston to join the Franciscan Brotherhood. He was sorry in parting for having given so much trouble. Hendricken gave him a letter to Father Leo. Hendricken is sure the old man can save his soul better in a community of religious...

Scope and Contents A young man is staying with him who left May-nooth seven years ago at the end of his course because he thought he had no vocation. He is a man of fine abilities and comes of good family and Hendricken thinks he will make a fine priest and acquisition for the diocese. Father Kane will assure the Bishop that the man knows his theology, is a mathematician and well read. It will be necessary to go to college but he is willing to teach in Providence in the Bishop's school. He has taught in the...

Scope and Contents Hendricken regrets the trouble he caused the Bishop regarding M. Walsh. He gave him $50 promising to pay all extra expenses during the seminary course. He wrote to the President asking him to advance everything required. The first intimation that he was in Montreal was a telegram for more money which he did not answer except to notify the president and him of the fact. On learning the particulars, Hendricken withdrew his offers of aid. Walsh has written since but Hendricken has not answered....

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Hendricken cannot express his gratitude for the gift McFarland has bestowed on him. It is Friday and he asks that the cap and ring be not given until a week from Tuesday. He asks some instructions. Will he have a high Mass on the occasion or vespers in the evening? On reading the letter, the ceremony is to be the evening of the 6th if he can be ready and he will be. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Shortly after Kinerny returned to Troy his confessor decided that he had no vocation. He went to Boston to work for Donahoe for one week. Father James Healy told him not to abandon the idea of the priesthood. He consulted Father John Bapst, S.J. and went recommended by him to Montreal. Since then he has been at St. Hyacinth but after that no one knows anything of him. When he returned Hendricken told him he should have left his ecclesiastical dress at the college because his conduct was...

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The price paid originally for the barn was $3500. It has been rented at $300 per annum. The property will undoubtedly increase in value and be worth more than was paid for it but it might be better to part with it and pay off the indebtedness as the Bishop suggested. By selling off the property the debts would be nowhere. Should he live until the end of the year they will owe very little. The Sisters are anxious to see the Bishop. Their fair opens that night. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Hendricken encloses no enclosure a vote of the Board of Corporation of the Church empowering him to mortgage, sell or convey the land he spoke about when he was in Providence. As soon as he receives it back with the Bishop's signature he will endeavor to dispose of the property. Real estate does not have a good market and it might be best not to hold out for too high a price. The old Catholic cemetery is now available and can be sold whenever the Bishop is willing. It stands in the center of...

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When he was last in Providence he spoke to McFarland about giving Confirmation in his parish. He finds that he cannot prepare more than fifty or so, but if McFarland thinks it well to come for that number they would be happy to have him visit them. Times look gloomy in the manufacturing city. The priests with him are in good health and the parish is in a good state. :: I-1-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He will have the children prepared for Confirmation on Thursday, June 27. Confirmation will be at 8 in the morning and vespers and a sermon from the Bishop in the evening. This is what he wishes since many Protestant gentlemen express a wish to hear the Bishop. McFarland has spoken on the "Church" and the "Eucharist" and he suggests this time "Penance." If McFarland has any objections to this he should write, otherwise Hendricken will presume on the confirming and preaching. :: I-1-a A.L.S....

Scope and Contents Hendricken says that if there were errors in the parcels he sent to the Bishop it was because he did not have time to examine them. He wishes to know whether the assistant at the cathedral receives a stipend of $5 for the Sunday parish Mass because the pastor cannot receive a stipend. Can the priest who offers the second Mass, in addition to the one for the people, accept a stipend? Must the Mass on the missions be celebrated for the people? He encloses a printed statement of the financial...

Scope and Contents Hendricken has received one letter yesterday, the second today. Father James F. Campbell would wish to be pastor of Naugatuck, Seymour, and Woodbury but would prefer to remain here, that is, to make his residence there until he could provide a house for himself in Naugatuck in the spring or summer. The railroad runs through all of them so that he would be as near as if he lived in any one of them. If McFarland wishes another arrangement Hendricken will have him go at once but Seymour will be...

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Hendricken was speaking with Read and Moran this morning about changing from Troy to Montreal this year but neither seems to like it. While at St. Charles they suffered ill health and felt better at Troy and feel they could not stand the cold of Montreal. Moran speaks French and Read promises to associate with those that speak it in Troy. Lalor and Hinessey? leave for Montreal Monday. Four others go from here to Worcester. :: I-1-h A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Henricken sends a draft for $275.15, the cathedraticum on church funds for 1863. They realized about 2600 at the fair. He had felt so asthmatic since then that he is only now making his report, which he will send in a few days. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.