Scope and Contents Purcell did not answer Lefevere's last favor because he thought he would visit him but time is wanting and he fears the visit may be misinterpreted. He is sorry that Lefevere uses like disrobing or readiness at a word from Rome to resign. There is hardly a prelate in the United States more thought of in Rome than Lefevere. No word has come from there insinuating displeasure of his treatment of Father Hugh Quigley or anyone else. He has not answered Quigley's last letter which plainly...

Scope and Contents He asks Lefevere to come to St. Thomas the coming week. Bishop Martin John Spalding will be home next week and would accompany them. Purcell would have invited Judge Wilkins to come to his house to pass a few days in preparation for entering the church but feared to do so. Bishop Michael O'Connor has tendered his resignation with a prospect of it being accepted. Archbishop Louis Patrick Kenrick of Baltimore is opposed to the intention of Archbishop Anthony Blanc of New Orleans to resign. The...

Scope and Contents When Father Isidore Anthony Lebel was there, he negotiated with Father Vincent? de Vilas to be his assistant at St. Augustine's, Kalamazoo . De Vilas came a year ago to Purcell from England, where he had been a kind of chaplain to aristocratic folks. He was well recommended by Bishop Roskyll Roskell?. He has not been contented as Purcell had no place for him in a city. Where he was, he had a residence, fuel, light, and $500 a year; he was well liked as he spoke several languages; all regret...

Scope and Contents Hennaert treated Father Vincent? de Vilas as he deserved. Purcell felt his impropriety in leaving a diocese which opened its arms to receive him and gave him a very good position. Purcell was surprised when he heard that Father Isidore Anthony Lebel and de Vilas were in treaty about Kalamazoo. Purcell will say nothing to prevent de Vilas' acceptance by Hennaert. He answered Lebel's letter of July 29, to tell him that Hennaert rendered him a real service by rejecting the proposal of de Vilas....

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He accords his full measure of praise of the design and execution of the volume. Murray had better left out Purcell's controversy with Thomas Vickers . He did not return to America immediately after ordination but went with Archbishop Samuel Eccleston to England and Ireland and spent the next year at the Sulpician solitude at Issy returning to America in July. He was ordained on the Saturday after Pentecost. He brought the Jesuits to Cincinnati. :: I-1-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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He has received Murray's of January 14th. He is nothing, truth is everything. In this next letter he wishes to call attention to the insults to Our Lord in Thomas Vickers' sermon. In his little book he wants to direct Catholic conduct. Someone said Murray's book consisted of patches from newspapers but Purcell did not say that. He does not ask for an enlarged biography but would like the passages misrepresented by Vickers to be rehabilitated. :: I-1-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Purcell requests that the paper sent to Joseph McKenzie be discontinued as it was intended for his sister who now lives out of town. This is no reflection on the merits of the paper. :: I-1-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Purcell invites Lefevere to the consecration on March 19 of the Bishop-elect of Milwaukee Wisconsin, Father John Martin Henni . The occasion will enable them to take up the matter of the circulars from Lyons and other matters for mutual advice. :: III-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Mr. Hatch has favored Purcell with Miss Bertrand's kind letter which he was pleased to receive. He is glad to learn that the health of the family has improved especially that of Mr. Bertrand, who had been so delicate. He is truly distressed to learn of fire by which the Bertrand's sustained so heavy a loss. God tries His elect thus. They will soon see the light of His countenance in Holy Joy. He feels greatly the fact that they are deprived of the consolations of religion and knows by his...

Scope and Contents Purcell welcomes Lefevere to the West and the government of the Diocese of Detroit. Bishop Peter Richard Kenrick, Coadjutor of St. Louis, stayed in Cincinnati until yesterday. Purcell invites Lefevere for a visit. Meantime, Lefevere has for himself whatever powers Purcell himself possesses whenever duty or accident may bring him within the limits of this diocese Cincinnati. The Sisters of Notre Dame and Purcell thank Lefevere for the packages from Antwerp. He sends his respects to Fathers...

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Purcell has forwarded at Timon's request to Cassilly and Lapin of Cape Girardeau 70 copies of the Controversy. Reverend Alexander Campbell or some of his friends have introduced a page at its conclusion without their knowledge or consent. Bishop John Baptist Purcell will be compelled to reply to it. He is at present in New Orleans. Father Joseph V. Wiseman's letter about the Spanish books has been mislaid. Wiseman should write again. :: IV-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Purcell has forwarded at Timon's request to Cassilly and Lapin of Cape Girardeau 70 copies of the Controversy. Reverend Alexander Campbell or some of his friends have introduced a page at its conclusion without their knowledge or consent. Bishop John Baptist Purcell will be compelled to reply to it. He is at present in New Orleans. Father Joseph V. Wiseman's letter bnout the Spanish books has been mislaid. Wiseman should write again. :: IV-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Purcell has forwarded at Timon's request to Cassilly and Lapin of Cape Girardeau 70 copies of the Controversy. Reverend Alexander Campbell or some of his friends have introduced a page at its conclusion without their knowledge or consent. Bishop John Baptist Purcell will be compelled to reply to it. He is at present in New Orleans. Father Joseph V. Wiseman's letter bnout the Spanish books has been mislaid. Wiseman should write again. :: IV-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Purcell has forwarded at Timon's request to Cassilly and Lapin of Cape Girardeau 70 copies of the Controversy. Reverend Alexander Campbell or some of his friends have introduced a page at its conclusion without their knowledge or consent. Bishop John Baptist Purcell will be compelled to reply to it. He is at present in New Orleans. Father Joseph V. Wiseman's letter bnout the Spanish books has been mislaid. Wiseman should write again. :: IV-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Purcell has written to Bishop John Firzpatrick and he is perfectly willing and thankful that McFarland give Confirmation. Fitzpatrick is greatly improved but not able to go through so much labor. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Since Bishop John Fitzpatrick is not able to do duty, Purcell asks McFarland to give Confirmation for him. He asks it for the last Sunday of October or any Sunday at McFarland's convenience. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Purcell received the above letter and sends it on to Lefevere. He asks if Lefevere is not pleased with the selection of Father Theodore Joseph de Montpellier of Namur as successor to the Bishop of Liege, Belgium. Purcell knows Montpellier and thinks it a most auspicious one Purcell sends his best regards to Father Peter Kindekens. :: III-2-h A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. 10

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He thanks Hudson for the 1876 volume of the Ave Maria. Because of his weak eyes he has been doing very little reading lately. He thought Father Edward F Sorin, C.S.C. was going to make a pilgrimage to Rome. This would have been almost the only inducement for Purcell to go. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The Cardinal Alexander Barnabo has directed to transmit all the information he can obtain on Spiritism and the part Catholics play in it. Purcell asks if the bishops of the Province should not meet in Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati to nominate for Louisville as the bulls have arrived for their colleague of that see, Bishop Martin John Spalding, transferred to Baltimore. Spalding intends to take the "sense" ? of his council of 12 priests to help them in their choice. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 1p....

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He is glad that his suggestion to Bishop Martin John Spalding meets Lefevere's joint approval. Purcell forwarded a letter to all their colleagues, except Fort Wayne, absent, to meet at Detroit on July 13. He does not know if Bishop Frederic Baraga will have time to reach there. Fenianism will claim some attention from them. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Purcell has received Lefevere's check for $50 for the Levi Silliman Ives fund. Until he received the letter from Archbishop Kenrick, Purcell thought they were to be called on no more. Dr. Ives is lecturing and "Professing and Probably well paid." The news by Father Foley's brother seems to be all "cry and no bull". Allocutions and decrees about Mexican affairs and South American and Swiss and animal magnetism and spiritual rapping have arrived. Purcell asks Lefevere's opinion about receiving...

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Purcell is not edified at the tone of Borgess' note of the 17th. Purcell gives the exclusive direction of the Delaware, Ohio mission to him and his uncle Father Otho H. Borgess whom Purcell would prefer abiding there all the time. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Purcell sent the bulls of Bishop Frederic Baraga from Newark last Saturday and hopes Baraga will soon be consecrated. Bishop Josue M. Young was unwilling to accept the mitre of Pittsburgh but urged by Bishop Michael O'Connor and Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick of Baltimore seemed to require that he submit. Kenrick says that the Pope Pius IX has charged them to provide for the maintenance of the late Protestant bishop of North Carolina, Levi Silliman Ives . He thinks a society should be...

Scope and Contents Purcell acknowledges Rese's letter received by Alphheus White and, confiding in rese's protestations of friendship, he gives him answers to his proposals., 1. He fears that White is not going to finish the building, outraging the community by leaving his pledge unfulfilled. The building is a wreck -- roof, walls, floor, furnace, the new oven, the rafter and joists, the new kitchen. They could not get the place insured as the company came to warn them if they built a fire in it. This is...

Scope and Contents Mr. Cassily thinks that from $1200 to $1500 would be a fair price for Rese's house. It is utterly dilapidated, the roof much uncovered and the ceiling rotted off. Purcell would have had it taken down. Mr. Storer is not there and Mr. Spencer does not seem acquainted with the business of the concern. If Rese will accept either sum, he can sign the deed on his way to Washington or the council, if Bishop Edward Dominic Fenwick made him a deed. Purcell will have to have time to pay. He copies...

Scope and Contents The affairs of the Diocese of Detroit were in such a predicament when Lefevere undertook its administration that Purcell anticipated the trials Lefevere would have to endure. Compliance with such an order was as meritorious as martyrdom. The two Fathers Vincent F. and Stephen T. Badin stayed so short a time in Cincinnati that Purcell could not find time to speak to them about the subject of Lefevere's letter of December 1. But Purcell's brother Father Edward Purcell did, and Vincent Badin...

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Happy Feast day" Judge _____ Hall is anxiously looking for an answer to Purcell's letter to Father Martin Kundig about the Indian Augustine Hamelin. Hall wants details of his character, conduct and present pursuits. Purcell is giving up hope of having Bishop Benedict J. Flaget of Louisville for the dedication of the new German church next Sunday. Note in Lefevere's hand answered July 19.. :: III-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Top of page torn off. The new cathedral of Cincinnati is to be dedicated on the first Sunday of November. Purcell invites Lefevere to the ceremony and assures him of the pleasure occasioned during the octave by any discourse he may be pleased to deliver to the people. Purcell asks Lefevere's prayers. :: III-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents This letter was presented by Almon W. Babbitt, agent of the Church Council of Navoo, Illinois, Church of the Latter-Day Saints, who intends to communicate to Lefevere the resolutions of his society concerning their temple, public buildings and other property in Hancock County, Illinois. Purcell is well acquainted with Babbitt who has very worthy relatives, friends of Purcell, in Cincinnati. He introduces Babitt as entitled to respect and confidence and his proposals deserving of the most...

Scope and Contents Purcell sends his congratulations on the completion of the cathedral and its approaching dedication. He has delayed answering Lefevere's letter of May 1 in the hopes of being able to go but he fears matters of importance in his own diocese will not permit him to be present. If the affair, the conduct of a refractory clergyman, can be settled in time he will come but Lefevere is not to rely on him for the sermon. He agrees as to the importance of providing as early as possible for the vacant...