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Shea began an article entitled "Catholicism in Early Indiana" but had to set it aside because of other business. He has been able to complete it down to the Revolution and wonders if the Ave Maria can use it. At the sale of Father Joseph Finotti 's library Father Peter Cooney bought two bundles of pamphlets. Shea offers to take them off Hudson's hands. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Father Felix Martin and H. W. Tache explored the Huron country and with the aid of the Jesuit Relations have been able to locate the site of most of the missions. Father Jean de Bredeuf and Gabriel Lalemant were taken in the town called St. Louis and taken to St. Igantius where the Iroquois burned them alive. The missionaries' bodies were later found and interred at St. Mary's. It is folly to conclude that the discovery of a rosary meant that it belonged to Brebeuf since so many...

Scope and Contents Dennis and James Sadlier sent Shea a note of Spillard's to them, which makes Shea regret extremely the offence given. As a rule they Catholic Almanac print the reports of the Bishops as they come, and never alter except by the consent of the Bishop, for which they have to write. Messrs. Sadlier do not compile the Almanac, Shea as editor knows nothing of their business correspondence. This year the Bishop of Fort Wayne refused to furnish a report; Shea wrote to every parish and ...

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Returning home, after Sorin escorted him to the train, Shea thanks Sorin for the condescension and favor during Shea's stay at Notre Dame. Shea was not prepared for what he actually beheld at Notre Dame. Sorin's work has produced institutions which are unequalled. The good that Notre Dame is doing has not been fully appreciated. Shea regrets that Providence had not guided him to Sorin's to labor under him. :: II-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Shea encloses a check for $22, his first installment of the promised $100. A gentleman from Buffalo Orsamus Holmes Marshall has written Shea at great length on a project for a Father Jacques Marquette monument on the island. A frame chapel with possibly the sanctuary of stone, using, if available, the foundation stones, using, if available, the foundation stones of Marquette's, and with a marble slab on the outer wall will, Shea thinks, be sufficient. Shea sent a copy of the article...

Scope and Contents Jacker's letters are always deeply interesting to Shea; the one he has just received seems two centuries old. With all the boasted progress, Jacker has to wait a month for his mail and get it at Last by a dog train! The books came safely with Jacker's photograph. Jacker's "routier" of Father Henry Nouvel is a surprise to Shea; he hopes Jacker will give an account of his labors. If for him or Father Claude Allouez . Jacker lacks anything that Shea has printed, Jacker should let him ...

Scope and Contents If Jacker sends a copy of the enclosed list to Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Librarian of Congress, offering such as he may select in exchange for Pierre Margry 's volumes, Shea thinks he will succeed. While sending off his Father Louis Hennepin circulars Shea dropped one to Jacker. Shea is completing his last revision. He does not think the case has ever been put more fairly for Hennepin, and Shea raises doubts as to Hennepin's responsibility for the 1697 edition. Shea has sent Jacker one...

Scope and Contents Jacker's letter filled Shea with pain at the loss of his outfit and above all the copy of the "Dictionary" with his patient notes of a quarter of a century. Shea printed a Yakama grammar that his old friend George Gibbs fished out of a pond in Washington Territory and which proved to be the work of Bishop Louis Joseph D'Herbomez . They regret Jacker's removal from Pointe St. Ignace. While he moves, Shea is chained in Elizabeth. Shea wishes to print the Register, and to engrave in time ...

Scope and Contents He annexes a list of deceased patrons to the number of fourteen; and of patrons who have not sent in their payments for Volume 3; many are personal friends who need only to have their attention called to the matter. After Shea's accident and the shabby treatment of the Frank Leslie concern, his first object was to find a position to support him. He thought of how he could return the money to those who had paid for Volume 3, if he had to let it drag for some years. He encloses a ...

Scope and Contents Shea is still confined to bed and chair, and now he finds that the Leslie establishment is to move next month. Shea has some materials at the office which he would appreciate having stored in McGean's garret or cellar until the U.S. Catholic Historical Society has an abiding habitation. Unless McGean proposes to dispense with all reports, the Committee on Publications is to make one. Shea has recently gotten hold of Bishop John England 's diary for his first two years at Charleston. ...

Scope and Contents Shea is glad that the meeting went off so well, and is sorry he was not there as he is anxious to meet their new President who seems to take hold in a way that looks like real work. The matter for the new number of the Magazine is getting into shape. He will send Father? Dougherty some notes to publishers to ask for books for review to be sent to McGean and will stop on his way to the ferry when there are enough. The paper by Mrs. Howard on old Catholic times in New York would please...

Scope and Contents Shea thanks McGean for the $45. His volume is now on its way to patrons and subscribers. He had made a start on volume IV, when sickness invaded his household. He has indexed, under the different dioceses, more than a hundred volumes of Catholic newspapers between 1843 and 1852. It is disheartening to find that while he works others propose to kill the U.S. Catholic Historical Society . No. 8 is printed. No. 11 is in hand. He is working on No. 12. As the Council stopped the meetings he...

Scope and Contents He became so weak and dizzy travelling to the new seminary grounds yesterday that he had to return home. He received a telegram from Father Jacob A. Walter that he had telegraphed to McGean, and Shea advises McGean to use the permission granted. Time must not be wasted on preliminaries. The Archbishop must be invited to preside. If McGean thinks best, they can hold the Mary E. Surratt matter until a June meeting, Shea believes it would tell more to use all their artillery now. P.S....

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On reaching home Shea found a paper by Father Jacob A. Walter of Washington who attended Mary E. Surratt. Walter fails to get it printed. Shea thinks it would be a second strong feature and has asked Walter to telegraph McGean if he consents to this use. The title states that Walter's part on the occasion has been misrepresented and that Walter seeks to present the facts. He suggests title for the article. :: II-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Shea says he is not a member of the Catholic Press Association because his connection is too recent for him to consider himself in harness. Not being a member he can hardly be placed on a committee. He wishes to thank Smith and the association for the proposal. :: I-1-h A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents A statement he inserted in the last number of the Catholic News leaves Shea free to withdraw whenever Corrigan finds it necessary. Last week he did much work at Baltimore, and today he hears of a large batch of documents coming from Rome. His volume is half done. He got out volumes I and II alone by night work about 25 hours a week. Now with Corrigan's help he can devote 55 hours a week to the work. The connection with the "News" helps him in his work. However, if his name on Ridder's...

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He asks Corrigan to accept his grateful thanks for the check of $1000. His Roman documents, at least, the first installment, arrived that week, and he has been correcting his narrative by them and the result of researches in Baltimore. Printing will begin within a week. Corrigan has received his note and seen the last number of the Catholic News which leaves Shea free to act as Corrigan sees best. :: II-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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The time of Corrigan's remittance must await his opportunity for collecting. Shea is laboring to shorten the time as far as possible, and is fast completing his third volume and arranging material for the fourth, so that he hopes to bring it to a happy conclusion the following year. :: II-2-o A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents While enclosing a receipt for $1000, the third payment made by Corrigan this year, he must express how much he and all Catholics owe to Corrigan for the generous friends he has interested in the Church History of this country. The accident made it very difficult for Shea to continue his work, but Corrigan's action enables him to complete the work as he projected it. Besides adding steadily to his stock of documents from Rome and diocesan collections here, he has acquired a rich mine...

Scope and Contents His notes furnish little about Jersey City. Father William Burns appears as pastor in the Catholic Almanacs from 1835 to 1837 and died in October 1837. Father T.C. Levins calls him a Scotchman and mentions his preaching in the N.Y. Cathedral in June, 1834. Father Hugh Mohan was pastor of St. Peter's from 1839 to 1842. Father Walter Quarter, 1834-44, was assisted in 1845 by Father John Kenney. Father John Kelly was attending to an English neighborhood and Hoboken in 1846. In April 1834,...

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Bishop Keane encloses this no enclosure but from his letter it is evident it is really a reply to Corrigan. Shea's work goes on but he must hunt up much. The history of a diocese has the date of its erection wrong. The author wrote without ever seeing the Bull. :: II-2-o A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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If the money arrives by August 1, Shea will not be pressed. He is sorry Corrigan has had matters to perplex him. Shea's book advances rapidly. Sometimes he is staggered by assertions which there is no documentary evidence to support. There has been much sickness here this season. :: II-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents It is indeed a gratification for Shea to receive a letter from one so near to his late friend. About this time last year Shea received a letter from Father Edward Jacker in which he said he would send to the United States Catholic Historical Society a pocket missal long carried on the mission by Bishop Frederic Baraga. This Shea reported to the Society, and the donation was announced at a meeting and printed in the proceedings. This made Shea anxious to prevent its being lost, but ...

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Shea would like to gratify the Committee and mankind generally by such a paper, but Orestes A. Brownson apart, what have American Catholics done in the domain of literature, science, or art that can be paraded? Will it not do more harm than good to parade fifth-rate people. If he could see his way clear he would be happy to go at the paper. Some other topic ought to be selected. There are subjects more safe. He lists several in a postscript. Copy On the same paper:

Scope and Contents Shea is much like the rest of mankind in his ignorance of Catholic Congresses. Unless the Catholic Union, formerly Xavier Union, has some reports he does not see how he could venture to treat a subject of w which he is profoundly ignorant. If Archbishop Michael A. Corrigan asked Frederic R. Coudert, Shea thinks he would take up a subject and treat it well. Is the Congress to have any representatives from Canada and Mexico? With a man like Mercier from Canada and Icazbalceta from...

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Shea cannot but feel flattered at the honor conferred by naming him one of the committee for the proposed Congress of Catholic Laymen, a project which has his heartiest concurrence. Unfortunately it will be impossible for him to meet the other gentlemen of the Committee on the day named, as he is still unable to walk, having fallen and sustained a severe injury in January. In subsequent meetings he hopes to be able to take an active part. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Shea would like to gratify the Committee and mankind generally by such a paper, but Orestes A. Brownson apart, what have American Catholics done in the domain of literature, science or art that can be paraded? None of the great poets, orators, historians, leaders in natural or medical science, in painting, sculpture, architecture, in great inventions have been Catholics. Will it not do more harm than good to get up and parade fifth rate people and extol them as paragons of excellence. If he...

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Shea wishes to have the draft of his paper, as he wishes to correct, amend and enlarge it. If any suggestions have been made, he will be only too happy to hear what they are. He sees that William J. Onahan has attacked the Railroads. He does not know whether he has converted running between New York and Washington. Several persons have applied to Shea for cards, but he tells them he has received none and refers each applicant to his bishop. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Shea encloses circulars sent out privately by Archbishop Michael Corrigan. The Catholic press was not told because there was no wish for publicity. Shea requested no circular be sent to McMaster as he knew he would respond quickly. The whole movement is ascribed to McMaster's frequent and kindly appeals in his behalf. When suggested he take a salary, Shea proposed the present plan of subscription. He hopes that McMaster will appreciate that it was pure friendship that prompted him to...

Scope and Contents He asks God's blessings on Edwards for his attempts to forestall the ultimate destruction of Shea's materials. Since his return from Notre Dame, his health has deteriorated. His thoughts are turned to preparation for the close of an unexpectedly prolonged life. His trip to Baltimore yielded little. Documentary material henceforth becomes very fragmentary. His third volume is nearly through the press and he hopes to see a bound copy by the first of January. The publication will require...