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He wrote some time ago to Archbishop Martin John Spalding concerning the claim of Bishop William G. McCloskey to $3,000 back pay, that Archbishop John McCloskey, of New York, Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick and Archbishop John Baptist Purcell had voted for it and that he thought the Archbishop should pay the debt. Wood sends the Archbishop's response no enclosure. He asks an immediate response especially to the last paragraph. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Archbishop Martin John Spalding thinks it expedient for the interests of the American College in Rome that there should be a meeting of the Executive Committee. They are to meet on May 11. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Wood has to apologize for inviting McFarland to attend a meeting of the executive Committee of the American College of Rome on Thursday, May 11 instead of the Bishop of Boston. Nevertheless they will be happy to meet him and have the benefit of his counsels. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Wood acknowledges McFarland's letter of May 4. The original arrangement of the plenary council set up a committee of seven archbishops and five bishops, Newark, Charleston, Columbus, Hartford, and Philadelphia, as the acting committee on the American College, Rome . No meeting of these committees was ever held and in Rome the prelates present quashed the old committee and set one in their place consisting of the prelates of Baltimore, New York, Boston, Newark and Philadelphia. Remembering...

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The dedication of the new cathedral will take place Sunday November 20. McFarland is invited and asked to bring his own pontificalia. An early reply is asked. :: I-1-b Printed L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents A printed circular containing a letter of apology by Father P.E. Moriarty, O.S.A. to the Bishop dated Dec. 5, 1864 in which he apologizes for a lecture of May 23 contrary to Wood's prohibition, and in which he used abusive language about the Archbishop of Dublin and their church dignitaries, and said that the Pope encouraged secret societies. He denied that he had any idea of encouraging the Fenian Brotherhood. He expressed his abhorrence of secret societies. On the same page is a letter...

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Father Ambrose Manahan knocks on his door from Danbury, Connecticut and Wood infers no good. He has no papers. Wood asks McFarland his opinion of Manahan's future. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Wood asks confidential information about the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart who have migrated recently from Lefevere's diocese to Philadelphia. Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann C.S S.R. says nothing. They seem to be protegees of the Redemptorists so he need not ask them. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Wood did not know of the affair until Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann C.SS.R. told him last night. Neumann considered himself blameless but Wood suggested Neumann write Lefevere a letter of explanation. This example will show who are the confidants and coadjutors of the bishop in preference to the one sent by Rome. He trembles to think of what interpretation will be made when people discover their daughters have been sent to a place under a mulatto superior. He does not think we are yet ripe...

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When Wood wrote to know the standing of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from Monroe, he knew nothing of how they had come into the diocese. His object was to speak knowingly of them to a friend whose daughter designed joining them. Wood was made aware of the difficulty last night. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Woods has received McMaster's letter of Feb. 12 concerning the renewal of editorial passes. The matter has been referred to the Department by A.T. Cassatt, Vice President, but due to the general reduction in the issuance of free passes this year, McMaster's request cannot be complied with. :: I-2-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Miss Wood encloses a brief article for the Ave Maria and she would like to become a contributor to the magazine. She gives Hudson a list of her published books by the Kelly. Piet Co. of Baltimore, Maryland. Her home is in Minnesota, and she will soon return there. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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Mrs. Wood has enclosed a poem entitled "The Annunciation". Miss Starr advised her to send it and said that it would be better if Hudson patronized home talent more than so much from abroad. She is writing verses for her own pleasure and sends this one as an offering. A priest wrote commending her on some of her verses in the Ave Maria. If they please anyone she is pleased to send them abroad. She thanks Hudson for the Magazine. The poem is enclosed. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 18mo.

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Wood has been authorized by his parish priest, Father Ferdinand Lechleitner of Crete, Nebraska, to stop reading the Freeman's Journal. Wood therefore wishes McMaster to write to the Bishop of Omaha, Nebraska, Vicar Apostolic James O'Connor and to let him know what he must do in regards to the paper. He refuses to support any other Catholic paper. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Enclosed is a poem for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

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Chloe N. Woodis sends $3.15 as monthly dues to be used to aid the Indian Missions and promises to say the prayers also. 105 people have contributed the money. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Woodis sends McMaster $13. to aid the Indian Missions. He has not seen any acknowledgements of donations printed in the paper and does not know if the campaign is still in progress but he sends the money anyway, knowing that it will be disposed of properly. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Mrs. Woodis has been slow in collecting the mission dues from her groups, but she does not get to Millbury often and it slows her work. She promises to organize other bands soon and to send $10.18 for the Indian Missions. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Woodis sends McMaster $9.90 as mission dues from 110 contributors, to aid the Indian Missions. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo

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Woodis sends McMaster $6.30 as mission dues to aid the Indian Missions and promises to name the contributors soon. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12 mo

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Woodlock acknowledges receipt of the Ave Maria and thanks Hudson for it. He sends a copy of a letter which he addressed to his clergy and people. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He was delayed a week in London due to a severe cold contracted at sea. Today he had an interview with the Vicomte de Barres and tomorrow he goes before the Carlist committee. As he has overdrawn his account he is unable to buy his uniform so be asks McMaster for the money saying that he will refund it or in the event he should die McMaster could have a claim against his estate due him from his grandfather. He had an offer as a correspondent of a London Journal but he declined it....

Scope and Contents Arriving here he went to the Carlist committee, but finding no one who can aid him he will proceed to Bayonne to see the Vicomte de Barres. He hears that Kirkpatrick is no longer with the Carlists or at least he is not considered trustworthy. He had to make an outlay for water proofing so he is unable to purchase a revolver and asks McMaster to write the Vicomte and ask him to furnish one. He will write from Bayonne and leaves with the blessing of the Archbishop of Westminster. :: I-2-a...

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She encloses $10.00 from herself and a friend for Mount Carmel, begging prayers for a pressing need. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Woods submits a poem, "Love 's Offering for the Holy Souls". :: X-3-h A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Depending upon Hudson's kindness to aid her she requests that he obtain employment for her on some magazine either as a translator of French stories or as a writer of original essays. Any money she would earn as a result of her literary work would be devoted to the development of her parish church which is sadly in need of outside financial assistance. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 3 pp. 12 mo

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The writers sends $3.00 from Mount Carmel and hopes McMaster will receive blessings to reward his zeal. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He has been too busy on his farm to write more than two or three articles for "The Crisis" which McMaster may not have recognized as his western efforts to five a right direction to the Convention of States at Chicago. He has arranged to have 1,000 copies at $200 printed, containing five times the matter contained in Vallandingham's great anti-war speech. This seemed the best he could do, and he agrees with McMaster that it could be done cheaper here than in New York. He would like for...

Scope and Contents Wynne asks if McFarland saw last week in the Spectator a garbled quotation from Bishop John Hughes 's lecture on Ireland which has him assert that the Church is the cause of Ireland's degradation. He wonders if it should be answered or explained, lest it create erroneous impressions. He remembers the real statement of the Bishop's lecture. Had the people of Ireland, like those of Scotland, forsaken the faith from a temporal point of view they would have prospered. Perhaps the article is not...

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The writer encloses $1.00 for Mount Carmel and requests prayers. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.