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Letter by Cardinal Dougherty to all parishioners about the protest meeting scheduled for the 24th of February, 1935.

Announcement from Archbiship Ryan for the consecration of the Cathedral on June 29, 1890.

indulgence for those attending the consecration of the Cathedral is written by Archbishop Patrick Ryan.

Letter stating how the Archdiocese of Philadelphia planned to help combat the flu.

Letter closing churches and schools.

To Monsignor l’Abbe Nicolaus Mauron, Gen., C.SS.R., on financial trouble at St. Boniface Church.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Richard Kinahan, et al., report to Archbishop Wood, from the investigative committee concerning Father Barry. This item is the testimony of Father Kennedy.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Richard Kinahan, et al., report to Archbishop Wood from the investigative committee concerning Father Barry. This item is the testimony of Mary Donohue.

Letter to Reverend D.A. Kennedy, from Mrs. Donohue, letter begging mercy for her actions, admitting she has done wrong.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Daniel Kennedy, accusing Father Barry of being intimate with a woman who lived in his parish, Mrs. Donahue

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Thomas Barry, Church of the Visitation, defending himself against the accusations of Father Kennedy.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Daniel Kennedy accusing Father Barry of Being “too familiar” with Mrs. Donahue

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Daniel Kennedy, report that he has seen Father Barry being overly friendly with another woman of the parish, Mrs. Passmore

Letter to Edward Brady, Sr., from Archbishop Wood, reply to Mr. Brady’s letter of November 18, about his son’s conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism assuring him his son is not obligated to believe his father is doomed to perdition.

Questions concerning the state of the Diocesan Church in Philadelphia; St. Joseph’s church in Tamaqua; Holy Family Church in Shenandoah; Spiritual and Temporal matters

Letter to Bishop Wood, from P. Joseph Wissel, C.SS.R., St. Theresa, a letter of introduction for Elizabeth Dickey, whose husband cannot be found. She is pregnant by another man.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Anthony Brenken and John Miller, Tamaqua, request for Wood to assist them in paying their debts

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from John Miller, Tamaqua, financial matters.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Daniel O’Connor, Girardville, financial matters of St. Mary’s Church, Mahanoy City.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Daniel O’Connor, Girardville, account of pew collections.

To Bishop Wood, from Nick Mauron, C.SS.R. St. Boniface Church – debt of $175,000.

To Bishop Wood, from Father Charles A. McFadden, reporting to Wood about money problems, the people, and the dishonesty of Father McEvoy

Letter to Bishop Wood, from Father M. McEvoy, Father McEvoy is writing to Bishop Wood saying that Father McFadden’s charges are false.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Daniel O’Connor, about a Father Walsh, who states he is pastor of a new parish in Lost Creek, This is also a letter of protest on the split of the parish in Shenandoah.

Letter to Wood, from H. O’Reilly of Annunciation Church, Shenandoah, arguments against the establishment of Lost Creek Parish

Letter to Wood, from Martin P. Walsh, there is mentioned the following: the first masses celebrated at Lost Creek; the number of people attending the Masses; the number of confessions heard (in Gaelic and in English); and the first steps toward the…

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Martin P. Walsh, plans for the building for the new church and a request for specific boundaries for the parish.

Letter to Wood, from Daniel O’Connor. Father O’Connor’s objection to Father Walsh having established a new parish and collecting money from the people, etc., without his knowledge. There is also a request for the redistribution of families for the…

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Father Daniel Magorien. Informing Wood that he is not in the best of health and sometimes has people in the room with him in order to help him while he says Mass

To Archbishop Wood, from D. Wagoner, Port Carbon, debt of $1,600.00 owed to Wagoner by the Church in Port Carbon (St. Stephen) – request that Archbishop Wood pay it.

To Archbishop Wood, from Patrick O’Connell, Towanda, PA, Molly Maguires and Towanda, PA.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Hugh McKenney (Barclay), Molly Maguires and Towanda, PA

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Citizens of Towanda, PA, church in Towanda, PA, and Father Toner.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Reverend Maurus Graetzer, Easton, Pennsylvania, case with Anthony Brekman and St. Joseph’s Church, Tamaqua.

Letter to Mr. Healy, from Reverend James J. Smith, stating when Reverend McDermott’s burial would be.

Letter to Wood, from George Miller, a note of thanks for the Archbishop’s kind reception of the Committee and a promise of a solution to the Lithuanians’ problem, there is also a copy of the letter of Father Koncz, a Lithuanian priest who was asked…

Letter to Wood, from Officers of the Polish National Guard of Warsaw, a letter of support for Father Lenarkiewicz which presents the Polish side of the story.

Letter to Father McFadden, from M.G., Father McEvoy; the scandal connected with him.

Letter to F. Walsh, from Father H. Lane, (St. Teresa’s). McEvoy Case, Father Lane advised him to drop all lawsuits against his calumniators in Mahanoy City.

Letter to Bishop Wood, from Father Charles A. McFadden (St. Canicus), the acquisition of property sold by Father McEvoy to a Protestant near church owned-lots.

Letter to Bishop Wood, from Father Charles A. McFadden. Difficulties McFadden is encountering building a new Church in Mahanoy City, a report of McEvoy and Julia Purcell, who lives in his rectory in Coarteville.

To Very reverend C.J.H. Carter, Vicar General, from Daniel Gill, Mahanoy City, a request to present a document to Bishop Wood, the document concerns money which was collected for the new church which was taken by McEvoy. A general report was made…

List of names of people who contributed to building of Church in Girardville, their occupation and place of residence; no date.

From Little Sisters of the Poor, list of persons with their birth date, place of birth, year of immigration and parish of residence that the sisters cared for.

Letter to Bishop Wood, from McDermott, McDermott is “superceded” as pastor of Centralia.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from D.I. McDermott, financial status – St. Patrick’s, Pottsville; more accusations.

To Archbishop Wood, from D.I. McDermott, will wait for Wood’s return to Philadelphia to take action.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from P. Brady, Land Sale and mortgage transaction.

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from Mr. P. Brady, Sale of property in Towanda,

Letter to Archbishop Wood, from P. Brady, land for convent in Towanda.