Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan

Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Bend, Oregon, to Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, acknowledging a ‘very welcome St. Patrick’s gift’ (money) and mentions that another £100 would help ‘straighten us out fairly well for the time being’. He mentions a ‘St. Patrick’s ball’ organized by the local ladies’ altar society, which is expected to raise at least $50. Father Luke discusses the Archbishop’s interest in a ‘city parish’ and the ‘Harrisburg question’.

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Level of description: Item
Date: 17 Mar. 1911
Reference: 32
Extent and medium: 2 pp; manuscript
Scope and content: Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Bend, Oregon, to Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, acknowledging a ‘very welcome St. Patrick’s gift’ (money) and mentions that another £100 would help ‘straighten us out fairly well for the time being’. He mentions a ‘St. Patrick’s ball’ organized by the local ladies’ altar society, which is expected to raise at least $50. Father Luke discusses the Archbishop’s interest in a ‘city parish’ and the ‘Harrisburg question’.
Repository: Irish Capuchin Archives
Context: Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Missionary Correspondence > Correspondence of Fr. Luke Sheehan

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very welcome St Patrick's gift for which
for a St Patrick's ball quie by the Ladies
be tired after such a long dessert. It was a

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I will send you that script already and $100 & thank you also all my depot info Bend Brook Co Oregon 17. 3. 1911 My Dear Father I have just received your very welcome St Patrick's gift for which received my serious thanks. If we had another £100 it would straighten us out fairly well for the time being. I am also very grateful for your kind convenience with Father Advisor. You must indeed be tired after such a long dessert. It was a wise idea & ought to bring much success to the mission work. Father demands & holding forth to the Hibs tonight a Portland & Losinger I addressing that buck in Canar. I got on waits to Boke but I declined with humble thanks. I am now waiting in one Atrom of the denste hall. Below they are just preparing for a St Patrick's ball quie by the Ladies also Society. They expect to make at least $50 on the experiment. I have waited you all the information that we Rosebury & the and the city povish which the Archbishop wishes us to take up. Shops it through some new light on the project. I would have written about the Moorisbury question & I certainly forgove the idea but I did not know that I should. However - you express a weirth I shall do as with pleasure he doubt Really does not wish or do go outside his division. The Archbishop is dorthed that well. Fortunately there got a statement from her in which he says that one father fam attella co & one for Brook Co will feeffice for the time being. He wrote me on the any the first installment of his nostal way. - such or you expressed with the essentials in Pendenton. asking for his Cathodotic I wrote back a letter full of success just mentioning that I took the change of this point a few days before I was - that my Sunday collection only one day dog was $9 & my expenses were $3.5 & only would $10 from each place but I am afraiding he will be worry it for some time. As a notice of fact I got some kind gift which had nothing to do with her & there clearly my expense. My to send that $100 as soon as possible. It is possible to have a debt hoping over obviously yours Lake