Letter from Fr. Peter Bowe to Fr. Joseph Fenelon

Letter from Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. affirming that group of English Capuchin friars, led by Fr. Nicholas, is set to arrive in New York on 3 November. By arrangement with the English Provincial and Rome, these friars will be attached to the Irish headquarters at Abbottstown, Pennsylvania. The letter mentions ongoing efforts to document and establish foundations in places like Bend, Hermiston, Roseburg, and Lincoln, while noting a lack of formal

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Level of description: Item
Date: 22 Oct. 1923
Reference: 3
Extent and medium: 2 pp; typescript
Scope and content: Letter from Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. affirming that group of English Capuchin friars, led by Fr. Nicholas, is set to arrive in New York on 3 November. By arrangement with the English Provincial and Rome, these friars will be attached to the Irish headquarters at Abbottstown, Pennsylvania. The letter mentions ongoing efforts to document and establish foundations in places like Bend, Hermiston, Roseburg, and Lincoln, while noting a lack of formal documents for the mission in Mendocino.
Repository: Irish Capuchin Archives
Context: Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Missionary Correspondence > Correspondence relating to English Capuchins in the United States

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Abbotstown(2)

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the Fathero who go are to report at Abbotstown , and undertake no work
them to be attached to our Hospies at Abbotstown Instead . We thought

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Shanks for your letter and Article on St. Index of the 29th no next year . I will ask him for a letter requesting us to take . It that , just as I was about to start for Dover with the three students American and interested in their work for the growth of the Church , September . Your good Bishop called with his companion on the 7th It boat to consent , and I arranged with the Provincial of England that engagements in the coming year . Hence I have been requested to allow over , when I see him here again next month . He is very anxious you should not go . That will give an opportunity of avoiding friction as in the places there our fathers are , or where the Superior thinks they the Fathero who go are to report at Abbotstown , and undertake no work General could not attach them to the House in New York for their ato . He spoke well , of your work , and of what he heard of Thomas and Monday , October 22nd 1923 . Our English Fathers fell into the same mistake regarding the should have good proachers and prudent fathers at Watts , thoroughly My dear Father Joseph . evolded remarks , which would the susceptibility of the clergy , there Fathers of the Calvary Province in the East , with the result that Mr. them to be attached to our Hospies at Abbotstown Instead . We thought be put them on their way to Rome . He spoke of Blo"Ima as coming to the work in Ben Francisco , but evidently some of your men have no