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Archbishop Ireland The Archdiocese of St. Paul. Dec 21 1892
St. Paul, Minn Dec 22 1892
Madam
I beg leave to send a rather belated reply to your letter of Dec 6.
For much of the information and cooperation you desire I will refer you to Mrs. Alice T. Tooniey, 16 Sidney Place, Brooklyn N.Y. This lady knows better than I the Catholic women of America who would be likely to aid you in writing papers for you or doing other work that you would assign to them. I conversed with her on this whole matter when I was recently in the East,
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and she promised her energetic assistance. Please write to her making mention in your letter of my name.
It will be difficult to enlist the active sympathies of members of religious [?]. These ladies are by custom and by rule very retiring. Thier labors, however, can be well described by persons, whose names Mrs. Tooniey will procure for you.
Lady Herbert, of England might I think be secured for the congress. She is a woman of remarkable intellectual [parts?]. Her son is an attache of the British legation in Washington, and when I saw her last winter in Rome she told me she intended visiting him during summer of 1893.
