17 - Letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling

17

Letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling

2 pp; manuscript

Letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. to Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, mostly referring to financial matters. He writes ‘Financially we are up against it here. The depression that has swept the Eastern States has reached us within the past few months so that our income is down to a minimum loss of $250 per month. He adds ‘salaries are being slashed 40 & 50 % which renders the people who have work (and every 3 men one meets has no work) little above the starvation line’. Fr. Thomas also references news of the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. He states ‘We are all eagerly looking out for news of the Eucharistic Congress. The American Papers carried a good account although it was brief’.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition