A commission given to Bishop Patrick Lynch by Jefferson Davis, naming him special commissioner of the Confederate States of America to the State of the Church.
A letter to Reverend Joseph L. O'Brien, director of the Catholic High School, from Reverend Patrick L. Duffy, Vicar General, congratulating him on the success of his school and discussing its future.
Stereograph of the ruins of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and St. Finbar in Charleston, South Carolina. Ruins of the cathedral are from the rear view and show damage from the fire of 1861.
A letter from the Archbishop of Chicago, Patrick A. Feehan, to the priests in his archdiocese, requesting the priests appeal to their congregations in order to aid the Diocese of Charleston.