Hagen, Bridget, of John and Bridget Hagen, date of birth not given, baptized October 6th. Sponsors, John and Catharine Hagen. Hagen, Margaret, of John and Catharine Hagen, date of birth not given, baptized October 6th. Sponsors, John and Bridget Schweny [Sweeney?].

Hagen, John, of John and Catharine Hagen, date of birth not given, baptized October 6th. Sponsors, John and Bridget Schweny [Sweeney?].

Schweny [Sweeney?], Salome, and Anna, of John and Bridget Schweny, date of birth not given, baptized October 6th. Sponsors, Neal and Mary Mecbraid [McBride?].

Tenny [Taney?], Nicholas, of Meils and Margaret Tenny, date of birth not given, baptized October 6th. Sponsors, Patrick and Mary Mecbraid [McBride?].

Tenny [Taney?], Susan, of Meils and Margaret Tenny, date of birth not given, baptized October 6th. Sponsors, Cornelius Mecbraid

[McBride?] and Bridget Schweny [Sweeney?].

MecLachelen [McLaughlin?], Thomas, of Henry and Anna Meclachelen, and Anna, a sister, and William and Henry, brothers, children of and Anna Meclachlen, baptized October 6th. Sponsors, John Meclachlen and Henry his brother with their wives. Original book, page 47.

Morfy [Murphy?], James, of Dionysius and Elizabeth Morfy, date of birth not given, baptized November 3rd. Sponsors, Jacob and Anna May.

Therren, Charles, of Patrick and Margaret Therren, date of birth not given, baptized November 3rd. Sponsors, James and Susan Queen [Quinn?].

Clenegal, Helen, of Huighy and Mary Clenegal, date of birth not given, baptized November 3rd. Sponsors, John Meccfoull [McFaul?] and Anne his sister.

Cannery, Thomas and Margaret, of Thomas and Margaret Cannery, date of birth not given, baptized November 7th. Sponsors, Meckelly and Honora Cannery.

Cannery, Genevieve, of Thomas and Margaret Cannery, date of birth not given, baptized November 7th. Sponsors, John and Martha Kelly.

Kelly, Catharine, of Thomas and Margaret Kelly, date of birth not given, baptized November 7th. Sponsors, Thomas and Margaret Cannery.

Arnst, Elizabeth, of Jacob and Margaret Arnst, date of birth not given, baptized November 23rd. Sponsors Henry Brick and Elizabeth Reinzel.

Ditter, Henry, of Henry and Catharine Ditter, a year old, baptized December 5th. Sponsors, Henry Kuhn and Elizabeth Müller.

HISTORICAL NOTES

In connexion with the scholarly articles on Don Agustin De Iturbide, which appeared in the December and March numbers of the RECORDS, the following notes, collected by the late Mr. Martin I. J. Griffin, are both pertinent and interesting.

President James K. Polk, in his Diary, under date of Thursday, 17th February, 1848, recorded:

About 12 o'clock Madame Iturbide, the widow of the former Emperor of Mexico of that name, called. I saw her in the parlour. She was accompanied by Miss White, the niece of the late Mr. General Van Ness of this city. Madame Iturbide did not speak English, & Miss White interpreted for her. Her business was to see me on the subject of her pension from the Mexican Government, which had been granted her on the death of her husband, and of which, in consequence of the existing war, she had been deprived. Her object was to have it reserved and paid out of the military contribution levied by our forces in Mexico. I gave her no distinct answer, but told her I would see the Secretary of State on the subject, and requested her to call on him to-morrow. I do not see how I can grant her request. Upon the death of her husband she left Mexico, and has been residing for the past 20 years near Philadelphia, and has received her annual pension from Mexico during that period, until the breaking out of the present war, by which she has been deprived of it. She is an interesting person. One of her sons was a Major in the Mexican Army, was recently taken prisoner, & (is) now in the U. S. on his parole of honour. (Diary, III, 342.)

Madame Iturbide requested Buchanan to "give her a written permission for herself and family to return to Mexico". Bu

chanan "submitted her note to the President, who has reluctantly arrived at the conclusion that it would, under existing circumstances, be inexpedient to grant her permission". Feb'y 24, 1848. (Works, VII, p. 505.)

In the March number of the Records (p. 40), it is stated that the Empress died at Philadelphia "on the 21st of January, 1861 ". Mr. Griffin assigns a slightly later date. He writes: "On March 16th, 1861, Madame Anna Marie Haurte de Iturbide, ex-Empress of Mexico, died, age seventy-nine. She was interred on March 23rd in vault No. 9 of St. John's Church, Philadelphia. On December 14, 1866, her son Agustus Iturbide, born 30 September, 1807, died and was buried in No. 9." The Vault Record of St. John's Church gives the date of the interment of the Empress as 21 March, 1861 (RECORDS, Dec., 1912).

A splendidly illustrated souvenir volume has been issued to signalize the Silver Jubilee of the opening of the Roman Catholic High School for Boys of Philadelphia. It gives an interesting sketch of the founder of the School, Mr. Thomas E. Cahill, a description of the building, and an account of the ceremonies at the blessing of the school, 6 September, 1890, including the addresses delivered by the late Judge Elcock, Bishop Horstmann and Archbishop Ryan. A number of highly instructive statistical tables are given, from which we learn that, since the opening of the school, 4,762 boys were admitted, of whom 1,032 finished the complete course and received the honors of graduation. Nearly one-fourth of the graduates (240, to be exact) pursued their studies in some higher institution of learning. Among the Alumni are 52 clergymen, 43 seminarians, 48 physicians and dentists, 25 lawyers, 17 Bachelors of Science, and a lesser number in other departments of learning.

The Reverend Lawrence J. Kenny, S.J., of St. Louis University, writes as follows to the Editor:

DEAR SIR:

The diary of the Trappist priest, now appearing in your publication, has very special interest to students of the early history of this section. The translation is so excellently done that it is unfortunate that it should be marred by an error worth noting. I believe you will be pleased to have your attention called to the point, all the more as the mistake may yet be corrected before the general index of the volume appears.

I have before me the baptismal records of St. Ferdinand, Florissant, Missouri, in which the name of Father Dunand is signed more than two hundred and fifty times in his own hand. The third letter of his name is unmistakably N, not R, that is, his name is Dunand, not Durand.

It may be interesting to note, as agreeing with the article in your RECORDS, that his first entry is dated Dec. 28th, 1808, when he performed four baptisms; his second entry is June 8th, 1809; his last signature is on April 25th, 1820. His writing, though not so perfect as Fr. Bernard Langlois, or Fr. Urbain, is clear and easily legible. There can be no doubt that his name was Dunand.

Your servant in Christ,

LAWRENCE J. KENNY, S.J.

10-15-1817

Dunand

Mr. James Willcox has presented to the library of the Society a welcome relic of Cardinal Newman, in the shape of a cloth-bound copy of the 29th edition (Oxford, John Henry Parker, 1846, 310 pp.) of Keble's volume of hymns, "The Christian Year". The book was presented to Mr. Willcox's father in Rome, 1847, by the great Oratorian.

On the fly-leaf is the following inscription in the Cardinal's delicate handwriting:

The author of this book is Mr. Keble, formerly Fellow of Oriel College and Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. J. H. N. Coll. Urban, April 19, 1847.

Mr. Willcox has had a leather case made for this precious volume, which the Society gratefully adds to its small, but growing, collection of relics of famous churchmen.

FRANCIS X. Reuss

The following autobiographical notes were found among the papers of the late Mr. Francis X. Reuss, together with instructions to forward them to the American Catholic Historical Society. Mr. Reuss was one of the charter members of the Society and a frequent and valued contributor to the pages of the RECORDS.

Francis X. Reuss, son of Hilary Edward and Anna Barbara Reuss, born 30 November, 1847, in house at S. W. Cor. of 4th and Cherry St., Columbia, Lancaster Co., Penna. First school, at age of 3 years, to Deborah Harry, in the old frame building on Cherry St., Columbia, which stood on the Corrigan property; from here he went to another private school on Cherry St., in the frame house of Miss Katts. In 1852 he went to school in the old frame school, in the rear of the Presbyterian Church, on 4th Street, taught by Miss Rosa Gannon.

1853-1854: To Aunt Deborah Harry's private school, in the rear of the Old Friend's Meeting House, Cherry St. 1855-1856: Private school kept by William Gleaves, in Town Hall, Columbia.

1857: To private Academy, "Washington Institute", one of the first pupils in the then newly erected Academy, opened by Prof. Joseph D. Nichols, until 1863, when it was used as a hospital after the battle of Gettysburg.