Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: John Hughes, Archbishop of N.Y. to B.H. Watson; Places: New York, NY, 1854
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Subjects include: the church -- NY vice (answer to letter from Watson calling the Bishop's attention to the vice prevailing in New York City); suggests pecuniary aid to the church to combat the problem would be welcome; comment on large number of immigrants arriving in city daily and difficulty "to preserve them intact, poverty and many other causes conspiring to their destruction;" and hope to remedy this condition in part by erection of Magdalen Asylum.
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