Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Next Page
OCR
CARDINALS RESIDENCE
Race Street
ve nliadelphia
October 9th, 1922.
To the- President and_Members_of
The American Catholic Historical
Society of Philadelphia.
Gentlemen:
To the: many commendations of your
Society. which have been bestowed upon
it since its foundation in the year 1884, it
is a pleasure’ and a duty to add my own.
It is well known that your_Society has
stimulated research in the Catholic his-
tory of this country; that it has provided
lectures by prominent speakers, on Cath-
olic historical subjects; that it took the
ead in.organizing our Catholic people of
Ditiladelohia for the celebration of the
Four Hundredth Anniversary of the
Landing of Columbus on this hemisphere;
that it contains a library of many
valuable books, documents, magazines
and newspapers; and that it has become
a workshop for Catholic historians.
In view of its past achievements, and
of its most useful purpose, the Society
should have the patronage of our Rev-
erend. Clergy and devoted laity. I be-
speak for it a large membership and
financial suppo:
best wishes, I remain, Gentle-
men,
Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) >! D, CARD. DOUGHERTY:
. bp. of Phila.
- PAmevican Catholic Historical Society
HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE
BOARD OF MANAGERS
THE V. REV. T. C, MIDDLETON, D. D.,
0. &. A.
THE RIGHT REV. MONSIGNOR H. T.
HENRY, Litt. D., LL. D,
MR. WALTER GEORGE SMITH
MR. SAMUEL CASTNER, Jr.
THE RT. REV. MONSIGNOR H. T-
DRUMGOOLE, D.D., LL. D.
MR. WILLIAM V. McGRATH, Jr.
THE RT. REV. P. R. McDEVITT, D.D.
BOARD OF MANAGERS
MR. JOHN W. SPECKMAN,
Vice-President
MISS JANE CAMPBE
Corresponding Secretary
MR. THOMAS. H. CULLINAN, Treasurer
MR. P. A. KINSLEY, Recording Secretary
THE REV. FRANCIS P. SIEGFRIED
THE REV. F. T. TORCHER, O. S. A.
THE REV. BENEDICT GULDNER, S&. J.
MR.’ DANIEL C.. DONOGHUE
MR. EDWARD J. GALBALLY
MR. JAMES M. WILLCOX —
DR. LAWRENCE F. FLICK
DR. JOHN F.. RODERER
THE REV. W. J. LALLOU
MR. JOHN F. SKELLY
THE REV. WM, P. McNALLY, S. T. Le
MISS ADA DALLETT_
715 SPRUCE STREET
December 12th, 1922.
Dear Friend:
"IF THE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS DESERVED WHLL
OF HISTORY, LET HER AGAIN DO SO TODAY, WHEN THE
VERY STATE OF THE TIMES IN WHICH WE-LIVE CONSTRAINS
TO THAT DUTY" was the clarion call of his Holiness,
Leo XIII, in 1883, to which American Catholics re-
sponded by organizing the American Catholic Histor-
ical Society of Philadelphia, on July 4, 1884.
8 anf anmminnemeveitnia 0 + niece Sena eS AL owe Se os Etat
This is an invitation to join a Society that
has been and is still doing its utmost to collect and
preserve important data bearing on Catholic activities.
So historians of the day and historians of the future |
may do justice to the incalculable services rendered
by Catholics to their Church and Country.
Since 1884 the roll of membership of the
Society has been # roll of honor; Cardinals, Archbish-
ops, Bishops, Abbots, Doctors of the Church, distin- ‘
guished laymen and distinguished laywomen. What has
been accomplished is represented concretely between
the covers of thirty-two volumes of Catholic history
and in a library and cabinet which now could not. be:
bought for $100,000.00.
His Eminence, Cardinal Dougherty, thinks
the Society ought to have 10,000 members. ,
Your name has been suggested as that of
one worthy of this roll of honor. May we add it?
If so, kindly fill out the attached blank and re-
turn with your signature for the amount called for
in the kind of membership you desire.