Two Pamphlets, To: Board of Managers and Managers of the House of Correction, Employment and Reformation, for Adults and Minors, in the City of Philadelphia From: Catholic Club of Philadelphia and Philadelphia House of Correction, 1885.

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Note: Pamphlets stapled together.  

(1) 13 p. Memorial of the Catholic Club of Philadelphia to the Managers of the House of Correction, Employment and Reformation, for Adults and Minors, in the City of Philadelphia.  Also included a letter and 2 newspaper clippings.  Handwritten, Letter, To: Dear Sir From: John I. Rogers, April 19, 1886. As a member of the Club's appointed Committee, Rogers arranged to meet committees from other Catholic Societies to pursue the matter of Catholic worship in the House of Corrections. Newspaper clipping 1, Memorial presented from St. Stanislaus Society of Gesu partish to Managers of the House of Correction, Employment and Reformation, for Adults and Minors, in the City of Philadelphia, [n.d.].  Newspaper clipping 2, "Worship at Corrections; Hot Words Between the Managers and Members of the Catholic Benevolent Union."

(2) 15 p. Answers of the Catholic Club of Philadelphia to the questions submitted by the Committee of the Board of Managers of the House of Correction, Employment and Reformation, for Adults and Minors, in the City of Philadelphia.