8 reels of microfilm.
Each reel begins with an item list.
Vice-rector (1863-1868) and rector (1868-1878) of the North American College, Rome, before his appointment as Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, in 1878.
Letters from family, friends, and American bishops, most of them dating from the time when Chatard lived in Rome; concerning the North American College and its students and European travels of American friends; with requests from American bishops for assistance in dealing with Vatican officials, inquiries about political conditions in Rome, and requests for accomodations at the College for the First Vatican Council.
Correspondents include bishops Joseph S. Alemany, James Roosevelt Bayley, Francis Norbert Blanchet, Michael A. Corrigan, William Henry Elder, Ignatius Horstmann, John McCloskey, William McCloskey, John Baptist Purcell, Patrick John Ryan, Robert Seton, and others; and the founder of the Paulists, Isaac Thomas Hecker. In English, French, Latin, and Italian.
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