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 1    1,     1,   II       4    |       fleeing Italy because they don’t like work but because
 2    1,     1,   II       4    |         there isn’t any work and don’t know how they and their
 3    1,     1,  VII      16    |         if Rossini were alive, I don’t know whom he would embrace,
 4    1,     1,  VII      16    |     number of people. Frankly, I don’t know if the organization
 5    1,     1, VIII      20    |       which I here transcribe:~ ~Don’t pay attention to the letters
 6    1,     1, VIII      20    |         defending us? No one. We don’t have policemen or authorities.
 7    1,     1, VIII      21    |     Commercial Herald, which, we don’t know why, has started
 8    1,     1,   IX      24    |     things in this regard, but I don’t intend to mention them
 9    1,     1,   IX      26    |      them or make off as if they don’t see them. An Association
10    1,     1,    X      26    |          who emigrate, when they don’t die during the voyage
11    1,     1,    X      27    |        dehumanizing materialism.~Don’t tell me, that if a person
12    1,     2            41    |          centers themselves.”~“I don’t need to demonstrate the
13    1,     2            43    |    railroads, and even then they don’t always get it. New York
14    1,     2            57    |         I will present to you.~I don’t know what reception would
15    1,     3,    I      65    |         any better success. They don’t feel secure because they
16    1,     3,   II      68    |         are exceptions, but they don’t change the rule.~The situation
17    1,     5            82    | pleasurable.” The fact is that I don’t know how to reveal “the
18    1,     5,    I      86    |        for deserted places, they don’t know. Yes, they are going
19    1,     5,  III      92    |      Congregation of the beloved Don Bosco, the National Association
20    1,     7,  III     122    |         direction of my tireless Don Pietro Maldotti.~Missions
21    1,     8           128    |          in deserted areas, they don’t know. They go to America,
22    1,     8           131    |        language and customs they don’t know and where they live
23    1,     8           133    |  sufficiently known to you and I don’t want to take advantage
24    2,     1,    I     142    |    speculate on their misery and don’t care much about their
25    2,     1,   II     148    |          catechism, even if they don’t drink the poison of heresy.
26    2,     1,  III     152    | appropriate qualifications. They don’t have to oblige themselves
27    2,     1, Summ, I,  161   |       Msgr. Raffaele Polichetti, Don Vincenzo Raimondo Caiazzo
28    2,     1, Summ, I,  161   |     pastor of Sant’ Onofrio, and Don Luigi Grieco pastor of San
29    2,     1, Summ, IV,  163  |        go to church. So far they don’t show any esteem for priests
30    2,     1, Summ, V,  165   |   persuades me that the Italians don’t like the Franciscan Fathers
31    2,     1, Summ, VII,  167 |        the Italian church. Yet I don’t know if on Sunday there
32    2,     1, Summ, VII,  168 |        North American College. I don’t believe a better plan
33    2,     1, Summ, VII,  168 |      learn English and French! I don’t know if I have made myself
34    2,     1, Summ, VII,  168 |         of Italian immigration I don’t mean to say that all Italians
35    2,     1, Summ, VII,  169 |       learn a language that they don’t know how to appreciate.~
36    2,     2,   17     196    |         years. . .~ ~With this I don’t mean to complain. I know
37    2,     3,    1     201    |          this blessed diocese. I don’t want, however, that Mantua
38    2,     3,    1     201    |          generous appeal. If you don’t mind it, I propose as
39    2,     3,   13     209    |         slanderous tongues, that don’t spare the holiest people.
40    2,     4           233    |  Cardinal McCloskey, he wrote to Don Giovanni Bosco asking for
41    2,     4,    2     238    |          attend our churches. We don’t propose to build churches
42    2,     4,    2     238    |   Italians, especially when they don’t want to do anything. Father
43    2                  243(26)|     Corrigan he is simply called Don Carlo.~
44    2,     4,   11     247    |          no time.~ My secretary, Don Carlo, sends you his regards
45    2,     4,   17     252    |    gratitude to Your excellency. Don Carlo presents his respects
46    2,     4,   20     254    |        to your dear and faithful Don Carlo.~ May God bless you,
47    2,     4,   21     254    |        to Your Excellency that I don’t see how we can obtain
48    2,     4,   21     255    |    receive them with open arms.~ Don Carlo thanks Your Excellency
49    2,     4,   22     255    |         of demonstrations over I don’t know what money that,
50    2,     4,   24     259    |       are many Italians.~ ~ 2. I don’t know how to resolve the
51    2,     4,   25     260    |    inform you of the presence of Don Carlo and myself and to
52    2,     4,   26     260    |        to Your Excellency and to Don Carlo, both so tired. Please
53    2,     4,   27     261    |      audience of Sunday, July 6. Don Carlo and I will leave the
54    2,     4,   27     261    |         will appreciate it.~ Our Don Carlo was made a Monsignor
55    2,     4,   28     262    |          Your Excellency and for Don Carlo. There we can stay
56    2,     4,   28     262    |     about the honor conferred on Don Carlo and I send him my
57    2,     4,   29     263    |          After a happy crossing, Don Carlo and I arrived home
58    2,     4,   30     264    |        that I spent with you and Don Carlo did me a lot of good,
59    2,     4,   33     271    |        Affectionate greetings to Don Carlo.~ ~
60    2,     4,   36     273    |       not known and perhaps some don’t consider a time when such
61    2,     4,   38     278    |       now, if I am not mistaken, don’t you have a bishop in some
62    2,     4,   41     283    |       regards and greetings from Don Carlo, Bishop-elect of Brooklyn,
63    2,     4,   44     286    |    Michael Augustine, Archbishop~Don Carlo sends you his best
64    2,     4,   49     291    |    complain against me because I don’t allow that this series
65    2,     6, VIII, 1,  344   |          the luck to meet you, I don’t feel, however, a complete
66    2,     6,   IX, 2,  347   |          even on this account, I don’t think they would be willing