66. Corrigan to Scalabrini¹³⁹

         New York, November 3, l901

Very Reverend Bishop:

After my heartfelt wishes for the feast of St. Charles, I would like to say that I have invited the Bishop of Brooklyn to come Tuesday at one o’clock for a simple lunch with us. I hope that Your Excellency will be with us on that day, at that time. That morning (Tuesday), at eleven thirty, we will have the Consultors meeting and the Diocesan Consultors will stay for lunch at one o’clock. Then, I have to go for the usual Board meeting at Mount St. Vincent, at the Sisters of Charity, and will return by five thirty.

            Today a friend of mine asked me to take Your Excellency along with me at six, Tuesday, for dinner, after which he wants you and me to accompany him to see the results of the popular elections. We will go by car; it will be something worth seeing. We will go in total security and we will see how an American crowd behaves at a time of greatest excitement.

            If it pleases Your Excellency we can go together to Mount St. Vincent and on our return to the City, we can either go to my friend or we can return here. In the latter case, he will come to pick us up by car at seven o’clock. I believe everything will be known and concluded soon.

            Then on Thursday evening, I absolutely want Your Excellency here at my home to meet some gentlemen who wish to pay you their respects. Bishop Sbarretti¹⁴⁰ will leave Cuba for this residence on the 9th and will arrive in New York on November twelve. Then he will go immediately to Rome.

            I am, dearest bishop,

Your most humble and most devoted servant,

Michael Augustine, Archbishop of New York