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Newman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati
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Newman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati

In 1875 John Baptist Purcell wrote to Newman that some in the United States were opposed to a pamphlet he published in a Catholic Liverpool paper.

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