Father Joseph Cataldo letter, 1913 February 16.

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Father Joseph Cataldo letter, 1913 February 16.

Holograph letter, signed, from Father Joseph Cataldo to an unidentified recipient, reporting on the departure of Matthew and discussing the state of Jesuit missions to the Plateau peoples. Written on the letterhead of St. Mary's Church, Pendleton, OR. Removed from a copy of Cataldo's Jesus-Christ-nim kinne uetas-pa kut ka-kala time-nin iues pilep-eza-pa taz-pa tamtai-pa numipu-timt-ki (The life of Jesus Christ from the four gospels in the Nez Perces language; Portland, OR: Press of Schwab Printing Co., c. 1915. MASC copy number 4; barcode 002-123041972).

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