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 300 which have not been published yet. A recently printed letter of Charles Perraud contains the following important postscript:—

But this document, without which the complete story of Gratry's submission cannot be told, has never been permitted to see the light. For whatever reason, Adolphe Perraud, Gratry's literary executor and biographer, withheld it from history.

But Gratry did not long survive the passing of the new Decree. "And," says his biographer, "most assuredly the trials of this period shortened his days."

Archbishop Kenrick of St Louis represented opposition in the American Church. During the Council he had warmly supported Dupanloup against American Ultramontanes.