Redick M. Wylie, Bloomington, IN to Andrew Wylie, Jr.

              Bloomington, Dec 15th 1857, Dear Brother, Your letter asking the dates of some of the principal events of our dear father's life was not received until about a week after it was written. And of course I could not give an answer sooner. I have been looking over the papers & manuscripts and could not get any information from them excepting from his diploma and his certificate of ordination from Bishop Kemper. This ordination took place at Vincennes on the 29th of May 1842, at which time and place father was admitted to the second order of priests by Bishop Kemper. Father received his diploma from Jefferson College on the 4th of Oct 1810, Jacob Dunlap being president, and James McMillan and Samuel Miller Professors. Mother thinks that he was licensed to preach when he was about twenty three. I was not able to ascertain the time he left the Presbyterian Church, nor the college from which he received the degree of D. D. Should anything turn up that I can find these dates, will let you know. Lizabeth says that all the information of which she was possessed on this subject she committed to writing in the shape of a preface to one of Father's