The lead article is this issue of Newport History is by John F. Quinn and provides a new perspective on the integration of Roman Catholicism into Newport’s religious climate. The second article in this issue is by Sarah Vickery. For her internship project, Ms. Vickery was curator of Handwritten History: Correspondence of Great Americans, an exhibition held in the fall of 2010 at the Colony House on Washington Square and in early 2011 at the nearby BankNewport. This article adapts the wall text and images from this exhibition