Complex sentence: In 1877, Father Jessing wrote a letter to Columbus Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans asking permission to bring his newspaper and the orphan's asylum to a larger city, explaining that he needs to be closer to the railroad in order to distribute his paper.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1877, Father Jessing wrote a letter to Columbus Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans asking permission to bring his newspaper and the orphan's asylum to a larger city. In that letter, he explained that that he needed to be closer to the railroad in order to distribute his paper.