Brownson has just received a letter from Frank Henry Francis Brownson who hopes to be relieved today or tomorrow and will hasten to embrace his wife and child as soon as possible. Frank says that Josephine has not get along well. Brownson is not surprised; she had not time to get strong before he went away and she has worried and kept back her recovery. Brownson likes her all the better for having a little human infirmity; he has a horror of perfect women. Brownson owes her a thousand blessings for the fine grandson she has given him and she must bring him up to surpass his grandfather. He must be reared to be the head of the Brownson family. If Brownson's health continues to be good, he will visit them in September, perhaps in the last of August. He can wear his shoes, has a new hat and suit. He has made a long visit to the Paulists, has attended two commencements and he believes Sarah Maria Brownson? is going to take him to Newark on Monday to a party in honor of a Benedictine monk. A year ago, the doctor thought Brownson was about to start on a long journey, never to return but he has nearly recovered. Josephine must recover; his son is not safe without her nor he without his son. Brownson wants very much to see his grandson, young Philip James Van Dyke Brownson in whose veins flow noble streams from three different races, English, French, and Dutch with perhaps a few drops of Irish. Brownson sends his regards to Josephine's mother, her brothers and sisters whom he loves for her sake, though he has never seen them. She is assured of his deep fatherly love; her mommy Sarah Healy Brownson? sends her quiet but deep love. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 4to. Gift of Mrs. Alexis Coquillard and Nancy Van Dyke Schumaker