Mrs. Brownson has been neglectful in answering Henry's letter but she has been very busy. An artist, Mr. Pinkelin was taking Brownson's picture for the orphans in Boston. It will be raffled there at the Fair in the hope that it will help the Fair as well as the artist. Brownson wanted a picture to be kept in the family so a copy was taken. The last one will be on exhibition in New York. The artist has recently come for Munich and is painting pictures much more cheaply now than he will when once established. Brownson paid him $50 for the second picture and the one of Mrs. Brownson will cost the same. She has sat for a week already and the painting is not finished yet. G.P.A. Healy's picture is a very exact likeness but it is not his best expression, for a hundred years hence it would not do him justice. Mrs. Brownson feels that if her grandchildren would like to see her picture as much as she would want them to, then it was worth all the time spent in sitting. James Sadlier died on the 21inst. and the news was telegraphed to Brownson the next day, whereupon he went to New York for the funeral. Mr. Sadlier had sold the Tablet to his brother Denis, some weeks prior to his death and Brownson was requested to prepare an obituary notice. Getting along with only Denis Sadlier is going to be difficult for Brownson who means to have more than ten dollars a week after this year. Mrs. Brownson expects him home on the next day and presumes he is at Rockaway just now. Mrs. James Sadlier had visited the Brownsons about four weeks ago with some friends and her second son. Frank, her oldest son, has been in the Insane Asylum for a long time. Mrs. Brownson thanks Henry for writing to Orestes and claims that the letter did his brother a great deal of good since he has got into a very trying position. The Church is right in forbidding Catholic children from attending public schools. Orestes Brownson Jr. no doubt teaches a good school and nearly all the teachers and children under him are Catholics. Sometimes by eating with Publicans and Sinners one is converted. Henry's father received a letter from him just about the time he was going to get Fifine in Detroit. The Brownsons are very anxious to know how Fifine and the baby stood the journey. Mrs. Brownson tells Henry to have the baby sleep in a crib beside his bad because she has just read of child smothering in bed in New York. Love and best wishes are sent to Henry and Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.