Brownson has been very ill and suffering also from his eyes and the little time he has been able to write, he has had so much other writing that he could not write Henry. Yet not a day has passed without his thinking of Henry, dear Fifine and the children. He thanks Henry for the photographs. Phippy Philip Brownson is a fine looking boy but rather slender and delicate. Sally Brownson is very bright and intelligent looking and as she grows up will look like her mother, though somewhat like her grandmother Sarah Healy Brownson. Orestes Brownson has the most striking head, and the most regular features. He is too light to be a full-blooded Healy or Brownson, but if he lives he will make the name of Brownson more distinguished than it is now. He bats on Orestes. Yet Brownson loves them all and is sorry that he can see so little of them. One day later. Brownson is obliged to Henry for a copy of Judge Cooly's Thomas M. Cooley? article on Constitutional Guarantees of Republican government. It is the only sensible document on the question Brownson has seen. It explodes the fallacies that played so prominent a part in the acts of reconstruction. It excuses some things which Brownson does not but it does not pretend to justify them by the constitution. Cooley's doctrine that it belongs to the president, not to Congress, to decide which is the legal government of a state is sound and just. The Rhode Island case in which Brownson had some share, is a case in point. Brownson has a thorough want of confidence in Ulysses S. Grant who is absolutely destitute of a moral sense, a low vulgar mind and at ease only when surrounded by blackguards, as Grant's friend Dr. Henry S. Hewit always insisted. Brownson does not believe there is a shadow of excuse for Grant's recent interference in the organization of the Louisiana legislature. The Southern States are states in the Union and can stand on a footing of equality with all the other states of the Union. Yet the Republicans in Congress will, and must, sustain Grant for he is their only hope. The Democrats have no leader and they have not recovered from their demoralization and have no policy. Brownson hopes Henry is prospering and is well. Sarah M. Brownson Tenney keeps a close watch over Brownson lest he marry again and disgrace the family. This is very kind of her. Henry is not to be uneasy should her vigilance relax for no woman will ever take the place of Henry's mother, although very day Brownson misses her more and more. Sarah will give him very soon a grandchild. She is very wild and eats enormously. Henry is to pray she may have a safe delivery. Of William J. Tenney Brownson has nothing to say but that Tenney is much spruced up. He is to Brownson, inscrutable. Love to Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.