Dunne has received Brownson's letter of the 15th and will prepare a 30 minutes paper on Education for the Catholic Congress, as he suggests, and will if possible attend the Congress to read it. He will transmit the paper to Brownson before September 30. It seems to appear from Brownson's letter that the Congress is to have more of a lay character than Dunn supposed while writing the suggestions he forwarded yesterday. But Brownson says the project has been laid before James Cardinal Gibbons and has his approval. That will be suffecient to recommend it to Catholics, but he thinks that it would be well to in form persons preparing papers as to what is to be the exact status of the Congress, as such knowledge will help them in flaming their utterances. He enquires the meaning of Brownson's statement that "a paper drawn in a certain way will start the discussion of the subject on a true basis", and asks whether it means discussion at large throughout the country or only in the Congress after the reading of the papers. He would like to know because of its effect on shaping certain parts of the paper, but he is not seeking to shape the action of the Committee and will conform to it. He thanks the committee for the compliment of placing the paper on education in his hands and for the offer to waive his personal attendance provided he finishes the paper. P.S.June 25.: He assumes his paper meant to be confinedto elementary education, the Catholic attitude toward public schools, since Brownson refers to his Arizona address, and cannot mean for him to take in all education, at least in 30 minutees. The 30 minutes suit him but he wants to know what he is to do with the time. He does not see the newspapers much and has heard nothing about the Congress except a little uncomplimentary skit in the New York Freeman's Journal and asks Brownson to inform him, if Brownson wants to have oral discussion in the Congress on matters treated of in papers,he ought to settle on a program of subjects and send them around at least to all who furnish papers. All those questions are a little out of the daily mental beat of Catholic lay workers in this country. If they are expected to talk about them in the Congressthey ought to have some notice to furbish up a little, otherwise it will be a rusty sort of Congress comparing unfavourably to those in Europe. European co-religionists will scan the proceedings closely to see if the "dollar catchers" have "caught on" to anything else. The reputation of the lay Catholics of America is in Brownson's hands. Ought not this Catholic Congress give the new Catholic University some kind of a "send-off"? What would Brownson think of a paper on the convent education of Catholic girls, is it not a question of national importance? True, there is no particular grievance in that matter, except the cost. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.