Dunne has just received the Catholic Review for June 29 which give him the first information he has received outside of Brownson's letters about the proposed Catholic Congress. By that he sees that Brownson does not have charge of the organization of the Congress directly, though indirectly, if he determines which papers are to be read, he will determine the business to come before the Congress. So the committee on organization is William J. Onahan, Henry J. Spaunhorst and Daniel A. Rudd. He supposses O. stands for Oireland, S. for Germany, R. for Africa, and does not know who stands for France, Spain, and the United States. Of course Brownson has nothing to do with that and neither has he. As to paper, he supposses he may continue to make suggestions. From the Review he sees that there is to be a paper on Societies. That is broad. He meant to suggest a paper on the Catholic Church and secret societies, because the attitude of the Church towards secret societies should be explained. Once he found in the far West an Irish Catholic lawyer, a U.S. district attorney, who was a Mason and assured Dunne that he had never heard that the Catholic Church was seriously opposed to the order. He is afraid there is going to be a little jealously in the East about the Congress' being so much a Western move. Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, and Cinoinatti! Can such things be started without New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. O., S. and R. may "call spirits from the vasty deep" of the Eastern coast "but will they come?" But they may be only a committee to draft a form of call for others to sign and get it signed generally in all parts. He hopes so, and wishes to hear as soon as anything is determined about order of business in the Congress. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.