Foy has received Brownson's letter of the 25th and also a draft of the call. His opinion of it is the same as Brownson's. To make it less verbose, he struck out several words, and to make the sense of one sentence more definite, added two words. This he did by way of suggestion, since Brownson knows they must work with men as they find them. One cannot by any process, whether it be consecration, ordination or the common proceeding of appointment, confer eloquence of tongue or pen upon the chosen one. Inspiration of the literary sort may be natural or supernatural, but it cannot be conferred by a majority vote or even by the laying of hands. Foy regrets now that Brownson asked Henry J. Spaunhorst for a paper and hopes he will definitely refuse, because he expresses his repugnance to the task and is painfully conscious that he has not the requisite literary equipment for writing a paper. Although Foy has promised to aid him, he cannot see his way to do him or his paper much good. He has no objection to a paper on the Catholic press—weekly, monthly and quarterly-—nor to the writer Brownson names. Foy hopes he will have the courage to point out the shortcomings of the weekly newspapers. Most of those that Foy is acquainted with are poorly edited, so badly edited that their claim to Catholic support is sheer impudence. There are however some weeklies published in New York and Philadelphia worthy of general support, and doubtless others published in other places equally meritorious. Ther is too much Irish politics in all of them. Foy encloses William J. Onahan 's letter. He does not like the idea of being bull-dozed into any course by outside authority. No one wishes more for harmony, but Foy insists that the lay congress be left mainly to laymen. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.