The opinion Foy formed sometime ago is strengthened by Brownson's statements of what took place at the last meeting. James Cardinal Gibbons and his entourage are at least opposed to the Congress, and if it were not thought that the meeting of so many prominent laymen would add eclat to the centenary, they would experience open hostility from his Eminence. He does not know whether it has occurred to Brownson that all this intermeddling with the Committee on Papers is a flat usurpation. When the Committees on Papers and organization were constituted there was no thought of making one subordinate to the other in any way. Therefore, the appointment of the supervisory committee was without warrant of authority. It implied that the Committee on Papers could not be trusted and that the whole power was in the hands of the other committee. He asks about the meeting of the 16th. The solitary criticism offered was puerile in the extreme. Foy agrees that it was absurd and unpolitic to confine the vice presidents to one nationality. He does not know or care what Henry J. Spaunhorst or Daniel A. Rudd will say to it. Their acquiescence would not relieve the thing from the flagrant claims expressed of it. He suspects the Bishops are opposed to a permanent organization. W. H. Hughes of Detroit has written about a memorial work of the Catholic centenary and Congress he proposes to publish, and has asked for a photograph of Foy and an autobiographical sketch. He has not answered him yet because he thought it best to wait until he heard from Brownson. He is very much indisposed to write anything about himself and abhors self-advertising from the bottom of his soul. He asks further questions about the actions taken. Evidently Foy and Brownson will have to be in Baltimore several days before the 9th. The telegram from Detroit in the Globe Democrat said the adjourned meeting would be held on November 2d. Foy intents to leave on the 3rd or 4th for Baltimore, because it is highly desirable that Brownson and he be there in good time. He hopes Brownson will find it convenient to be there by Tuesday or Wednesday morning because one will be able to do little or nothing without the other. If Brownson is in favor of an earlier date, Foy will not object, for he remembers that William J. Onahan will be on the ground from the first of November. P.S.: If the Congress publishes the addresses and proceedings in book form, will there be room for Hughes' volume? :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.