Richards was pleased to get Brownson's note of the 20th. It is an unsafe rule to publish any papers in the proceedings of the Congress except those ordered to be published by the Congress itself. However, he will not stand on that and has written to W.H. Hughes that he will send him a copy of his paper as soon as he can copy it. At the close of the Congress he was tired out and considerably disgusted when President John Lee Carroll announced at the close of John H. Campbell's reading that there was one more paper, by Richard H. Clarke of New York, but that he had consented to submit it for publication without reading; and that they were now ready to adjourn. Richards had seen the President at 1:45, announced to him his presence, and he showed Richards the program, which put Campbell as No. 11, Richards 12, Clarke 13, and Heman Allen 14. It seemed strange to Richards that the President named only Clarke but there was no help for it; and Richards cannot explain now the reasons for the peculiar chagrin which the total omission of his name and topic occasioned him. He swallowed the chagrin and looked all around the Hall for Brownson but did not go to the Rennert Hotel where he was; and reluctantly came home alone. Their arrangements were all made to receive Brownson, and they had invited several friends to meet him. If he were an old Greek he would say that a singular fatality beset his movements that day; but if they live till 1892, perhaps it will be better. He believes their Congress has done the Catholic cause more good than all the 15 annual Conventions of the Catholic Union put together. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.