Hudson wishes Brownson would send him another copy of his pamphlet. His has disappeared, and he has been very busy. Bishop John L. Spaulding had a room near his and he felt obliged to attend to his needs a little; and it is very hot. Possibly Luigi Gregori did copy the portrait in the first volume of Tarducci's work. Hudson asks when the book will be published and would like to have some advance sheets in the meantime—the most interesting chapters—which might be called "Scenes or Leaves from the Life of Columbus", and in a footnote explain matters. He would like to have the first at once and intends to announce Brownson's work, explaining that it really ought to supplant Irving's Life with Catholic readers. He asks whether Father Ernest Van Dyke is going away this summer. He would like to assist him at the Feast of the Assumption. He doesn't know how happy it makes Hudson to be at St. Aloysius'. The Irish make promises so heartily and with such cordial spontaneity that they rarely think of fulfillment: they fancy that all is done when they say "I will" and they always mean well. Book premiums are not given at Notre Dame except to the minims. Before using the advance sheets of Brownson's translation, Hudson wants to arrange for remuneration. If Brownson thinks it would not favor the sale of the book to have it in the Ave Maria, he should not hesitate to say so. Hudson would prefer to have the Columbus articles in '92, and he is on the track of some that will be of exceptional interest. He asks Brownson to skim the work of Tarducci and connect the extracts as he did those on the Blessed Virgin from the writings of his father. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.