Richards is glad Brownson thought to write him about Claudio Jannet. He has written to Father John Hogan, who is a friend, to let him know of Jannet's coming, and he hopes to have them, with Bishop John J. Keane, at his home. He expects to see Major Edmund Mallet in time. He was about to ask Brownson to refer him to the volume and page where Dr. Orestes A. Brownson spoke of John Henry Cardinal Newman's "Grammar of Assent", which he has been unable to find. He asks if Brownson read Leslie Stephen on Newman's scepticism. He was struck with the similarity of his criticism's with Dr. Brownson's, though Stephen is harsh, unsympathetic if not malicious, and in these respects different from Dr. Brownson. He asks Brownson to come to Washington before he leaves it forever; he is 72, but his brother is 5 years older, and he may live as long—his health is splendid. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.