Richards met Claudio Jannet at Major Edmund Mallet 's but could not understand his French or English fully. He was here about three days, then left for New York and sailed at once for France. He invites Brownson to visit him in Washington. He would have written sooner but he has been occupied since reading Leslie Stephen on Cardinal Newman and Salter's "Another View of Newman" in writing an essay —12 pages of which he sends Brownson. He wants to know whether, after the Vatican Council, Orestes A. Brownson modified his mode of expression as to how man got the idea of God. He quotes from the Review of 1852 and also from his "Refutation of Atheism", which says "we think we have shown, it—reason—did not, and perhaps could not, have originated the Idea of God, and asks whether he put in the 'perhaps' because of the Vatican decree and if there are other passages which might illustrate the same thing. He also wishes to know if any quotations from Dr. Brownson conflict with the Vatican decree; his nephew Father J. Havens Richards, president of Georgetown College and a thorough Jesuit in philosophy, says the Brownson quotations are wholly indefensible, and argues from the assumption that God might have left man in a state of nature and might have attained to an idea of God from nature. Richards asks Brownson for advice on the whole matter. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.