Being carnival time, tucker has some leisure hours. He sends a few lines to keep alive the esteem he has always had for Timon. Tucker has not heard from Missouri for near a year; he fears that the first letter will bring sad tidings. Father Louis Tucker never writes, all his collegian friends and relation, and his bishop have forgotten him. There is no carnival in Naples as the Queen is dead. Nor any in Milan or Venice. Last Thursday there was a consistory in which two Cardinals and many bishops were made. The former Bishop of Boston, now Archbishop John Lefebvre Cheverus of Bordeaux received the cardinals hat; the other was the Archbishop Gabriel Della Genga Sermattei of Ferrara, a nephew of Pope Leo XII. They are about to sustain a very great loss in the removal of their Superior, Count Charles Augustus Reisach, Rector of the College who will probably be made Bishop in Germany as the King of Bavaria has already written to Reisach for that purpose. It will be long before Propaganda will have another like him. George A. Hamilton and Tucker enjoy excellent health. There are few strangers this year, among whom are some Americans. Tucker hears that Bishop Joseph Rosati will visit Rome this year. Tucker will be overjoyed to see his benefactor and perhaps to return with him. In speaking with their Cardinal prefect about their missions in America, the prefect mentioned Timon as among the most useful. Tucker asks to be remembered to relations and friends, especially to his father and mother and family, to Sister Agnes Brent, V.H.M.?. Tucker wrote to Sister in December. He also asks to be remembered to Fathers Tornatore and Paquin and all the others. :: IV-3-j A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.