Her letter had been gone three or four hours when Bayley's arrived. Beers has a little poor school. Last summer Beers told Bayley about some German families who were negligent of their religious duties and bringing up their children ignorant, and Bayley said she should try to get the children straight, so she set about it. She has succeeded in gaining them all, except one Protestant mother. Beers had to learn German, took them all from the district school and took in the Irish children as well. She hopes that through the children the parents will come back. Living without Mass costs Beers many a heartache, but she thinks how worse off she was 10 years ago. She does not think she will be able to go to New York at all this winter. If Mother Francis will receive her in the Convent, she may go there for the last weeks. Mother sends love. She is reading the life of Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton for the second time. :: II-2-n A.L.S. 7pp. 32mo.