Hughes states he knows of the condition of the "Freeman's Journal." He believes it would be a calamity to the Catholics if it should cease to exist. He understands that those who have been its friends desire to stand by it. Hughes has advanced a small sum to the paper which he is ready to forget if the paper should go on vigorously. He has in his mind a project that he believes could make the Freeman's Journal the most effective Catholic Journal published in the English languages; but he first wishes the advice of the paper's other supporters, who include Andrew Carrigan, Terence Donnelly, Felix Ingoldsby, Charles M. Connolly, James O'Brien, Rev. William Starrs, and George V. Hecker . He wants Hecker to call on and ask these gentlemen to meet at Hughes' home at four o'clock in the afternoon on next Friday. Although Donnelly and O'Brien are in Europe, each has a brother here who will be willing to represent them at the meeting. He expresses his great faith in the future success of the Freeman's Journal. Copy in handwriting of James Alphonsus McMaster . :: I-1-m copy 2pp. 4to. 10