Referring to McMaster's last letter, Garesche assures him that there is no need to explain to him why his letters have not been published. He has omitted writing McMaster not through any feeling of his but because he has been too busy to write. McMaster should not think him indifferent, for their friendship of 24 years has proved him otherwise. Gareshce, however, has no vanity, he is but 47 years old, yet every aspiration of human distinction is crushed in him. He writes not because he thinks his letters may be published but because he thinks they may interest; he would write oftener but is afraid McMaster's friendship for him would cause him to publish them when there is more interesting matter to be printed. The translation of Father Peter De Smet's letter was the work of one Sunday afternoon. Garesche has inquired of the editor of the Catholic World if he would publish another De Smet letter, never before translated, and has referred him to McMaster. When De Smet returnes from his present journey Gareshce will have disposal of De Smet's report of the journey, which he will give the Freeman's Journal for first publication. McMaster is asked to request the prayers of children for De Smet's safe return. He is in no danger, but they feel uneasy about him in St. Louis, fearing that in the bitter war his party might be surprised and waylaid, before the Indians could recognize him. Garesche regrets McMaster's editorial on the two Archbishops, and thinks it would have been better had he written in same train as his reply to the Catholic Telegraph. He agrees wholly with McMaster that Dogma should be defined and among all his wide acquaintance only two Catholics doubt it. Protestant converts have taken it for granted that the Pope was infallible in matters of faith. The Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick, of St. Louis has committed the same error he made before, in McMaster's regard. He has others write for him, for surely he himself would never have been so uncharitable as to say Archbishop Martin John Spalding of Baltimore has changed since he was elected to two deputations. Garesche asks McMaster to send him the numbers of the Freeman's Journal in which Father De Smet's letters appear. He also asks for any copies of the Freeman in which the lectures or discourses of Father Frederick Geresche appear. He does not expect an answer to this letter, for he knows how busy McMaster is. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.