Sister sends McMaster a gold nugget to be disposed of and the proceeds sent to he Holy Father as the contribution of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Wheeling, W. Va. Sister would like to send money, but it is impossible. This letter will be handed to McMaster by Father Augustine Louage, president of their college and seminary in Wheeling. Sister asks if McMaster, his wife and child, could come to Wheeling for a few weeks rest, and says that they could furnish a quiet room for him to live in. As regards the circular sent by McMaster, if there were any news, he would have received it before now. She mentions that 42 nuns teach some 900 pupils, and also take care of the Hospital, Orphan Asylum and the domestic work of the College, and that as their vocation is poverty, they are allowed to undertake pay schools only as a means of carrying on their charities. She knows that McMaster is interested in their efforts, and especially in the fact that the poor children are kept, almost without exception, out of the public schools. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.