Archbishop Corrigan apologizes for calling McMaster's attention to the translation of the recent Circular Letter of Propaganda. McMaster has made an oversight in the very first sentence when he credits the Cardinal Prefect with saying that the followers of Charles S. Parnell have departed from the line of conduct traced by the Holy Father and the Sacred Congregation. McMaster's translation reads that what the Sovereign Pontiff prescribed was embraced in the Instruction of the Sacred Congregation, but this is not true in point of fact, because the letters treat separately of different aspects of the same general question and do not comprehend each other. These documents themselves are on file in the Freeman's Journal and in the London Tablet, May 19, pp. 789-90, and May 26, pp. 829-830. The oversight credits the part as being equal to the whole and embracing the whole, and by itself would be a small matter but is more noticeable in a version which claims to be an accurate account. In the second sentence a more serious oversight occured when McMaster translated "jure suo" as meaning "independent" just as though the line had read "juris sui ipse", which does mean "independent". In his latest letter Jan. 1883, the Pope, Leo XIII, has expressed his correct meaning and the Bishops and priests of Ireland are generally agreed that it should be translated, "it is just and lawful for those suffering oppression to seek "their rights" by lawful means." McMaster has long known that "per fas et ne fas" means, as Andrew's Latin Lexicon puts it, "by right or wrong", and for this reason he should not translate the word to mean "imprescriptible rights". The word "Aseclae" has been taken by modern writers and by Ecclesiastical Latinists to mean, "followers" or "adherents", but this word may have an honorable connotation or the reverse, depenting on the context. Not considering philology, is it true that the Propaganda Circular does not represent the mind of the Holy Father? The late Sovereign Pontiff, Pius IX once made the statement in his Constitution. Probe, on May 9, 1853, "that everyone knew that the Propaganda was his instrument and organ", and that" nothing is more confounded that the sophism intended to deceive the simple minded laity, that the Propaganda acts by itself without the knowledge and consent of the Sovereign Pontiff." If the Sacred Congregation should act in special cases, as it is authorized to do by the Bull of Grounders, Gregory XI in Constitutio Inscrutabile, June 22, 1622, even then its circulars have the force and value of Pontifical Acts, if signed by the Prefect and the Secretary. Both Urban VIII and Innocent X agree with this legislation. Corrigan is not asking that these notes be published but he does hope that the sentiments of the Irish Bishops in their joint letter of June 10, 1882, will be repeated in America. Their attitude is one of complete loyalty to the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda and they recognize its decrees as speaking in the name of the Soverign Pontiff and binging upon the truly Catholic people of Ireland . P.S. Gregory XVI wrote at least one Encyclical before the Mirari vos. He encloses a copy enclosure present of a latin circular of Pope Leo XIII, from Rome, Italy, dated November 20, 1883. :: I-2-d A.L. initialed 4pp. 8vo.