McMaster encloses currency to Father Costa for two copies of Father Lockhart's rendition of the posthumous manuscript which the pious Rosmini probably never intended to be published. The manuscript is careless, undigested, and contains the worst that his "friends", the Jesuits, alleged against his metaphysical fancies. The fact that some pretentious Sisters ordered several copies from a New York publisher and intend to teach the contents in their instruction courses to young girls instead of teaching them the mechanics of the English language, holds McMaster back from saying words of disparagement about the pious Rosmini. The friendship of Pope Pius IX for him also forbids such remarks, but never the less, the metaphysical notions set forth in French and English translations by Rosmini are far from those set forth by St. Thomas. Father Costa advised McMaster to secure Father Lockhart's English translation, since he could not read Italian, but McMaster had previously read the work in French and had considered it a horrible mistranslation. He stands corrected in this opinion. For 40 years, McMaster has studied the Summa Theologica, written according to St. Thomas for unlearned persons who had no opportunity to pursue graver studies. In the Annales de Philosophie Chretianne, of Paris, France, Feb, 1882, he found false citations from St. Thomas and impossible references to the Summa Theologica. Barring some divergences, McMaster finds the same references in Fr. Lockhart's reproduction. In 40 years time spent examining every reputable edition of the Summa, McMaster has never seen such an impossible reference to St. Thomas as the footnote on page 37 of Lockhart's pamphlet. In five different places, St. Thomas quotes the words St. Augustine used, and in 3 places St. Thomas explained that St. Augustine in no way agrees with the nonsense of Plato which Malebranche has revived. In Rosmini's exposition however, St. Thomas is quoted as saying that there is not fundamental difference between our system and that of Malebranche. The metaphysics of Malebranche, in addition to his Platonic Recherche de la Alerite has been placed on the Index along with his posthumous writings. The footnote on page 46 also misquotes St. Thomas and gives a ridiculous and impossible place reference. What ridiculous mountebank of Italy can so far misrepresent St. Thomas as to give so many laughably impossible quotations? McMaster thought Father Lockhart had been outraged by the French editor in Feb. 1882, but he sees that the same imbecillities have been handed out in the English edition also. If it were possible to defend Rosmini's metaphysical notions McMaster would prefer to read him in a language in which he wrote, but any republication of any of honest Orestes A. Brownson's bad philosophy will force him to oppose such fooleries. McMaster proposes to wait one week to receive any possible explanation of the ignorances Father Lockhart uttered in French and in English concerning the quoting of the Summa. It is against his accepted rule to write any letter, especially a long one, but he has done so to show his respect for an admirer of Rosmini, the babbler in metaphysics. This appears to be a first draft of a letter :: I-2-d A.L.S. 6pp. 8vo.