McMaster, James Alphonsus, New York, New York, to Archbishop Micheal A. Corrigan, New York, New York, 1883 June 13
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McMaster asks Archbishop Michael A. Corrigan's pardon for this week's Freeman's Journal and for the aberrations of the previous week. His time has been completely absorbed by his family lately. The previous week he saw his olnly son set out from Baltimore, Maryland, to begin his career on the sea. He was informed by the Brooklyn Eagle that it was an Oxford man who criticized his translation, and while planning his answer, returned home from Baltimore to find Corrigan's letter. The Oxford man, being a high ranking member of the Press Association, constitutes a pretentious quarry to hunt and for this reason McMaster will answer him thoroughly. He is confident as to the correctness of his etymologies, if not, the living Latin of today discards every rule of the Latin of old and removes the last reason why boys should be taught the pagan classics. Several mistakes were made in the Freeman's Journal of June 3 through sheer carelessness but he will make full reparations for them as soon as he has time. Corrigan has mentioned that Pope Gregory XVI wrote at least one encyclical before his Mirari Vos, but the words of the first sentence of Mirari Vos contradict this. How can such a statement be adjusted? :: I-2-d A.L. 3pp. 8vo.
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- Creation: 1883 June 13
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