O'Boylan answers McMaster's letter of Mar. 14, insisting that he did not ask McMaster to defend him in the "Freeman", but simply because his Bishop has forbidden his writing in his own favor, he gave McMaster the facts of McDewitt's abduction in the hope that McMaster whom he has always regarded as a fearless journalist, would be able to correct some of the false statements in the secular press. O'Boylan was grossly libeled in the Eastern papers and the McDewitt case was falsely stated, but since he was declared innocent by the court the press has once more been turning around in his favor. Regarding the reading of the Catholic journals he says that when he came to the Ohio valley two years ago there was neither church nor Catholic literature, but now he has besides thirty or forty "Columbian" subscriptions, a goodly number of others, eighteen of which he distributes at his personal expense. He is able to stand the brunt of public opinion, and does not need a foreign paper, to defend him in his own diocese. He takes McMaster's letter cheerfully, being used to pert remarks and attacks, but McMaster's letter implies that he has negelcted his people in regard to reading, but this implication is false, as his Bishop, his fellow-priests, and various magazine e itors k ow. He apoligizes for the egotistical tone of his letter, and begs McMaster's pardon for all the trouble he has caused. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.