She is sorry he finds no chance to write his friends, and would have written sooner herself, but she has had a little hospital here since St. Joseph's day. She tells him about the health and activities of her family and friends. John J. Keiley? allowed her to enjoy John's letter. She will try to remind him to write, but she is growing old and may forget. Minister Anthony Keiley is to sail for Italy on April 29, 1885, and there is a hissing tempest about the appointment, just as James Alphonsus McMaster predicted there would be. He McMaster is in good health, probably because he has been seeing his daughters more often, giving himself no time to pine. She hopes John will have a good time in New Orleans, and gives him the name of a friend to look up there, who will probably remember her maiden name, Helen Turner ?. She also had some Confederate friends, but has forgotten their names. Her family is all asleep now, and she has no more messages. In the morning she must give this to John's father to be forwarded to him. :: I-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.