Hudson's letter arrived yesterday and in answer to it she states that she has already sent another package of manuscript and will enclose some more with this letter. She too was disappointed when "Tangled Paths" was not concluded in February as she expected. However, under the standard literary rules she found herself unable to abruptly end the tale without injuring her own reputation as a writer and without showing disregard for the Ave Maria's many old readers who constitute the vast majority of its subscribers. She states with certainty that the chapter she will send in several days will definitely conclude "Tangled Paths," a story which she wishes she had never begun. Her tediousness, she hopes, may be excused since this will be the last story of this type she ever intends to write unless far greater inducements are offered her. In answer to another question she states that the character of Natalie and the cure at Lourdes of John are both taken from real personages. The historical sketches introduced in "Tangled Paths" were meant to arouse the interest of the younger generation who didn't remember anything of the war. She believes that if a love of country was cultivated in the children more strongly a much better generation of citizens would result. Hudson's recommendation of "Tangled Paths" to Mr. Keogh is appreciated but she does not expect any results from it since the Catholic Publication Society has always had a very tottering existence. Instead she intends to publish the book by subscription. If Hudson would upon its conclusion in the Ave Maria praise the merits of "Tangled Paths" and notify its readers that this story would soon be brought out as a book Dorsey would feel greatly indebted to him. This, she thinks, would pacify the Californian subscribers' ire raised as a result of someone's blunder, certainly not her own, by which no back numbers of the Ave Maria were reserved for possible new subscribers. She admits that "Tangled Paths" far outgrew the limits prescribed for it but she is confident that for reader interest it is equal to at least fifty shorter articles. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.