Mrs. Dorsey cannot understand why Hudson did not receive the reply that he speaks of as she intended to answer. This has been a year of great trial and anxiety for her. Her widowed daughter, Mrs. Eastman, has been ill, and they were afraid of losing her every hour. Mrs. Dorsey never left her daughter and often thought that she would sink under the ordeal. She wants to know if any of her stories were selected and if so she would sell the copyright for $150.00. She imagines that they will not want anything they have to pay for and thinks the title chosen for the library will interfere with its popularity. Mrs. Dorsey did not mean to find fault with "Nova" as it is a very beautiful story. The only point she finds fault with is where Hudson says that Protestants who have no idea of the true meaning of a religious vocation believe nuns and priests leave the world because they have a disappointment in love as Nova's disappointment in love turned her mind to heaven and service to God is an earthly paradise. She cannot understand why this should not be true, since Godtries His elect by adversities, and is not a disappointment in love one of the greatest? Protestants do not see as we do. They already have a love story about Pius IX. The tale of "Nova" will confirm their impression as they will say here it is in a Catholic Magazine; they admit it themselves. She is not finding fault in the story but drawing a comparison between "Adrift" and "Nova". She was severely taken to task by Mother Angela Gillespie for her story which Mother said suited a secular romance magazine. She tells Hudson that the best of her stories have been written for the Ave Maria. Mrs. Dorsey was shocked to hear from Mrs. William Sherman of Mother Angela's case and hopes the Lord will restore her health. She will gladly write for the Ave Maria, but informs Hudson that her pen writes for hire. The Jesuits are not in the best of humor at having King Victor Emmanuel's funeral at St. Aloysius, but Archbishop James Gibbon requested it. It is a grand time for Father Edward Sorin to be in Rome, and may be Father Sorin can tell them the whole story of the King's burial. The next Pope, according to prophecies of the holy women, is to be lumen de coeli, and she hopes this will be so. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 8pp. 8vo.