She is upset at seeing Our Lady of Loretto left out of the story of Our late Holy Father's epilepsy. The infirmarian suggested writing it for the Ave Maria. She feels as though Pius IX in heaven is indignant over this taking away of his beloved Lady of Loretto whom he idolized. She is writing this purely from devotion to Our Lady of Loretto and to Pius IX and does not desire to meddle in Hudson's magazine. They are elated at the election of Cardinal Pecci. It is he who consecrated them to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, gave them his blessing, loaned her mother his French paper daily, and sent his blessing to her mother when she was sick in Genoa. Pecci does not possess the beauty or musical voice of Pius IX, but he is grand looking and will look every inch a Pontiff. Pius IX looked like an Archangel. She can hardly walk; she is very feeble. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 4pp. 32mo.