The long silence is due to the illness of her daughter Nellie. It has pleased Our Lord that the last years of her life should be filled for her daughter's health, and for the conversion and restoration to health of her son-in-law who has heart disease. The Sadlier's are to bring out "Tangled Paths" if she agrees to the terms given. They are going to bring it out for $.75 a copy and she is to receive 8.07½ a copy. What Hudson said about Father Reville impressed her and whatever was the cause of offense, it should have been handled by his superiors. She would not be surprised to hear of him leaving the order. She is delighted with "Cyril's Vow." Who is writing it? She has been thrown with so many like Cyril, especially her uncle, a Doctor of Divinity, who has grown old in his delusion that fasting, belief in the real presence, and purgatory constitute a true Catholic. She has protestant relatives, who she is sure have never committed a mortal sin, who make her ashamed of herself for her barren life. They pity her for her romantic errors. She can so well realize the Squire's panic over the pretty Sister of Charity and the St. Giles performances. She has been compelled to adopt her full name on account of another Mrs. A. H. Dorsey who writes. She imagines she is indebted to her for that scandalous article that Hudson sent from the St. Francisco Catholic Monitor. There is also a Mrs. S. H. Dorsey who has written sensational novels which she has been credited with. She asks Hudson to use her full name when speaking of her. Mrs. Dorsey is descended from Gustavus Vasa, his daughter Margaret Vasa being her ancestress. Margaret's husband died fighting for religious liberty by the side of Custavus Adolphus. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 6p. 8vo