She has received Hudson's letter and is grateful for Hudson's kind feelings. There is no man she would rather see than Father Provincial Alexis Granger as she has a peculiar interest in him. Father Provincial showed a Catholic interest in her and sent her Lourdes Water which was used in her husband's dying hours and was the only sacred thing around, as he was surrounded by his bigoted relations who seemed to have everything their own way. But she does not believe they had their own way. She believes the Lord is faithful in His promises to a believing wife, and He sent succor by a Provincial she had never seen. She tells Hudson that Hudson's church was the first church consecrated to the Sacred Heart and during her convent days she gave her first donation to it and it has occupied a place in her heart ever since. She had hoped to send more but was unable to and God again protected her and rendered her able to live independently for life while her bigoted relations are so poor they can barely pay their taxes. She has reduced the magnificence of her late establishment and melted all her silver for the service of the Altar and for a Purgatorial Chapel. But her heart has ever been at Notre Dame and with Father Granger. She is getting old and her journeys must be discontinued, so Father Provincial and she will have to meet in the Kingdom of Heaven. P.S. She encloses a mite for the Ave Maria, she is going to Providence, Rhode Island, and would like to have her Ave Maria sent to Father John Bapst, S.J., in Providence. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 4pp. crown 8vo.