Enclosed is a poem and he had planned to embody the "Magnificant" as a conclusion but when the end came to be written his inspiration was unequal to the task and at last he was resigned to sending it with an inferior ending. Then he remembered that the next day was St. Luke's day, he prayed for assistance and while saying the Angelus and inspiration came which enabled him to write the last verses. The description of the statue of the Blessed Virgin is as he had seen it in the Ave Maria, and the description of Notre Dame is as he knew it in 1867. Father Joseph Carrier, C.S.C. was laying out the cemetery then and now it has two graves in it that are unforgotten, those of Father August Lemonnier and Father Neal Gillespie. The poem could not be condensed without injuring the continuity. He would like Hudson to inform him when it reaches him and if it will serve the purpose for which it was written. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.