Miss Waylen gives her sincerest sympathy to Hudson upon the death of his father. She asks Hudson to help her as she wants to make Father Hecker's acquaintance and interest him in a volume of poems she wants to publish, for the benefit of Irish distress. Some of them appeared in the "Lamp" and "Irish Monthly". If Father Lockhart were within reach he would give her a letter of introduction as he and Father Hecker are friends. Father Russell spoke well of her verse. If Hudson would help her, Father Hecker may be more inclined to give her advice. She has no literary friends here yet. Father Russell told Mr. Maurice F. Egan that her poems were the best which appeared in the "Irish Monthly" and Mr. Egan said some of them "possessed the true poetic quality in the highest degree." Aubrey de Vere also praised her work when writing to Father Russell. If Hudson will give her a letter of introduction she may be able to please Father Hecker. :: X-2-f A.L.S. 3 pp. 8vo