Eliot Ryder lunched with Egan. Egan was wrong about the "human heart" and the "divine art of poetry." Ryder orated at great length and exhorted Egan to be true to his own convictions. Egan wonders if this is the kind of thing a fellow likes to take in with his modest half-brother of frugal repeat. In Rockaway, Brother Stanislaus was comparing the beauty of the New York belles with that which makes the Indiana girls so generally admired. Ryder informed Egan that he was more a child as concerned the "tumuluous upheavings" of a "Storm tossed soul." Ryder is too poetic for real life. His article in the "Ave Maria" is very amiable, but facts are facts. Hudson has reprinted a sketch of Egan's "Marguerite". Egan believes Hudson would laugh at him if he could see him. Egan cannot come to Notre Dame as he hopes to be married about September 10th. The wedding may have to be postponed as Egan cannot get more than a week off. His fiancee is an admirer of Hudson's, and a most devout Catholic. Hudson's picture has been the principal ornament of her parlor for a long time. Egan finished the article for "World" and brought a poem for "Scribner's" and was paid $1 a line. Literature is looking up. Egan wants Gildie and Johnson to meet Hudson. :: X-2-f A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.