The enclosed manuscript is an article Miss Howe promised Our Lady in case of a certain success. Miss Howe sends 2 Catholic notes. In the August issue of the "Ave Maria" is an identical proposition which was condemned by Aunt Winifred. The commentary of Sylvius would certainly have filled the minds of the cavillers with anger. The article on Loretto France seems unreal and Miss Howe wonders if it is a fictitious travel for which the Catholic World is so famous. Those travels are the means of spreading much unreliable information. While in Loretto Miss Howe was shown around the Church by the Franciscan Father who appointed the confessor for those calling English their native tongue. In the Blessed Virgin's kitchen is a manuscript in Latin which contains many of the ejaculations of the present Litany of Loretto. This Litany arose from a custom people had of remaining after evening prayer in the Holy House while the priest in charge was shutting up for the night. The people uttered farewell ejaculations and the guardians of the Sanctuary wrote down these exclamations. Miss Howe was in Loretto and the Litany was not chanted except by the bands of pilgrims who chanted it daily at 4 P.M. The chant is precisely the one formerly sung at Notre Dame which Father Gillespie brought from Rome. The statue is black and carved out of cedar of Libanus. The features are finely chiselled by nature and finely sculptured by the artist. Miss Howe's mother is not very well. Miss Howe has on the back an article for Catholic Notes entitled "Confession and Holy Communion in Loretto." She describes the procedure followed in Loretto for receiving communion and also described the various confessionals to care for the many foreign languages. :: X-2-f A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.