Miss Howe has found a scrap of a letter from Hudson with what appears to be a postscript asking her for an article on the Assumption. She knows only that the letter may have been written in 1880, as she does not save many letters and only the top halves of the letters on Ave Maria paper for the little picture. She hopes Father Hudson did not think her unusually rude and whimsical for not noticing the request Mrs. Coke ? is delighted with the wreath and wrote Hudson to thank him. She asks Hudson to seek an explanation from Father John A. Zahm, C.S.C. about a phenomena she witnessed. She and another woman, at the same time 4:30 PM, Nov. 18, 1880 but forty miles apart, saw a meteor, which she describes in detail. No one else they have met since saw it and no mention was made of it in any journal she has seen. She has seen Father Martin van de Laar recently and he gave her a synopsis of his life as a priest from the time he was ordained 1871? in Europe. He came to America after five years with his uncle, and went first to a Jesuit house in Missouri in company with a Jesuit priest he met in passage. Van de Laar was marked "no vocation" and sent away, and became a secular priest in Chicago. He says that the priest with whom he came to America and who induced him to go to the house in Missouri did later leave the Order Jesuit and perhaps Hudson has van de Laar confused with him. Miss Howe says that from the way Hudson talked he must have heard the detestable story against herself and van de Laar. She discusses the incident and gossip about it. She repeats what Miss Eliza Allen Starr remarked about the scandal. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo.