She acknowledges receipt of Hudson's favor of May 18 and the draft. She waited to secure the faculties from Ara Cochi? but yesterday she learned that the Procurator General of the Alcanterines was not at the convent so an attendant gave the faculties. What Hudson says of the Irish question is but too true. They are a curious people. Charles Stuart Parnell seems working "pro domo sua" and those crazy sisters of his ought to be "spaynkted" as Toddie would say. She thinks the grandfather "Old Ironsides" would be the first to apply the rod were he living. The Nun of Kenmare came out against her in the Tablet, greatly to the amusement of Bishop Herbert Vaughan of Salford England. Cardinal John Simeoni told her that he had had Archbishop Thomas W. Croke written to, to make it up with the Archbishop of Dublin Edward McCabe at once, or the Propaganda would interfere after he wrote such a letter against the Archbishop of Dublin's Pastoral. It was smoothed over at a dinner and His Grace of Cashel is a little more sensible since. Hudson was misinformed relative to Msgr. Capel being in America. He is probably in London teaching: all his faculties are withdrawn though he says Mass in private. Has the fame of the last production of poor Miss Tincka "By the Tiber" reached Hudson? It is a caricature of the American Catholic ladies there and she is portrayed as "Miss Cranbray" who is "to be looked upon as a person of great influence in the Church." As if a woman could have influence there. She lists the reasons why the authoress does not like her. Dr. Francis Silas Chatard and Msgr. Nardi are also characterized in the book. The book has no plot and the situations are formed to give room to the vindictive ravings of a disappointed woman. She hopes Hudson received the constitution "Reasons Pontifices" and the last pamphlet of F Curci, which is a complement to his former publication. They say the Index is examining the new pamphlet. Another great celebrity is there, Mrs. Eckel Harper of "Maria Monk's Daughter" fame. She has gotten round the Augustinians and is writing a history of Our Lady of Good Counsel of Genazzano, the Augustinians having custody of the shrine. She is glad Hudson liked the pictures of St. Thomas Aquinas. Father Carberry thought they were the best likeness extant. She presumes he is now in America where he accompanied Father General Edward Sorin, C.S.C.. Archbishop Michael A. Corrigan wrote her on June 4 that they were daily expected. On June 6, she received a letter from a French missionary in America, then at Lourdes. He writes the miracles continue but the Devil was so furious at the fervent prayers of 700 Bretons kneeling there that he cried out in French against the Virgin. Those present were as impressed with the language of Satan as with the cures wrought that day. At a consistory held on June 20, the Holy Father Leo XIII announced the approaching canonization of Blessed Benedict Joseph Labre and Jean John Baptist de Rossi. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 6 pp. 12mo. 12