The meanness and pettiness that paralyses honest work together with the sacrifices that Egan has made to stay on a Catholic newspaper drives him to despair. Mrs. Mary Alice Seymour called Sunday with Mr. Galwey . She had written Egan several letters, but her only letter is from Katherine Conway, and Egan knows Seymour's title was not an English one. Nobody knows much about her except that she is a convert. The insinuations of Garland's in the Catholic Telegraph, Egan has discovered, are hearsay evidence. Johnson got the note which was addressed to Roswell Smith . Mrs. Anna Hanson Dorsey is in Lawrence Kehoe 's hands. Egan congratulates Hudson on the improvements he has made in the Ave Maria. He does not know what Patrick V. Hickey will do to brighten the Catholic American next year; it needs something. Nugent Robinson wanted to write a serial which would be carried by several papers, but Egan told him it couldn't be done. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.