Seymour visited Maurice Francis Egan and his wife in Brooklyn to seek his aid in finding employment. Her only means of support at present is writing criticisms for the Home Journal at a nominal salary. Hudson misunderstands Seymour, she did not intend to enter the convent, but she loves the studious life she enjoyed there. Seymour gives a synopsis of her family pedigree. She married the Reverend Ward Seymour, an Episcopalian minister, when she was but 15, but when he became insane she returned to her father in 1862, when she was 22 years of age. Seymour taught at various finishing schools and colleges during the Civil War and after until 1872. After her husband's death in 1872, she went to Europe to study for the operatic stage. While in Europe she got a position as mistress of English to the family of Carl Salvatos . Seymour returned to the United States to see her grandmother, who was supposed to be dying, and she stayed because her grandmother promised to leave everything to her if she remained in the United States. Her sisters-in-law will not receive her because she is a Catholic. Since the members of American convents are an ignorant group of women, Seymour does not care to enter an American convent, unless she can be a Superior. Seymour has met a man in New York, eight years her junior, who is editor of a magazine, a Catholic, and a scholarly gentleman. She fell in love with him and he gave her reason to believe that he loved her, but he soon lost interest and he is now engaged to marry another woman. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 22pp. 12mo.