Mannix submits a story, the main part of which was translated from a story in a French Catholic magazine. She inquires if Hudson would care to republish a series of stories she wrote for Father William Byrne of the Young Crusader. Some verses are also enclosed. Mannix relates the story of her courtship with her husband, John B. Mannix, with whom her father would have nothing to do, until he was made assignee for the properties of Archbishop John Purcell and Father Edward Purcell in January, 1879. Father Charles Driscol is overwhelmed by the destruction of St . Francis Xavier's Church, which took him many years to construct. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.