She sends with this letter the first of three sketches from life for the Ave. She comments briefly on each one. She is penniless and asks Hudson to send her the money for the MS just forwarded. Hudson's letter made some allusions to his own history and if at any time he wishes to confide in her she will be ready to sympathize with him. Nellie's burdens are the cause of her present anxiety. On her arrival in Chicago as the guest of Judge Proudfoot and his wife Nellie twisted her ankle bone and has had her foot in splints ever since. Miss Eliza Allen Starr managed to get a Catholic clergyman to visit her. Mrs. G. Williams, formerly Mrs. Stephen A. Douglass, has been kind to her also. The writer read the glowing eulogy in the Ave on the life of Admiral John Dahlgren by his widow but she disagrees with the book and tells some of the real facts about the Admiral as she knew them. First, she disproves that Admiral Dahlgren was related to six of the Swedish kings. The Swedish Government was elective not hereditary. As to the amenities of his character, he broke his first wife's heart and was a harsh father. His invention of the gun was the invention of a penniless German who took it to him to get the Government to buy it but the Admiral appropriated it as his own. He was a harsh disciplinarian, which made him the most unpopular man in the Navy. The only worthwhile thing in the book is the history of the Navy so fas as his journal goes. She had intended printing all these facts as a criticism but thought better of it because it meant nothing to her. Sec. Folger has given Angie's daughter a clerkship at $900. She sends a clipping on books for children with which she fully agrees. Her family sends affectionate greetings and best wishes for the coming season to Hudson. Hudson should take care of the business end of her letter at once. Clipping enclosed. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 12mo. 6pp.