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Dorsey, Anna Hanson, Washington, District of Columbia, to Father Daniel E. Hudson, C.S.C., Notre Dame, Indiana, 1883 November 11

 Item — Box: CHUD 6
Identifier: CHUD X-2-l

Scope and Contents

Dorsey concurs in the writer's opinion about Catholic magazines. Healthy reading combining amusement as well as information and a Catholic spirit without what Bishop John Joseph Keane calls sentimental piety is what a person in the Church needs. When Dorsey published her second story after becoming a Catholic, Orestes Brownson criticized it as being a Catholic outline filled up with Protestant commonplace writing. Dorsey sent the review to Father Louis R. Deluol, Superior of St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, who had received her into the Church, for a word of consolation. It came in a very humourous form. Dorsey's next story, "The Sister of Charity" was praised by Brownson. Father-General Edward Sorin is mistaken; when she wrote "Zoe's Daughter" it was with the understanding it was to be put in book form for her benefit after appearing in the Ave Maria. The same agreement was made for Flammingo, which Sorin knowing nothing about since he was in Europe, frustrated by turning over the right to publish to O'Shea :: X-2-l A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.

Dates

  • Creation: 1883 November 11

Language of Materials

English.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository

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