Ryder expected a letter from Hudson. He has vainly tried to write a good article and is grieved that he is unable to give Hudson what he wants. Ryder is going to give up writing. Do not let Maurice Francis Egan know its authorship. He had thought of introducing his sonnet in his verses republished in the Ave Maria from the New York Catholic of about June, 1879. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.