Proofs reached Ryder Thursday and due to a severe attack of fever he was unable to read them and return them by Monday. He got three rakings for that unfortunate article in the Catholic World. Ryder knows Hudson has confidence in him, but suggests Hudson made a mistake in exposing a spirit of meanness, which is not supposed to exist at Notre Dame. To say that Ryder had a motive in omitting Father Thomas Walsh 's name is idiocy. Ryder will be unable to make a journey for months, but Hudson's suggestion that they meet in Chicago is a good one. Weakness caused him to stop writing Saturday, and he has not felt well enough to finish writing this letter until today, Monday the 15th. Ryder criticizes Hudson's editing of his article. Professor Joseph Lyons must live in an atmosphere of delusion. Does Hudson think he reads the Scholastic Annual, for last year's issue was full of mistakes. Ryder is glad that Hudson agrees with him about Miss Eleanor Donnelly 's "Out of Sweet Solitude" published by Lippincott. He submits an extract from "Cremore" for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 6pp. 4to.