Ryder's illness is making him most uncomfortable. He is not counting on Professor Joseph Lyons visiting him. Ryder is pleased that Hudson liked his story on New Orleans well enough to use it. Hudson overrates his poem "August Night" and must have forgotten that Maurice Francis Egan dissected and annihilated it five years ago, but Ryder has faith in Hudson's judgement. As for Century Magazine it is not the magazine which Doctor Josiah Holland gave the reader in Scribner's Magazine. Ryder never admired Holland's poetry, but he was a better editor than those who succeeded him, and whom Egan idealizes. The Catholic World pays nothing for poetry and ought to expect nothing but drivel. Ryder criticizes W. A. McDermott's which appeared in the May 1st number of the Ave Maria. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 6pp. 4to.