Brownson congratulates Hudson on the growth of the Ave Maria's circulation. He can let Hudson have the article he suggested in time for the first number of 1887. Originally Brownson suggested taking his articles on the Blessed Virgin in the Review and the Ave Maria, arranging them in thirty-one chapters in the month of May. He has begun this revision but it is Hudson who can best tall if the Month of Mary would be an advisable addition to the number already before the public, His objection to those he has seen is the defect of an excess of the sentimental. The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore seems to be on his side in its thinking concerning books of prayers and devotions. The first objection to the book would be that several chapters would be devoted to worship in which Mary is not mentioned; the second is that two or three days would have to be added to what his father Orestes A. Brownson wrote in order to fill out the thirty-one days of the month. There is no prospect of his going to Notre Dame for several months. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.