Dorsey received Father Edward Sorin's letter with the pressed flowers from the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem together with the news that Sorin would be in Washington this summer. She acknowledges receipt of the bound copy of "Palms". Kathleen O'Meara's death is a loss to the Catholic world. Her novel "Beatrice" is a delightful Catholic reading. Canon Taylor's outbreak about the failure of Protestant missions has caused a sensation. The negro convention is over. The sight of a negro priest at the altar excited interest among the higher class of educated blacks. As a general thing it is not a safe thing yet to have many priests of that race because they are too near their slave days. They are a people of wild enthusiasms. Dorsey has just read Lew Wallace's "Boyhood of Christ". He has taken it bodily from the "Apocryphal New Testament". :: X-3-i A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.