Moore has experienced considerable financial trouble of late. Thomas is verybusy with his studies. The enclosed clipping records the failure of the firm of John B. McIlvain and son, Banks McIlvain . Their trouble was caused by the assignment of John G. Mattingly and Bennett Mattingly . Her father has lost everything. He is on the Mattingly paper to the amount of $103,000. Moore does not want the education of her children to suffer. She asks Hudson the cost of the Ave Maria's publishing in book form her French translation and what chance of success it has. She submits a child's story. Banks Moore is doing well at Fordham. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 10pp. 8vo.