There is still considerable to do to make the nuns comfortable. There is a disposition on the part of the officials to add the hospital to their charge. Dutton's plan for the enlargement of the boys' home will probably be carried out. It would never do for the sisters to live at Kalaupapa, with two or three of them driving over there daily, as the Mother desired. Dutton took charge of the boys' home with the promise of the mother to locate the sisters there. Mother Marianne is an excellent manager. Dutton does not see Sister Leopoldine there but the doctor often tells him about her. There could be little use made of the parties to whom Mr. H. B. Chapman refers. Dutton has heard again from Sister Aurelia. Evidently some of her enthusiasm has weakened since Dutton told her of conditions there. Dutton has not heard from Tasmania yet. If he promises favorably, Dutton may ask the Board of Health to let him come to work with him. Dutton has two excellent native boys as helpers. They now have a total of 200. By expanding they could care for 300. Very few of the people like to go to the hospital. Sometime they might have 500 under their charge. Father Wendelin Moellers, SS.CC. says that without the homes they could not do much. Hudson has probably seen some of the "interviews" Elizabeth Harper sent. Amy C. Fowler was in Brooklyn and Harper saw her. When Miss Flavin sees all this about Harper she must be very amiable if she doesn't get mad. The things Fowler proposes doing are not the things the government desires nurses for. At present no remedy for leprosy is in use there. The people are being given a rest from the pains of experiment. Dr. Lutz is now in the employ of the government and is operating on a few cases at the receiving station. From the time Dutton left Hudson until the time he met Bishop Hermann Koeckemann at Honolulu he never spoke to anyone about the object of his trip except to Father M. H. Fallize, C.S.C.. Dutton expressed Hudson's thanks to Dr. Godwyn Swift and thanks Hudson for sending the Ave Maria to Mr. Bender. Dutton just got a package from Mrs. Emma Etheridge Moran. Dutton thanks Hudson for remembering Sister Lawrence. Hudson will probably get from Harper via Father F. X. Dutton the account of bad things he spoke of. They hear a good deal about Father Pamphile de Veuster, SS.CC. there. The project of the Damien Institute is not understood there. Mr. Edward Clifford asks Hudson to state the facts as to Father Joseph Damien de Veuster's personal habits. Instead of being negligent as charged, the government has been generous. The statement is to be filed in Paris with the head of the order. Lately the Nashville American published a horrible account of this place Molokai. These concoctions purport to be "specials" from San Francisco. Mr. A. E. Phillips or E. A. P. signs. Did Hudson see Sir Morel Mackenzie and Dr. Prince Albert Morrow on the dangers to America from the invasion of leprosy? The gentleman in Nashville is Herman Justi for whom Sister Lawrence was stenographer before she entered the convent. Justi has written on leprosy after a recent trip to Norway where he met Dr. Gerhard Hansen. Dr. Emerson, President of the Board of Health corresponded with Hansen. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 29pp. 12mo. 26