Dorsey describes a fire in her chimney. She was surprised Maurice Francis Egan was not the recipient of the medal. Was not Ludwig Windthorst's death splendid? Dorsey discusses the threats of the Italian politicians to send one of their warships to the mouth of the Mississippi. With King Humbert's bankrupt government, his demoralized army and the great distance, his ships could not harm us. He would be confronted with a million Catholics who would strike at the usurper of the Church. Dorsey was presented with facsimiles of the death warrants of Mary Stuart and Charles I, which the Lithographer of the United States Patent Office received from the Lithographer of the English Patent Office. Dorsey is mailing these to Hudson. James Edwards may have her photo for his own album. Charles Warren Stoddard is consumed by self-consciousness and a morbid sensibility. If our law givers ever give women the right to vote they'll reap a whirlwind. It is only a clique of women shrieking for suffrage. John Brisbane Walker, editor of the Cosmopolitan, delivered a lecture on the social problems of the day. Walker is a nephew of James Gillespie Blaine. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 1pp. 12mo.