Mannix is glad Hudson liked "The Florentine Mother". She will look for "Bouquet" among old papers. She feels that her children lack advantages there. Mannix does not forget the serial, but wants it to be good when it comes. She likes the "Pilot", and one does not miss John Boyle O'Reilly as one would have thought. Mannix believes the hero of "An Unfinished Story" in Harpers was Archibald Forbes. Richard Harding Davis has a career before him. William Dean Howells has not fulfilled the promise of his youth. She is sending Hudson a letter received from Dayton. John B. Mannix will return on the steamer tomorrow. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 11pp. 12mo.