Seton, Archbishop Robert, Rome, Italy to James F. Edwards, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1907 January 01

Giuseppe just brought up Edwards' letter. Edwards will perhaps know of the death of his two sisters, Helen and Elizabeth Seton. Helen was Sister Mary Catharine of the Order of Mercy whom he received by permission in Danston Street Chapel. She had been educated at the Sacre Soeur in Paris. He was most attached to Elizabeth who wrote him every week after William's Seton death. She wrote some interesting articles for the Ave Maria. Father Daniel E. Hudson, C.S.C. might take some notice of her life and death, getting facts from her pastor, Father John B.C. York. He said his three Christmas Masses in the beautiful church of the American College. Monsignor Thomas F. Kennedy invited him to dine there; he is an ideal rector for the College. He showed Edwards a page of the New York Herald with the disagreeable reading about the Bellamy Storer and Roosevelt affair. It is a great pity that Archbishop John Ireland figures in such a way. All the European papers have taken the subject up. Seton has very much sympathy for Bellamy Storer. Some may say as the priests of the Newark Diocese said; that he made more of the laity than he did of the clergy. Bishop John J. Keane and he were invited for a Thanksgiving dinner with the Storers and they asked Theodore Roosevelt so that Seton might meet.him. Roosevelt was not what you might call a star guest. He Seton seemed to be the pet guest; had he had episcopal orders he would have been in Keanes place. He has not been made a canon of St. Peter's and he would not like or want to be a Cardinal. :: XI-2-j A.L.S. 8pp.