Scope and Contents Murray has no time to read the daily papers but his brother sent him a marked copy of the Ohio Journal which gave Murray real grief when he read of the almost total destruction of Notre Dame. He hopes the account is greatly exaggerated as such occurences often are. Few things could give him greater pain than to hear Notre Dame is troubled as he is very warmly attached to Notre Dame. He sends his sympathy to all and to Father Edward F. Sorin, the man of toil and lofty deeds. :: X-2-e...

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Haviland was grieved that so little insurance was invested on the buildings that were destroyed by fire and supposes that all of the papers he sent were lost. He asks Hudson if the Ave Maria will be continued and if the buildings will soon be rebuilt. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. crown 8vo.

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Hennemann has just heard of the disaster and even through he can send no contribution he sends his deepest sympathy. Hennemann is packing his trunks and soon he will leave America with sorrow. A note at the top of the letter written by Hudson to Bourg says: The following letter is written by a distinguished member of the Benedictine Order, formerly president of the Univ. of Munich who came to America, and now his superiors have recalled him. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Hickey thought it very good of Hudson to think of him during Hudson's great trial. Hickey's Review went to press too soon to get the slips in that Hudson had sent him, but they will try to do so next week. Hickey was happy to know that the Ave Maria was saved from the fire and after studying the picture of the University he could not see how it could have escaped until he remembered that Our Lady was keeping her paper safe. Hickey wishes Hudson to present his condolences to Father...

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Tello has received the papers Hudson sent him. He has been very busy with business recently and has had no time to do any writing. He hopes he shall do Notre Dame justice in the space it shall occupy in their columns this week. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. crown 8vo.

Scope and Contents Bennett waited to hear the worst of the fire and feared that the office was gone as his last weeks paper did not come until today. He believes that Our Lady protected the Ave Maria and thinks that may be the statute was not acceptable coming from Napoleon. He sends a dollar with his letter as he is sure a loss was sustained and if not the dollar may be used as desired. He would like to get a copy of Our Saviour's likeness. P.S. He has received no bill for letters yet. :: X-2-e A.L.S....

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Lambing expresses his sympathy on the destruction of the University. He received Hudson's letter and the style of the pamphlet is good. There is a mission being given by the Jesuit fathers and this takes up some of his leisure time. Lambing is going to order more copies of the "Mixed Marriage" and will pay for them at that time. He plans to add his mite towards the rebuilding of the University. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. crown 8 vo.

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DePombriary has received a South Bend Tribune with an account of the fire. He has sent his Tribune on to Leon Aubineau. He asks Hudson to send Aubineau an Ave Maria containing the account as de Pombriay wishes to interest Aubineau in Notre Dame. He has written his uncle for permission to send a book to Hudson but wants it returned as it is the only copy they have. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. postcard.

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Mrs. Carrington was deeply touched to think that Hudson thought of her in the first hours of his calamity. She is going to send a draft as soon as possible and be one of the first to help him. She hopes that everyone sang a Te Deum that the church was saved. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. crown 8 vo.

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McGee has made two engravings of the photos Hudson sent and they will appear in the next issue. He sympathizes with Hudson in his great loss. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. royal 8 vo.

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Hudson's money order for the verses received. Her object in publishing is to promote devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to increase the small means at her disposal for different good works. She commends herself to Hudson's prayers. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo

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She is sending a contribution for publication if worthy of insertion in the Ave Maria. She is a convert and feels obligated to God for possessing the Catholic faith. Her husband, E. C. Arnold, desires to be remembered to Hudson and they both regret the misfortune of Notre Dame. P.S. She is not accustomed to writing for publication and asks Hudson to make necessary corrections. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo

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Dallas commends Hudson on the wonderful suggestion he had in the Ave Maria and is sending his mite and hopes that all who read the Ave Maria will do the same and that they will soon see Notre Dame rise from its ruins. P.S. He thanks Hudson for the South Bend paper and the proof of the Ave Maria. He asks that his name not be mentioned in connection with the enclosed. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp.. crown 8 vo.

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Miss Donnelly sends her sympathy to Hudson at the destruction of Notre Dame and sends $1.00 and poem to help. She would like to have the poem printed during the month of Our Mother. She hopes that the Blessed Lady, for whom Notre Dame was founded, will come to their assistance in this hour of trial. She sends her condolences to Father Edward Sorin. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 18mo.

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She asks Hudson how the fire happened. She asks Hudson if he said, too, that he wondered how it could be that Our Lady's own institutions should suffer so much. Yet she must have been watching, but it is strange. Will it cause the magazine hinderance? She wishes she could help. She is sending a third number of "May Matters" from the "Cloister," these are for $2 each and she wishes she could say for nothing. She wants Hudson to inform her if he wants them. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Miss Howe is sending two dollars for her and her mother as a donation to Notre Dame during the present misfortune. She is sending some pebbles and shells, specimens from Phoenicia and Palestine, to help lay a cornerstone of the mineral department of a new Museum of Science at Notre Dame. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 3pp. 18mo.

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Egan has just heard of the fire and is greatly shocked. He hopes to be able to write later enclosing a small sum for the rebuilding of the University of the West. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. postcard

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Ryder thanks Hudson for his letter and tells him that the copies he ordered were mailed Saturday. He thanks Hudson for his good opinions of his verses and he hopes they are only half as good as Hudson claims they are. He is very grateful for Hudson's kindness and attention, and he is glad to read reports of progress in rebuilding Notre Dame and wishes him much success. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. royal 8 vo

Scope and Contents Hickey thanks Hudson for the Ave Maria and hopes he did not deprive the desolated library of it. He has ordered a set of the Catholic Review for Hudson and this will be one of the few sets which can be procured. There is an abundance of matters of great interest in the paper and he knows that he has a quid pro quo in the Ave Maria. He is glad that Hudson liked the lines he wrote on Notre Dame and had planned to write more, both on Notre Dame and on Mother Angela's work, but the fire...

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Paul has received the $2.00 Hudson sent him for relics, and he will send them as soon as he receives them in the manner Hudson suggested. Paul encloses a contribution for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. crown 8 vo.

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Miss Georgiana Fullerton wants to know if Hudson received the manuscripts that she sent to him two months ago. She wants Hudson to sends her some past numbers of the Ave Maria, some of which she mislaid and others she did not receive. She is keeping them in a volume. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. crown 8 vo

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McGee calls Hudson's attention to the improvement which has been made in the Illustrated Weekly. Their aim is to make it one of the best illustrated journals in the country. He asks Hudson to make a notice of this new Weekly in the Ave Maria, which they plan to copy with other extracts into a pamphlet for the public. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. royal 8 vo.

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Ryder thanks Hudson for his interest in the New York Catholic . The paper has been suspended because of legal complications but he will again begin publishing this week and will print the views of Notre Dame's recent disaster. Ryder gives his sympathy to Hudson and thanks him for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. royal 8 vo.

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The article on "Master Conrad de Marbourg" is the one offered to the "Month" and she never heard from them, nor found it in print. She sent them a card recently asking them about it, but still no reply. She asks Hudson to look at it and it is under his judgment for correction. It has been a long time since she has heard from Hudson. She asks how Hudson is and how Notre Dame is arising from the ashes. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents She has returned to New York and tells Hudson that everyone there, as elsewhere, sympathizes in Notre Dame's loss, but she is very thankful that the Church and the Ave were spared and is making a special thanks giving. Her health is still delicate but a physician said he could cure her and she asks Hudson to pray for her. She enclosed a $100 to aid in the rebuilding of the University, and she tells Hudson that even though her husband never refused to give to a Catholic Charity he was...

Scope and Contents Mother Josephine sends her sympathy for the disaster of University of Notre Dame which she saw in last week's Ave Maria. The want of sound Catholic instruction is too much felt not to take a lively part in the misfortune of the University. She sends a small mite toward the reconstruction. She is sending a manuscript which she would like to have inserted in the Ave Maria if it is interesting enough. It is about a new chapel of theirs, and they all feel obligated to the Catholics in the...

Scope and Contents She is sending Hudson another chapter and wants Hudson to see if it is numbered correctly. Someone has been altering previous chapters. Unless Hudson thinks it is best to correct she would rather have no chances. The next chapter will conclude the story. She asks Hudson to send her a check as she is in need of money. Her daughter Mrs. Eastman is very ill, her son-in-law is ill with a disease of the heart. Hudson should pray for them. Brother Stanislaus visited her and was looking very...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Dorsey's silence was caused by something she had no control of. She has been ill, but her heart is nearly broken with the illness of her daughter, Nellie, who was threatened with typhoid fever. Even though the priests love the Blessed Virgin, she wonders if they love her in her sorrows as mothers do, when they are hurt by the sufferings of their children. She asks Hudson to have some prayers offered for her daughter as her life means much to her six children. Hudson's check was...

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Father Ebner expresses his sympathy for the destruction of Notre Dame by fire. He sends his regards to Father Edward Sorin. Even though he is very poor he is sending $2.00, one to aid the rebuilding of the University and the other for the Archbishop of Cincinnati. He sends a picture of himself from his first Mass memorials. He gives two changes of addresses for a Mr. Coleman and Mr. John Kindig. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 3pp. crown 8 vo.

Scope and Contents Seton received Hudson's letter and thanks him for thinking so much of him. The burning of Notre Dame was distressing to all of them but it was very consoling to know the Ave Maria was saved. He imagines that Hudson is overrun with letters of sympathy from all over the country. Seton hopes to be able to contribute something for the reconstruction. He was very happy to receive Father Andrew A. Lambing's treatise on "Mixed Marriages" as in his vicinity there are many cases of the evil...