Scope and Contents

O'Cleary offers his services as a part time or regular Roman correspondent of the Ave Maria. He claims to have access to sources of information regarding ecclesiastical news. O'Cleary sends a digest of the events of the last week at the Vatican. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

If Hudson desires a short series of articles on botany for the Youth's Department he should notify Churchill. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents

Ryder is still ill. He is writing an article on Religion and Avarice which he will send Hudson. If Hudson is editor of the Scholastic, Ryder will send him clipped articles for it. He is still working on the Boston Evening Star. Ryder thanks Hudson for the volumes and he is glad to hear that the copies of the Boston Transcript were received. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

The price of the semidaily edition of L'Univers is 36 francs a year. :: X-2-i A.L.S. French 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents

Grant requests Masses be said for her intention. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents

Hickey hopes Hudson gave his message of thanks to Mother Angela Gillespie for the gifts. They are about to rejuvenate the Catholic Review. He is studying the question of getting a new press to take care of the growing business; perhaps Brother Stanislaus could give Hickey some points on this. Hickey's financial situation is better; the Illustrated Catholic American in the past had been a serious drain and to date it has cost him $40,000. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Ryder has not written a single poem since the first of the year, but when he does he will send it to Hudson. He would like to know what Father Matthew Russell, S.J., says about his book. Ryder's story "Samuel H. Derby" is dead and he can't find time or inspiration to resurrect him. James Martineau, Epes Sargent credit the hymn, "Lord, Dismiss Us" to Walker Shirley and as a result quite a discussion has arisen in the Boston Transcript. Ryder's article on Hawker, in which he credited...

Scope and Contents Seymour is downhearted over the failure to be hired as a music teacher at a Catholic school which Hudson recommended. She has been unemployed for three months and people will not employ her when they learn she is a Catholic. Besides this she is ill. Seymour is entertaining thoughts of leaving the Church. Maurice Francis Egan has tried to help her but has experienced little success. The Catholic World has had two of her articles since last summer but has not published them, and Seymour...

Scope and Contents

Dunne sends a story on San Antonio and his loss in the desert. He thanks Hudson for sending him Father Andrew A. Lambing's brochure "Masses for the Dead". :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents

The author of this letter submits some verses which she considers to be rude. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Brown thanks Hudson for sending copies of the Ave Maria and requests more. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Ketchum submits a novel, some 550 pages long, divided into fifty chapters, entitled Costa Diva, which she would like to see published in the Ave Maria. She thinks it would run for about a year. Ketchum is not a postulant at the Monastery of the Visitation. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents

Lambing submits an article. He proposes to take seventy-five copies of the 1000 pamphlets he wrote because he knew Hudson did not have the same facilities for publishing it as other publishers he has consulted. The 227 copies have not arrived yet. Lambing thinks twenty-five cents is a fair price to charge for the pamphlet. He sends Hudson a letter he received for Edmund F. Dunne :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents

This morning Brother Ephrem, Guillaume Desilets was professed, while Francois Perguis, Joseph Garald, Joseph Lamb, Brother Romuald and Thomas McNamara Brother David received the habit. On Saturday Bishop Edward Fabre of Montreal ordained Hippolytus Le Blanc a priest, and J. White, R. Stein and U. Barre subdeacons. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 4to. 14

Scope and Contents

McAvoy submits a story "Help of Christians" for the Youth Department. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Brown thanks Hudson for the picture. She is glad to hear that Hudson's health has improved. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Dennehy leaves the evaluating of the article to Hudson. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents

Seymour thanks Hudson for the $5, if all editors were as thoughtful as Hudson, her worries would be relieved. She was invited by two Catholic families to supper and after hearing her piano playing and singing they promised to get her pupils. Seymour sends Hudson an article; she is also writing articles for the Catholic World and Harpers Magazine. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

The minims talk like philosophers, and are most unchildlike children. That affair of Father Lacordaire 's is a formidable thing, but there is much of it that would not be the thing for the Ave Maria. It is formidable for two reasons; its length and its peculiar choppy French style. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Van Dyke's knee injury has not mended. Henry Brownson is back and full of hopes. Brownson speaks of his visit to Notre Dame with satisfaction; he thinks Father-General Edward Sorin, C.S.C. 's letters were of importance. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents

Adams submits an article for publication in the Ave Maria. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey is disappointed for she felt Hudson's silence meant he was coming to visit her. She supposes Father-General Edward Sorin 's trip to New York and Europe changed Hudson's plans. Clare Mohun, her daughter, is confined to bed by illness. She received the Scholastic and thinks it a credit to the University of Notre Dame. Dorsey thanks Hudson for sending the Ave Maria to her granddaughter, Lee Mohun . The story is almost finished and she will send it to Hudson shortly. :: X-2-i A.L.S....

Scope and Contents

Jenkins received no extra copies of the Ave Maria for the last week. He requests two or three extra copies of the second number containing the anthology, and the three numbers of this week. :: X-2-i A. Postcard S. 32mo. 1p.

Scope and Contents Kittell apologizes for being negligent in getting Hudson the relics while he was in Rome. He received Hudson's draft and used the entire amount in purchasing the reliquaries which Hudson should soon receive. Because of abuses, the authorities at Lipsanotheca have issued more stringent regulations in granting relics and thus have made it difficult for Kittell to get the desired relics. Kittell intended to put them in Bishop John Tuigg 's trunk when he left Rome on February 10th, but in...

Scope and Contents

John Acton has settled down to the study of music. He is a slow but conscientious proof reader. He says an arrangement with his music teacher would stand in the way of his going at once. The Freeman is doing well financially. Nugent Robinson says that Hudson is the only Catholic editor who knows how to treat contributors. :: X-2-i A.L. Unsigned 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents

O'Meara thanks Hudson for the almanac and the lecture on Henry W. Longfellow . The French Senate has voted God out of the Primary Schools and yesterday proclaimed France officially atheist. :: X-2-i A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents

Information is requested concerning the date of a play to be given at Notre Dame. :: X-2-i A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents

Donnelly asks Hudson to publish the enclosed lines on the death of Sister Chantal Dunlevy of the Visitation Order, who died March 19 at the convent near Baltimore. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Ryder sends clippings from New York and Boston newspapers on the death of Henry W. Longfellow . Enclosed, Ryder sends a sketch of Cardinal Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus . No enclosure. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents

Dailey congratulates Hudson on his recent promotion. His time is taken up by a heavy daily load of teaching and he never sees any of the old boys. Dailey sends a copy of the Goliad Guard, which contains an account of the St. Patrick's Day celebration. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.