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The January and February numbers of the Ave Maria have been received with several duplicates of those containing the article "Miracles of St. Francis de Sales". In answer to Hudson's request, Sister sent a relic of St. Francis de Sales brought to this country by Bishop Simon Brute in 1837. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Enclosed is $5 for two subscriptions to this year's Ave Maria. Kittell's brother, Father Ferdinand Kittell procured the relics for Hudson while he was in Rome, but he failed to place them in Bishop John Tuigg 's trunks when he started home. Tuigg reached Pittsburgh Palm Sunday. Father John Hickey, who preceded Tuigg home, has taken charge of St. Thomas parish at Braddock's Field. The difference between Hickey and Tuigg has been amicably settled. Father Ferdinand Kittell remains in Rome...

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Ketchum sends Hudson the manuscript of her story "Case Diva". If it can not be used in the Ave Maria, she asks Hudson's opinion as to its merit and the best way to get it published. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Luebbermann inquires if there is a history of the Blessed Virgin in extant, as well as a history of secular poets that have written poems in honor of the Blessed Virgin. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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Marks requests the name of one hundred persons who would be interested in the Art Amateur magazine. He thanks Hudson for his friendly notice of the Art Amateur. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Enclosed are a few extracts from a new series of Golden Sands. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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Dorsey sends more manuscript. She hopes the proof readers will make no more mistakes with her material. Her story is finished but the nervous strain has caused a heart attack. Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren visited Dorsey after a winter of illness. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Tracy sends some articles copied from a French paper. She is translating the letter of the Sicilian bishops and the Holy Father's reply. :: X-2-i A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Seymour has spent the week's holiday confined to bed due to illness. The letters have been stolen from her desk. Mr. Galway called to tell Seymour that he did not care who had them. Seymour is still plagued by the belief that ritualists and old protestant friends are leagued against her. Catholics do not befriend her. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Acton submits a poem for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Dorsey is grieved over receiving a bill from Sadlier's for three dollars. Her daughter Angie has lost her job in the Navy Department. James G. Blaine a personal friends of the family, has been unable to arrange for a new job. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Lambing thinks he can find a way to insure the circulation of his appeal and raise the funds to pay the parish debts. He will send Hudson a copy of his appeal pamphlet with a picture of the memorial altar. Lambing inquires if Hudson might place a notice of the memorial altar in the Ave Maria minus the appeal. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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De Pombriay received "The Annals of the Holy Face" edited by Father P. Janvier, the author of the life of Dupont and the Carmelite Sister Saint Pierre. He sends it to Hudson for notice in the Ave Maria. De Pombriay has finished a translation of the life of "Soeur St. Pierre" and is now awaiting episcopal approbation of the work. When it arrives he hopes Hudson will give it notice. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Howe learned much from Hudson's method of preparing the Ave Maria readers for Saint Catherine. She requests Hudson send Mother Cecilia at Terre Haute, copies of the Ave Maria containing the article on St. Catherine. When she wrote Louise Lateau she was a local superior. Howe requests that a copy of "Record of a suffering Soul" be sent to Madame Healy at the Academy of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart in Chicago. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Stoddard submits an article. He inquires if a life of Louise Lateau has been published. Father John Pinasco, S.J., president of Santa Clara College writes that he thinks Stoddard's vocation is to write and he hopes Stoddard will not be forced to abandon it. Does Hudson hear from Daniel Paul :: X-2-j A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents A wonderful improvement in John English's health is attributed to Father Hudson's prayers. English, if he recovers, has promised to take Fr. Hudson to Lourdes with him. Miss Cordon wishes to go to Europe some day. An interesting letter was received from Father General recently. Miss Gordon has a request to make of him next month. She inquires about her cousin and, for her father, about will Johnson of New Lexington, Ohio. Horse back riding is her favorite sport, but the facilities are...

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Sister's criticism of the book "Good Reading for Young Girl" is that the suggested readings are too profound. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Dallas has enrolled his daughter at Holy Cross Academy. Marie Dallas takes only three courses at the academy and is enrolled at Professor Messer's Art Academy. Dallas has forbidden Marie to walk in the street with gentlemen, or to be out after dark. He is sorry to learn that Montrose Graham has run away from home. Mrs. Masi is uneasy about Willie 's health especially since the death of young Woodson due to pneumonia which he contracted while at Notre Dame. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Guendling requests a Catholic "Anthology of Poetry" and thinks Elliot Ryder 's work would be good. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Divine asks Hudson to note in the "Catholic Notes" of the Ave Maria that Mrs. Dunne has been annointed but her health fails to improve. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Acton thanks Hudson for sending him the Ave Maria. The Ave Maria writers he enjoyed are Eliza Allen Starr and Mary Mannix :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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English arrived in Columbus after a tiresome journey, but wishes he were back at St. Mary's Academy. His mother thanks Hudson for sending the mirror. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Enclosed is a notice of a piece of music. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents At the request of Bishop Hebert Vaughan of Salford, England, Edes resumed writing the "Roman Correspondence" for the London Tablet, which she first began in 1880 when she replaced Doctor Brady. Did Hudson see the comment of the New York Freeman's-Journal editor, James McMaster , criticizing the Latin of the Encyclical Anspicatio Concessum, as simple and clearly not that of Leo XIII . McMaster must be happy over his daughter, Helen McMaster, entering the Carmelites. She thanks Hudson for...

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The Carmelites thank Hudson for announcing the book "The Life of St. Teresa". They think the article referred to was written by Anna Sadlier. :: X-2-j A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Hagan thanks Hudson for presenting his request to the President of Notre Dame, Father Thomas E. Walsh . Walsh wrote to O'Hagan granting him the privilege requested. The degree of LL. B. which he hopes to get from Notre Dame will give him prestige as inspector of Catholic schools for Ontario Province. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Richards asks Hudson to clarify a difficulty over the conditions that must be fulfilled to gain a certain indulgence. He read "Elaine" with pleasure. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

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Toomey has been plagued with ill-fortune and ill health since leaving Cincinnati. At present he is working for the wholesale grocery firm of Towle, Carle and Company. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey is under commission to write an article on the lace-makers and she would like to do an article on the University of Notre Dame for the Chicago Inter-Ocean or the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Pilot. The date she visits Notre Dame will depend on her railroad accommodations. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Maes has just returned from a trip to New York with Bishop Caspar H. Borgess . Rumor about the division of the diocese of Detroit must have reached Hudson. He will be happy if the predictions of his friends are false but God's will be done. Archbishop James Gibbons and Father A.L. Maguien, S.S., invited Maes to use the Archives of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in seeking material for the life of Father Gabriel Richards :: X-2-j A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.