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Enclosed is $5.00 as a subscription payment for Helen Odette of East Saginaw. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The Franciscan Sisters are in charge of their charity Hospital of St. Mary' s which has become too contracted for the work. A new Hospital of St. Agnes is now being erected in the southern part of the city. The order has suffered from calumnies in print against the Superior, Mother Agnes, by a former member of her community who was dismissed. Mother Agnes wants to reprint Donnelly's "Rhyme of the Friar Stephen" printed in the Ave and sell it for the new hospital. Father F. Pila asked...

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He thinks Emon has sent a contribution over another nom de plume. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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She laughed outright at Hudson's frank avowal about her letter he sent to that orderly mind in Portugal who writes so faultlessly. Anna Smith came to see her yesterday and expressed surprise that no notice had been taken by the Ave of her great charity of providing a refuge for tempted and fallen women. Angie is in bed yet. Dorsey sends the beginning of Part II. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Kelly will get the photographs and sketches of Dr. Joyce and Mr. Reilly. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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She sends a notice of Miss Donnelly's book and a poem "One Prayer". :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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He is grateful for the article on the "Manual of the Cord". It has sold well. The Ave Maria is to be sent to Katherine Spillane at Loretto Convent. Father Edward, their guardian asks him to say that they did not receive No. 20 last year. Jarlath is grateful for Hudson's superior's great kindness to their house. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Enclosed are some verses. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents The revision of Starr's "Sketch of a life in the World" has been completed. She wishes Hudson would put in a note about Father William Henry Hoyt . Mrs Julia Smalley gave her such full details. Starr wishes to be kept informed about Father Bigelow . She knew of the Hoyt? children and met others when they were young at Mrs . Nathaniel Tucker 's in Burlington. Mr. Hoyt was one of Professor George Allen 's dearest friends. Mrs. Thompson wrote "Concerning Converts". :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp....

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She hoped to hear from Professor Joseph A. Lyons but has not. She sends the French translation and some verses. The Catholic Fireside has recently secured the services of Mary Meline, a niece of the late James F. Meline ; she went from here about two weeks ago. Mannix will be glad to see "Glimpses of the Supernatural". Cincinnati is in the midst of a great flood. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Her friends, the Ladies of the Sacred Heart Convent have asked her to send the enclosed. She met that venerable saint, Father Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C. while traveling last summer with Sister M. Leonie, M.S.C . She looks forward to seeing him at Memramcock. Nealis has never written for an other paper except the Pilot and the St. John papers but would like to contribute to the Ave Maria. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey's story is modelled on a Mr. Bradford of Wilmington, Delaware, a descendant of the Puritan governor. He married a Catholic lady. His family of boys were brought up in the faith of their mother. Their eldest son, Father George S. Bradford is an energetic priest. General Sherman and Colonel Lee and others she knows are examples of mixed marriages. She was a bitter Protestant when she married her converted Catholic husband and did not become a Catholic for 7 years. :: X-2-m A.L.S....

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Gallagher forwards an electrotype portrait of James A. McMaster . They had some difficulty in getting the cut from Redpath's Weekly who produced it originally. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Her sister, Mrs. Adams of Rockford, Illinois sent "Abbie's Grandmother" to Hudson. If it has been rejected, would Hudson send it to Sister by Mr. Williams? :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Acknowledgment is made of a letter and Haydn. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He encloses a piece he translated from an article published about four years ago in L'Amidu Clerge. Father Augustin J. Louage, C.S.C. looked it over. Moran saw something about Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield having died a Catholic; did Hudson notice it? Moran saw Father Joseph C. Carrier, C.S.C. . :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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He would like to have returned some of the articles sent to Hudson. Did Hudson invite him to Notre Dame as a professor or what? So Hudson knows Miss Cole? :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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Ordy Shipley has engaged him to amend the enclosed. Perhaps they could fill a corner in the Ave. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 32mo.

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Back numbers of the Examiner have been mailed. :: X-2-m A. Postcard. S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Cleary is glad the relics arrived safely. He has come to study in the Seminary of St. Sulpice. His own inclination was in favor of Rome but he was dissuaded by his doctor. He regrets an inconvenience caused by his absence from Rome. He has written to Signor Rossigani to dissuade him from literary pursuits for the present. He has heard that Mr. Gallagher whom he recommended has left Rome for America. Cleary is pretty sure that he would be able to find a suitable Rome correspondent for...

Scope and Contents She has sent the manuscript of "Ash Wednesday" to John Boyle O'Reilly. She had been sending her children to a school taught by a Catholic lady but she has discontinued her school and Mannix must teach them herself. She will perhaps be obliged to send her boy who is 8 to St. Xavier's but she intends to teach the girls herself. She is waiting for Joseph A. Lyon 's letter. Hudson can have no idea of the misery caused by the flood. She is glad he is interested in the "Fireside." She will do...

Scope and Contents She has remodeled the chapter by aid of Hudson's notes and an essay on "Matrimony as a Sacrament." There has been great laxity in the years past. Mrs. Madelein Vinton Dahlgren 's marriage was an example. Archbishop Martin John Spalding Spaulding would not give a dispensation. In New York, Father J. W.? Cummings, pastor of St. Stephen's married them. Dorsey had not heard about the new edition of "Tangled Paths." They had no right to do it without consulting her. The copyright is hers....

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He is pleased that Hudson liked "Mangan" and will see what he can do as regards Aubrey de Vere. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Hill encloses two poems. Father Provincial Thomas Stefanini C.P. tells him he asked Hudson to forward the Ave to them there. He saw the poem addressed to a Passionist by M.E. Jordan. Hill sailed from New York with two companions November 10 arriving at Liverpool on the 20th.The illness of one delayed their second voyage a month and allowed Hill time to see more of his family. He was delighted at the change in them regarding Catholic doctrine. There is a great growth in the direction of...

Scope and Contents The Italian tribunals violated the so called Guarantees Law by passing sentence on the Propaganda Fide. The Secretary of State sent a diplomatic note to all Apostolic Nuncios containing an explanation of the sentence, the text of which Ropignoni will forward to Hudson. Ropignoni gives a list of new assignments given members of the College of Cardinals. A consistory will be held during the second week of March at which the Patriarch Archbishop Joseph Sebastian Neto of Lisbon and...

Scope and Contents She has been waiting for the "Little Book of Eternal Wisdom." She is incorrigible in her preference for the style of literature. A cousin dubbed her a regular Quietist. She thanks Hudson for the Mass for Father Aegidius Hennemann, O.S.B. . He is buried under the altar of the chapel in the cemetery. The last favor Father Aegidius did for her was to send a medal to one of Mrs. Cosgrain 's sons. Howe can never forget that Notre Dame, was a haven of refuge in stormy days. :: X-2-m A.L.S....

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Enclosed is an article. Prayers are requested for the soul of Sister Blanche. Also enclosed is $1.25 in payment for the Ave Maria for C. Fehr. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mO.

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Oechtering was in Fort Wayne last week. He inquired about priests who were by sickness disabled to do parochial work. The bishop advised to given them the honor of Rector. Hence they should change several: Father George Steiner, rector of St. Peter and Paul, Father Henry William? Schaefer of St. Paul of the Cross, Father H.? Francis X. Deimel, St. Michael, Schererville. Oechtering learned of two more names and is sending to learn particulars. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Contemplating moving, she did not care to store the articles she sent sometime ago. Her arm has become worse. If she could only play the piano as she once did. She is studying singing. She is offered a place in a Protestant choir which she will have to take unless her own Church see fit to dispense with its Protestant singers. She ought not to complain for Protestants support her. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Enclosed are some particulars of St. Castor. Van Ness was surprised by the definition of fossarius. She meant one of the excavators of the Galleries in the Catacombs. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.