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Dorsey thanks Hudson for the two checks. She relates some of her reflections which she had while writing "Palms". Since Frank Murphy is publishing the edition of Dorsey's stories she wants the prospectus that Ella Lorraine Dorsey wrote and circulated altered. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Lawless will be pleased to contribute to the Ave Maria. The last number of the Catholic World published one of her contributions. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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O'Meara sent the sketch of the "Blind Bishop". Father Joseph DamienDeVeuster is well known throughout England. Mr. Hugh Chapman, an Anglican priest whom O'Meara has been attempting to trap into the fold, has taken up the subject of DeVeuster with zeal. Her return voyage to Europe was terrible. She hopes Mother AngelaGillespie will forgive O'Meara for not visiting her. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Cleary submits a sketch of the "Protestant Cathedrals of Dublin". Now that he has been assigned to a country parish his health has improved. He finds the Royal Irish Academy treasures large enough to warrant three or four papers. For the first time he finds himself in debt and asks Hudson to think of him when he is in need of an article. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey returns the checks that Hudson sent her, because they are not properly endorsed and she asks that this error be corrected. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Egan just returned from a business trip to Washington, where he saw James Alphonsus McMaster's daughter. McMaster he fears is dying and everything falls on Egan. He has weighed Father Walsh's last letter and it has not altered Egan's wishes to be with Hudson. If McMaster dies, he will remain to wind up the New York Freeman's Journal :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Mannix is disappointed about the sketch of Superior Louise. She is sure it must have been Sister Alphonse who wrote to Hudson. Does Hudson know that the sisters want Mannix to write a life of Sister Louise ? "Our Lady's Cradle song" was not written by Mannix. Mannix thinks the poem Hudson intends for the month of the Holy Infancy is one of the best she has ever written. What a good story-teller T. F. Galwey is getting to be. Both Mrs. and Miss Dorsey are excellent writers. Eliza Allen...

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Starr thanks Hudson for the $3 and the picture of the crib. She sends Hudson her best wishes for Christmas. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard is finishing the "Corpus Christi" sketch. He hopes some generous firm or society will send a set of brass instruments to the lepers at Molokai. Stoddard submits excerpts from the "Lives and Legends" and asks Hudson not to be discouraged at the light tone of "Crossing the Rubicon". He discusses other articles of the new series he is writing for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Thompson thanks Hudson for the remittance for her article and sends another one. The article on the Museum at Notre Dame aroused her interest and she inquires if Hudson would like two autographed letters from Henry Cardinal Manning, one each from Archbishops James Wood and John B. Purcell, the autograph of Dom Bosco, and a few coins with the the stamp of Pope Pius IX. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 32mo.

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Toohey presents a list of books which he went over and thinks could be of use to the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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The proof is as good as can be made. An explanation of the difficulty is given. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Fishel sends Hudson Christmas greetings. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

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Howe sends Hudson Christmas greetings. She believes Lew Wallace has a vocation and wishes God would grant him the gift of the true faith. Howe knew Isabella Braun in Munich and has a volume of her little journal. When she next visits Notre Dame, she will bring Frances Terry, General Alfred Howe Terry's younger sister with her. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 5pp. 16mo.

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Smalley is chagrined that Father Wilber Robertson did not receive an immediate reply from Mr. ? Sims . She called him by his baptismal name of Paul. It is rumored that Eliza Allen Starr is compiling a life of Professor George Allen late of Philadelphia. The book should be more interesting than the one recently published by Bishop Louis De Goesbriand of the Barber family. Fanny Allen and Father William Henry Hoyt :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Squire sends a translation. Her sister is disappointed about not receiving a copy of "Midshipman Bob" and inquires if Hudson sent it. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Mr. Young thinks "Echoes From the Pines" will sell even though it was not out until today. The Pilot has reviewed it. Jordan hopes to benefit from John Boyle O'Reilly's criticism. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Ewing received the letter Hudson wrote Mother Angela Gillespie on the subject of translating for the Ave Maria. She is not a French scholar and feels incapable of translating articles other than a French novel for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 6pp. 16mo.

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Sister has just returned from a trip to Phildelphia and New York. She is spending the Christmas holiday with Sister Hilda Gallagher :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Jordan is glad she sent the verses even though they were not in time for the Christmas issue of the Ave Maria. She is pleased Hudson likes the story. Such critics as Katherine Conway, James Gilmartin Father Dennis O'Callaghan said the sketch showed talent. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Russell likes the first verse of the December 12 Ave Maria and Sara Smith's "Saints' Punishment". He recommends the Birthday Book to Hudson. :: X-3-c A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Jarlath has not visited a city where the people make more of Christmas than they do in Boston. A list of people who send their regards to Hudson is given. Father Provincial Corby told him to write occasionally, to date he has not done so. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Thompson has remedied the faults in her manuscript and submits it. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Breheny submits an article for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Fisher acknowledges the receipt of the check for $100 from Hudson. She accepts Hudson's proposal to pay $3 for each page of manuscript. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Vagnier looked forward to visiting Hudson, but illness forced him to remain home. "Palms" is finished-Deo Gratias. If it were condensed to one-third its length it would be readable. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Dorbesson is establishing a business selling religious pictures and Catholic books. Information is requested as to the cost of delivering the books printed by the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Sister relates the difficulties she experienced in sending the ciborium cover to Father Joseph Damien DeVeuster . She comments on her story "Isabella Braun" which appeared in the Ave Maria and is not sorry that "Palms" is finished. Next week she will send sketches on two German poets. She describes the accidental sinking of a French liner in Lisbon harbor after it was rammed by a warship. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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The proof has been received. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Toohey has found Catholics who have been neglected and whom he has been authorized by Bishop Nicholas A. Gallagher to look after so that his parish extends into six counties. His attempts to obtain a Bohemian grammer have been unsuccessful. Toohey comments on the article "Where the Apostles Rest" which recently appeared in the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.