Scope and Contents Why not ask Christian Reid to write a short story? "The Angel of Red Front" was a gem. Sara Trainer Smith writes well and Mannix would be satisfied if she could write like her. Mannix is intent on the Irish question; she was convinced long ago that Richard Pigott was the guilty man, because of what Mr. Healy told her about Pigott's infamy. Healy did not then believe in the disinterestedness of Prime Minister Gladstone, but credited him with personal motives. The English government is...

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Mullany wanted Hudson to put his name to the article on Kathleen O'Meara . He was anxious that her friends should know that he had redeemed his promise of paying tribute to her works. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Parsons submits an article entitled "The Pontificate of John XXII". :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Thompson submits an article for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Egan has given the cut to the firm which does the work of The Century Company. Mr. Gill is editor of the Catholic World. He was Egan's candidate and won. Egan asks Hudson for a picturesque account of Notre Dame, which he can submit to the editor of The Manhattan, who will publish an article on Notre Dame. He sends a story entitled "The Rosebud", which has the style that young women who are in the habit of reading modern novels desire. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Hooper submits an article about an incident about the building of a chapel which happened in London at the Convert of Marie Reparatrix. Hooper entered the convent in October 1887. She left the community because of failure of health. She makes a living now by nursing. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo.

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Caprotti thanks Hudson for sending a copy of the Ave Maria. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Farrell sends Hudson a box of museum pieces. Mrs. Dyer begs to know the amount of freight and asks that ten Masses be said for the repose of the soul of George Alphonsus Marie Dyer :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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In Borden's "Miniature Lives of the Saints" there is the legend relating how St. Brigid came to be called "the Mary of Erin". The expression "Mary of Erin" would lead people to think the nun of Kildare fills for her country the office of patronage, mediatorship and mothership which Mary occupies for the rest of nations. This is false. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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He encloses a poem in honor of the Blessed Virgin. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Farrell acknowledges receipt of the pictures and Hudson's letter thanking her for the box of souvenirs. Mrs. George Dyer will send two sets of glasses for the spectacles. Farrell sends an autograph of Archbishop Peter Kenrick which is thirty-five years old. She regrets she has burned almost hundreds of letters, Bishop James de St . Palais, Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans, Fathers Francis Weninger, Damen Van Gock and Mr. Patrick V. Hickey . Farrell has kept a letter from James Cardinal...

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Hill returns the proof with one correction. He had hoped the two Monica poems would be published in one of the Ave Maria's Lenten numbers. The Poor Soul's Advocate came from Father Jenkins. He is glad the Ave Maria is ahead of all other Catholic periodicals and he does not think The Month will take in the United States. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Manning inquires if Hudson published articles by Catholic writers that are unknown to him. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Stanfield submits an article. The St. Patrick's Day Parade in Jackson was a noble one. The governor sat by the side of Bishop John S. Foley :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Toomy submits the manuscript of a Catholic story which she hopes Hudson will find acceptable. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Taggart submits an article on Isabella of Castile. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 16mo.

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They thank Hudson for the Ave Maria and for the books he has sent to Henry Blinn . Some of Hudson's letters have been read in the dining room before the entire assembly. Blinn is now on a safe way to recovery. They are anxious to get "The Black Monks of St. Benedict" by E. L. Taunton and ask Hudson for a price reduction. :: X-3-i T.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Jordan submits a poem about Our Lady. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Sister encloses three poems. If Hudson finds them suitable she asks that he withhold their publication until Father Matthew Bohn, O.F.M. has his say about the matter. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 15pp. 12mo.

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Keating submits an article on the Blessed Virgin. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Richardson thanks Hudson for altering her article to make it suitable for publication and for the remuneration. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Orby Shipley, a convert parson meditates a sort of Anthologia Mariana. Russell told him the United States will enrich his treasury. When he found the intiials M.F.E., he knew that Henry Walsh's critic could only be Maurice Francis Egan . He congratulates Hudson on Egan's migration to the West. Perhaps Hudson might like to use "A Child of Grace" by Mrs. Theodora I.L. Teeling published in Russell's The Month. Hudson must praise "Lessons From Our Lady's Life" by a clever young Irish widow,...

Scope and Contents Stoddard is looking for Bishop John Joseph Keane to visit Munich within a week or two. Stoddard will write Mr. Vail that he may return to England for May and to the United States in June. Stoddard is anxious to know what Hudson will say about the proposition Bishop Keane made him with regards to teaching English Literature at the Catholic University. Poor Philip Brownson, Stoddard does not believe that he ever suffered a pang of love or remorse in his life, or could shed a tear though...

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Mannix submits some verses for the Youth Department. Perhaps Hudson should substitute M.E.M. or Sylvia Hunting for her full name, since it does not look well to have two articles from the same pen in the same number. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Mariotti explains her failure to acknowledge Hudson's letter with the remittance for her article. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Tynan submits a poem for May. She apologizes for her delay in sending the story she had promised Hudson. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Perkins asks Hudson to return her manuscript, a translation of a French Story. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Father Joseph Damien De Veuster thanks Hudson for his kindness in the matter of the bells. His lungs are congested and his face shows rapid progress of the disease. Some photographs of De Veuster were taken for medical purpose, one of which will be sent to Hudson. Dutton sends a photograph of the sisters and their groups of girls together with the purificator used by De Veuster the last time he said Mass. The photograph was made by Mr. Bingham of Boston for Doctor Prince Albert Morrow...

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Father Dennis A. Clarke has suggested that Hudson might be able to help Kuster get some competent person to help him on the Catholic Columbian. Kuster wants someone who is able to handle Catholic subjects and discuss Irish affairs. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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News about Charles Warren Stoddard is comforting. Something to do is his panacea. Hudson may tell Stoddard that Maes is delighted to know that dire conviction of unescapeable duty has brought him to do so. Does Hudson know how impossible a Bishop's priests make it to be one of them and have a little sensible recreation sometimes? He would give and do anything to be rid of authority, but that would be seeking his own comfort and not God's will. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.