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Sterling has some interesting correspondence between Henry Cardinal Manning and one of Sterling's daughters, Isabelle Sterling, and he offers it to the Ave Maria. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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If Hudson keeps sending sending checks, Shea will strike and not do anything until Terence V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor order it. Shea owes Hudson $28 to $30 in articles. They had a visit from James F. Edwards who has done wonderful work in collecting portraits relics and documents. Restored by Luigi Gregori, they are likely to be preserved. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Crowley was pleased that Hudson liked the sketch of the Fresh Air Children. She may send Hudson a note telling the result of her experience with the children. It is rather late in the year for the project to take hold. The enthusiasm there has been surprising. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Rene returns Stoddard's letter. Aunt Julie and Vion are home. Vion has grown about a half foot. His mother persuaded Rene to take singing. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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They are glad to see the story in progress by Christian Reid. Professor Egan is doing good work. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Mother Mary G. Edwards thanks Hudson for his prayers. Smith's article on a "Child of Mary's Progress" was lovely. The Sisters decided Mrs. Hough was the model Christian. Sister criticizes the manner in which women approach the Holy Table. Charles Warren Stoddard's visit bids fair to be interesting. Bishop John Lancaster Spalding will be in his own element arranging school affairs. Sister fancies they will not invite her order to contribute. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.

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He asks for information about the southern states, as to climate, products and price of land, because some persons would like to go there. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Mannix sends a few "Corners" and a translation from the German. She will translate the sketch of Agostino from "Der Katholik". If Hudson does not use it Father Luebbermann will. Their minds are exercised about John Mannix. His uncle expects to be transferred and that would leave the alternative of Georgetown. John B. Mannix has the idea of sending him to a commerce college there and taking him into the office where he could do typewriting and earn something for himself. There is a...

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Onahan is chairman of a committee for preparing a plan of organization for the Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893. He wishes Hudson would give him the benefit of any suggestions he might have. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents Sterling fears he may have raised Hudson's expectations too high regarding the correspondence which he encloses. The letter of James Cardinal Gibbons will explain itself. That of Henry Cardinal Manning breathes out his saintly character in every line. Sterling's daughter, Isabelle Sterling was at the convent school in Sag Harbor when she wrote to the Cardinal. She told him her Papa was a convert and that of her three brothers at St. Charles College, one was Cardinal Gibbons' boy whom he...

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Brownson is disappointed at Hudson's not coming last week. He is going to work now on the extracts from Columbus. Francesco Tarducci has sent Brownson quite a pile of books and pamphlets. He belongs to the opponents of the gallicizing school in Italy that grew up in the XVIII Century. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Her absence at the seashore prevented an earlier reply to the gifts and the book of Rose Howe. Smith thought Hudson would like a notice of the Revelations at once. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents Hudson may print the sketch the way he wishes. Recently they had an awful smash up at their door. Stoddard is still nervous and restless. William P.? Coyne wrote to Stoddard and sent his copy of "Views and Reviews". Stoddard will place the card in the copy of the Lepers. C.M. Hyde has evidently gone so far that he must brazen it out to the bitter end. When he came there Stoddard said he must know John Boyle O'Reilly. He had a letter from him and an advance copy of the Pilot which said...

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Swift acknowledges receipt of two copies of "The Lepers of Molokai." :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Parsons sends an article "Richelieu and Louis XIII". He asks Hudson for advice about a cheap typewriter. :: X-3-l A.L.S.

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Papin thanks Hudson for his photo. His trip to Ste. Genevieve was unexpected but enjoyed. While there Papin called on Father Charles L. Van Tourenhaut. Dan Taylor is to be married in the fall to a Miss Whitelaw, a non-Catholic whose parents are very bigoted. Mama Mrs. Papin is to remain at Lebanon until late in the fall. Papin is now with a Wholesale Dry Goods establishment. Vion Papin will attend school again there for the coming year. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 7pp. 12mo.

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Tomorrow Dorsey will explain the delay in sending the enclosed statement and draft. Nell Ella Loraine Dorsey got back from Casco Bay on Thursday. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 12mo. 2pp.

Scope and Contents When he heard from Brother Lawrence that Hudson was a convert Copley took the liberty of sending him a set of their publications and a copy of their prospectus. The Catholic Truth Society has been in existence only six months and they have already 200 members. Their aim is to give Protestants the truth in as gentle a way as possible. They hope to furnish jails with reading matter in the fall. Copley asks Hudson if he can say a good word for their work in his magazine. The Protestant...

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The delay was due to Nellie's Ella Loraine Dorsey absence. Nellie has always attended to accounts of every sort. Dorsey sends the enclosed photo because she has given up all expectations of getting anything better. Mrs. Senator Algernon Sidney Paddock? got her the first volume of O'Meara's "Napoleon in Exile" out of the Capitol Library to read, but Ainsworth Rand Spofford pronounced the second volume lost. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 7pp. 12mo.

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Stone sends some sonnets from Father Edmund Hill, C.P.. Stone cannot say he relished Hill's taking the public into his confidence so much. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Moore has been working this summer in an insurance office for three dollars a week. Stuart and he have bought a boat. He is not going back to Fordham this year, but to St. Francis Xavier's. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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The photo is liked by all. All prefer it to the old one. Bohn will not forget the Ave Maria on their missions. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Kelly sends an article on Notre Dame de Chartres. Lately Kelly had a visit for an American Dominican from Newark. Kelly is trying to get two subscribers for the Ave Maria. Kelly has much devotion to Blessed Perboyre. She has not got over the "Aventure" of Vitte et Perrusel. She has tried to do the firm all the harm she could. The other day at Pere la Chaise Kelly was visiting Kathleen O'Meara's grave. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The proofs of the sketches are in print. Nothing can have been more tiresome than Burns and Oates all through the affair. Even the Cardinal's sending to them Father Kenelm Vaughn seemed to have no effect. They will not publish her sister's Kathleen O'Meera last sketch. O'Meara has given it to Father Wolesley, O.P., who is working hard for the beatification of the Cure' d' Ars. Wolesley is giving the sketch to the Catholic Faith Society. O'Meara will send Hudson a copy of the other...

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Maes has just completed an article, "Churchyard Flowers" for the Ave Maria. He will send it tomorrow. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Enclosed is a sketch of the Passion Play. Stoddard wants to make a one part sketch of the play as he saw it at Brixley. Four parts of the Legend of Lanai are complete. He cannot write the concluding part until he gets home. Stoddard asks that a bound copy of "Troubled Heart" be sent to Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis, Indiana. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Seymour acknowledges receipt of five dollars for the "Antwerp" paper. She is busy with her school. She opens it and gives it into charge of her young teachers. Seymour asks Hudson to tell Maurice Francis Egan how much she likes his "talks". She thanks the Ave Maria for noticing her article which appeared in Harpers. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard plans to write "The Passion Play at Brixlegg". Then he will tackle the leper book. He is thinking of quoting only the last letter from Europe of Joseph Damien de Veuster, CC.SS. and the letters he wrote from Hawaii and Molokai. He hopes to leave Quincy September 12 to go to Albany, where he will be joined by Reginald Birch. They will sail down the Hudson to New York. Theodore Dwight and Stoddard have been sitting for pictures but they are not very successful. :: X-3-l A.L.S....

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Dwyer encloses an article. The miraculous cure of Miss Hanley is authenticated by the highest authority here. Her crutches are yet to be seen among the exvotos at the shrine. The affidavit of her father Colonel P. T. Hanley regarding the circumstances of her twelve years' illness prior to the novena is preserved by the Fathers of the Church. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Stoddard is half way through the Brixlegg Passion Play. His brother is in trouble and this will involve some expense. The Duchess d'Ursel writes that she is at the bedside of Madame Augustus Craven, who is stricken with paralysis. Craven's last work is her life of Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, SS.CC.. The Duchess requests prayers for her aunt. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.