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Hudson's telegram arrived this morning. Mannix went to work at once despite a headache and an engagement. Mannix completes the letter with a short poem on her faithfulness to Hudson. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Thomas Moore has Hudson's letter this morning. Tom is growing fat. She asks Hudson to write her out a two line notice of Echoes of the Past to run in the Ave Maria. She has a proposition from a publisher to buy all books on hand. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Sister has become an editor to improve her pupils in composition. Hudson will get the first number. She longs to make a visit to Notre Dame. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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If Hudson will be in the vicinity within the next three months, will he come to see him? He has two manuscript sermons of John Cardinal Lefevre de Cheverus which he wants to present to Hudson's museum. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Crawford will be glad to let Hudson have the manuscripts on the proposed terms. She has sent the final chapters giving miraculous cures attributed to Blessed Pierre Chanel. Crawford expects to be in the States in the spring. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Cascia's sonnet "A Pledge Divine" is extremely good. Stoddard sends the first part of "Legend of Lanai". Thanksgiving happened to be Father Augustine F.? Hewit's birthday and there was much toasting and speech making. In the evening Stoddard went to the home of Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren. Theodore Dwight has just gone to Boston. The malaria is tugging at Stoddard. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Hudson's letter came this noon. How stupid of Stoddard to send Hudson's letter to Indianapolis but he has two new friends there, James Whitcomb Riley and Meredith Nicholson, who write often. Two days ago Stoddard led Mrs. Ladd, whose husband died in Europe two years ago, to the altar of St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington. Is it not absurd-Stoddard as matchmaker? :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Kelly is glad that Hudson was pleased with her ghost story. She encloses two short sketches of shrines. Enclosed is an article from the Figaro on the new Life of Christ by Pere Didon. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Can not Hudson suggest to Father Reuben Parsons to take up Isabella of Castile and the Inquisition? The mention of Isabella seems to paralyze Catholics. In the Catholic Review for Nov. 29 Mary E. Meline speaks of having such articles appear. She wrote Starr about an Isabella University in Washington. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 7pp. 32mo.

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Tiernan has followed Hudson's advice in writing to H. S. Kilner. She has offered the story for a cash price. She has long lost the desire to see herself in print. It is necessary to write the name of the state, Jalisco, on her letters. The little town is decorated with laterns and lights in honor of the Immaculate Conception. The piety, devotion and labors of all the priests of Mexico whom Tiernan has met are beyond praise. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.

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If the Ave Maria has not been credited every time an article has been taken from it for the Catholic Youth, it is not done intentionally. McCabe is glad to learn that Hudson regards the Catholic Youth so highly. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Hudson's enclosure of $10 was received yesterday. Stanfield asks Hudson if he has a picture by Carl Becker called "Ave Maria". She is getting some short stories ready. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Father Hughes told them he was quite discouraged about managing The Catholic World. The editor will insert things that he objects to. Mother Ellen? White loves the Ave Maria. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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The Nun of Kenmare Sister Mary Frances Cusack wrote to the Dispatch telling how Sister Gonzalez, one of the nuns at the Ursuline Convent, Oakland, has been persecuted by the authorities of the Catholic Church and is restrained of her liberty at Dixmont Insane Asylum. :: X-3-l Newspaper-clipping 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Hudson will have parts 2, 3 and 4 of the Legend of Lanai at once. Stoddard cannot sleep and is desparately blue. They have no vacation at Christmas or Easter. That infernal old blowhard Archbishop John Ireland is said to be responsible for this triumph of idiocy. The proper place for him is in some wild-west combination. The children are outraged; the professors disgusted and the whole concern sinking into obscurity. Stoddard is satisfied that Catholics will never have a university and...

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Hudson may rely on her for some "Chats" next year. Mannix wishes she could write like Christian Reid. Mannix sees there is a limit in Hudson's prospectus of a possible magazine for children. Brother Lawrence called the other day. He is nice, but she likes Brother John Chrysostom? better. Mr. V is far from the fold. Mannix is afraid he may commit suicide. :: X-3-l A.L.A. 3pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard sends his metrical version of the passage in Virgil. It is to be printed without his name or initials. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Courson is glad Hudson liked her story. She has ordered a copy of the book sent to Hudson. Her husband joins in Christmas wishes. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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The poems may be returned. Tynan is grateful to Hudson for sending her the picture of her patroness. The seraphic saints depress Tynan frightfully. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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The enclosed check for $500 is Father Testevuide's share. She sent the Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, SS.CC. manuscript to Judge Lyon and it has been returned. The latest reports from Molokai indicate that everything is in good condition. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Moore celebrated his First Communion Day Monday. He went to the Museum of Natural History. He is not going to Fordham until Christmas. On the same paper:

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Moore thanks Hudson for the notice in the Ave Maria. Tom still shows effects of his fever and is not in school. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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She begs Hudson to give the enclosed letter to Professor John Fearnley no enclosure. It treats of a manuscript of some importance. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Crawford encloses the preface to the Life of F. Chanel written by Cardinal Manning. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Forrester would be grateful for a paragraph in Hudson's book notices concerning his new work, "An Irish Crazy-Quilt". :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Gamarra has received the copies of the Ave Maria. The six Masses have been said for Hudson's intentions. Gamarra beseeches Hudson to have no objection to sending him Mass intentions. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Sister's health has been bad all summer and autumn. Sister sends a tale "Le Serment de Jean Maelon". They have had a dreadful drought and famine was threatened but rain has come. Sister saw in El Rosario that Pere Henri Didon's Vie de Jesus Christ has been a success. The Holy Father is preparing a new encyclical and he joined the Society of the Perpetual Rosary. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Would Hudson like a serial from the Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn? Perhaps a few words from Hudson would help the sale of Allies' last two books. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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They attend midnight devotions at the Jesuit College of the Immaculate Conception. The winter is extremely severe. Marchal and her mother heard several masses at Notre Dame des Victories on the 8th. Her brother needs Hudson's prayers. He is a sailor, at present Lieutenant on the "Gascogne". :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents His trip to Boston was rather a burden. It took 18 hours and the buffet car failed them. On the way back Stoddard spent a quiet day in New York with Reginald Birch. Bishop John J. Keane produced a clipping from a Washington paper containing verses of Stoddard lately in the Current Literature entitled " A Toast". The verses read at a bachelor dinner have crept into print. A foul minded woman saw something nasty in them and has frightened the Bishop. Stoddard never wrote anything more...