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O'Meara's heavy schedule of work has kept her from attacking Father Jean Besson. She thinks the Ave Maria should get credit for publishing her work, but the publisher is reluctant to agree. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents Miss O'Meara cannot refrain from writing and expressing her sympathy over the loss of Notre Dame, which the blue cover of the Ave Maria had made familiar to all. She is amazed at how fast it turned to ashes and figures that it must have been all wood structure. She is very pleased, but surprised, to hear Hudson say that it will be rebuilt by September and she only hopes his promise will be justified. She thinks it is a very good idea that every reader of the Ave Maria contribute a...

Scope and Contents The Superior of the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland has asked her to make a little sketch of the life of Mother M. Teresa Kelly. She thinks this sketch would find a place in the Ave Maria, and if Hudson is of the same opinion, she will send it to him. It will run about ten or twelve pages of the magazine. How she is looking forward to meeting Mother Mary Angela Gillespie, who is in Paris and has written her, requesting a visit. She also hopes to see Cardinal John McCloskey before he leaves....

Scope and Contents Miss O'Meara has been absorbed with the calamity at Notre Dame. The story of the city, it's rise and crowning trial of faith reads like an old legend and the beauty of it will be complete when September sees the school raised from its ruins to the power of the mother of God by the energy of her children in Indiana. Father Dennis dined with them and he is interested in the trial as if he witnessed the fire, and would gladly lend a hand to trundle a wheel barrow and his would not capsize...

Scope and Contents She thanks Hudson for the check. She hopes the missing number which contained the quota of Cyril will soon appear. It must have been lost in the mail. She is going to tell Hudson of an account of a grace granted to a poor sufferer by Our Lady of Lourdes. The girl was dying with an incurable disease of the heart and had spent her whole fortune on doctors and medicine to no effect. She lost the use of her limbs and was attended in her room by the Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul. She made...

Scope and Contents She thanks Hudson for the six Ave Marias and is glad she followed an impulse and wrote. She only meant him to slip an extract from a letter into his report of the week at Lourdes, and did not expect the narrative to be given a high place in the synagogue. A sketch of H. Perreyre's ? life is in the post and she meant to choose P. Desson but she found Perry's letters and could not resist writing about him. She enjoyed doing the notice of his life and someday will do a sketch of P. Desson...

Scope and Contents Hudson's letter to her was satisfactory. She will be pleased to receive the Ave Maria, to indicate the choice of subject if Hudson wishes to have another manuscript from her. "The Battle of Connemare" may be called a children's book, but it was written for mature readers; she wished to illustrate the contrast between the Catholic priest and the selfish Protestant person. She describes the novel. The 50 pounds she indicated as the price was based on an agreement made with Hudson's...

Scope and Contents She received both Hudson's notes by the same post, and asks him to throw the missing manuscript into the fire. She should have sent him the sketch of Mother Teresa Kelly ten days ago; the delay is caused by her having given it to a friend to copy. She is grateful to see that Hudson published her account of the miracle. One needs such consolations these days, especially in France where the devil seems to be having things his own way. There is despair at the city of Paris withdrawing all...

Scope and Contents She sends a manuscript on St. Terese entitled "One of God's Heroines". If the title is objectionable Hudson may change it to one more suitable to the subject therein. Refering to the remarkable mid-ocean adventures of Rev. Laurin, which serve to promote devotion to the Blessed Virgin by exposing the miraculous help obtained, effecting the rescuing of his ship, through invoking her assistance, she states that an account of this narrow escape written by Rev. Laurin would prove very...

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Miss O'Meara acknowledges the 15 £ received from Hudson. She would like Hudson to bring out the sketch of Mother Teresa before "The Battle of Connemara" as many Sisters of Mercy are waiting to see it. She is aware of the fact that arrangements may already be made. She asks Hudson to be remembered in his prayers. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 16 mo

Scope and Contents Miss O'Meara had hoped to send Hudson a souvenir from Pere Lacordaire for Easter but her friend, P. Chocarne, who promised it to her was called away to preach at Orleans and has not returned. She asks Hudson to have a few copies of "Cyril" struck off from the Ave Maria type before it is dispersed if it is possible. She wanted to have some copies printed in London but it was too expensive, and the printers told her that once the type was set it was a trifle. 3000 men have received...

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Miss O'Meara is sending manuscripts and hopes they will arrive for the New Year. She wonders whether her two last letters have reached Hudson. :: X-2-g A.Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara sends the remaining pages of the manuscript on P. Besson. She hopes he has received her package. :: X-2-g A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Miss O'Meara is sending the remainder of her manuscripts. Hudson should have received the other package by now. :: X-2-g A.Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents O'Meara submits a story entitled "Soeur Rosalie" which is 175 pages in length. The price according to the agreement would be forty pounds, but she will not hold Hudson to the agreement unless the Ave Maria is flourishing. She put Hudson's name down for prayers at Notre Dame des Victoires. O'Meara does not like to hear that Hudson is ill so frequently. The Church's canonization of St. Benedict Labre was a glorious stroke of opportunism. The anti-Christians are so sensible to it that they...

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O'Meara has been unable to obtain the relic of Miss Berneaux . The superior of the religious house here has asked O'Meara to make a digest of the Annals of the Propagation of Faith. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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O'Meara thanks Hudson for the almanac and the lecture on Henry W. Longfellow . The French Senate has voted God out of the Primary Schools and yesterday proclaimed France officially atheist. :: X-2-i A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara forwards with her letter a letter sent from Cracovie. It is a relief to learn that the notice of H. P. was not Hudson's. Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne advised cutting it down because there was something too sentimental in the style to suit English tastes. O'Meara has found that "Journée" was translated by an Anglican Sisterhood. She has begun to collect material for St. Roselie. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents O'Meara submits a translation of a legend about Henri Perreyne . "Pere Besson" is getting on and she will send Hudson the first part in time to begin publication in January. She inquires if Hudson would help her publish Perreyne's "Journee des Malades". Catholic publishers in London to whom she submited a translation of Perreyne's work together with a sketch of his life told her that they can do nothing with Catholic books and Washbourne says he means to up the business altogether....

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O'Meara fears that Hudson did not receive her letter of September 29th in which she enclosed an editorial in answer to Hudson's question about P. Besson . She would be grateful to Hudson if he pushed her sketch. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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O'Meara sends Hudson the first part of her article "Soeur Rosalie". She has inscribed Hudson for prayers at the Notre Dame des Victoires. :: X-2-h A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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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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O'Meara sends pictures of Soeur Rosalie. There are no photographs of the other one that Hudson requested. She has been unable to learn if the letters have been translated, but once it is done she will forward the translation. :: X-2-j A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara submits an article for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents She hopes that the portraits of P. Lacordaire and the letters reached Hudson intact. She forgot to include the bill but there is no hurry. She hopes Hudson's health is improved. She commands Hudson to Out Lady of Notre Dame des Victoires. They are in the slough of atheism there and the spirit of hate is already being felt in the air. Nature seems to resent the revolt and impiety of the nation; the rivers are overflowing in every direction. If the Seine rises 50 centimeters higher Paris...

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O'Meara is glad she carried out Hudson's commission satisfactorily. If the Expulsion Law is passed it may cause a Revolution. There is feeling favoring the Bonapartes, and the country is tired of persecution. The people will accept any ruler who promises to do better than the Republic. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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O'Meara is pleased to have the money from Hudson as it is sorely needed. She hopes that Hudson is more careful with his health than he is with his money. O'Meara calls Hudson's attention to her article in the April number of the Philadelphia Quarterly on the Church and Revolution. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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O'Meara thanks Hudson for the copy of "Lepers of Molokai". France and England are experiencing bad times. :: X-3-b A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara hopes that Hudson is getting better. E. de Marie told O'Meara that she wrote a letter to Hudson recently. :: X-2-o A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara would like to hear from Hudson to see how he is getting along. :: X-3-a A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.