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Dorsey is happy to have completed his story "Ada's Trust" and hopes Hudson will accept the results of her unsuccessful efforts to condense it. She sends a statement of accounts concerning articles she has written for the Ave Maria, which show a balance of $64 in her favor. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey expects a reply to the business part of her last letter. President Chester A. Arthur is recovering from his illness. :: X-2-j A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Dorsey is sorry to hear that Hudson is ill and urges him to take a trip for a change of climate. She would feel proud of her work if she were not paid for it. A poem is enclosed. Dorsey makes some critical remarks about a work of Ruskin. She received the check Hudson sent and requests number thirty-five of the Ave Maria. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey is rather perturbed by the way Sadlier is making returns on the sale of her books. She received a letter from them stating she is the first person ever to question their word. An earthquake shook the residential section around the Dorsey house. Father Kelly, S.J., in bed when the shock occurred, thought of running into the street, but concluded that the bed would be the best place to be if the house fell in. She complains that Catholic literature has long neglected to appreciate...

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Dorsey's daughter, Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey is disappointed because she had to postpone her trip to Notre Dame because of her lame foot. Nellie was anxious to write an article on the lace industry introduced by Mother Angela at St. Mary's. Dorsey thanks Professor Joseph Lyons for the Scholastic Annual. She always had a sneaking faith in Astrology and relates several incidents to confirm her point. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey received Hudson's letter with notes about the lace making. She understood from Miss Febiger that making lace was a conspicuous industry at St. Mary's. Nellie's Ella Loraine Dorsey foot is much better. Dr. Pratt of Chicago must be a first class surgeon. Dorsey sends Part III of "The Story of a Child". She will send "Little Gladys" in about two weeks. Dorsey will write the juvenile and squeeze it into as small a space as possible. :: X-2-k A.L. Incomplete 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The two "Sketches from Life" and "Little Gladys", will serve as two short stories. Congress has passed the Civil Service Bill. Dorsey thinks this will mean the dismissal of many government employees. She protests against the immoral literature which attacks morality and religion that is flooding the country. Father Isaac Hecker invited her through Bishop John J. Keane to write some articles for the Catholic World, but she feels she cannot write for the Catholic World and the Ave Maria....

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends her story "Little Gladys" and the suggestion that the title of the three sketches she previously sent be changed. "Little Gladys" is a real life story about people Dorsey knew. Nugent Robinson 's story "Father Tom" is delightful. Dorsey read Miss Brownson 's life of Father Demetrius Gallitzin and did not like it. While visiting the death place of Gallitzin, Father Reynolds gave her a book of French hymns which belonged to Gallitzin. Dorsey escaped a reception prepared for...

Scope and Contents Dorsey encloses a pamphlet on the physical and immediate cause of Christ's death. It was written by an eminent Protestant physician of Yonkers, New York. Enclosed is a rare photograph of the original painting by G. Max, a maestro of the modern school. She has permission to send them to Hudson that he might examine them for a week. They give an idea of what Christ suffered before his death. Dorsey is of the opinion that Christ suffered more in the Garden of Gethsemane than he did on...

Scope and Contents Dorsey asks for $100 if the sum Hudson owes her so that she can pay the note from the bank. She knows that Mr. Kenedy has her book, "May Brooke". Dorsey wrote to him about it over a year ago, and told him she thought of publishing a uniform edition of her stories. Kenedy replied, he had bought copyrights from Kirchber, Dunigan's successor and he warned Dorsey not to interfere. Bishop John Joseph Keane paid the Dorseys a visit before departing for the Holy Land with Father Mackin . Keane...

Scope and Contents Dorsey's heart trouble is aggravated. She discusses two stories she sent Hudson. She asks Hudson for information concerning various scapulars Hudson sent her. Did Hudson get Dr. Pooley 's little work copied? She thinks, Bishop John Ambrose Watterson, who is going to deliver an address at the close of the University's scholastic year, is a fine orator. She was delighted to hear the cause of Father-General Edward Sorin 's errand to Europe. Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey 's ankle gives her...

Scope and Contents Dorsey has applied for a pension for her son's service during the Civil War. She has been experiencing difficulty in furnishing evidence that her son died as the result of a disease contracted in the field. The pension will average $120 per annum, and about $2000 in arrears. Dorsey sends Hudson copy and intends to complete three more chapters. The Jesuits are delighted about Father Pye James P. Neale, S.J. Father H. C. Denny visited Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey to tell her that it was...

Scope and Contents Dorsey encloses a postal from Patrick J. Kenedy the New York Publisher as a specimen of what may be expected if Dorsey made a stand about her books. Dunigan died, after having failed years ago, and Kircher his successor carried on the business. Kenedy bought the stereotype plates he says, but Dorsey will not notice his communication. Dorsey is afraid she will get to hate the Irish, most of her Shylocks have been Yankeeized Irishmen, more Yankee that the Yankees themselves. :: X-2-h...

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Dorsey relates a dream she had about Pope Leo XIII. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The heat at the present time is 104 degrees in the shade. Angie Dorsey is ill again, but Nellie's Ella Lorraine Dorsey ankle has healed. She went on a trip to Montreal, Quebec and Niagara and will probably write an article about the trip. The President of Toronto College spoke highly of Mrs. Dorsey, Nellie says. Mrs. Dorsey calls Hudson's attention to an article in the "Atlantic Monthly" by Brooke Herford entitled "The Trust worthiness of Early Tradition" uses the old argument of the...

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Dorsey's heart is giving her discomfort. She had an eminent physican, Dr. Lincoln, make an examination of it and he concluded that her trouble was functional. Angie Dorsey has been in bed five weeks. Father James Doohan is charitable enough to be their chaplain and said Mass for them. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 10pp. 12mo.

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Yesterday Dorsey was thinking of Louise Lateau, wondering if she were living or dead. The Ave Maria answers her. In a letter she wrote this morning Dorsey told Hudson about the facsimile of the Virgin's wedding ring. By coincidence there is an article on this in the Ave Maria. :: X-2-l A. L. Incomplete 1p. 32mo.

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Dorsey is greatly distressed and tells Hudson of her troubles. Her daughter Angela is ill again. Anna Smith has given her large home to the Order of Good Shepard. The Washington Sunday Herald contains a criticism of Madelein Dalgren 's book. It seems that the book is utterly misrepresented. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey concurs in the writer's opinion about Catholic magazines. Healthy reading combining amusement as well as information and a Catholic spirit without what Bishop John Joseph Keane calls sentimental piety is what a person in the Church needs. When Dorsey published her second story after becoming a Catholic, Orestes Brownson criticized it as being a Catholic outline filled up with Protestant commonplace writing. Dorsey sent the review to Father Louis R. Deluol, Superior of St. Mary's...

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Dorsey has recovered from her illness and sends a chapter of her latest story. She sends a poem by Teable S. Wallis :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Dorsey relates the incident of Congressman Hurd 's refusal of an invitation to dinner at the White House during Lent. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey sends chapter VIII which brings part One of her story to close. She criticizes the proof reading of her stories in the Ave Maria. Who is Sister Magdalene McDonnell and what is her nationality and her ideas about America? She objects to Hudson's sending her letters to McDonnell and wants him to burn them after reading them. Bishop John Keane visited her and complimented her on working in spite of her illness. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey sends her old volume of poems. She will send within the next ten days two or three chapters. Nellie Dorsey was invited to the diplomatic reception at the President's today. She writes under the initials E.L.D. in the Chicago Tribune. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey writes about her daughter's trip to Notre Dame. Father-General Edward Sorin charmed Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey . She feels that God has blessed Sorin by prolonging his life so that he may look upon the fruits of his labors. Nellie brought Dorsey a picture of Sorin. Dorsey is pleased with the proposed edition of her book, Patrick O'Shea said Sorin gave him permission to publish Coaena, the Flemmings and the Old Gray Rosary. Angie Dorsey is in bed all the time. :: X-2-n A.L.S....

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Dorsey discusses the conclusion of her story, "The Old House at Glenaran". Brother Stanislaus has visited Dorsey twice. Dorsey was amused as well as provoked by Father Pye's James Neale, S.J. letter. Dorsey inquires if Hudson read the story about Miss Lea ; for if he had she feels certain he would not reprint it. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey sends the finis of the story. It is a story of Catholic home life. After finishing a story in the Ave Maria called the "Wasp" one of the fiends bit her index finger. :: X-2-n A.L. Cut 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey acknowledges the receipt of the checks. She believes the Republican candidate, James G. Blaine 's defeat was caused by Blaine's spending too much time in Ohio, the remark of the Protestant clergymen before Blaine, of "Rum, Romanism and Rebels", which Blaine failed to denounce thus losing the Irish vote, and the dinner he attended at Delmonico's given by the millionaire monopolists. Dorsey could forgive Grover Cleveland for being a Democrat, but having a president who hanged...

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Dorsey sends two more chapters. Angie Eastman has been very ill. Nellie Ella Loraine Dorsey has been transferred to the Patent Office. Would is not be a good idea to publish some of the Ave Maria tales in paper bindings? :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends a list of her contributions for the Ave Maria. She does this in the hope of getting a check. Doubtless, Hudson received Nellie's Ella Lorraine Dorsey letter written from Boston, after her trip to Halifax. Nellie did not see the Noonan Brothers, which made Dorsey glad to be rid of them, because they are Irish and she has lost faith in Irish Catholic publishers, who out Yankee, the Yankees. Nellie's interview with Mr. Osgood was satisfactory. He has no prejudice as to...

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Dorsey sends part of her latest story. The orders for the uniform edition continue to come in and she thinks that by autumn there will be enough to pay expenses for publishing. Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard has written well of the Holy Land and not at the expense of poetry or piety. She hopes that Stoddard's "Scrip and Staff" will get into book form. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.