Scope and Contents Dorsey is grateful to Maurice Francis Egan for writing the sketch "The Tenant of Gable End", but she is disturbed about the inaccuracies in the article. She has always written while under stress and feels she has missed her aim. Her best works, she feels, have been done for the Ave Maria. Except for one story, "Father Clement" by Father Charles Pise, S.J., Dorsey's stories were the first Catholic stories by an American writer. She was windowed in 1861, when her daughter, Nellie Ella...

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends the third chapter of "Palms". She discusses the plot and background of her story. Dorsey sends for Hudson's perusal a letter received from the Sisters of Charity at Donaldsonville, Louisiana. She asks Hudson to correct their mistaken belief that her serial stories in the Ave Maria, with a few exceptions do not appear in book form. Dorsey is glad to see a beginning of war reminiscences of a Catholic type in the Ave Maria. Its readers might be interested to know the...

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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.

Scope and Contents Dorsey thanks Hudson for the two drafts. The writing on the outside of the books assures Dorsey that Hudson is in good health. A copy of the "Mad Penitent" is requested when it comes out. Dorsey plans to use these stories for a series. They are having an anxious time as to what the administration will do after July 1st; most people believe the Civil Service Law will prove a rope of sand to them. Although they wish it set aside, they respect it in so far as it applies to the classes of...

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Dorsey sends part of a manuscript. She wrote a letter to Archbishop James Gibbons asking for a letter of introduction to some one in Rome for her grandson, Dorsey Mohun, whose ship is to winter at Naples. Dorsey's letter arrived at the time Father Denis Joseph O'Connell, rector of the North American College in Rome was visiting Gibbons, who referred her letter to O'Connell. O'Connell promised to take Mohun under his wing. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents After reading Hudson's letter Dorsey wondered if something she had said about Christian Reid had betrayed jealousy of her success. This was not intended. Dorsey's role as a story writer is unassailable. Yet she has found that theological arguments introduced into her stories prevent success. The clergy do not approve of it. Reid's story now in progress is clever. Dorsey is sorry to see anything of bitterness and condemnation against "our separated brethren" as Bishop John England termed...

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Dorsey sends Hudson a copy of the Washington Post, calling attention to the oration of the Honorable John Daniels of Lynchburg, Virginia. It was delivered at the dedication of the Washington Monument and Dorsey thinks it would be a good article to reprint in the Scholastic. There are already thousands of people in Washington for the inauguration of President Grover Cleveland . :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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She sends the account of the Pope's chalice. There is something she cannot make out. She has cut it from Louie 's letter. Mrs. B was in correspondence with several cardinals. Her son is a lieutenant bearing his grandfather's name of Aaron Ward. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey forwarded a manuscript last week. She asks Hudson to forward her some money on her articles that have been published, a check for $100 would square accounts. Her daughter Clare Mohun is still confined to bed. Miss Febiger leaves tomorrow for Circleville Ohio to visit her aunt Mrs. William Anderson and Mrs. Ketchum, who plan to visit Mother Angela Gillespie . Dorsey was pleased with the sketch of the Champion of the Church, Ludwig Windthorst. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey and her family have been very ill. The warm sultry weather has produced a dread of the mysterious epidemic of grippe that prevails in a large part of the world, which is proving fatal in hundreds of cases. Louis Mohun's operation was a success. Charles Warren Stoddard was invited to their home but he has not come yet. Regarding the question asked about a writer named Janvier in the Ave Maria, Dorsey had a friendly acquaintance with some of the family, one especially, Francis De...

Scope and Contents Dorsey sticks her Swedish coat of arms on her stationery. She sends a copy of her story "Palms" to be bound, for Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C. She thanks Hudson for sending The Month, which contained reviews of her book. Dorsey does not consider "The Student of Blenheim" one of her best works; it was written 40 years ago, her first Catholic story after her conversion. Her granddaughter Lee Mohun will receive the Dominican habit at St. Mary's next month. Louie is in Colorado. He got lost...

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends a bill from the A.J. Cox Company for binding "Palms". She inquires if it is correct and if they returned the plates. Hudson's eye trouble distresses Dorsey. She was pleased to see the compliment paid Father-General Edward Sorin, C.S.C. by the French government. But she thinks it strange because of that government's anti-clerical program. Did Hudson read a report in the Fortnightly Review a few weeks ago by Reverend Taylor on the failure of the Protestant foreign missions?...

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Dorsey sent Hudson a check in August and has not received a notice that he got it which makes her think that Hudson is ill. Her own prolonged life is a conundrum. Dorsey inquires how she can get a letter to Father Clarke, editor of the Month, so that she may learn the facts concerning Franz Liszt's eyes having been cured at Lourdes shortly after miracles began occurring. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey received Father Edward Sorin's letter with the pressed flowers from the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem together with the news that Sorin would be in Washington this summer. She acknowledges receipt of the bound copy of "Palms". Kathleen O'Meara's death is a loss to the Catholic world. Her novel "Beatrice" is a delightful Catholic reading. Canon Taylor's outbreak about the failure of Protestant missions has caused a sensation. The negro convention is over. The sight of a negro priest...

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As to Mrs. Madelein Vinton Dahlgren 's contribution to the Dome, it may come. Dorsey sends an article on Abbe Huc's book of travels. She will not be able to send part of the new story until the middle of January. Archbishop James Gibbons has permitted Father James Doonan, S.J., vice-president of Georgetown College to celebrate Mass at her home because of Angie 's illness. Dahlgren sent Dorsey her new work "South Sea Sketches" which is entertaining. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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....

Scope and Contents Dorsey acknowledges receipt of the advertisement of her book and says she is disappointed that the press notices were left out. They would not only advance her pecuniary interests, but would repair the mistakes and injustice which have hampered her literary carrer. Lady Georgiana Fullerton might have written her patronizing lines to encourage a beginner, but they were not intended as a notice of Dorsey's books. They were taken from a private letter to her by Nellie, Ella Lorraine...

Scope and Contents Dorsey was delighted with Hudson's notice of "Crasset". "Palms" will be the death of her, for on opening a copy of the new edition, which Frank Murphy sent out she found the dedication omitted. Dorsey agrees with the person Hudson mentioned that there are but six real writers in this country. There is not a lady writer in America, who can compare with the best women writers in England. As for male writers, many are called, but few are chosen. As for Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel...

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents The letter Hudson sent told of the conversion of a bigoted young lady through the influence of Dorsey's book "The Student of Blenheim Forest." Bishop John Joseph Keane and Charles Warren Stoddard dined with them Wednesday evening. Dorsey is very much attracted by Stoddard. "Tom Boy" and "Two Ways" will be issued in the spring in one volume. Dorsey has taken out a copyright on "The Flemmings," the story Patrick O'Shea stole from her. and will bring out an author's corrected edition. A.R....

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Dorsey discusses errors made by the proofreader with her story. She sends the beginning of another chapter. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey requests a check for the amount due her. She is pleased to learn that Father-General has read her story, "Palms". Eliza Allen Starr sent 120 names. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey did not realize "Palms" would be so long and thinks that Christian Reid's story would compensate for discontinuing her story. Dorsey praises Hudson for raising the Ave Maria to its present high standard. She is happy to hear good reports about her grandson Louis Mohun, who is attending Notre Dame. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey sends some manuscripts. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.