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.

Scope and Contents Dorsey recommends means of preventing the recurring illness that Hudson has suffered. Phil and Edyth received the books Hudson sent and thank him for them. Dorsey has attempted to get her book "Tangled Paths" out of the hands of Sadlier, but in vain. She hopes to make some arrangement with Lippincott for "Nora Brady's Vow". Dorsey is writing two short stories; one is about the time of Aurelian, concerning the martyrdom of a child who had been cured of blindness. Dorsey grieves over the...

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Dorsey is pleased to learn that Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C. likes "Palms". When it is published in book form, she will dedicate "Palms" to Sorin. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey submits another installment of her story "Palms". Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey has received a promotion in her job with the Federal government. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey returns the corrected article "Mad Penitent of Todi". She corrected her error of placing Sodom and Gomorra at the bottom of the Dead Sea. De Salsy found the ruins of these two cities near the west border of the Dead Sea. Nellie Ella Loraine Dorsey showed Mrs. Dorsey proofs of an article relating to Commodore Kilty which surprised her. In 1862, Mother Angela Gillespie related the incident to Mrs. Dorsey and she wrote the story for a city newspaper. In it Mother Angela appears as...

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Dorsey hopes the concluding chapter of her story will not seem too dramatic. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12 mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey thanks Hudson for the kind words about her story "Palms". She appreciates receiving the letter in which the writer speaks of Bishop Ryan's praise of her story "Palms". Dorsey inquires if the writer means the Archbishop of Philadelphia, or the Bishop of Buffalo, because Bishop Stephen Michael Ryan of Buffalo sent her a letter of encouragement and an order for three sets of her books. She praises the Ave Maria and thinks that no changes should be made in it. They were pleased by...

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends notes on the early Italians. Dorsey knows as well as Maurice Francis Egan that Italy had no standard language in 253 to 260. Bishop John Joseph Keane thought the criticism contained in Hudson's letter hypercriticism. Dorsey is indifferent to the criticism of Egan because she does not consider him an authority. Her unfortunate story will soon end. Dorsey is making her last appearance on the stage of literature. She ran the first furrow in the field of American Catholic light...

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Dorsey asks Hudson to make a settlement of her account. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Dorsey thanks Hudson for the two checks. She relates some of her reflections which she had while writing "Palms". Since Frank Murphy is publishing the edition of Dorsey's stories she wants the prospectus that Ella Lorraine Dorsey wrote and circulated altered. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey returns the checks that Hudson sent her, because they are not properly endorsed and she asks that this error be corrected. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Dorsey thanks Hudson for the bound copy of the Ave Maria. Separating her story "Palms" from her numbers of the Ave Maria causes her to grieve because much interesting reading is mutilated. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey sends a draft for $120.90 half of the royalty paid by the publisher on sales of the uniform edition of her books. In securing "Zoe's Daughter" for the series she will pay Patrick Donohoe $100, half of which he paid Dorsey for the story before the great Post Office fire; and since they share the profits of the edition, she supposes Hudson will be willing to pay one half the cost of the purchase of "Zoe's Daughter". :: X-3-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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...

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Dorsey thanks Hduson for the $18 he sent her. She realizes Hudson's health is not strong, but begs him not to separate himself from the Ave Maria, for if he does she fears it will return to its old status. Hudson should insist on having an assistant. She has completed "Palms" as well as the story for girls. Dorsey inquires, who wrote "A Troubled Heart"? Hudson has failed to send a copy of Francis Macary. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo.

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...

Scope and Contents When Dorsey wrote that her stories were short she meant they were not serials, for she does not consider a story long even though it extends through three or four months. She finds that leading Catholic magazines in England and the United States continue to publish serials which keep the readers interest in both the story and magazine. Short stories are forgotten as soon as read and Dorsey feels she has no talents for writing them. Her object in writing a story is to illustrate what...

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends a part of her story "Palms". She is delighted that Christian Reid's Frances Tiernan new story will counterbalance the gravity of hers. Dorsey is in need and asks Hudson for an advance on her story. The article in the Ave Maria stating that letters of the Earl of Shrewsbury relating to the death of Mary Stuart had been found greatly interests Dorsey. She enjoyed Charles Warren Stoddard 's sketch of his search for Joachim Miller in Rome. There is excitement about the new...

Scope and Contents Dorsey thanks Hudson for the $100 check and the book entitled "Mad Penitent of Todi". She got the "Story of Jacopone" from "The Life of Frederick Ozanam" by Kathleen O'Meara . What are Hudson's doubts about "Palms"? Dorsey prizes the poem addressed to her by a Portuguese friend and regrets that it was not printed in the Ave Maria because the person probably saw Eliza Allen Starr and Eleanor Donnelly complimented by poetic tributes in the Ave Maria. Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey received...

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Dorsey is pleased that Hudson likes "Palms". Monsigneur Robert Seton has commented favorably on it. The article in the Catholic Annual on Chancellor Seton from whom he is descended in the male line and written by him brings out his interest in genealogical studies. She is sending Hudson her photograph. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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The check reached Dorsey promptly and was more generous than she had hoped. :: X-3-b A.L. Incomplete 1p. 12mo.

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The printer should not substitute his words for Dorsey's for by doing so he changes the meaning of her work. she gives examples of his meddling. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Two more pages of manuscript will finish the chapter. Dorsey hopes Hudson is doing fine. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Dorsey has been ill but will send her critical remarks tomorrow. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Dorsey ill, delayed sending manuscript until tomorrow's mail. The story approaches conclusion. Letter from Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey tells Dorsey that Noonans like the rest of Catholic Irish publishers are a peddling mercenary set of men, who are sharp on the main chance, without caring a dot for the authors on whose brain work they prosper. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.