Scope and Contents Dorsey informs Hudson that she is moving and gives a lengthy description of her new home. She promises to send a story by December first and asks for an advance. Dorsey wrote to Maurice Francis Egan, but has not heard from him because he probably never received the letter due to an incorrect address. A personal interview with Mrs. Madeleine Dahlgren will be satisfactory and Dorsey thinks Mrs. William Sherman would help Hudson in the object in view. Dahlgren and Sherman are not on terms...

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Dorsey sends more of her manuscript. Her granddaughter, Lee Mohun, will remain at St. Mary's during the spring vacation. Dorsey thanks Hudson for sending her Frances Howe's tribute to her sister's memory. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Enclosed are two chapters of "Ada's Trust". Two more chapters will arrive by Monday, so Hudson should have enough copy ahead. Dorsey thanks Hudson for the $14, which was a surprise since she expected "Butterworks" to go toward repaying the $30 advanced sometime ago. Dorsey asks Hudson to advance her an additional $150 on her new story, which will not exceed four months in length. At the present, Dorsey is in a difficult financial situation and needs the money. Dorsey has been reading a...

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends another chapter. She asks for a list of Catholic publishers in the West. Dorsey wants to send the Notre Dame library a government copy of the trail of Charles J. Guiteau as a reference for law students and as a curio of the nineteenth century. The trial is a disgrace and the law daily insulted. If the jury hangs Guiteau, it will be from a sense of justice, rather than from any enlightenment of counsel or court. There should be no doubt as to the punishment due the murderer...

Scope and Contents Father James Doonan, S.J., visited Dorsey yesterday, he said he was pleased to hear that Hudson was coming to Washington. Doonan is Vice-President of Georgetown College and now is acting President during the absence of Father Patrick F. Healy, who is suffering ill health. If Hudson cannot stay with the Dorseys he can live at Georgetown. Dorsey thought that William Sadlier Company is defrauding her. Her contract was in New York and she neither has seen it for two years, nor could she get...

Scope and Contents Dorsey is disappointed for she felt Hudson's silence meant he was coming to visit her. She supposes Father-General Edward Sorin 's trip to New York and Europe changed Hudson's plans. Clare Mohun, her daughter, is confined to bed by illness. She received the Scholastic and thinks it a credit to the University of Notre Dame. Dorsey thanks Hudson for sending the Ave Maria to her granddaughter, Lee Mohun . The story is almost finished and she will send it to Hudson shortly. :: X-2-i A.L.S....

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Dorsey sends more manuscript. She hopes the proof readers will make no more mistakes with her material. Her story is finished but the nervous strain has caused a heart attack. Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren visited Dorsey after a winter of illness. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Dorsey is grieved over receiving a bill from Sadlier's for three dollars. Her daughter Angie has lost her job in the Navy Department. James G. Blaine a personal friends of the family, has been unable to arrange for a new job. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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 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.

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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.

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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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 The manuscript has been sent. Dorsey is disappointed that Hudson cannot leave Notre Dame and come East for a visit. She has been suffering considerably from heart trouble. Looking through her papers she found a poem by Father Charles Constantine, S.J., which she thinks has not been printed and so sends it for the Scholastic. Dorsey requests that Hudson send her the address of Lady Georgiana Fullerton . Father James Doonan celebrated Mass for the Dorsey family this morning. :: X-2-i...

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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.

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Dorsey thanks Hudson for the check. She congratulates Hudson on pruning off the pious minded, but indifferent poets from the Ave Maria's list of contributors. The article "Queen by Divine Right" is charming. Would it be possible to get a photo of Mother Rosalie . Dorsey's two sick daughters, Clair Mohun and Angie Dorsey, are not recovering. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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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 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 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...