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.

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...

Scope and Contents When her stories were being collected for the uniform edition, she objected to Nellie's Ella Lorraine Dorsey insistence that "The Heiress of Carrigmona" be included because some chapters were missing. They learned from Patrick Donahoe for whose paper she wrote the story around 1850, that all files of the Pilot were saved from the Boston fire of 1872, that ruined Donahoe. John Boyle O'Reilly, the present editor of the Pilot gave her permission to copy the parts of the story she lacked,...

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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...

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...

Scope and Contents Dorsey was pained by the news of Hudson's illness and inquires if he can not be spared for a month from the Ave Maria, during which time he should take a vacation. If the Ave Maria goes out of Hudson's hands it would decline to its old status of goody and dull. Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey remarked that if Hudson retires she will never write another line for it. Her doctor thinks her heart is in a precarious state. Dorsey received John Murphy's statement with only $148 and charges for...

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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.

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Dorsey informs Hudson that her daughter Clare is sending her son, Louis, to Notre Dame. They hope Louis will find a vocation for the priesthood while there. Madame Yturbide, her cousin, now lives in Mexico City. Emperor Maximillian inveigled her into allowing her son to live with him and then forbade communication between them for he planned to adopt the boy as heir to the throne. Dorsey's dautghter, Nellie Ella Lorraine, is better. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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The sheets will be sent as soon as possible. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Dorsey enumerates the errors made by the printers in publishing her story. She is pleased to learn that the powers at Notre Dame recognize Hudson has enough to do as editor of the Ave Maria. The news that her grandson is seriously ill in the infirmary is upsetting. Has Hudson seen Abbe Roux's book? :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey will send the manuscript of her latest story. She thanks Hudson for his prompt attention to her needs. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Dorsey sends an installment of her story. Tichner declines undertaking the publication of Dorsey's work and she would rather have the book published by the Ave Maria Press. Isn't the revolution between capital and labor alarming? :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey wishes to enlist Hudson's aid for her grandson, Louis Mohun, who is to spend the next two years at Notre Dame. When he was at that age which requires home influence to urge on a boy's studies, his father died, followed by extreme illness of his mother for two years. Father J.A. Doonan, S.J., a friend of his parents, invited him to Georgetown College of which he was just elected President. It was unfortunate for Louis, who was put to studying Latin and Greek, although only...

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Dorsey sends a correction of an error she made in her story "Palms". She discusses the plot of this story. Brother Stanislaus Michael Kurowski called on the Dorseys. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey sends the manuscript. She cannot understand the error she made about Pompeii in her story "Palms". Dorsey is glad to hear that Hudson liked the photograph. She was delighted to see her autograph in the Ave Maria. Her daughter, Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey has been ill. Father James Mackin, a sailor priest, visited Dorsey and has since gone to Rome with Bishop John J. Keane :: X-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.