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He sends a sonnet to the Ave Maria with the request that the payment for the poem, or the poem itself if it is not used, be sent to his Philadelphia, Pennsylvania address. He did not mean to imply that his anonymously published book was objectionable but that it simply professed a negative attitude toward the Church. He admits that a Catholic should not follow this policy but then it is the only type of prose which he is capable of composing. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Egan will send a Christmas story entitled "The Packet With the Anchor Seal". He saw Doctor John Gilmary Shea and gave him a blast about the sketch, Which he will let him have. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Egan informs Hudson that "The Packet With the Anchor Seal" has been a success. He has received congratulations from the most unexpected quarters. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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He sends a review and if Hudson doesn't like it he should return it and Egan will do it over as he is at Hudson's service. :: X-2-e A.L.S. Initial 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents He has arranged about the binding of the book. If Cunningham keeps him promise Hudson will be very pleased. Cunningham said the money had to be paid upon delivery of the books at Notre Dame. The Catholic papers will give the book good selling aid. They ought to sell four editions. Further editions could be printed at Notre Dame as the cost then would only be the paper. He gives an example of the title page for Hudson's approval. He will write a preface and a dedication. The book will be...

Scope and Contents He acknowledges Hudson's letter. His wife sends her best wishes for the New Year. Robinson asked Egan to propose a story to Hudson. It will be a serial in twelve numbers. Price will be $4 a page if Hudson will give him the right of republication; $5 if Hudson wants the right. He will write three installments in advance and would like Hudson to publish 6 pages in an issue and pay him weekly. Egan has heard golden opinions of the Ave Maria in Philadelphia and expects Hudson to have a list...

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He asks Hudson to send a copy of the Ave. He will get even with Noonan by taking a lot of Lady Georgiana Fullerton's stories without indicating they are from his book. If Hudson has a little medal, his wife would be pleased to receive it. Merry Christmas! :: X-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Egan has given the cut to the firm which does the work of The Century Company. Mr. Gill is editor of the Catholic World. He was Egan's candidate and won. Egan asks Hudson for a picturesque account of Notre Dame, which he can submit to the editor of The Manhattan, who will publish an article on Notre Dame. He sends a story entitled "The Rosebud", which has the style that young women who are in the habit of reading modern novels desire. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He has received the photograph Hudson sent to him. Hudson looks like the ideal he had in his mind and he resembles Hamlet, a Hamlet who has discarded the philosophies learned at Gattengen and became ecclesiastical. Several readers of the Ave Maria have made pilgrimmages to his sanctum to see the picture. Egan will talk to more Ave Maria admirers Sunday. He sends Hudson his own picture which flatters him as it gives him too much flesh. Egan informs Hudson that "Preludes" is to be...

Scope and Contents He wrote to Purcell in August telling of the great changes that were taking place in the Mt. St. Mary's since the elevation of Father Jean Dubois to the episcopate of New York. As sole proprietor he is reasonable personally for its debts and cannot leave without finding someone to releive him of them. He first approached the Sulpicians in Baltimore to take back the institution but they would have to get the permission of the General in Rome that the delay would be too much. Brute adds...

Scope and Contents Egan writes Purcell in the beginning of February by the packet ship Bonasse. He enclosed a bill of exchange on a London house for $200. Father Simon Gabriel Brute sent a duplicate of the bill to Mr. Legro at Havre. They have heard nothing from them. They are pleased at the news of his coming in May. He quotes a letter of Archbishop Ambrose Marechal a passage concerning Purcell about completing his year of retreat with Father Mollevaux. The Archbishop said that he had no objection if...

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Egan asks McMaster if he will send a copy of Miss Starr's ? book mentioned in his paper on Pilgrims and Shrines. He wishes to present it to a party on the 15th. Note: The book was sent by American Exchange Company. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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The Archbishop Martin John Spalding of Baltimore subscribed to the Journal yesterday and sent word to McMaster that he is pleased with the paper. The Pope's Jubilee is June 17th, according to a Roman Manual that the Archbishop brought back from Rome. The Catholic demonstration was a great affair. Telegrams were sent to the Holy Father and they propose celebrating his Jubilee. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Egan encloses a clipping giving the details of the wedding of the eldest daughter of McMaster's friend, Mr. H. McCollum. He also sends a clipping himself written by the editor of the Lockport Journal. Egan feels that McCollum's notice should be enclosed in the next issue of the Freeman's Journal. P. S. He also sends a gift of $1.00 from Rev. J. Lanigan of Buffalo, N. Y. for the Papal Fund, and encloses a check from himself for $100.00, for McMaster's. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Egan, writing from the New York Catholic Agency, sends McMaster $5. as a donation to St. Michael's Society for the Indian Missions. This money is donated by Father James J. Moriarity of Chatham Village, New York. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12 mo

Scope and Contents He sends a report of new churches building in Washington written by William H. Dennis, a talented young writer, now attending Georgetown College. He was one of the founders of the Georgetown College Journal, writer on the Sunday Herald, editor of the Boy of the Period, all at 18 years of age. He would like to go on the pilgrimage if some newspaper would pay his expenses as correspondent. Should McMaster know of such a paper Egan would like to know. The boy's father was a Quaker, his...

Scope and Contents Egglemers was educated in the seminary of Haaren in Holland where he was born and raised. Five years ago at Bishop George Aloysius Carrell's request he came to Covington with a priest whom Lefevere sent to Egglemer's seminary to "collect" priests. For 8 months Bishop Carrell taught him English, when he took charge of the congregation and college, taught theology and scripture to 3 seminarians, to study divinity and to teach the boys. After 3 years Egglemers was moved to Lexington. Father...

Scope and Contents Father Edward Van Lauwe and he spoke about the Irish congregation. When Father Peter Kindekens was leaving he told Ehrenstrasser he had nothing to do with the Irish parish except say Mass there Sundays and attend the sick and that he need not hear Irish confessions. However, Ehrenstrasser has heard them, but few responded. He has difficulty when they speak too fast. Van Lauwe also told him he had no permission to hear Irish confessions, and that Kindekens had power to suspend him for doing...

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He asks Lefevere's advice in arranging matters with the Irish congregation which is divided into factions. Those who are regulating matters, although they have done much for the building of the school house, will not obey the priest, even in the matter of Mass services. He suggests renting pews by auction as has been done with success in the German church. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Yesterday James Phelan visited Ehrenstrasser who was greatly humiliated by this leader. By patience, he got Phelan to promise to send his children to the Catholic school. After that Phelan spoke about Mr. Brady in such a way that Ehrenstrasser was afraid. If Ehrenstrasser dismisses Brady, he will lose all authority and a great many good people, but in doing so, he could gain those leaders and their party and get more money to pay debts. He asks Lefevere for some instructions, as he is so...

Scope and Contents He sends an account of revenues and expenses of St. Joseph's Congregation, and an inventory of the church, house and school; also $6 as taxes for dispensation from three publications no enclosure. He asks faculties to absolve from an attempted marriage of a Mrs. Meier. He has Lefevere's letter concerning the cemetery. Father Joseph Kindekens refuses to give him the map and books of the cemetery since Kindekens has not been paid for all his expenses but would write Lefevere about it. Affairs...

Scope and Contents He sends the accounts of the two congregations of 80 families at Adrian for 1866. He lists debts and expenditures, and the sources of financial receipts, such as the young Ladies Society, the Boys Society, the St. Joseph's Society of Men for mutual help of the sick, and a church Building Society. He has a very good school of 104 children, superior in morality and learning to Union schools, where 3 or 4 families send their children out of stubborness; very few families fail to make their...

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Thinking that Lefevere might be out of town, Ehrenstrasser writes to Hennaert because of the urgency of his case. There is rumor among the Irish that their teacher, a married man, and another teacher an unmarried girl, have broken the Sixth Commandment in the schoolhouse where Mass is said every Sunday. If true, the place is polluted, and Mass may not be said there. He asks what he should do. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Ehrenstrasser asks how the purchase deed of church property should be made out. Two lots next to the priest's house have been bought for building a new church. When he came there was a debt of $1437 on it. There was $2300 in all in the fund; now it is $680. When the former owner got his money he asked how the deed should be made out. Ehrenstrasser told him "C. H. Borgess." He had made one out in this way for Hastings. However, he understands it should be: "C. H. Borgess, Bishop of Calydonia...

Scope and Contents Eicher has learned from Father Nagel, that St. Joseph parish is vacant and Father Edward Francis Vancampenhoudt has written him about this parish for 2 years but Eicher could not accept at that time because of missions. Eicher's relation with Bishop John Timon who is very old, is very happy but at the moment he has 4 parishes with one assistant and his health is too feeble to carry so large a burden. As to character witnesses, Father James Nagel, C.SS.R., Father Lucas Caveng, S.J., of St....

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Elder is grateful to Hudson for publishing the sermon. Mr. Springer's offer is good in so many respects that Elder thinks it is a service to religion. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Elder thanks Hudson for the bound volume of the Ave Maria. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Elder asks Hudson to publish some verses that had appeared previously. They were written by a niece of his, Theresa Elder? the sister of one who was killed at Waycross, Georgia by a railroad accident. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Elder thanks Hudson for the copies of the Ave Maria containing the poem "Vera Effigies". His niece Theresa Elder was encouraged by Hudson's publishing it. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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He asks if Brownson can send him a proof sheet. :: III-3-d Telegram