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Scope and Contents Henry never forgets his father's or mother's birthday. His letter found her ill and having to give up her work. She dismissed a German girl who could not speak English but has a good girl now. She is very glad to hear that Henry's wife's sight is improving. Henry's father Orestes A. Brownson has had some gout in his right hand which did not hinder his writing. He has several connections with the Catholic World. There were two telegraphic dispatches from the Paulists inviting him to dine with...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson received Henry's note yesterday. Henry's father has not returned from New York yet so she answers Henry for herself and Brownson in the affirmative and thanks Henry for the honor he did the Brownson in selecting them as sponsors. She gives her love to Fifine and wishes both Henry and Fifine every blessing. Henry's father went to N.Y. on Friday. He gave a lecture in Brooklyn Sunday evening. The "World" says there were 2000 people present. The Brownsons have been expecting Henry...

Scope and Contents The Brownsons have been looking for a line from Henry nearly two weeks, and are afraid something has gone wrong. Mrs. Brownson wonders if Fifine is worse or the children sick. Mrs. Brownson knows Henry must have a trial with so many women folks around. "Be patient in all things, the Lord is at hand", Mrs. Brownson believes St. Paul says. She hopes Henry arrived home safely and found Fifine improving. She sends her love to Fifine and wants to know how everyone does. She neglected to get the...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson acknowledges Henry's letter of Nov. 10, and would have answered if Brownson had not sent Henry a draft for $75 upon reading it. Brownson wrote on the 12th and would like to know if Henry has received the draft. Saily Brownson must be pretty. Her hair is so fine and dark. Mrs. Brownson is sorry she suffers from the cholic, but knows she will outgrow it and abundantly repay Henry for his care. Mrs. Brownson is happy to learn from Henry's letter of Nov. 13 that Fifine is pretty...

Scope and Contents Henry's letter of the 23rd was received yesterday. They are sorry to hear Henry is not retired. His father will write Gen. Sherman this week and she will try to have him keep his word. Brownson would have written before but he had an idea it would do no good. Dr. Hewit has been to Washington to get some office and he said Mrs. Sherman said Grant would not give any office to a Catholic. Grant was in Elizabeth N.J. a visit to his brother Corbit and went to the Methodist meeting but did not...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson is writing this letter to Henry on behalf of her husband who is dictating it. His recovery is very slow and the rheumatism is at present causing great pain in the right wrist, however, Mrs. Brownson's tender, faithful and vigilant care is largely responsible for his feeling better. Brownson is happy to hear that Henry is well again and sees no reason why he shouldn't preserve his health with ordinary care and prudence. The nomination of Seymour and Blair will, according to...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson is happy to hear that they are married and well settled in their own home. It was a relief for her to receive Henry's telegraph despatch the day after his marriage and she is anxious to learn the details of the wedding. She is sorry that none of their family were present at the wedding but is happy that Orestes Brownson did not go because he has been confined to his room for several days since with the gout. It seems somewhat doubtful as to whether he will take the journey to...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson received Henry's very welcome letter of March 1st and says she would have written him soon even had she not received his letter yesterday. She is just as well pleased when Henry writes his father as when Henry writes her, although she is delighted to hear from Henry herself. His father is very much pleased to her from him, and always tells her how he is. She is glad to her Henry's health is good and thinks that he is heavy enough now, 190 pounds being enough for any one. She...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson was very glad to hear Henry was relieved from duty at Fort Leavenworth. She wants a full account of all - Fifine's health and if the baby recognized Henry. She also wants to know if Henry recovered from his attack at Fort Leavenworth. Henry's father saw Philip Van Dyke at Fordham but did not learn as much about the family as if Van Dyke had kept his appointment to call. Henry's father Orestes A. Brownson 's health is as good as when Henry last saw him. Brownson has not written...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson is happy to learn from Henry's letter of the 18th that his family is well. She hopes he will be on the retired list soon and that he will visit them before long. Henry's father has not written because he thought Henry might be here, and on account of the hot weather. He is pretty well and has been writing some articles for the Tablet. He is going to have an article in the October issue on the Council that is to meet in Sept. The article in the last number of the Catholic World...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson thanks Henry for his congratulations upon her 67th birthday and is grateful she has been spared so long, although she regrets her life has been no better. She is glad Henry has left the Army and is pleasantly situated, and especially because Fifine is such a good wife. Henry's father's health is as usual. He returned from Boston pleased with his visit. Anna Brownson came back with him and stayed two or three weeks. Anna has much improved. Her father lives in Cambridge and his...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson received Henry's letter of the 4th and both she and Henry's father wish he could be retired. She thinks it would be a fine thing if he had two thirds or even one half of his present salary for the rest of his life and cautions him against resigning as Congress may do a little justice before it adjourns. She wrote to Fifine before she received Henry's letter. Henry's father wanted to write Fifine a long time ago but could not because he had a deal of writing to do and his hand...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson explains that she had left unanswered Henry's letter for so long because, her girl having left her, she was alone until she secured another. She was sorry to hear Henry was in Kansas so far. She hopes Henry will not be obliged to stay long from his family. Fifine will be happy to have her mother with her. Little Philip will not let Fifine be lonesome. Mrs. Brownson hopes Henry may be retired as he wishes. She is sure Henry has had moving enough for anyone. She believes Henry...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson writes to tell Henry that his father has gout in his right hand, which prevents him from writing Henry and Fifine. Otherwise his health is pretty good. He had engaged to lecture at the Paulist Institute the 1st of May but Sarah wrote he could not come. Father Joseph B. Bodfish came over today and persuaded Brownson to go since Bodfish will arrange the trip. Mrs. Brownson has been very anxious to hear from Fifine and would have written her had she not been so concerned with her...

Scope and Contents No doubt Henry would be surprised to hear that she is here among the mountains if his father had not told him. Sarah Brownson started the idea and Brownson joined her in it, so she was almost imperceptibly led to taking this journey. She is not sorry but will be glad when she is home. She and Sarah have been here two weeks and are boarding with a very agreeable widow lady. They have been to Ebensburg about 5 miles from here and visited the church although it is not large. She never saw one...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson received Henry's letter of the 13th yesterday and was much surprised that he had not heard from them lately. This is the tenth letter she has written him since he left home on March7. The last time she wrote she enclosed a letter for Henry by Edward Patrick Brownson. Orestes A. Brownson is lame but walked to church last Sunday. Edward received his commission as additional aide de camp to General Fremont with the rank of captain about the 6th and left home on the 11th. He...

Scope and Contents Sarah will be perfectly delighted to have Henry come, not only for the pleasure of seeing him, but because she shall have someone to rely upon. Orestes A. Brownson has given his consent before any arrangement was made, and yet has fought every inch of the way with her. She feels so utterly alone at this time that if Henry were to come he would be father, mother, brother and sister to her. The judge William J. Tenney told her to tell Henry that it is worth the journey to see how sweet and...

Scope and Contents Sarah is sorry about the delay in sending Henry's box. She told Orestes A. Brownson that Henry had put aside the books he wished and if Brownson had any more to send, he would have to put them in another box. Nothing is settled yet. Father Michael A. Corrigan has not answered Brownson's letter and so Brownson proposes to go to Orange tomorrow with Decker. Sarah would rather he would not, for fear Brownson will be too confiding to that detestable Lackman. The Benedictine nuns cannot give...

Scope and Contents Sarah received Henry's letter and the contract. She is much easier in mind now that she has that magic paper. She has had a little talk with Mr. Blumling and he says that if the sale is good he will give her still more, as he desires to forward her interest as well as his own. He cannot decide yet what the price of the book will be, as he has had all his printed in Germany until this one, and she supposes does not know how things cost here. It used to be cheaper to send a book to Germany to...

Scope and Contents Sarah has received Mr. George Van Dyke's subscription for the Review. The Review is an entire success. Brownson and Sarah are altogether opposed to any agents, as they ruined them financially before, but he compromised with Pustet so far as to have a very few. Their commision makes a very great difference even when they can be made to pay up, and from the letters they receive and what they hear, it is evident the Review cannot be helped off like any other periodical or book. It is not fun to...

Scope and Contents Sarah has been on the point of writing Henry and acknowledging Mr. Caluon's ? subscription a dozen times. Mr. McTerney, tailor, has also sent a Detroit subscription. The Review does very well. The papers have not done talking about it yet, and the letters still come in praising. The Nun of Kenmare scolded like O'Connell's fishwoman in a letter to Brownson. She goes at him as only an Irishman and a nun can. But personally she says it is nothing to her what he says, it is only out of regard...

Scope and Contents Sarah was very glad to have a letter from Henry and hear that he is getting on so well. She thinks to have a house of one's own is about the height of human happiness. Sarah was very gratified at Henry's big order for Life of Gallitzin. She straightened out the sentences as well as she could without taking the whole thing to pieces for the second edition. She had such a quantity of things to say, and such a horror of boring people with long stories that she did not observe until the book was...

Scope and Contents Sarah invites Henry, Fifine, Mrs. Van Dyke and her family to come see Sarah married to Judge William J. Tenney on Nov. 26th at 10 a.m. The ceremony is to be performed by Bishop Michael A. Corrigan in St. Michael's Church, and afterwards they are to have a reception here, leaving in the afternoon for New England. Afterwards they are to live here and Orestes A. Brownson be undisturbed, as he is now. Sarah should be very glad to have Henry here and would make him as comfortable as possible. He...

Scope and Contents Sarah is very glad to say to Brownson in writing that which she has so often said to him in words. She does not stoop to deny the motives he ascribes to her and the judge William J. Tenney . She knows that he judges everything that occurs according to its effect upon his comfort and case, and if she had had no higher motive, that of itself would have caused her to see that Brownson were not inconvenienced, before she could look for any happiness for herself. She is perfectly and entirely...

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Events becoming more serious from day to day, it is feared that communications with New Orleans will soon be interrupted by the troops stationed at Cairo and thus he will be exposed to remaining at Cape Girardeau until the end of hostilities. He has consulted the Superior who advised him to find out Rousselon's intention. :: VI-2-d A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.

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His illness, despite its gravity, has taken a favorable turn and there is no longer any doubt about his recovery. Everyone had thought he was a dead man, but thanks to Divine Providence the mineral water produced such marvelous but slow effects that he is out of danger. However, he still needs the water for some time to be completely cured. :: VI-2-e A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.

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Bruedar asks the meaning of the scriptural quotation of Christ: "Thou art Peter and upon this rock…." He believes these words should be taken literally. A Lutheran minister opposes him on their exact meaning, citing the Greek text as the basis of his argument. He asks Hudson to help him give an accurate answer in this discussion. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Perché knows how he was cheated out of his land and property by the heirs of John Slidell . As a French citizen, he has appealed to the French ambassador in Washington. The claim has been submitted to the Marquis de Chambrun, advisor of the ambassador, and the latter has promised a just solution. He asks Perché to aid him by seeing the President of the French Republic and the Duke de Cazes, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and asking them to intercede in his behalf by requesting the French...

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Receipted bill for 8.25. Payment received on May 24, 1872 from Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perche for the account of Lacour and also for the account of Alexander Brunel, a total of $42.25. :: VI-2-o A.D.S. French 1p. 8vo.

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Brugler gives permission to his Negress Marie Aimée to marry Arsène, a free man of color. A.D.S. :: V-4-l A.D.S. French 3pp. 12mo.