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F. sends McMaster $1. for the Peter's Pence fund, and $1. for the Indian Missions of Father Isidore Robot O.S.B., Indian Territory. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Mrs. Mary C. F encloses $1.50 and names three contributors. She requests prayers. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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The writer sends $2.00 for Mount Carmel. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents P. F. asks McMaster to publish in the Freeman's Journal, the remarks on the New England Journal of Education, which he encloses, enclosure not present. A very unfair attack was made on the schools, and the clergy of the Church. P. F. answers the last part of the attack, leaving the rest to some future occasion. He is confident McMaster will bear himself worthily in his conflict with His Lordship Bishop Peter Joseph Baltes, Alton, Illinois and gives McMaster his sympathies in the affair....

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Father Denis Tighe requested Fabian to ask Hudson to mention in the Ave Maria a mission that was recently given by Father Aloysuis Van der Eerden, S.J. in his parish. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Fabian met Hudson's Godmother who is a subscriber to the Ave Maria. She told Fabian that she stood for a child in Nahant, Massachusetts, near Boston about 36 or 37 years ago. The lady's name was then Bridget Roach, now it is Mrs. Sullivan. :: X-3-f A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Brother Remez F.S.C. tells Brother Facile that there has been a misunderstanding between Lefevere and Brother Piperion about the initial expenses of an establishment of the Christian Brothers. Brother Facile regrets this very much and has awaited a report from brother Piperion announcing favorable arrangements. He gives an extract of his report which says that at Detroit things seemed to be favorable; Lefevere is the richest bishop in the United States; he has no debts and his resources are...

Scope and Contents The article headed "A pilgrimage to a new shrine of the Sacred Heart" in the Ave Maria gave Fafard much pleasure. He thanks Hudson for the pious calls brought upon by the article. The work of the erection is still going on and will soon be completed. The chapel will be named N. D. du Puy in honor of the first Mother Foundress of the order in Canada who came from an old French city. Anyone who wishes to enlist in a membership so full of advantages may do so by writing directly to Fafard...

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Since some doubt exists whether the Oratio de Spiritu should still be said in the Mass, he states that according to a declaration of the Vicar General of His Holiness, Cardinal Patrizi, made to the clergy of Rome Oct. 28, 1870, the oratio imperata and the Miss de Spiritu Sancto on Thursday were no longer obligatory. Neither the Oratio de Spiritu Sancto nor the Oratio pro Papa can now be said unless prescribed by the Ordinary of the Diocese. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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He is sending a copy of Salesianum for McMaster to read. He is sorry McMaster did not say more about Father Joseph Salzmann . He was a German, but that should not matter. There are many German priests who take the Journal and who will expect more from McMaster. He has told the simple truth in the Salesianum, in that Salzmann has done more for Milwaukee Diocese than any Bishop. Where is Columbia? Fagan is no German but he likes to see justice done. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Fagan cannot consent to the publication of Cardinal John Simeoni's letter, since it is a private letter and is not intended for publication. The portion Fagan already published is sufficient and conclusive in the obligation or dispensation of wax candles. He calls attention to a mistake made in the Freeman's Journal of Mar. 8th, in reference to the appointment of Father John McMullen as administrator by Bishop Thomas Foley, of Chicago, Illinois. The lamented Bishop had full authority to...

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Fagan sends McMaster $20.00 for 6 new subscribers plus his own for the past year. He is trying to get four more. The subscribers are: William Geraghty, James Masterson, Denis O'Mara, Peter Fagan, John Fagan, and Michael Fagan, besides himself. Since Reading became a town they will all get their copies regularly. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Fagan sends $3 for his subscription to the Freeman's Journal. He has been in Kansas for four years, and had not even seen a Catholic paper, until he ran across a copy of the Freeman. He read it and wants to continue reading. He feels that it suggests more than stock and lands, even to a Kansas farmer. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Faherty sends McMaster $12.50 in fees for subscriptions to the Freeman's Journal, and names the five subscribers. Those parties who advertise in the paper are wise to do so since the readers know that McMaster accepts no fraudulen advertisements. :: I-2-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Fahey has moved and she is now teaching school in Oakdale. The neighborhood is principally Catholic. She will try to get some subscribers for the Ave Maria. Fahey is having trouble in her love affair and asks Hudson for advice. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Fairbanks recalls his first meeting with Hudson in a Milwaukee restaurant. His mother became a Catholic two years before her death; his father is a Protestant minister retired because of ill health. :: X-3-g A. L. Incomplete 1p. 32mo.

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Fairbanks thanks Hudson and Maurice F. Egan for their compliments of his book. He was sorry to see the New York Freeman's Journal lose Egan. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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He sends a postal order for $6.55, for the Freeman's Journals already sent him, and an additional three copies of each number containing his article, except the last, of which he wants four copies. A note in pencil probably by McMaster's secretary directs that the money be applied to his subscription and that the papers be sent him without charge. :: I-2-f A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Fairbanks writes McMaster on his feast day. He has been trying to find new subscribers to the Freeman's Journal. Fairbanks sends some facts in reference to the state of Wisconsin. He lists English speaking Missions in the state having German priests. The Archbishop John Martin Henni and the Vicar General, Father Martin Kundig in the Cathedral, are both Germans, with only 3 Irish priests. Father Fairbanks then lists the mixed missions in which the Irish prediminate but which still have...

Scope and Contents Fairbanks sends McMaster $6 subscription fees for the Freeman's Journal for Miss Sarah McLaughlin and Fred Kostanzer. The interest of Fairbanks has been re-awakened by an article in the last issue of the Catholic World entitled, "The German Element in the U. S.", but he does not want his name connected if anything is published about it. Because the hierarchy in this state Wisconsin is predominately German and rules them so thoroughly, the impression abroad is that the bulwark of...

Scope and Contents Fallize sends news of the missions of the Congregation of Holy Cross in East Bengal. His present concern is his congregation in Chittagong and in Akyal, the missionaries in their respective fields of labor, and providing for the missionaries' needs. Father-General Edward Sorin, C.S.C. has promised four or five priests in the fall and possibly some sisters, but considerable material assistance will be needed for the maintenance and building of churches, schools, hospitals and orphanages....

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Seven dollars enclosed as subscription payment to the Journal. The Archbishop of New York, when but a bishop, confirmed him. Although ten years McMaster's junior, he hopes to read the Journal another quarter of a century. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Faneuf sends McMaster $40. to aid the Indian Missions. This money has been collected by Mrs. Chloe M. Woodis of Millbury, from 100 contributors. He also sends $3. in subscription fees for the Freeman's Journal for one year's subscription. He asks that receipts be sent him for these two different amounts. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Brownson will recall that Father Fanning called at his office and traded the Encyclopaedia Brittanica for Brownson's Works and Webster's latest Unabridged for Father B.J. Wermers. Having some books with him that were an encumbrance, he hired a typist named Bryan on the suggestion of Father O'Reilly, and left the books and another box which he had ordered to be sent in Bryan's care. After Father Fanning left Detroit, Bryan overcharged him for the typing, extorted money from his housekeeper...

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Father Fanning is grateful for the recovery of his books. As he is not aware of the contents of the box his housekeeper and cousin who packed the box will write Brownson. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Clarke was duly elected President of the New York Catholic Protectory for the year 1892 at the annual meeting of the Board of Managers, December 17, 1891. Fanning asks Clarke to inform him of his acceptance as soon as possible. :: I-2-n T.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Farley writes Tanquerey that he has shown his photograph of Pope Leo XIII to his Eminence Cardinal McCloskey who has promounced it the best he has yet seen. His Eminence considers Tanquerey's copy in Indian ink, admirable. :: I-2-c copy A.L.S. 1p. 16 to Contained in James Alphonsus McMaster's papers.

Scope and Contents The accompanying circular of Dr. John Gilmary Shea refers to a movement commenced in this city immediately after the close of the late Plenary Council, to enable him to publish a history of the Catholic Church of the United States. Among the originators and supporters are Cardinal John McCloskey, Archbishops James Gibbons, John J. Williams, Patrick J. Ryan, and Michael A. Corrigan, several of the Bishops, indeed all to whom the matter has been submitted, and many of the Rectors and ...

Scope and Contents The encloses circular of Dr. Gilmary Shea refers to a movement commenced in New York after the Flenary Council to enable him to publish his history of the Catholic Church of the United States. The committee appointed included Archbishop Corrigan, Monsignores Quinn, Preston and Farley, Drs. McSweeney and Brutsell and Rev. Arthur Donnelly. Any one receiving the enclosure is urged to sign his name and make the first annual payment. enclosure: The letter by Dr. Shea. :: I-2-e Printed 1p....

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About five weeks previously, Farnham sent McMaster $5.25 for the Indian Missions in the form of an order on the National Bank of Leroy, but as yet he has not seen the acknowledgement of the amount. He asks that McMaster inform him if the money reached him. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.