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She asks if Hudson has returned from his journey. She wrote a month ago and Father Alexis Granger, C.S.C. sent her a notice that her Masses would be said. Hudson should say four Masses for her, honoring the dead. Her mother asks Hudson to pray for the welfare of her family. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Grant asks Hudson to say four Masses for a favor received and for the dead. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Grant requests that a Mass be said for deceased relatives. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Grant requests Masses be said for her intention. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Grant is grieved to hear that Hudson is sick. She thanks Hudson for his high sentiments expressed in her behalf. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Grant asks Hudson to say a Mass for her father. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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They are busy preparing for a bazaar. It is in aid of their convent. :: X-2-i A.L. Incomplete 2pp. 16mo.

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A request is made to have six Masses said this month. Grant is going to be married in August to John Keogh . Keogh is a cattleman and a Catholic. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Grant requests that four Masses be said for deceased members of her family. Did Hudson receive the newspaper containing the article on Bishop Cleary's reception? He is to visit Belleville. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Money for a subscription to the Ave Maria is enclosed. Grant requests a mass be said for relatives and she thanks Hudson for sending his lecture. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Grant offers himself as a candidate for Holy Orders and affiliation in the Detroit Diocese. He finished his theological studies in St. John's College, Waterford, Ireland, for a foreign mission. He was adopted by Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan about 18 months ago. He says he has been waiting too long although his papers from the college, his Bishop, and his parish priest ought to satisfy Whelan, who does not seem to need him. Therefore, he has requested his exeat. He has been teaching and has...

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He has received his exeat from Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan,a copy of which he encloses no enclosure. He trusts Lefevere will believe him open and candid when he assures Lefevere that the only reason Whelan has not ordained him is, that having recently arrived from Ireland. Grant has too much brogue and not enough nicety and smartness. He is prepared to be examined by Lefevere. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Brute no doubt expected to hear of Grassi's landing in some part of the U.S. Grassi expected to see him in Maryland again but Providence disposed otherwise. He left Rome May last to sail for America since he has been invited to visit Stonyhurst but because of an accident which happened to him in Rome he suffers from sea sickness and it is quite dangerous to make a sea voyage. He has had to submit. His disappointment is lessened by the fact that he can yet be of assistance to the...

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Grassi has scarcely time to answer Brute's letter. Here is something to offer the Blessed Virgin for the itinerant aspostles of Lousiana. He sends respect to them. P.S. excuse his haste he is sorry that he has no time to write such a friend. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - English - 1p. 4to. 1

Scope and Contents Let it never be said that he lets Mr. Barber leave Rome without sending a few lines to such a good friend as Brute. Barber and Cooper can tell Brute the news of Rome. Grassi was pleased to see how their young men offered themselves for the American missions. But they need to know more of the American colleges, since there must be enough missioners. Among their own there are only the very old and infirm and the very young who have scarcely made their novitiate he would have gone with...

Scope and Contents Grassi perceived from Bruté's latest letter that he wants to hear the justification for the removal of Father Anthony Kohlmann, S.J. from New York to the office of master of novices. It was the decision of the Father General. Bishop Richard Concanen erred in appointing an exempt religious as vicar general and Father Kohlmann could not accept without the approval of his superiors. Many French bishops were bishops of dioceses but did not live in them. But it is proper for Kohlmann to ...

Scope and Contents Grassi hopes that Father Enoch Fenwick told Bruté of his inability to write a few lines because of his occupations. Father John Henry from St. Inigoes is expected to share some of the burdens of the college. Father Michael Carroll has gone to Newtown to replace Father Carbry who will go to St. Inigoes. Father Griffen died without the assistance of a priest. Grassi is pleased that Bishop William DuBourg takes for granted that Father Ambrose Maréchal is appointed to Philadelphia and he...

Scope and Contents Grassi thanks Bruté for the news that the Jesuits have been expelled from St. Petersburg and Moscow. He did not know the Jesuits were settled in the capital of Russia. He is afraid that good Alexander Divof's conversion has received too much glory; the Society will not regret except that the mind of the emperor is set against them. The prelate that builds churches for the Lutherans will not regret at all. He is a kind of convert from Calvinism. The last year Grassi was in Russia his...

Scope and Contents With gratitude he has received the document written by a true friend of the Jesuits, although had he seen it before it was printed he would have added one item: how the Russian emperor who makes it a crime for Jesuits to convert several Russians from their ancestors' religions could have permitted the same Jesuits to convert the inhabitants of the Caucasus who became converted to Mohammedans two centuries before the Russians received Christianity. These same Russians convert Lutherans ...

Scope and Contents The letter is sent by Mav. J. Almeda. He sends these lines not to talk about the spots on the sun but to recommend a good boy from the college for one year only who returns to his parents in Baltimore. His conduct is edifying, the more so as he left the vessel of his father, a privateer, to go to Georgetown. Because Grassi fears the danger to which the young man will be exposed he has recommended that he go to see Bruté. Father Anthony Kohlman, having been afflicted lately of weakness ...

Scope and Contents Grassi apologizes for not answering sooner. He sent Bruté's last letter to Father Anthony Kohlman and WhitMarsh. The intelligence in it will be very agreeable also to his brother who lives with him, to supply for his bad health. When the weakness of his breast becomes painful he will go to Conewago. Grassi expects him there to see about several things in the ensuing scholastic year. If the Superior General does not send them some assistance Grassi does not know what he will do. He ...

Scope and Contents He writes to inform Bruté that Mr. DeClery of Pittsburgh has asked them to send the bed and bedding of his son John who was in their house last year and this year will be with Bruté. If Bruté will send a servant to the post office he will find the articles belong to the boy. The young man conducted himself well at Georgetown. Father James Lucas is there and intends to leave for richmond Sunday evening. Grassi has much to say but does not know how to begin. One of the professors being ...

Scope and Contents Grassi was absent three days and is late. Crescemberi was not a Jesuit. F. Antonio of Lodi was in Lisbon and sailed on his mission in 1806 or 7. Grassi knew him as a Capuchin. Father James Lucas is acquainted with Mr. Freeman of Georgetown. The wife of Freeman, a Methodist, complained that he did not return a visit to the college. He will return the visit and try to find out from Freeman, a Catholic, if the Unitarian preacher is his brother. According to a letter one of the Jesuits...

Scope and Contents Grassi acknowledges Bruté's letter of the 23rd. He says that Bruté always knows more about ecclesiastical things than he even though he does not live far from the Archbishop Leonard Neale who told him that the Bishop of Boston John Cheverus was coming to impose the pallium, but did not mention the difficulty of which Bruté spoke. He is sure that the income from their corporation is far less than Bruté imagines and that the necessities of the novices absorb all that can be spared....

Scope and Contents Bruté has reason to be angry with him for not answering letters and the book on the "Institution of Bishops." He can offer as excuse his absence from the college and the accumulation of business. He gives good news. Dr. Felix Gallagher has come to the college and submitted to the Archbishop Leonard Neale. That ends the Charleston schism. Gallagher is going to Baltimore on his way to New York and will probably visit the college. Grassi has visited for the first time the missions in...

Scope and Contents Grassi has nothing to say but feels that he should write, since Archbishop John Carroll used to say that etiquette suggests it. Father Anthony Kohlman has relapsed. This with other problems makes him look for help. He hears from Father Sewall of Stoneyhurst that one or two professors are coming to their assistance, and that the Father General has written to Father Stone that the general will ask permission of the Emperor to go to Rome. Sewall thinks there is little prospect of ...

Scope and Contents Father Paul Kohlman left the two boxes mentioned in the enclosed at the college where the Conewago wagon comes because he thought that would quicken the delivery. He has no news. Father Andres has sent him some Italian books, those of Pelegrini, Trento, Paoli as well as two of his academical memoirs. He sends two other books. He also promises to send his own works. Dell'Origine called by Father Eustache in his Classical tour through Italy a masterly performance. Grassi would prefer to...

Scope and Contents Grassi is very grateful for Bruté's letter. He has received a letter of September 20 from the General from Polock where he says he is like a prisoner. The government refuses him permission to go to Rome or to send others. Father Cross Tristram says a new publication has appeared answering Dallas's work in favor of society or rather against the Catholic religion. There is still a Father Charles Plowden although he is old and losing the elegance of his pen. The division over the veto ...

Scope and Contents Grassi avails himself of the opportunity of Mr. Chassing leaving for Baltimore to send Bruté the Memoria Academia of Father John Andres. He says little about the young man. If Father Paquet obtained very little from so indolent a character no wonder that his stay at Georgetown has not improved him. On the arrival of Mr. Baxter he hopes that it will be useful about the article in Portico and for the college. Grassi is disappointed about his hopes for Father Benjamin Fenwick but when he...

Scope and Contents He wants to inform Bruté that when Baxter heard of Bruté's article in the Portico he felt that that publication was enough and would not write anything else. He expects that Bruté will have seen the two articles in the Intelligencer, and article signed by W. in reply to A. who had written of Leplace's impious conclusions. He replied to W. and W. is preparing a reply to him. Bruté asks if besides Lelande there was anyone else in Paris finding ground for atheism. Bruté has probably seen...