Calendared content

Scope and Contents

She thanks Hudson for his kind note. Dr. Toner came to see her on Sunday and told her of the doings at the University. She did not number the chapter she sent today, not knowing the present order. One more chapter will conclude the story. Hudson's prayers are being answered for members of her family. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2 pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents She acknowledges Hudson's letter and the draft for $60; and hopes it gave rise to no unpleasantness. It is well that the religious state has its crosses. The greatest fault of the religious is that they become environed by a world of their own and are apt to forget the laws which govern the world. She was pleased at what he said of Nellie. She asks his prayers for the success of Nellie's undertaking. Her two daughters, Clare and Angie, are slowly improving. She did not see the notice in...

Scope and Contents She reminds Hudson that when he and Father Edward Sorin asked her to write something for the Ave Maria he told her not to hurry with her article since a story being published in the Ave Maria at that time would have to be completed before her work could be used. Thus, having completed the promised sketch she did not feel compelled to write to Hudson concerning it; instead she was merely waiting for him to decide when it would be needed so that she could sent it. The material for the...

Scope and Contents She sends a letter of Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick for the collection. Kenrick rated her literary efforts above their value. In her search she came across some letters of Father Adrien Rouquette which she sends. The only time she saw Rouquette was in the chapel of the Sulpician Seminary in Baltimore.Father Louis Regis Deluol, the Sulpician Superior, received her into the Church. Rouquette recently ordained accompanied the Bishop of New Orleans (Anthony Blanc) to the first Plenary...

Scope and Contents She is forwarding chapter ten of her story; the two she has in hand will finish it. She thinks the readers will like it because it is more full of examples than precept. In this chapter she refers to an incident in the life of Bishop John England which is similar to that of one of her characters. The income of $75 per month which Angela has been receiving furing the past year has been stopped, and she does not know how she will manage without it. She did not intend to mention money so...

Scope and Contents How could Hudson spring such a surprise on Dorsey as the Notre Dame Scholastic brought her on All Fools Day, April 1st. Receiving the Laetare Medal was unexpected. The announcement that she had been awarded the medal produced great excitement in her family. The diamond of the gold medal is Maurice Francis Egan's sonnet. She enjoyed it without the least taint of self-love for he so idealized his theme that it is far beyond her. Who wrote the prose sketch? It is perfect in as much as it...

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 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

Dorsey requests a check for the amount due her. She is pleased to learn that Father-General has read her story, "Palms". Eliza Allen Starr sent 120 names. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Before Hudson publishes her story Dorsey wishes he would send her the manuscript. Eliza Allen Starr sent one hundred orders for the new edition and kind words about Dorsey's story "Palms". Nellie will send particulars. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Dorsey did not realize "Palms" would be so long and thinks that Christian Reid's story would compensate for discontinuing her story. Dorsey praises Hudson for raising the Ave Maria to its present high standard. She is happy to hear good reports about her grandson Louis Mohun, who is attending Notre Dame. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Dorsey sends some manuscripts. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Dorsey is pleased to learn that Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C. likes "Palms". When it is published in book form, she will dedicate "Palms" to Sorin. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Dorsey submits another installment of her story "Palms". Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey has received a promotion in her job with the Federal government. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey returns the corrected article "Mad Penitent of Todi". She corrected her error of placing Sodom and Gomorra at the bottom of the Dead Sea. De Salsy found the ruins of these two cities near the west border of the Dead Sea. Nellie Ella Loraine Dorsey showed Mrs. Dorsey proofs of an article relating to Commodore Kilty which surprised her. In 1862, Mother Angela Gillespie related the incident to Mrs. Dorsey and she wrote the story for a city newspaper. In it Mother Angela appears as...

Scope and Contents

Dorsey hopes the concluding chapter of her story will not seem too dramatic. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12 mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey thanks Hudson for the kind words about her story "Palms". She appreciates receiving the letter in which the writer speaks of Bishop Ryan's praise of her story "Palms". Dorsey inquires if the writer means the Archbishop of Philadelphia, or the Bishop of Buffalo, because Bishop Stephen Michael Ryan of Buffalo sent her a letter of encouragement and an order for three sets of her books. She praises the Ave Maria and thinks that no changes should be made in it. They were pleased by...

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends notes on the early Italians. Dorsey knows as well as Maurice Francis Egan that Italy had no standard language in 253 to 260. Bishop John Joseph Keane thought the criticism contained in Hudson's letter hypercriticism. Dorsey is indifferent to the criticism of Egan because she does not consider him an authority. Her unfortunate story will soon end. Dorsey is making her last appearance on the stage of literature. She ran the first furrow in the field of American Catholic light...

Scope and Contents

Dorsey asks Hudson to make a settlement of her account. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Scope and Contents

Dorsey is happy to have completed his story "Ada's Trust" and hopes Hudson will accept the results of her unsuccessful efforts to condense it. She sends a statement of accounts concerning articles she has written for the Ave Maria, which show a balance of $64 in her favor. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Dorsey expects a reply to the business part of her last letter. President Chester A. Arthur is recovering from his illness. :: X-2-j A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents

Dorsey is sorry to hear that Hudson is ill and urges him to take a trip for a change of climate. She would feel proud of her work if she were not paid for it. A poem is enclosed. Dorsey makes some critical remarks about a work of Ruskin. She received the check Hudson sent and requests number thirty-five of the Ave Maria. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Dorsey is grieved over receiving a bill from Sadlier's for three dollars. Her daughter Angie has lost her job in the Navy Department. James G. Blaine a personal friends of the family, has been unable to arrange for a new job. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey is rather perturbed by the way Sadlier is making returns on the sale of her books. She received a letter from them stating she is the first person ever to question their word. An earthquake shook the residential section around the Dorsey house. Father Kelly, S.J., in bed when the shock occurred, thought of running into the street, but concluded that the bed would be the best place to be if the house fell in. She complains that Catholic literature has long neglected to appreciate...

Scope and Contents

Dorsey's daughter, Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey is disappointed because she had to postpone her trip to Notre Dame because of her lame foot. Nellie was anxious to write an article on the lace industry introduced by Mother Angela at St. Mary's. Dorsey thanks Professor Joseph Lyons for the Scholastic Annual. She always had a sneaking faith in Astrology and relates several incidents to confirm her point. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents

Dorsey received Hudson's letter with notes about the lace making. She understood from Miss Febiger that making lace was a conspicuous industry at St. Mary's. Nellie's Ella Loraine Dorsey foot is much better. Dr. Pratt of Chicago must be a first class surgeon. Dorsey sends Part III of "The Story of a Child". She will send "Little Gladys" in about two weeks. Dorsey will write the juvenile and squeeze it into as small a space as possible. :: X-2-k A.L. Incomplete 4pp. 12mo.