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Scope and Contents The two "Sketches from Life" and "Little Gladys", will serve as two short stories. Congress has passed the Civil Service Bill. Dorsey thinks this will mean the dismissal of many government employees. She protests against the immoral literature which attacks morality and religion that is flooding the country. Father Isaac Hecker invited her through Bishop John J. Keane to write some articles for the Catholic World, but she feels she cannot write for the Catholic World and the Ave Maria....

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends her story "Little Gladys" and the suggestion that the title of the three sketches she previously sent be changed. "Little Gladys" is a real life story about people Dorsey knew. Nugent Robinson 's story "Father Tom" is delightful. Dorsey read Miss Brownson 's life of Father Demetrius Gallitzin and did not like it. While visiting the death place of Gallitzin, Father Reynolds gave her a book of French hymns which belonged to Gallitzin. Dorsey escaped a reception prepared for...

Scope and Contents Dorsey encloses a pamphlet on the physical and immediate cause of Christ's death. It was written by an eminent Protestant physician of Yonkers, New York. Enclosed is a rare photograph of the original painting by G. Max, a maestro of the modern school. She has permission to send them to Hudson that he might examine them for a week. They give an idea of what Christ suffered before his death. Dorsey is of the opinion that Christ suffered more in the Garden of Gethsemane than he did on...

Scope and Contents Dorsey asks for $100 if the sum Hudson owes her so that she can pay the note from the bank. She knows that Mr. Kenedy has her book, "May Brooke". Dorsey wrote to him about it over a year ago, and told him she thought of publishing a uniform edition of her stories. Kenedy replied, he had bought copyrights from Kirchber, Dunigan's successor and he warned Dorsey not to interfere. Bishop John Joseph Keane paid the Dorseys a visit before departing for the Holy Land with Father Mackin . Keane...

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Dorsey discusses "Palms". "Nora Brady" is a bright story of its kind. Dorsey's best work has been done for the Ave Maria. She thanks Hudson for his good intentions toward Louis Mohun . Dorsey sends a scrap about the Pope. It shows what a great change has come to pass in the Protestant mind about the Church. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Illness has kept Dorsey from completing the manuscript. She understands better since Hudson's letter to her daughter, Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey , why Hudson cannot see her grandson Louis. Dorsey thanks Hudson for the Ave Maria series, all of which she gave Father Stephen Kelly, S.J. He was delighted to get Father Zahm's "What the Church has done for Science" and thinks Father Sorin a remarkable man. She received the copy of Stoddard's "Lepers of Molokai". Dorsey suggests that Hudson...

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Dorsey sends chapter IX, which brings her story to an end. She asks Hudson to advance her some money. Dorsey discusses the plot of her story "Palms" stating she hopes to have it published in book form. Stoddard's articles of the Holy Land are delightful. She will give Father Stephen Kelly, Hudson's message. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey inquires if Hudson received her recent letters. She intends to send more manuscript tomorrow. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey thanks Hudson for the check. She makes some comments on the style of her latest story "Palms". Dorsey thanks Hudson for his effort in bringing out a uniform edition of her stories. Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey is busy sending out a circular letter on the book. Dorsey gives her opinion of Father A.F. Ciampi, S.J :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey asks Hudson to make two corrections in "A Day at the Villa". Nellie Ella Loraine Dorsey has gotten off nearly all the circulars. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey discusses the length of her story "Palms". Bishop John J. Keane sent words of encouragement about her story. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey discusses errors made by the proofreader with her story. She sends the beginning of another chapter. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey delayed writing until Hudson returned from Detroit. She comments at length on Charles Warren Stoddard' s book "A Troubled Heart". The Dorsey family has experienced much excitement lately, first Angie Dorsey was threatened with blindness, then Dorsey's grandson was appointed assistant paymaster to Paymaster John Furey and finally her granddaughter, Lee Mohun, at St. Mary's, Ohio, wrote that she was going to the novitiate at Lyons in June to prepare herself for Congo missions....

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Dorsey advises Hudson to arrange the chapters the way he wants. Enclosed is an old English or French engraving of Blessed Joseph Labre, which was given to Dorsey by the English Carmelites. Perhaps Hudson would make a photo of it for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Has Hudson received the manuscript and letter she mailed ten days ago? Dorsey has more manuscripts to forward but will, defer sending until she learn Hudson has received those sent. :: X-3-a A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Dorsey did not intend to have her story "Palms" regarded as a child's story. It was suitable for young girls. The Ave Maria could not do without Hudson. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dorsey thanks Hduson for the $18 he sent her. She realizes Hudson's health is not strong, but begs him not to separate himself from the Ave Maria, for if he does she fears it will return to its old status. Hudson should insist on having an assistant. She has completed "Palms" as well as the story for girls. Dorsey inquires, who wrote "A Troubled Heart"? Hudson has failed to send a copy of Francis Macary. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey is grateful to Maurice Francis Egan for writing the sketch "The Tenant of Gable End", but she is disturbed about the inaccuracies in the article. She has always written while under stress and feels she has missed her aim. Her best works, she feels, have been done for the Ave Maria. Except for one story, "Father Clement" by Father Charles Pise, S.J., Dorsey's stories were the first Catholic stories by an American writer. She was windowed in 1861, when her daughter, Nellie Ella...

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends the third chapter of "Palms". She discusses the plot and background of her story. Dorsey sends for Hudson's perusal a letter received from the Sisters of Charity at Donaldsonville, Louisiana. She asks Hudson to correct their mistaken belief that her serial stories in the Ave Maria, with a few exceptions do not appear in book form. Dorsey is glad to see a beginning of war reminiscences of a Catholic type in the Ave Maria. Its readers might be interested to know the...

Scope and Contents When Dorsey wrote that her stories were short she meant they were not serials, for she does not consider a story long even though it extends through three or four months. She finds that leading Catholic magazines in England and the United States continue to publish serials which keep the readers interest in both the story and magazine. Short stories are forgotten as soon as read and Dorsey feels she has no talents for writing them. Her object in writing a story is to illustrate what...

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends a part of her story "Palms". She is delighted that Christian Reid's Frances Tiernan new story will counterbalance the gravity of hers. Dorsey is in need and asks Hudson for an advance on her story. The article in the Ave Maria stating that letters of the Earl of Shrewsbury relating to the death of Mary Stuart had been found greatly interests Dorsey. She enjoyed Charles Warren Stoddard 's sketch of his search for Joachim Miller in Rome. There is excitement about the new...

Scope and Contents Dorsey thanks Hudson for the $100 check and the book entitled "Mad Penitent of Todi". She got the "Story of Jacopone" from "The Life of Frederick Ozanam" by Kathleen O'Meara . What are Hudson's doubts about "Palms"? Dorsey prizes the poem addressed to her by a Portuguese friend and regrets that it was not printed in the Ave Maria because the person probably saw Eliza Allen Starr and Eleanor Donnelly complimented by poetic tributes in the Ave Maria. Nellie Ella Lorraine Dorsey received...

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Dorsey sends two more chapters. Angie Eastman has been very ill. Nellie Ella Loraine Dorsey has been transferred to the Patent Office. Would is not be a good idea to publish some of the Ave Maria tales in paper bindings? :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey sends a list of her contributions for the Ave Maria. She does this in the hope of getting a check. Doubtless, Hudson received Nellie's Ella Lorraine Dorsey letter written from Boston, after her trip to Halifax. Nellie did not see the Noonan Brothers, which made Dorsey glad to be rid of them, because they are Irish and she has lost faith in Irish Catholic publishers, who out Yankee, the Yankees. Nellie's interview with Mr. Osgood was satisfactory. He has no prejudice as to...

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Dorsey sends part of her latest story. The orders for the uniform edition continue to come in and she thinks that by autumn there will be enough to pay expenses for publishing. Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard has written well of the Holy Land and not at the expense of poetry or piety. She hopes that Stoddard's "Scrip and Staff" will get into book form. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dorsey thanks Hudson for the two drafts. The writing on the outside of the books assures Dorsey that Hudson is in good health. A copy of the "Mad Penitent" is requested when it comes out. Dorsey plans to use these stories for a series. They are having an anxious time as to what the administration will do after July 1st; most people believe the Civil Service Law will prove a rope of sand to them. Although they wish it set aside, they respect it in so far as it applies to the classes of...

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Dorsey sends part of a manuscript. She wrote a letter to Archbishop James Gibbons asking for a letter of introduction to some one in Rome for her grandson, Dorsey Mohun, whose ship is to winter at Naples. Dorsey's letter arrived at the time Father Denis Joseph O'Connell, rector of the North American College in Rome was visiting Gibbons, who referred her letter to O'Connell. O'Connell promised to take Mohun under his wing. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents After reading Hudson's letter Dorsey wondered if something she had said about Christian Reid had betrayed jealousy of her success. This was not intended. Dorsey's role as a story writer is unassailable. Yet she has found that theological arguments introduced into her stories prevent success. The clergy do not approve of it. Reid's story now in progress is clever. Dorsey is sorry to see anything of bitterness and condemnation against "our separated brethren" as Bishop John England termed...

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Dorsey sends Hudson a copy of the Washington Post, calling attention to the oration of the Honorable John Daniels of Lynchburg, Virginia. It was delivered at the dedication of the Washington Monument and Dorsey thinks it would be a good article to reprint in the Scholastic. There are already thousands of people in Washington for the inauguration of President Grover Cleveland . :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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She sends the account of the Pope's chalice. There is something she cannot make out. She has cut it from Louie 's letter. Mrs. B was in correspondence with several cardinals. Her son is a lieutenant bearing his grandfather's name of Aaron Ward. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.