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Hill returns the proofs. He has not finished the prose article. Father Charles Lang, C.P., has gone to Pittsburgh. Father Louis Bax said nothing about Hill's sending Hudson the notice. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Hill is giving a retreat at Manhattan College. Sunday he will start on a trip to Maine, stopping at Providence on his way. Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. has a bad case of bronchitis. Hill may accompany him to Buenos Aires. Orby Shipley has his "Poems", sent by Father Thomas Jenkins who is in Baltimore. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Hill submits a sonnet. Tomorrow he will give a mission in a neighboring parish. He will return to Louisville, Monday a week. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan received them kindly and sent them to the hospitality of the Jesuit Fathers. They had a favored voyage to Panama, and landed at Iquique, Callao, the port of Lima and Guayaquil. At Peru's fallen capital, Lima, Hill said Mass in the convent now occupied by the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, though it was built by the Jesuits for their own use. The Jesuits serve the adjoining Church of San Pedro, which is remarkable for the number of paintings it contains....

Scope and Contents Edmund sends some sonnets for the Ave Maria and hopes to contribute often. All his work in honor of the Blessed Lady will be sent to Hudson. Edmund was giving a mission for Father Thomas J Jenkins and discovered Jenkins was the author of the articles on the Blessed Virgin which quoted from his own volume. He is no longer "Father Benjamin Dionysius Hill, C.S.P., " but Father Edmund of the order of the Heart of Mary, C.P. His signature will be "E.H." He wants proofs of what he...

Scope and Contents He will remain in St. Louis until the end of July. Father Fidelis Stone C.P. went to Peoria on the invitation of Bishop Spalding; they are to give a mission there in August. Bishop Chatard has allowed them to come to his diocese. They are waiting for news from St. Paul and Chicago. Father David S. Phelan of the Western Watchman gave them quite a terrific puff. Yesterday, they dined with the Jesuit Fathers and he met his name sake, Father Walter Hill, S.J., who invited them to his church...

Scope and Contents Hill is doubtful about being able to get to Notre Dame. The trouble is that he and Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. are pressed for time. In August they are to preach a week long mission at the new cathedral in Peoria, after which they are engaged for two Sundays in Chicago, from there they go to Indianapolis to accept Bishop Francis S. Chatard's invitation. Unfortunately, they cannot stay in the Western States as long as they would like because the Eastern cities are the field for them. Hill...

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Hill returns the proof. He starts this afternoon for Davenport, Iowa where he preaches this Sunday before traveling to Peoria. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Hill submits a lyric for the Ave Maria. Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. has opened their novitiate in Buenos Aires. He clothed three postulants on August 26th. They are about to build a new Church there for which $50,000 is already subscribed. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Father Fidelis Stone, C.P., who recently returned from Buenos Aires found Hudson's long awaited letter and the extra copies of the Ave Maria. At Buenos Aires his community is building a one hundred thousand dollar church as well as a novitiate. He received a letter from Father Richard Clarke, S.J., editor of the Month requesting he contribute poems and prose. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Hill submits a lyric poem. He inquires if Hudson received those forwarded by Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. His sister Amy B. Hill is studying at a private hospital where she has learned much about surgical nursing. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Hill hopes to send Hudson a poem for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-i A. Postcard. S. 1p. 32mo.

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Hill and Father Fidelis Stone,C.P. will start for the United States next month on a collecting tour for their foundation. They will probably visit Mexico before San Francisco. He has finished his long poem and after revision it will consist of fifty-five Spenserian stanzas. Hill hopes to visit Hudson at Notre Dame. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Hill returns the proof with one correction. He had hoped the two Monica poems would be published in one of the Ave Maria's Lenten numbers. The Poor Soul's Advocate came from Father Jenkins. He is glad the Ave Maria is ahead of all other Catholic periodicals and he does not think The Month will take in the United States. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The St. Joseph's Journal is a school affair but others besides school girls write in it. What Hudson says about Hill's pen and his article "Short Cut to the True Church" is encouraging. Father R. Clarke, S.J. would have influence at Longmans. Father Matthew Russell, S.J. wrote to Father Thomas Jenkins about Hill and said that he would like to see a fresh collection of Hill's poems. A.B. Hill is his sister Amy B. Hill. Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. reached Buenos Aires on the Vigil of the...

Scope and Contents They are staying with the Jesuit Fathers until the Passionist monastery is finished. The cost of building the church has been defrayed by Mrs. Edwards . When his father was a British chaplain in Valparaiso between 1852 and 1856, his family lived in Cerro Alejre a section of the city where the Passionist church has been built. Hill describes his recent journey around Cape Horn from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso. Chile is like a Catholic country. It has a zealous priesthood and a laity full...

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Hill informs Hudson that he lacks a couple of numbers of the Ave Maria. Hill asks Hudson if he has received the two packages that he sent to him. :: X-3-f A. Postcard. S. 1p. 32mo.

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They are now at Vina del Mar foundation, a pretty suburb of Valparaiso where they have already received a gift of land for a house and a Church. It will be dedicated to St. Joseph. Hill informs Hudson that he has sent some manuscripts to the Ave Maria. :: X-3-f A.L.S. 4pp. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Hill-sends "Mountain Number Four". He likes the new type of the Ave Maria. He hopes to send an article on the "Madonna and Child of the Apocalypse". Cholera still lingers in Valparaiso, Chile. Hill had two cases today. He has taken all of the sick calls as Father Fidelis is busy on their new foundation. They are to lay the first stone for their new convent on St. Joseph's day. What Hill has been reading of the severe winter in North America has made him concerned about Hudson's health....

Scope and Contents Hill sent a poem by English steamer. He has decided that the title of his article "Short Cut" should be changed to "A Short Cut to the True Church". They are going to Santiago; in June his companion may return to Buenos Aires. Hill may go too but will probably stay in Valparaiso with the Jesuit Fathers. He has written some sonnets to the author of "She", a popular sensational novel. Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. says it won't be published under Hill's name, since it does not suit the Ave...

Scope and Contents Hill hopes the cholera blockade is over, but it will be safer for awhile to send his mail via Europe. He discusses changing the title of his work "A Short Cut to the True Church". Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. will return to Buenos Aires for three months and leave Hill in charge as chaplain. He hopes to finish two or three long poems this winter, with a view to incorporating them in his new volume. Hill believes he can get many subscribers for the Ave Maria in Buenos Aires and a few in...

Scope and Contents Hill submits an article for the Ave Maria. He and his companion went to Santiago to beg. They met with more success than they expected, even though the Archbishop was asking for subscriptions for the new church of San Salvador. In answer to the request of Mother Paul of the Cross, in St. Louis, Hill has written an article on Chile for their magazine St. Joseph's Journal and has asked them to send Hudson the magazine. The Panama route is clear and they ought to get mail within a...

Scope and Contents Hill sends the revised article. Hudson will have seen some notice in the papers of the terrible disaster which befell Valparaiso on the 11th of August: a storm of wind and rain of extraordinary duration. Five vessels were wrecked in the harbor one day and another the next. Along the bank on which the railway runs, next to the sea, a reservoir suddenly burst and precipitated its contents down on inhabitated valley and along the the business part of the town and into the sea. Houses and...

Scope and Contents Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. and Hill are not off yet; it appears they cannot manage it till Saturday. They are going by way of England as the result of the yellow fever epidemic at Rio. He is thankful for the chance of seeing Amy and his other sisters. The General Chapter next May is going to discuss the question of giving Buenos Aires to the English Province and Chile to the Spanish. He hopes this will be done and that within a couple of years he will be back in the United States. ::...

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Hill spent the past few days in New York with the Paulists, who were most cordial. Father Thomas O'Connor, C.P ., a member of the American province presently in Rome as Consultor writes praising "Short Cut". Hill fears Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. will have to go to Buenos Aires within two to three weeks. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Hill thanks Hudson for the letter from France and for the proofs. Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. has not returned from Boston. How would "Stella Matutina" do for the the Ave Maria series? :: X-3-j A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Hill asks Hudson to thank Father Walsh for the offer of the retreat. He and his companion, Father Fidelis Stone, C.P. cannot take it. Stone is scheduled to give a lecture at the Cathedral in Scranton, November 3. They will return to South America soon. Father Thomas J. Jenkins and Hill met while Hill was giving a three day retreat to the boys at Manhattan College. Hill traveled to Calais, Maine where he visited Sister M. Francesca Angela, R.S.M. whom he had not seen in eight years. He...

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They leave for Baltimore today with the Provincial. He encloses a letter Hudson forwarded from the Ave Maria office; the writer imagines Hill an editor. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Was Hudson referring in his letter of June 9, to the lyric "Virgo Fidelis" as being received? Hill also sent "Mater Dolorosa" for Passiontide. Father Fidelis is away and Hill will have to send him everything so that he may approve it before it is forwarded to Hudson. What does Hudson think of the story "Short Cut?" Hill hopes it will be noticed in England and by the Catholic Truth Society. Hudson has not given Hill credit for Ad Mariam Pro Maria. They do not get the Ave Maria at the...

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Hill mailed a letter with the revised points of "Short Cut" Friday evening. He believes he sent "Virgo Fidelis" in the same envelope with "Mater Dolorosa." He is enclosing to Father Fidelis at Buenos Aires, two lyrics, which if he approves will be sent on to Hudson. :: X-3-h A. Postcard S.