Scope and Contents Miss Howe heard Miss Starr's collection was out of print. Hudson may verify this by writing to Philadelphia. Miss Howe is pleased to know her letter secured Miss Starr a deserved mention. The Sisters of Providence use her poems as a text for the rhetoric class. Hudson should try to induce Miss Starr to give a small edition to the Irish relief fund. It would not be an injustice for her to give an edition even though she is in need of money. The reason her book failed is because she came...

Scope and Contents Mr. James Reed has come to see her. He was well pleased with the quality of the soil, but was indignant at the thought of living in such houses, as they are more for style than for comfort. Reed is willing to pay $5,000 and one of the farms is worth $5,000 and the other $2,500. Miss Starr has improved since the publication of her volume, much like Miss Mulack did after she published her collection. Protestant Journals 15 years ago used to have a very effective style writing up poets and...

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Howe requests the prayers of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Lourdes that her mother will not be troubled by lawsuit. She has succeeded in obtaining a letter of introduction to Archbishop Patrick F. Freehan from Father Julian Benoit :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Will Hudson see that the inclosed letter reaches Father General Edward Sorin, C.S.C. ? He may be absent; if he is, Hudson should keep it until he can give it to him. She presented Father Julian Benoit's kind letter of introduction to Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan . She was courteously received and permission given to her to come again. She hopes to be able to gain his kindly feeling in time. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1 p. 12mo.

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Howe requests permission for her mother and herself to stay at Notre Dame for the Jubilee celebration. Her mother's health has improved slightly. Father Julian Benoit has told the pastor at Chesterton, Father Henry Kroll to visit the Howe family monthly. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Howe asks Hudson to thank Father-General Edward Sorin, C.S.C. , and Father Alexis Granger, C.S.C., for the satisfaction she and her mother experienced from the performance of their Jubilee. She knows God will send her some one but she does not think it will be Father H. F. Joseph Kroll . The clergy of Chicago had a fine opinion of Howe and certain things would have not caused more than a ripple but for Eliza Allen Starr . It was a bitter pill for Starr to see Howe approaching her...

Scope and Contents Howe requests two copies of the article on Pere Marquette. She is glad that Hudson is pleased with the memorial of Rose Howe. It was printed at Howe's expense, without any idea of profit. It pleased the priests of Chicago, who had known Rose and they urged it be printed. Howe was unwilling to publish it for a profit, but agreed to let Father Martin van de Laar publish it and the proceeds be used for his parish in South Chicago, but this was not carried out. She submits a poem. :: X-2-h...

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Howe sends Hudson a copy of the Memorial from which the "Record" can be copied. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Howe asks Hudson to send the defective copy of Rose F. Howe's memoir to Mr. Robert Fergus . Father Martin van de Laar was delighted with the "Record" and made a plan of a little memoir to form a missionary pamphlet he was going to publish. Then the control of his salary was taken from him. He had to present his accounts to his superior. One of Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan's first acts of mercy was to refund to this priest all that had been withheld. Howe confided her plan for a memorial...

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Howe encloses a letter for Mother Angela which she asks Hudson to forward. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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Howe submits a sketch on Pere Marquette. She thanks the Fathers for coming to the jubilee. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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The proof is returned and Howe requests two extra copies when the article comes out. Howe inquires if "one friend" gave up his parish in South Chicago and left the diocese. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Hudson should send the books by express to Porter Station. Regarding the "Record" Howe says Hudson may do whatever he wishes with it, for this will honor Rose Howe 's memory. Howe encloses a translation. Father H. Geiger is known in South Germany as the author of "Lydia", he devotes himself to composing classic literature for Catholic youth. Geiger led the South German pilgrimage, which in 1871 went to Rome to protest against the movement in behalf of Johann Dollinger to Pope Pius IX....

Scope and Contents Howe thanks Hudson for the copies of the Ave Maria and requests three copies of the number that contains Monsignor Foschi 's letter. She is sorry that one or two persons, who Howe does not care to mention, should not see that Foschi did not think it proper to address her personally. Howe received the Scholastic containing the article she wrote at the behest of Mother Angela, but it should not have been published since it is not her style of writing. She asks Hudson to quote a price for...

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Howe has received assurances that 125 copies of the "Record" will be sold, and she knows of other places she can count on for sales. She will arrange an introduction and send it to Hudson. Howe's mother would like to spend part of Holy Week at Notre Dame, if the roads to the railroad are passable. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Howe sends the introduction she spoke about in her last letter. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

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Father M. O'Reilly of Valparaiso has ordered one hundred copies of the "Record". Together with the orders of Father Aegidius Hennemann andFather Martin Van der Laar orders for three hundred and sixty six books have been received. Howe has heard through a former friend that Van der Laar has left the country. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Howe thinks the introduction to "Record of a Suffering Soul" appropriate. In Hudson's hands it will be a success, all 3000 copies. Hudson did right in putting his name on the copyright. She does not care about the form of the advertisement, so long as it appears in the Ave Maria. How strange that Doctor Hallinan should be with Father Aegidius Hennemann, O.S.B. . Howe wrote Father William Kilroy, he was surprised to receive her request concerning the "Record of a Suffering Soul". Daisy...

Scope and Contents Howe received the copy of "Record of a Suffering Soul" for which she thanks Hudson. Doctor Kilroy acknowledged receipt of Rose Howe 's Memoirs and sends a copy of Visit to "Bois d' Haine". Father Aegidius Hennemann sent her a picture of St. Francis de Sales to whom she has devotion. Howe knows the original Daisy Garnett who lives in Chicago and visits the Dorseys occasionally in Washington. Eliza Allen Starr claims Howe and Garnett are exactly alike. Howe wrote to Anna Hanson Dorsey...

Scope and Contents Howe sends the check for Dr. Kilroy's five dollars. She did think of going to St. Mary's next week but she is not well. She asks Hudson to give her compliments to Mother Angela Gillespie . Dr. Kilroy writes he was so scared by Pearl that he could hardly sleep after reading the pamphlet. The consequences of what people say are often serious; so it was with the statement that Howe was like Daisy Garnet . When she was a child, many predicted Howe would terminate in reckless worldliness. ::...

Scope and Contents Howe forwards Father Augustus Bessonies ' $2 together with $3 for the Pio Nono monument. The Sisters of St. Mary's Institute ordered three dozen copies of the book "Record of a Suffering Soul", but have not received them yet. She inquires if Brother Francis Andrew Sweeney is ill. Howe believes Bishop John McMullen ordered Bishop Thomas Foley 's monument. Archbishop Patrick Feehan is kind to Eliza Allen Starr, but she is not the woman who influences him. Had Rome accepted the vote of the...

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Howe encloses a check for the New Orleans Carmelites. It is strange that the Sisters of St. Mary's of the Woods had trouble getting their copies of "Record of a Suffering Soul". Howe wrote to the Chicago people about it but got no reply. Howe intended to give them a chance to repair past injustice, but they did not take it. Father Burke has taken fifty copies, and Mother Catherine Feehan has also ordered fifty copies. General Jonathan Scammon visited Howe. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Howe visited Father Michael O'Reilly at Valparaiso and cleared up the misunderstanding about the books. She asks Hudson to order for her Blessed Henry Suso 's work "Little Book of Eternal Wisdom" from the London Publisher, Thomas Richardson Son. Howe discusses her argument with Jonathan Scammen over Emmanuel Swedenborg's filching of Catholic teachings. She saw Bishop Joseph Dwenger recently; he urged her to take care of her health. Father Joseph Kroll feared that Howe was going to scold...

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Howe thanks Hudson for the article "Festival of the Holy Rosary". Eight copies of it and a half dozen of the "Record" are requested. Howe regrets that she missed seeing the priests from Notre Dame that visited Chesterton recently. Howe grieves over the tragic death of Father Cusci :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Gratitude is expressed for the copy of "Most Holy Rosary". Howe and her mother are thankful to Hudson for what he has done to enable the good that Rose Howe her sister, has done to live after her. Father H. F. Joseph Kroll celebrated Mass in their chapel Saturday. Mrs. Anna Hanson Dorsey portrays Howe's idea of a mixed marriage as a Via Crucis in spite of a lawful mixed marriage and external happiness. She never hears from Father Aegidius Hennemann. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Howe encloses orders and money for copies of "The Most Holy Rosary". While she was visiting in Chicago she met Miss Wells at the Mercy Convent Boarding House. She called on Father J. Roles . He is the priest who assisted Howe in her publication of her book on St. Catherine of Genoa. Howe would like Hudson to use his present communication with Roles to relate if Eliza Allen Starr said anything concerning Howe. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Howe criticizes Father T. P. Roles ' literary abilities, saying he is a fair critic, an excellent teacher of rhetoric, but his great superiority lies in his lectures and orations. She discusses the conversion of two Swedish young men to Catholicism. Father Peter Cooney accompanied by Father H. F. Kroll and Doctor Kilroy visited Howe. Howe's mother is going to have the cross that her father raised in the graveyard, as the emblem of Christianity in Northwestern Indiana, replaced. :: X-2-n...

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Howe is obliged to Hudson for giving a notice of Abbe Emard's book. She desires a couple of copies of the Ave Maria. It is a pity Father Peter Cooney does not tell Hudson about his visit with Doctor Kilroy at the Bailly Homestead. How believes Ella Lorraine Dorsey's sketch about Eliza Allen Starr 's home is inaccurate. Howe inquires if Hudson knows if Father Camillus Maes has returned. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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Father H.F. Kroll blessed their cemetery after celebrating High Mass. He had been given special faculties for this occasion. Howe encloses an article giving an account of the festivity. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Howe requests more copies of the Ave Maria. Also requested is a bill for all the debts that Howe owes the Ave Maria. She sends her regards to Father Alexis Granger :: X-2-n A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.