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A few articles are enclosed for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Mac Donnell has not been able to secure information regarding the Shrines of Our Lady of Portugal; but sends an account of N. S. de Cabo. She has begun to translate one of Father Bresciani's tales. Except for Leonillo and the Jew of Verona, none have been translated into English. She encloses a sketch of Monsignor Spagnoletti 's life. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 6pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Sister submits a story entitled "Nora" together with the music of "Respice Stellam". She praises Hudson for the numerous interesting articles, particularly "Lepers of Molokai" that have appeared in the Ave Maria during the past years. Sister thanks Hudson for copies of "A Troubled Heart" and "Our Lady of Good Counsel". The Irish Land League is ruining the peasantry since it has demoralized the people and destroyed their love for their clergy. All who joined the Land League must attend...

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Sister thanks Hudson for the many gifts he has sent her. She is at work on Doralice but she will send no installments before Christmas. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Sister thanks Hudson for the Ave Maria and the many gifts. Pere Lacordaire is enthroned in their convent album beside all the ecclesiastical dignitaries. She received the Indian paper, but it should have stated part of it was copied from the Ave Maria. Sister hopes to send Hudson a New Year's or Christmas Eve story when she forwards the subscriptions for 1888. She encloses an extract from a letter of Cajetan Cardinal Masella sent her. They are expecting the new Irish Provincial to hold...

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Sister thanks Hudson for copies of "Mad Penitent of Todi" and asks him to thank Anna Hanson Dorsey for the souvenirs she sent. Father Matthew Russell, S.J., is critical of "Mad Penitent of Todi" in his journal. In Sister's opinion no Irish or English Catholic periodical equals the Ave Maria. Cholera is raging in Spain only fourteen miles from the Portugese frontier. She sends the first installment of her book. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Sister apologizes for her delay in thanking Hudson for the copy of "A Troubled Heart". She asks Hudson's opinion, whether or not hypnotism involves diabolical intervention. Sister believes she has found a good Catholic novel entitled "Doralice" by the Countess Hahn Hahn . She will translate it into English for the Ave Maria. After reading some of Hernan Caballero, she doesn't think it refined enough for the Ave Maria. Due to the hot weather that Portugal has been having there is fear...

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An attack of rheumatism has prevented Mac Donnell from writing sooner. She sends a medal blessed at Lourdes. Mac Donnell gives an account of a blind girl being cured by the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Sister sends a few manuscripts. She encloses a letter from Burns and one of Mrs. Anna Hanson Dorsey 's, which Hudson sent her. They are expecting a cholera epidemic which will ravage Lisbon because the drainage is terrible. The Portuguese say there is no remedy but they are too inert. There is a wave of suicides among young men and women and the journals have agreed not to publish these accounts because it only increases the morbid mania. One of the Sisters seeks some information...

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Sister submits some Portuguese subscriptions and asks Hudson to place a specimen copy of the Ave Maria in a convent school conducted by the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Dominic near Lisbon. She sends Hudson Christmas Greetings. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Sister received the copies of "The Mad Penitent of Todi". She sends Hudson a short sketch. Sister requests permission to translate Father John Zahm 's article "What the Church Has Done For Science" for Il Rosario, an Italian publication. Last month the Children of Mary carried out a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Sameiro to thank her for protecting Portugal against a cholera epidemic. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Sister sends the names of four new subscribers together with a Christmas story. Within a few days Hudson should receive a box of Agnus Deis and Sacred Heart scapulars. The Provincial visited their house before returning to Ireland. She received an account of Mother Antonia Hanley's death. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Sister thanks Hudson for the books. An attack of rheumatism has kept her from writing to Hudson. The information Hudson gave Sister about Lew Wallace was interesting, but he seems farther than ever from coming into the church. Monsignor Guidi has been made auditor to the Munich Nunciature. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Sister is glad to hear that Charles Warren Stoddard is at Notre Dame and hopes he will be given the grace of a religious vocation. She prefers the first part of Stoddard's book "Troubled Heart" where he recalls his youthful religious experiences as a Protestant. Sister compares it with Newman's experiences as a Protestant set forth in his "Apologia Pro Vita Sua". She congratulates Hudson for publishing Father John A. Zahm 's article in the latest Ave Maria. It is a lesson to those who...

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Mother Prioress thanks Hudson for the books he sent. Sister sends a story of an apparition, which she adapted from the French, together with a sonnet of the Empress of Brazil. At present, everyone in Lisbon talks of Lourenco Marquis and abuse the English, which makes life for the English residents uncomfortable. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Sister hopes that Hudson has received all the Portuguese subscriptions. Gratitude is expressed for the Index for 1886 and 1887. Sister was glad to learn that Father General Edward Sorin presented a volume of the Ave Maria to His Holiness and got a new blessing on Hudson's work. "Father Damien", by Emily Hickey, was published in the Leisure Hour. The Holy Father has 40,000 chasubles and 30,000 chalices to bestow and Sister hopes that someone will remind him of Molokai. Sister has a...

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Mac Laughlin submits a manuscript to Hudson. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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A. S. Mac Master, a brother, writes his sincere regrets and condolences for the recent death of Mrs. J. A. McMaster. He explains that he did not know her during her life but received many reports on her excellent character and purity of life. A. S. Mac Master says that his daughter Mary is well but that his wife is almost an invalid and that his younger daughter Anne-Nette has just recovered from a most serious illness. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 3pp. 16to.

Scope and Contents It has been nearly four weeks since McMaster parted from Wadham. A week ago he became a Catholic. The next day he received absolution, and on Sunday he made his first communion. Next Sunday he is to be confirmed. He feels wonderful. He expresses the comfort and refreshment he feels after confession. The confessional is a sweet and comfortable place when it is occupied by a Catholic Priest. It is now probable that he will be a Redemtorist . If this will be so, Clarence Walworth and he...

Scope and Contents The undersigned chiefs and others of the tribe of the Ottawas at Arbre Croche thank Monroe and Congress for their exertions to bring them to civilization and to the knowledge of Jesus. They pray that Monroe will let them have a minister of the gospel belonging to the same denomination established by Father Marquette and others of the order of the Jesuits. During a great many years they resided among them and instructed their fathers in Christianity and agriculture. Such teachers they invite...

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At Daniel Paul's request the enclosed manuscript is forwarded by MacCarthy. Paul's note with Hudson's address on it was misplaced, and he has had the manuscripts for some time. This accounts for the delay. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents Between business and illness he has been unable to write. He is grateful for Hudson's letter, prayers and the Ave Marias. He is pleased Hudson liked the sketch of poor Girard. He is a great loss as a journalist and a friend. He hopes Hudson liked the Brownson sketch. There was a notable gathering at Father James J. Moriarty's last night. Several bishops, clergy, friends, and Catholic editors, including Mr. James A. McMaster, were there. Brother Jarlath O'Brien called him, for which he...

Scope and Contents He sends "A Word for France" which he feels may do some good at present. He is grateful for the remittance that Hudson sent and is glad that he liked the article on Orestes A. Brownson. He will prepare an occasional foreign reminiscence of special character to suit Hudson. He hopes Hudson is better. He himself has been ill. P. S. He saw the Empress Eugenie and Prince Imperial at Chiselhurst after the war. This is old ground to him as he went to school there. Msgr. Goddard, present...

Scope and Contents He thanks Hudson for the compliments paid his "Papacy" article in the "Scholastic." He will have one on the death of Garibaldi in the next number. He has sent a story to the "Catholic World" but it will have to wait for six months to be published. He would like to dispose of it at once and if Hudson would care to consider it he will send it on. The story is purely secular but could be sprinkled with holy water if Hudson insisted. All Hudson's friends on the "Catholic Review" and the...

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Illness has prevented MacCarthy from doing more than keeping up his relations with Patrick V. Hickey. MacCarthy, in an attempt to renew his acquaintance with the Ave Maria, submits a collection of short stories of Spanish folklore. Years ago he translated one of them for the Catholic World. It was published under the title "Dona Ramona". :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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The wretched weather has kept him from answering Hudson's letter. :: X-3-g A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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MacDermott submits a sketch together with a poem dedicated to Maurice F. Egan . Permission is being requested from Benziger Brothers to translate a current article in German on the great Catholic historian, Johann Janssen. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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The story is original; it was told him by Mr. Fletcher . Sydeny Davis is his nom de plume. He was connected with the Chicago Press formerly. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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McDonald thanks Hudson for the copy of the Ave Maria. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Since the dioceses of Kingston and Detroit are so connected that the members of the two dioceses will be passing into each other's jurisdiction, MacDonnell, to give spiritual assistance to his subjects, grants Rese the powers of vicar general over the diocese of Kingston and over all subjects of that diocese wherever they are with the power of subdelegating according to the powers he received January 22, 1826. This was drawn up by Patrick Dollard as secretary and signed and sealed by the...