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Maes has read the sketch on Father Joseph Damien de Veuster and found his life easy to admire. He sent Hudson a copy of his last pastoral. Its object may not be obvious in the Northwest but Maes believes the exposition of Catholic principles will do good here. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Maes thinks the article "Francis Macary" which appeared recently in the Ave Maria is refreshing Catholic reading. He sends the Ave Maria his first Episcopal blessing sent to a publication. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Maes invites Hudson to visit him at Covington. Maes who was recently consecrated a bishop does not want Hudson to feel he cannot be as familiar with him as he has been in the past. He asks Hudson to let him know when Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C. is going to Rome, For Maes would like Sorin to carry his request to Rome. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The proof is poetical, but it is not historical truth. Maes sends Hudson the first installment of an historical sketch that will acquaint Hudson with the exact truth. There are three Bismarckians and half a dozen milk and water priests in Covington who worry Meas. Hardly an educated man in the neighborhood and he thirsts for genial companionship. Archbishop William Elder is a comfort to him and some of the priests are excellent; but give him the friends of Father Maes. Could he visit...

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In Maes' judgement "An Invention of the Devil" would not suit the Ave Maria. He sends the translation to Hudson to be judged critically. Maes has a list of Reginald Cardinal Pole's manuscripts from the Vatican Library. He asks Hudson and Maurice Egan for information about the literature on Pole. Maes wonders if he has found an uncut diamond. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Maes has just completed an article, "Churchyard Flowers" for the Ave Maria. He will send it tomorrow. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Maes asks Hudson if his sketch has literary merit. Honest opinion is what he wants. Maes sends a story about Heidelberg Castle for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Maes read "Our Lady of Groeninghe" with pleasure. It carries Maes back forty years when living within a block of St. Michael's Church. Enclosed is the full list of the Cardinal Reginald Pole manuscripts. No enclosure :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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If Father General Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C. received the thesis of l'Abbe Mariani in favor of the enclosed postulatum and has been convinced, will Hudson ask him to sign the enclosed. Over 300 Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops have signed it. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Charles Warren Stoddard has just left Maes. He wishes Hudson a happy Easter. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 8vo. 1p.

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Maes thanks Hudson for volume five and the copies of the Scholastic. He hopes Hudson is well. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Maes sends an article he received from Europe which he thinks ought to be translated and published in the Ave Maria. He thinks Butler's treatise on Purgatory a fitting paper for one of Hudson's "Ave Maria Series". Maes requests that Hudson have the first five articles of the series bound and sent to him. He accepted two lectures in Detroit, because he is driven to get money. Hudson must have noticed the trick Father Ralph Dewey, S.J., played on Maes, writing for some notes to complete...

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Maes thanks Hudson for the picture. He has a scheme to squeeze a gothic altar out of the generous hands of a prosperous friend. Maes wishes a generous indulgence for each visit and prayers before the shrine he is building. Will Father-General Edward Sorin, C.S.C. be able to get it for Maes. He will be lecturing in Michigan next week. Maes asks Hudson to send him a copy of "Masses for the Dead". :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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News about Charles Warren Stoddard is comforting. Something to do is his panacea. Hudson may tell Stoddard that Maes is delighted to know that dire conviction of unescapeable duty has brought him to do so. Does Hudson know how impossible a Bishop's priests make it to be one of them and have a little sensible recreation sometimes? He would give and do anything to be rid of authority, but that would be seeking his own comfort and not God's will. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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The proof has been received. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Maes has no objection to whatever use Hudson makes of the legend. He has just returned from giving a retreat in Michigan. As toCharles Warren Stoddard, Maes wants to talk to Hudson about him. :: X-3-d A.L.S. lp. 12mo.

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Maes is leaving on his ad Limina voyage within a week. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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There is only one mistake in the proof of Maes's article. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Press of duties has kept Maes from finishing his article on the Blessed Virgin for the Ave Maria. He is sorry to have missed. Charles Warren Stoddard when he called. Maes supposes his title kept Stoddard from making an informal evening visit. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Enclosed is the first installment of his contribution to the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Maes discusses a proposed change in his recent article. He buried the pioneer priest Father Lambert D. Wille today; he died Monday. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Bishop Maes thanks Brownson for the portrait of his father Orestes A. Brownson whose accomplishments confirm his in his determination to push Catholic education as much as he can. If there are any other works of Brownson which have been published, Brownson is asked to send them to him. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The Bishop wrote to Brownson last week and just now found the letter in his desk, but in answer to Brownson's letter of the 25th, he wishes to say that he fully agrees with him as to the desirability of a Catholic Congress. Let it be a thorough Catholic move, enlisting the good will and cooperation of all, representative of every nationality and thoroughly American. He calls Brownson's attention to nationality because of the ill advised movement of a very few German priests to keep German...

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Just reached home. He is with conference heart and soul. :: III-3-c Telegram 1p. 12mo.

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It may interest Brownson to read and preserve the following extract from a letter of Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick of Baltimore to Bishop George A. Carrell of Covington which Bishop Maes found in the Archives of this See: "Baltimore, Feb. 3d, 1857舰 I am sorry to learn that Orestes A. Brownson's Review is in danger of being discontinued for want of support. Some effort should be made to sustain it, as it is valuable, notwithstanding some peculiarities". :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He encloses two pages of notes on the Visitation which supplement Hudson's sketch. Maes saw the "Chef-d'oeuvre" of Albrecht Durer which is preserved in the Seminary of Bruges in Flanders, it is a jewel. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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When settled down again he will hunt up a copy of the Pole manuscript for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Maes submits an article to the Ave Maria, in the hope that it will reach many Catholic homes. It may de some good during the shopping holiday season. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He returns with thanks the copy of the "month" which Father Hudson lent him. If the article on "The Native Tribes of North America" are republished he wants to be notified of the fact. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Maes will go to Europe next week because two of his loved ones are near death. He wishes to know if he can do anything for Hudson in Belgium or Paris. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 4to.