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He requests Lefevere to send him the necessary documents for McManus whom Bishop John Timon of Buffalo will ordain in Lent. McManus has been progressing in every respect. Enclosure

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Magnadier sends verses written by her cousin Sister Mary Regis of the Visitation Convent, Georgetown. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Magnien refused John Fearnley a recommendation because of doubts concerning his vocation to the clerical state though there is nothing that can be said against his moral character. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Maguire requests information regarding the residence of the Duke of Norfolk and whether or not the Duchess is a Catholic. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Mrs. Maguire informs McMaster that the Ursulines at Valle Crucis, about three miles from Columbia, South Carolina, suffered considerably from the earthquake shock of August 31. Their house was so injured that it is necessary for them to move to Columbia, South Carolina, but they cannot do this without aid. So Mrs. Maguire wonders if McMaster could appeal for help to assist them. The Mother Superior, Mme. Mary Baptista Lynch, a sister to the late Bishop of Charleston, has suffered from...

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Gratitude is expressed for the extra copies of the Ave Maria that have been sent, and the return for the sketch of Mr. O'Reilly. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He had about given up the idea that "Irish-American Valor in the War for the Union" had further attractions for Ford, as he wrote him so frequently in the past three months without effect. He went to Gettysburg to recruit his health and to write a full history of the Gettysburg campaign for a Washington newspaper, and has obtained some way valuable historical facts and reminiscences. He discusses his stay at Gettysburg. He placed an immense amount of work in the safe of the Deposit...

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Mahar asks McMaster to republish the tests for olive oil which he recently published. The secretary of the diocese Father George F. Hauck has received a quantity of oil from Oscar Tauragna and this oil seems to stand the test McMaster recently spoke of. Mahar believes that McMaster has once alluded unfavorably to Tauragna and so he asks that another evaluation be printed which secretaries and chancellors may refer to. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Mahar has handed to James Drea $3 to be sent to McMaster for the Freeman's Journal for the year 1870. The other subscribers for whom he formerly acted intend to go into a club when their subscriptions fall due, which will be about next March. He thinks their mutual friend Murth Sheen will handle them. They desire to get the benefit of the club system, but he prefers to go it alone. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Will Hudson commend to the Prayers of his readers the Father A M. Baret of Grafton, Massachusetts who died May 16. He encloses the obituary, which Hudson may wish to use. He was an intimate friend and any eulogium Hudson passes on him will be considered a great personal favor. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2 pp. 16mo.

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Maher is grateful for the charity and sympathy expressed in Hudson's letter. Maher corrects an error made in stating the date of his brother's death. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Maher sends a note asking for a continuance of the Ave Maria for his brother. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Enclosed is $2.50 for a periodical Hudson ordered for Maher. Tell Professor Joseph Lyons that Maher thanks him for the Scholastic Annual. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Circular letter instructing the clergy that according to the instructions of Pope Leo XIII of 1884 and 1889 they are to continue the October Devotions and specifying the form and the indulgences attached to the devotions. The pastor is to read this circular to the people and remind them of the need of prayer. :: I-1-c Printed Circular 2pp. 8vo. 10

Scope and Contents Father T.J. Shahan had made great progress in the construction of a diccesan history when he was called to the chair of Canon Law at the Catholic University in Washington. He is now in France or Belgium, accompanying Bishop John J. Keane to Rome where he will remain for two years and spend a third somewhere on the continent in preparation for teaching. He hurriedly left his manuscripts, unpolished and incomplete, and Shahan's mind on the matter is not yet known. Perhaps someone else...

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He thanks Hudson for the pamphlet on "Mixed Marriages" that he has just received. He has not read it yet. Asks Hudson to send the Ave Maria for one year. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 1p. crown 8 vo

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Mahoney asks Hudson to reprint Father Young's "Open Letter to a Nun." :: X-3-f A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Father Mahoney sends McMaster an answer to "Clerious" through Mr. Sheshy, 33 Murray St., New York, his publisher. McMaster has opened his columns to Clerious and has allowed Mahoney to be insulted through them, and in honor and justice he should atleast print Mahoney's answer to him. Without any reasonable provocation Clericus attacked Mahoney's personal character in an unmanly, un-Christian, and un-clerical way, and for this reason Mahoney hopes that his letter of defense will be given...

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The photograph of Dr. Orestes A. Brownson has been received and is highly appreciated. The Brownson Library Association has directed Mahoney to thank Brownson and has ordered a large copy of the photograph to be made, to be placed in the reading room of the Association. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Mahoney asks McMaster to publish the enclosed communication. He thanks him for the articles concerning the rights of the Priesthood in America. If many priests had been shown justice and charity by their bishops they might have been saved from destruction and avoided a scandal to religion. The evils are remedial, but the priests have no rights whatever. Even a negro has the right of a trial if accused but a priest is at the mercy of his Bishop, who is often influenced by passion or...

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Mahony enclose a little pamphlet which he translated with the permission of the author with the hope that the Ave Maria will give it favorable notice. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Father Weyer, a Dominican, formerly a physician now living in the diocese of Detroit asks the Holy Father for permission to practice medicine. In the Audience of Jan. 19, 1834, Pope Gregory XVI ordered Mai as secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda to tell him that the Pope grants this permission to him on condition that he accept nothing for these services, and that he is sufficiently qualified. Sealed. :: III-2-g D.S. Petition in Italian, answer in Latin 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Father Mazzuchelli, a Dominican formerly of Milan, now living in the diocese of Detroit, asks the Holy Father for permission to dispose by will of the goods which he has or will acquire. In the Audience of Jan. 19, 1834, the Holy Father, Gregory XVI ordered Mai as secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda to tell Mazzuchelli that he grants the faculty of disposing by will for pious uses whatever goods he has or will acquire in legitimate ways, notwithstanding the vows that he...

Scope and Contents Mailley, a French priest, asks to enter the Detroit diocese. He gives his reasons for emigrating from France. For 12 years he has lived in Algiers with his family. He studied theology in the Grand Seminary of Alger with the Lazarists, was ordained priest when 22 1/2 years old. After some time as an instructor his bishop appointed him rector of the College of Philippeville. Today at 30 years of age he is pastor of the parish of Ain-Temouchent; he was too happy, God sent him a terrible trial!...

Scope and Contents Father Mary Paul Wehrle preached last Sunday at St. Joseph's that anyone who rents a place in a foreign church commits a sacrilege and a grave sin. If Wehrle holds such principles he should put into effect what he told in confidence to Wehrle's organist, Mr. Wurth, namely, that if the bishop opposed him again a little, he should see a doctor. Yesterday morning a man with a carriage drew up before their house, saying he had been sent by an auctionary to load the effects of a priest who wished...

Scope and Contents Majerus left Detroit unexpectedly last Monday; time did not permit him to see Lefevere for permission. He left hurriedly so that the people would not make a demonstration. He hereby asks permission to leave, thanking Lefevere for all the kindness extended him, and asking pardon for all his blunders and mistakes in Detroit. He is quite miserable, while at Detroit he had lots of trouble interiorly and exteriorly. Nevertheless he was always contented, as the witness of his conscience favored...

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Father Majerus has been on a mission for severl weeks and fears that his signature in support of Canon Law in the United States, might be too late. He desires most sincerely that status of Law replace arbitrary rule. He feels that a great many more priests would sign the the petition if the signatures had been asked for in a seperate article, naming the place they should be sent, as well as the time limit. :: I-1-n A.L. S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Majerus has noticed in the Nov. 3 issue of the Freeman's Journal the article signed by Rafael Celedon encloses the last sentence of Our Lord's prayer in quotation marks. Even though McMaster did not make any remark about it, Majerus knows he does not approve of such an interpretation of the prayer, and wishes to ask the correspondent from which author he quotes. Neither St. Matthew, St. Luke, nor any catechism or prayerbook he has consulted, has given any such version. :: I-2-d A.L.S....

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Mother Major submits a poem in honor of St. Cecelia. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Their chief spoke to him in Washington, asking for some land for the Catholic mission at Grand River. He was told that aid would be given but not in land. Now, they understand that what is to be given by the treaty is to go to the Protestant missions only. Richard said at Mackinaw that what was said in the treaty was an error; that he had advocated the good of the Catholic missions and would write to Washington to have the error corrected. They beg him to do this because they understand that...