Scope and Contents In 1866 Malbon's parents became annual subscribers to the Ave Maria. The magazine became his familiar companion. Early in 1872 Malbon's parents left Canada and since then until this year they have not seen the Ave Maria. Malbon is in Deacon's Orders. His present position he owes in large measure to the Ave Maria. Malbon sends a copy of the poems of R. H. Domenichetti, an Englishman educated at Oxford where he fell in with some young men with ritualistic tendencies. He was received into...

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Malbon has received the 1865 volume of the Ave Maria. He received Hudson's second letter and asked R.H. Domenichetti to contribute a poem for the Ave Maria. Domenichetti thinks the whole frontispiece of the Ave Maria should be altered and suggests that Hudson write to Ambrose Lee of London for one. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He is grateful for Hudson's letter and the three numbers of the Ave Maria containing favorable criticism of R. H. Domenichetti's book. Malbon gave him one of the copies. "The Quest of St. Bertrand" has not met with the success it deserved among the Catholics of England. It is gaining ground, and Orby Shipley has spoken well of it. Domenichetti is studying at Ushaw and has been doing good work in controversy with the supporters of ritualism. Their college is about to start the Usahw...

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Father Mallen thanks Hudson for the present of Mr. Maurice F. Egan's "Preludes." Both Mallen and Father Patrick F. O'Hare were glad to hear Hudson's eastern trip was beneficial. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He acknowledges receipt of the "General Index to Brownson's Review" and expresses his gratitude for Hudson's thoughtfulness. Fr. P. F. O'Hare and he are in the best of health and hope that Hudson's health has steadily improved. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Mallen will not be able to make use of the invitation he received to the Notre Dame commencement. Father Patrick F. O'Hare is well. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1pp. 32mo.

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Mallen thanks Hudson for the copy of "Record of a Suffering Soul" received through Father John B. O'Hare . At the Boston Convention of the Young Men's Union, Mallen noticed a representative from Notre Dame, but was unable to meet him. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Mallet read in the "Catholic Mirror" that Hudson published an index of "Brownson's Quarterly Review." Mallet would like a copy of the index and will remit the required amount. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Brownson's letter of May 19th inviting Mallet to attend a meeting of the committee on organization of the Catholic Congress was not received until long after the date of the meeting, Mallet them being in the Indian country travelling from place to place on official business. He now writes, although tardily, to acknowledge the receipt of the letter and to beg Brownson to hold him excused from any suspicion of lack of interest in the project, since his return to his home in Washington he has...

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Mallet fears that the draft of an application and inclosures have miscarried in the mails, since he has not heard from McMaster. The probability that at least one of the Indian inspectors nominated will not be confirmed makes it necessary for him to have his testimonials and application on file as soon as practicable. :: I-2-f A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Mallet sends the papers McMaster requested. He has been sick and unable to get them sooner. There is no report from the committee in the case of Mr. Zach Montgomery so far. Father Conradi has gone back to Umatilla, Oregon. Mallet starts for Oswego tonight, and will try to see McMaster in New York. A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents In a letter marked Private and Confidential, Mallet informs McMaster that he is sending the draft of an application as he promised. He is sending it in draft and substance. He wants McMaster's views on it after McMaster has carefully examined it. He is going into the thing with misgivings, for he knows not one influential person who can push the case along or secure him an audience with the president, and without these the case will simply be pigeonholed, as was his application for the...

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He has received the General Index to Brownson's Review and sends his sincere thanks. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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He informs McMaster that the opponent McMaster has been discussing the school question with is James Harlan, ex-U.S. Senator and former Methodist preacher. Perhaps this will be of help to McMaster, whose articles in the Freeman are admired by Catholics in Washington. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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An editorial clipped from "The Catholic News" Probably written by John Gilmary Shea protests Mallet's dismissal from the Indian Bureau. :: III-3-c News clipping 1p.

Scope and Contents On Sept. 28 he sent McMaster a registered letter containing money taken up by collection for the Pope, asking McMaster to publish in the Journal the donors from Richmond, St. Stanislaus, and St. Vincent, Iowa. He has received a circular from Bishop John Hennessey of Dubuque commanding such a collection be taken up. Mally intends to notify Hennessey that this has been done and was sent to McMaster, but since no notice has yet appeared in the Journal, He is afraid the money did not reach...

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Having heard that prayers are offered for contributors, Theresa Malone gives $3.00 for Mount Carmel. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Malou and Lefevere are the only ones of the diocese of Bruges upon whom the Lord has laid the heavy burden of the episcopate. Malou offers Lefevere a crosier because he has learned from Father Peter Kindekens that Lefevere wants it. :: III-2-i A.L.S. French 2pp. 8vo.

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Hudson should inform through the Ave Maria if an English edition of the life of St. Michael de Ganti has ever been published. :: X-2-j A. Postcard S.

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Since receiving the Bishop's letter he is relieved of all uneasiness and is hopeful of the prospects in the region. Father Thomas Drea left no directions except to a brother who lives in New Jersey. A letter directed to him at Thomastown, Kilkenny, would reach him as it is in the neighborhood of his native place. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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As he is leaving the city he asks McFarland, with the Bishop's permission, to take Possession of his house and parish for July 3 and 4. He wishes him particularly to say Mass the next day and Saturday or there would be no Mass at all. :: I-1-a A.L.S 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents Nothing has been decided about the journey to the beautiful and rich country where Timon lives. In any case, outside his special function as a doctor, he guessed what Timon wants, and has tried, in case he goes, to improve his knowledge of the exact analysis of the minerals. He has some information on a chemist who could be suitable for finding out some ideas about mineral analysis. Mr. Guerin de Vary, Quai de St. Michel, already well-known in the intellectual world, has a profound...

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Photograph of Bishop Francis P. McFarland. :: I-1-c Photograph 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mangan writes in the names of himself and five other priests of this diocese Alton and sends a order for $60 to be applied to defraying the expenses of the Mission to Rome. He writes that none of them would shrink from signing the "petition" were that course considered advisable. He feels that all the true men of the clergy of this diocese endorse McMaster's course and the letters of "Jus ". Others are worthless on occasions like this either through servile fear of authority or assumed...

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Father Mangan wishes McMaster to let him know whether or not he received a letter sent him on the 1st containing an order for $66.00 on the Ocean National Bank, New York. Six dollars for the Freeman's Journal, and ten dollars each for five other priests of this diocese of Alton and Mangan, which is their contribution towards defraying the expenses of the mission to Rome. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Mangan encloses $5.40 from his band for the aid of the Indians and lists the donors. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mangin is sending by mail a copy of the Kyriale, a little booklet of Gregorian Chant for the churches of this country. This and other books of the same collection have been arranged by the order and under the eyes of the late Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann of Philadelphia. They have been approved by several Bishops and introduced into their dioceses. He asks for Lefevere's approbation. Such approval will further their success, and be a reward for Mangin's labor and an encouragement for...

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Maniett submits a poem, "Mary our Mother". :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents He tells McMaster that Father J.M. Townsend of this parish is on an excursion through the Middle States asking help for his parish. If he should go as far north as New York, he asks McMaster to offer advice in furtherance of his object. He recommends Father Townsend to McMaster and commends him for his education, zeal and excellent morality, which entitle him to a high social position and confidence. Manly adds his approbation to what McMaster has been saying in the Journal upon, "Our...

Scope and Contents The recent upsetting of things in the south has deprived him of a judgeship on the supreme court of the state, scattered the accumulations of his past life, and forced him to begin anew as a practicing attorney. He is associated with John Haughton, an eminent lawyer of established reputation and sends McMaster a card. His misfortunes have arisen from a devotion to cause of the south in the late Civil War. He has been "tabooed" by party now in power and violently thrust out of an office,...