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Mannix sends the second half of "Two Schools". At Atlantic City, she heard two ladies discoursing on Rev. Basil Maturin f Baltimore. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mannix submits a translation. Mannix does not know how it is in New Mexico, but here the Spanish people are not good Catholics. Though their houses are filled with images and pictures of saints they rarely attend Mass. She has become convinced that there are no good Catholics in San Diego except a few Indians and Irishmen. Hudson should keep Christian Reid t work for him because her influence is greatly for the good. Does Hudson know the real name of Harold Dijon, ho writes for the...

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Mannix acknowledges receipt of the remittance. She hopes to send Hudson the conclusion of her story "Two Schools" at the end of the week. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Why not ask Christian Reid to write a short story? "The Angel of Red Front" was a gem. Sara Trainer Smith writes well and Mannix would be satisfied if she could write like her. Mannix is intent on the Irish question; she was convinced long ago that Richard Pigott was the guilty man, because of what Mr. Healy told her about Pigott's infamy. Healy did not then believe in the disinterestedness of Prime Minister Gladstone, but credited him with personal motives. The English government is...

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Mannix submits some verses for the Youth Department. Perhaps Hudson should substitute M.E.M. or Sylvia Hunting for her full name, since it does not look well to have two articles from the same pen in the same number. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Mannix received the Spanish poems and will send Hudson a translation. Hudson may do what he pleases with her letters, she has great respect for his judgement. Who is writing the "Lay Sermons for Lent", they are good and ought to be printed in pamphlet form. The sketch of Kathleen O'Meara was touching. Her love for her mother touched a chord in Mannix's heart and brought back memories of her mother whom she describes for Hudson. Maurice Francis Egan's tribute to Patrick Valentine Hickey...

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Mannix submits the last of the translations. She is not sure Hudson will care to print "Signs of the Times". Mannix Comments on the marriage account in one of the stories. Mannix is thinking of trying for one of the prize stories for the Youth's Companion. When is the Catholic magazine for youth to see the light and who will be its founder? Does Maurice Francis Egan feel inclined to push it? :: X-3-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents It never makes any differences to Mannix when Hudson publishes her contributions. The more she thinks of her translation of "Signs of the Times" the less she thinks it advisable to publish it. There are many estimable artists whom it would be unjust to include in the scorching declaration of the writer of "Lee Cyniques". She names many. Their Confraternity of the Sacred Heart remains in statu quo. It is neither politic nor proper to nudge one's pastor's elbows more than once. Spainards...

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Mannix asks Hudson to pray for her friend Sister Bernardine, who died at St. Martin's, Ohio on April 6th. Her death was a great loss to Mannix. She submits an article. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Mannix is thankful to be away from the old scenes where she suffered so much in the last three years. The journey to California was pleasant. During the boom time the house they leased rented for one hundred and twenty-five dollars, but since the boom collapsed things are different. The pastor in San Diego, Father Anthony Uback, came from Spain with Bishop Francis Mora twenty years ago and is not liked by the people, but Mannix has found him friendly. His demeanor is saintly although...

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Mannix and family arrived safely in San Diego. :: X-3-h A. Postcard S. 1p.

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Mannix's article "Jeanie Reilly" is completed. Her boy, John, writes that his Aunt Ella allows them to stay on her reception days. There were 212 ladies but John thought "Mamma is the nicest." Mannix quotes part of a letter from a Brooklyn friend, in which he says that while he was with the Mannix family he was a new man. She is worried about the young man because of his self-depreciation. He would sketch for a long time and then cast his work aside. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mannix returns Ella Lorraine Dorsey's letter, she is most complimentary. Mannix would like to translate or adapt a combined life of Don Bosco and his mother. Mannix received a reply to her letter to the Catholic World, in which she asked if an article on M. Dupont and the Devotion to the Holy Face would be acceptable. They replied it was against the traditions, aim and ambitions of the Catholic World to become the special organ of any one devotion and feel compelled to decline Mannix's...

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Mannix is recuperating at St. Martin's after completing preparations for moving. She thanks Hudson for the verses. Mrs. Emma Innes, she believes wrote Hudson in behalf of some sketches by her sister, who Mannix believes is a graceful writer. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix submits a Japanese legend for the Ave Maria, the plot of which she discusses. She also sends some verses. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mary Meline informed Mannix that Mr. Schiml, who is stopping at Xavier College, requested her to furnish some contributions for a new Catholic paper he proposes to publish. He claimed to have good financial backing and had just come from Notre Dame, where he had attended college. Mannix inquires if Hudson knows anything about Schiml. She believes Brennan is either a graduate or an undergraduate of St. Xavier's this year, and has seen some verses of his. If there is any financial backing...

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Mannix hates puns and never makes one voluntarily, but Schiml is pronounced Schimmel and means would or must. Schiml writes that he has six or seven serial stories promised and prefers that Mannix write a short story. "Sylvia Hunting" ought to get a chance. She has not received the pastoral Hudson sent for translation. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix returns the proof. She desires to write a novel with Charles Warren Stoddard and discusses the plot she has in mind. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Mannix thought Hudson might like to read the editorial in the United Ireland, as representing the feeling of most of the Irish people. She does not fear Irish secession from the faith. Mannix presumes the Sunday Herald was sent to Hudson from Chicago. If all they say is true, San Diego has a great future before it. Mannix submits two book reviews and will forward a third when she gets Hudson's opinion. She does not known who Father "Zelus Animorum" is but he is neither wise nor well...

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Mannix submits an article for the Youth Department of the Ave Maria. The Mannix family will remain at St. Martin's until September 1, by which time John B. Mannix will have established himself in San Diego, and realized some money on property held by his brother, who is in China. Who is Adele hat wrote the article on the Sacred Heart? :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix likes writing better than book reviewing. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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After today, she will be fine and so will "Sylvia Hunting", who will send Hudson some verses. John B. Mannix liked "The Heart of St. John" and "Ten Times One", but does not care for "The Mother of Don Bosco". Angelique de Lande's poetry is sometimes good but often inferior and forced. Mannix is sending something on Katharine Tynan. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix sends the second installment of her article "TwoSchools" with comments on the plot and characters in the story. What a fine word picture is Charles Warren Stoddard's "In the Desert". She wishes he would write a novel with her. There never were such boys as Eliza Allen Starr's boys, save in her imagination. Mannix has a pretty story in the French by Daudet, entitled "The Mother of a Marchioness" that has never been translated. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mannix returns the proof. She thinks the Japanese Legend looks well in print. Mannix intends to write a series of articles on early missions in California advertised for by a San Diego magazine, which is said to be a literary center. The magazine claims to have discovered Charles Warren Stoddard. Has Hudson said anything to Stoddard about the novel Mannix and he should write together? Nugent Robinson should not have had his hero propose in church. How sweetly Katherine Tynan sings. ::...

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She leaves next week for California, where she expects her husband will make a good living. She has been waiting to see the first chapters of "Two Schools" in print, before she sent Hudson the rest. Does Hudson think the "Hunchback" too much like those verses to be published soon? Mannix sends Hudson a copy of the "Golden Eve." :: X-3-g A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Bulletin Salesien reports a new "Life of Don Bosco". Would Hudson like it for the Ave Maria, to be afterwards interwoven and condensed in book form with "The Mother of Don Bosco"?. Or does Hudson think it would be better to write to some of the publishing houses and propose to have it issued in book form at once? Mannix requests the monthly part of the Ave Maria containing "The Mother of Don Bosco" be sent to Dom Michael Rua of Turin. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

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Mannix is sorry about Two Schools. She wrote she would wait until she saw the first chapter in print to continue it. She wrote the first installment thinking Hudson wanted it for July. Mannix returns Solitary Island because in conscience she can not write a good thing about the book. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Hudson will not care for any of these except "Easter Angels" and "Beside the River". Mannix sends Hudson a book of which she already told him. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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The Ave Maria has been received. It has greatly improved. She sends a poem, "Via Coneis" for Holy Week. If Hudson does not want the poem he should inform her so she may have it published in the "Telegraph." Hudson need not return the manuscript. :: X-2-f A.L.S. 1p. 12mo

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Hudson's letter received with proof of sonnet. She wants Hudson's criticism of her contribution when it is published in the "Catholic World." Mr. Galway, assistant editor of "Catholic's Telegraph" is going to assume the same position with the "Catholic World." He promises to use his influence with Fathers Hecker and Hewitt to have the names of contributors published. :: X-2-f A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo