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That morning he received McMaster's letter of April 23 and one from Mr. Gallagher, and this afternoon he received another letter. He will be in New Orleans May 1 or early May 2. He met Major Semple while in Montgomery Alabama and he sends McMaster his kindest regards. Mr. John Henry also sends regards. John will write to Mr. Gallagher tomorrow. :: I-2-f A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He has finished Dobbs Ferry, Sing-Sing, and Peekskill. He writes to tell McMaster not to send the collars and cuffs. He hopes McMaster is well. He will be back soon. P.S. He thinks McMaster had better send the collars and cuffs to Post Office Saugerties, New York. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Jack recounts details of his voyage on a rough sea from New York to Newport. He is now waiting for his train for Fall River, Massachusetts. He should finish Fall River this afternoon, and expects to be in Providence tonight. P.S. He would like McMaster to write him at the United States Hotel in Boston, where he will be Wednesday or Thursday, and where he will remain a few days. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He did not intend to keep McMaster waiting so long for a letter, but he is on the go all the time, and when he comes to a town he is so tired that he can only notify Mr. Gallagher of his position and his route ahead. In Denison Texas he had an invitation to a ranch, but he had not accepted it. He is anxious to get home to see McMaster again. The longest part of his trip is over, and he will be home soon. He asks how the nuns were when McMaster saw them last. He outlines the next part of...

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Jack has not received the letter from McMaster that Gallagher told him to expect. He hopes that Jack Kieley is keeping him company as he promised. He intends to wait in Petersburg until he hears from John Gallagher. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Jack asks that he be excused for not writing. He received McMaster's telegram about a half hour ago and immediately made up his mind to start for New York. When he told Mrs. Coll, she told him to write and ask if he might stay til Sunday afternoon. He went to Trenton to visit some friends with the Colls. P.S.: He asks McMaster to telegraph if he wants him home. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Jack was surprised to here that Sister Gertrude is to receive the habit on Wednesday. He visited Sister Saint John on the Epiphany. To attend the ceremony of Sister Gertrude would make him very glad. The Colls he is sure are not tiring him. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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He arrived from Baton Rouge yesterday to find a batch of letters, including McMaster's. He found San Antonio dull, and left it to go on. He had two pony rides, one at Waxahachie, Texas, and one at Fort Worth, and between Denison and Sherman Texas, he met with a nearly fatal accident, when a busy, in which he was riding, overturned. He asks McMaster to remember him to the Keileys. He is stopping with Mr. Grace, who refused to let him stop at a hotel. :: I-2-f A.L.S. 2pp. 8mo.

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John is afraid McMaster is blue because it has been a week since he last wrote. He asks him to decide where they will spend Christmas as he should be home five days before that Feast. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He received McMaster's note in Washington and has not had time to write, for he has been on the go ever since he left Baltimore. He hopes McMaster is well, and after all, he will be home soon. He goes to Petersburg today, then to Norfolk where he hopes to get a letter. The weather is delightful. He will soon get to North Carolina if he continues at his present speed. He asks to be remembered to Major and Mrs. Keiley and the boys, whom McMaster should ask if they intend to write at all....

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He has received both letters including the last with paper and letter enclosed. He will go to communion on the feast of All Saints. It is doubtful whether it will be possible to see Mr. Barry before he leaves. He hopes that McMaster is well. It is not a long time till Christmas. P.S. He asks to be remembered to the Mayor, Mrs. Keiley, and the boys. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Jack received McMaster's letter of the 20th and it was very welcome. It will be rather hard for him to explain a out the clothes that McMaster wishes to give to the Starrs. He hopes he can wait until Christmas when it would be much easier. He intends to write Cornell, the tailor, to see about the suit. All he needs from his father is one suit of red flannel under cothing. He has been traveling through the Mohawk Valley where McMaster has been. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Jack takes this opportunity to write McMaster as he may not get another chance. He met an old subscriber who has been blinded by an accident and felt very sorry for him. He will let McMaster know when and where he wants his suit sent. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Jack has received McMaster's letter of Sept. 18., and is glad to hear McMaster is well. If he gets a chance to go to Confession tonight he shall receive Communion tomorrow. He intends to write Sister St. John McMaster, S.H.C.J. tonight. He wonders how the Keiley boys like St. Francis Xavier's and hopes they are not walking. He is getting along first rate, and if it were not for the Sundays, he would be through in no time at all. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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John apologizes for his rude speech to her the other evening. He did not mean what he said, and hardly knew what he was saying, for he was worried over being delayed in Plaquemine so long. He hopes she is well, and hopes she will have the kindness to forget the occurence. :: I-2-m A.L.first draft 1p. 12mo.

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He is well in spite of the bad weather, and is glad that McMaster is keeping well. He has received McMaster's note, also the letter McMaster sent to Baltimore. He asks McMaster to give his regards to Major and Mrs. Keiley, and ask the latter if she received his note. :: I-2-f A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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John writes that he felt very bad on parting from his father at the Broad Street Station, and felt very sorry for him, since he had to go back all alone to Brooklyn. John is now duly installed in the Bishop's house. He came immediately after arriveing in Wilmington, as Father Keiley had instructed him to do. He will go to confession tomorrow evening and to Holy Communion on Sunday. Jan. 31.. Bishop Thomas A. Becker and Father B.J. Keiley send their regards. :: I-2-f A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Her delay in answering McMaster's letter was caused by her absence from home. Her father was buried in Xenia, Ohio along beside 8 to others of their family name. There will soon be 10 in this spot because it is intended to remove the body of Uncle Crawford McMaster to a spot left him by his sisters, as soon as winter comes. He has been buried in Poland, Ohio, since the hot weather did not permit that he be taken to Xenia. Her father had hoped to take care of this but was so ill when...

Scope and Contents McMaster tells his son, James, that the latter's sister, Helen, received a letter that was supposed to have been from him. He expresses the general sorrow of the family that they were unable to minister the son's needs when he was sick with fever, but at that time they were asked to watch and give relief to domestic sufferings. On July 11, James' brother, Erasmas D.McMaster was attacked by inflammatory rheumatism, which has caused him extreme suffering. He is still confined to his room...

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Mother F. Borgia went home this morning before Mass. Sister Saint John would like McMaster to pray for her and have some Masses said. She had a line from Sister Gertrude telling of the death of their Sister Martha. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents She and McMaster had a very pleasant visit last week. She hopes he had a pleasant Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Baltimore. She had a letter from Father Giesen, from whom she begged a Mass; he is coming to Philadelphia next month, and says he will see her if he can. They had letters from the Mother Superior who found the Mother General in the Mother house at Mayfield better than she expected. They go into retreat tomorrow evening. She encloses her doctor bill, and wishes him God's...

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Sister Saint John tells McMaster that the piano stool arrived today. The piano had been put in antechapel and she is to give her lessons there in the future Teresa. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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She wishes him a happy birthday, and wonders that he has not started yet, as she had been expecting to hear that he had ever since his visit to her. May will be a beautiful month for him to begin his new life. She assures him of her prayers, and asks him to greet James Alphonsus McMaster and Gertrude McMaster, whom she will see this week and who will tell her of his plans. :: I-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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She thanks him on behalf of the Mother for his and Pho's attention Sunday night and yesterday. The Mother and Mother Antonia are both thankful, and were pleased with Pho. They arrived safely, and the luggage is safe too. She thanks him once more for the Mothers. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Sister Saint John misplaced Dewey's address and as the wine is almost out she asks McMaster to send it. She is glad to hear that Auntie Brown is planning a visit. If she in tends to stay all night there are some quiet little boarding houses close by. P.S. by Mother M. Walburga— Mother General is expected next week, so will Aunt Brown come the following week. He may come, though. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Two letters were received from McMaster in a week. Sister Saint John knows what a good father he is to give her the greatest of delights — that of a life in religion. Although she has had physical pain, God has let her feel its value. The Bible and tomatoes arrived and she read the 35th Chapter this morning. Mother de Borzia, the Sister with consumption, was annointed and will probably go home soon. Sister Saint John is reading Pere Surin's "Fundemento de la Vie Spirituelle" which she...

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Sister Saint John thanks McMaster for the oranges, potatoes, wine and the letter he sent to the Mother. She says that Sister Gertrude also wrote to the Mother. Mother M. Agnese asked her to thank him for Sister Gertrude's photographs which arrived at about Easter. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Sister Saint John is writing for the Mother who was stung by a poisonous fly. Mother is pleased McMaster is interested in the Indians and so has written to Mother H. Anthony to forward a memorandum about them. She thanks him for Sister M. Gonzaga for the Mass and Communion. Today is the anniversary of her cure from a hip-disease by Our Lady of Lourdes. She is afraid she was not thankful enough then but she is trying to make it up now. P.S. Of course she will think of the others on the...

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Sister Saint John thanks McMaster for the copy of the "History of the People of the United States" which came this morning. She hopes he has had a nice rest since his visit. The surprise visit of Pho was greatly enjoyed. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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The grapes were received with great thankfulness. She has thought more frequently of him since his visit but hopes that the visits are not dry when he has to do most of the talking. Sunday to Tuesday mornings will be a Quarant Ore and McMaster will be in her thoughts before the Blessed Sacrament. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.