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Scope and Contents If Father Beccard will accept their repentence and drop the suit instituted against them, the undersigned agree to pay all expenses which have been and will be incurred, to return the original of the letter written by Beccard to Toussaint Leblanc, and to publicly disavow their conduct in regard to Beccard in the Gazette of Thibodaux, the Pioneer of Assumption, and the Drapeau of Ascension . This declaration will also be read once during the public office in the churches of Thibodaux,...

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Knowing that Father Hubert Thirion, his former director at Poydras College, is now at the archbishopric, Dragouve asks Blanc to give him the enclosed letter no enclosure. He asks for Thirion's influence in finding employment as a professor. Dragouve was sorry to hear of Blanc's fall but happy to hear of his convalescence. VI-1-o - A.L.S. - French - 2pp. - 12mo. - 2

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Miss Drake sends $5.38 as the dues for eleven months from her band of the St. Michael's prayer group for the benefit of the Indians. A poor woman, Mrs. Teahan, sends 36 cents as a year's dues and promises to say the "Aves" faithfully. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Miss Drake received his letter and was unable to accept his dinner invitation but expected to see him at his office in regards to the "lots" of news he said he had. She supposes that a portion of the news is to announce "Our First American Cardinal" and expresses disbelief in all the Herald has said about it. Miss Edes recent letters have contained a number of messages supposedly for insertion in the Pilgrims Album. Miss Edes says the Holy Father will have forgotten about the Pilgrimage...

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Mary Drake sends 50¢ as dues for the society of St. Michael of the Holy Rosary for the aid of the Indian Missions and lists the 15 contributors. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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There will be friends visiting, whom Drake would wish to take to hear Archbishop Ireland. Eight seats are needed, and Onahan is asked to furnish tickets.

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should send by return mail the price of his subscription to the Album des Familles for 1880, $2.00. By adding the subscription for 1881 he will receive the "Chemin de la Croix". VI-3-c - Printed Circular - French - 1p. - 12mo. - {1}

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Perché should send by return mail the price of his subscription for the "Album des Families," which is $3.00. :: VI-3-c Printed Circular French 1p. 12mo.

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McMaster is respectfully invited to visit the institutions under charge of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction on Tuesday Oct. 13, 1863 in company with the officers of the war-vessels in New York Harbor. Steamers depart on that day from the United states barge office battery at 9:15 o'clock A.M. and from Bellevue Hospital Landing, 26th Street, East River, New York at 10:00 o'clock. :: I-1-m Printed circular 1p. 12mo.

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The Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction resolved to invite the officers of the War vessels now in New York harbor with representatives from their respective governments, to visit the institutions on Tuesday October 13, 1865; and that the United States Military and Naval officer at the New York station be respectfully invited to accompany them. :: I-1-m Printer circular 1pp. 8vo.

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Drea has been organizing a club for McMaster's paper and has just succeeded. Two other men are also forming clubss. Drea will write friends in Wisconsin, urging them to form clubs, too. He wishes McMaster a very happy Christmas. P.S. He lists the names of the subscribers. He will send McMaster a check on the bank on Friday Dec. 29, 1869. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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He encloses a check for $27.00. P.S. Thomas Mahar, whose subscription expires Jan. 1, 1870 encloses $3.00 for renewal. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Using the first opportunity to keep his promise, he sends some specimens of his work He will be glad to know what Edwards has to say about his sketches. :: XI-1-j A.L.S. 2pp.

Scope and Contents He is certain that the Sacred Heart has chosen McMaster as the very soul of his good works in New York. Because of this devotion he asks McMaster's aid in a project for the popularization of devotion to the Sacred Heart, and encloses a letter on the project. Mexico has already assured them of a sum of 30,000; France and Canada a like sum. the United States is behind and he is sure that McMaster's zeal will assure success in the enterprise. He sends him the report of their pilgrimages in...

Scope and Contents He is afraid that his long silence has led McMaster to think that they are not grateful for his kind letter. But they have spent much time away from home lately, and it has been impossible to find leisure to write. They are getting the letters written them a year ago when their father died bound into a volume. McMaster is reckoned among their warmest friends—and would have have been even though they had not become personally acquainted with him. His sisters and Miss Cassidy send...

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The beautiful print of Seton's grandmother was left on Saturday and she thanks him for it. About the reading— she read her extracts at Mrs. Marquand's and so gave a grand subject in a grand mansion. Seton adds a note on the letter Mrs. Drexel, a lady of considerable literary talents and a convert of high social position. The letter is a propos of a reading on Mother Seton. :: II-1-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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She encloses Mr. Clarke's letter which speaks for itself (no enclosure). She too is sorry her plan cannot be carried out. His throat is so delicate he is very little in New York. She invites Seton to the put off dinner party on the 11th.

Scope and Contents Copy. When he could have approached more easily and earlier a reconciliation with the Order at Cumberland, the Brothers there were forced, according to the expressed order of the Superior General, to close the doors of the monastery against him. He entered to ask of the Most Holy Pontiff absolution for his unfortunate desertion and secularization, which he has done this very hour. It is impossible for him to continue any longer. He has been punished already and has been expelled from the...

Scope and Contents Driessan is again at Muskegon with Father Henry Rievers . When he arrived at the Carmelites in Cumberland, he was astonished to hear from the newly appointed superior that the Superior General in Rome, hearing he had left England, had sent an order that he would be immediately expelled because he had stolen sacred vessels from their Mission. His defense against the charge, Lefevere can learn from the letter to his General in Rome, which he joins to this letter. Fortunately his superior in...

Scope and Contents Father Driessen expresses pleasure that McMaster's son is recovering, and hopes that God would spare him long years of life; to see his son growing to fill his place. In England the clergy have not as much liberty to speak their minds as in America. Rome wants parishes but because the timid English clergy fear to displease their zealous prelates new parishes cannot be started. The writer is a missionary who has 142 families scattered over 25 square miles. He thanks McMaster for his...

Scope and Contents Father Driessen congratulates McMaster on his idea of organizing prayer and Holy Rosary Circles for the Indians, and hopes he will be able to continue such a noble enterprise. He sends $1 toward the cause and says that he has spoken of it in Babylon nearby also. The people are making every effort to organize the bands and one little girl gave the last 3 cents she had as monthly dues. The missions are greatly needed, especially in these days of practical heathenism. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 2pp....

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He thanks McMaster for the pleasure he had in reading an editorial in this weeks paper on "The Irish Catholic Be. Union and its President". He hopes that it will lie to the slanderers who charge McMaster with disrespect for the Episcopal authority of the Ordinary of the diocese. He will offer a Mass for McMaster and his family on the feastday of the Immaculate Conception. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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He cannot read the Journal through now, but reading of the death of Mrs. McMaster, he will offer a high mass for the repose of her soul. While working in Bunker Hill, he broke his health. May he and McMaster and children might die in the fear and the love of God. He will request the prayers of his congregation, for Mrs. McMaster. He consoles with a reminder of the fact that we are all children of a Loving Father. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12 mo.

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For clearing 1 acre of land, $25; for clearing of stumps, $10, in St. Patrick's Cemetery . On the same bill: Received $35, Signed John Hart :: VI-1-d Receipted Bill 1p. 16mo.

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Drinkwater writes a long satirical letter discussing at length the Resolutions published in the New York City Paper of March 17, 1871, and McMaster's connection with the Resolutions. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 6pp. 8vo.

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Driscol received Lefevere's letter of March 4 and will obtain information about a Father Andrew Schweiger who had a difficulty with one of his congregation and was sued and fined. P.S. Two priests have lately been suspended in the diocese of Covington . It is not probable that lack of occupation induces Schweiger to ask for a change. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Driscol saw Father Thomas R. Butler of Covington and asked about Father Andrew Schweiger Sweiger. Sweiger has caused difficulties everywhere. Before his difficulty at St. Joseph's Congregation in Covington he served a German congregation where a serious charge was brought against him. Father J. B. Hengehold of St. Philomena's tells him Sweiger has given no satisfaction in other congregations. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Driscoll sends $4 as subscription to the Freeman's Journal for two friends. He mentions that he sent $2 some time ago, and hopes that McMaster received it. He gives a picture of the rapid growth of the Church in Kansas, and gives McMaster facts concerning the availability of cheap and fertile lands for homesteading purposes. He feels that the land now selling for a few dollars an acre will in a few years sell for from 25 to 100 dollars per acre. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Enclosed is an article for the Ave Maria. Regards are extended to all. :: X-3-f A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

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She encloses some letters to her sisters residing in Mobile. She asks Odin's prayers for her 2 brothers who died in Cincinnati some time ago. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.