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He sends a blank form for information about the library. The publication of the Statistics of Libraries for 1900 has been delayed owing to the fact that the desired information could not be obtained from many libraries. :: XI-2-c PRINTED 1p.

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He apologizes for not answering McMaster's letter. He had it published in the Morning Age and the person he gave it to forgot to mail it. It is no trouble to receive the help so greatly needed by their suffering friends and he is grateful to McMaster for his kindness. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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He has received McMaster's postal money order for $20.50, and the other money as well, for which he thanks McMaster for Sister Helena. He has been fortunate in his receipts this week, but all that can be collected is needed, for everyone is suffering from the Scourge of Sherman. General William T. Sherman :: I-1-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Harrison thanks McMaster for $5.00, and says he immediately invested it in knitting wool which he sent to a lady in Charleston, S.C. who has been stripped of all. Her letter requesting some worsteds for her to knit and some little shoes to sell so she can earn a livelihood, was received the same time as McMaster's letter. He will dispose of some shoes for her benefit. The change for her, from wealth to poverty must be very sad. He sent a lady in Richmond $41, but still has the hair to...

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Harrison regrets that he is unable to accept an invitation to the Second Regiment's First Annual Banquet. He elaborately praises, and wishes for the welfare of the regiment. He believes that a standing army is a menace, that free people should foster its citizen army. :: XI-1-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents He encloses $10 and a list of club members from Brockport, Clarkson, Sweden and Hamlin, to whom the Journal is to be sent. There should be 500 Catholics subscribers in such a large community, but besides the 25 members of Harrison's club, there are only 6 others who read any Catholic paper. They would rather read the local publication that maligns the Church and country at every opportunity. Some men feel that the Journal is too prejudiced; he asks that McMaster introduce a bit of...

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Harrison has been requested by Father Henry McCullow, C.P., to forward his name to McMaster to be subscribed with the others to the "Petition" on the "Status of the Clergy". Harrison hopes McMaster received another letter, and donation, sent a couple of weeks ago. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Father Harrison sends his name, to be applied to the petition to be sent to Rome regarding the status of the Clergy. He also sends $5 for the expenses. He would have done this before, but he has been short of money. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Harrison tells McMaster of a priest of Oskolorsa who tended some small pox victims on the Valley R.R. near Fella south of Des Moines. The priest was refused admittance to the train on his return and was served notice by the Mayor of Oskalorsa to keep himself indoors. Harrison says the act was more out of fear of the disease than disdain for the priest and asks McMaster if infection is possible on mere contact like that. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Receipt for a five dollar contribution to the Brownson Memorial Fund by Peter L. Foy . Among the papers of Henry F. Brownson :: III-3-d A.D.S. 1p. 16mo.

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He is now permanently located in New York and hopes to have the pleasure of entertaining Edwards before he returns to Notre Dame. He spent ten splendid days at the Summer School at Lake Champlain. :: XI-2-g A.L.S. 3pp.

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He leaves today for Chicago to pay Edwards his long promised visit. He will arrive at Notre Dame on Friday and may remain until Sunday. :: XI-2-g A.L.S. 2pp.

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He was pleased to hear from Edwards and to learn that he was so busy. He regretted that Edwards' visit to Long Branch was so brief. Edwards made a very agreeable impression on Mr. Lyons. He suggested to the library committee to subscribe for the Ave Maria and it is now regularly on the table. P.S. Dear old Father Bernard de Costa has passed away. :: XI-2-g L.S.(Typed) 1p.

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Edwards' letter and the treasures it contained in the autographs of Orestes A. Brownson made it a favor prized for life. He will prize highly any personal souvenir of Brownson should Edwards send it. He received a letter from Father Stanislaus Fitte. No copy of the Scholastic reaches the Catholic Club. :: XI-2-h A.L.S. 3pp.

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Address to the Catholics of America by the Brownson Memorial Committee concerning the erection of a monument to Orestes A. Brownson . Among the papers of Henry F. Brownson :: III-3-b Printed L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Harson is about to prepare a circular containing a short biographical notice of Orestes A. Brownson and other information, in the interest of the Brownson Memorial Fund, and would be glad to receive suggestions and information. The circular is intended to make Dr. Brownson better known to the generation which has come forward since he was before the public and who wish to be informed of his life and works and estimate in which he was held by those who knew him. In addition to anything of...

Scope and Contents Harson wishes Brownson a happy new year and asks how he recovered from the fatigues of the Congress. Harson had hoped to hear that Brownson would soon pay that proposed visit East. The memorial volume is slow in getting out. He expected to see it two weeks ago. He asks Brownson to send him a copy of the Michigan Catholic containing the account of the Symposium at the Catholic Club. He intended to ask Brownson when in Detroit if their conversation on a Catholic Congress while in New York last...

Scope and Contents Since the receipt of Brownson's letter of January 3rd, Harson has been expecting from week to week to see him and to hear when he expected to visit the East. He would have written before but did not expect to reach him in Detroit. He learns from this Week's Review and Freeman's that he is in New York. They would like to have sufficient time to announce his coming so that a satisfactory audience would be assured. Harson expects to be in New York next Tuesday and would like to meet Brownson,...

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Since before Christmas he intended to write Edwards. He stills holds very pleasant memories of Edwards' brief visit last summer. When Notre Dame is considering the claims of candidates for the Laetare Medal, he hopes that they will not overlook the claims of Judge Morgan J. O'Brien. :: XI-2-e A.L.S. 2pp.

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During the past summer he nursed the hope that Edwards would find time to spend a few days in the land of Roger Williams. The summer passed and Edwards did not come. He knows that Edwards duties have been many since the Fall opening. The Brownson monument will be unveiled under the happiest auspices. Archbishop John Farley has taken the matter in hand. :: XI-2-g A.L.S. 4pp.

Scope and Contents Onahan is asked to correct an error in the minutes of the St. Louis meeting which Harson had sent previously. The Executive Committee should read: Archbishops of New York and St. Paul; Bishop Keane, Patrick Farrelly, H. J. Spaunhorst, and the officers ex officio members. Enclosed is a copy of a letter from M( ) Glennan. His name was ommitted in the Souvenir volume of the Baltimore Congress, and Harson now submits it to Onahan for placing it on the Committee. At New York, at the suggestion of...

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Onahan's letter requesting the minutes of the meeting of Archbishops and laymen at St. Louis, has just been received. Harson has not been able to complete the records, owing to the failure of Archbishop Ireland to send him a copy of the resolutions of the Archbishops. As soon as the latter is heard from, Harson will immediately forward the complete record to Onahan. :: IX-1-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Harson intends to write to a number of gentlemen next week about attending the Congress, and would be glad if Brownson would send him 25 or 30 sheets of the Official letter paper, if he can easily spare them. His train was three hours late in arriving in Buffalo this morning. He arrived at Rochester at noon and called at the residence of Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid, but he was out of town. Monsignor H. De Regge is in Europe, and Father James F. O'Hare has been pastor of Immaculate Conception...

Scope and Contents Printed circular letter announcing that Bishop Richard Gilmour of Cleveland suggested that a momument ought to be erected to Dr. Orestes A. Brownson . This suggestion was taken up by the Cleveland Universe which collected a liberal sum for the monument. At the meeting of the Catholic Young Men's National Union in Philadelphia a committee was formed of A.J. Faust of Washington, J.A. Flaherty of Philadelphia, C.B. Northup of Charleston, E.J. Dooley of Brooklyn, and Harson to take care of...

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It will afford him great pleasure to have Edwards meet him at the Catholic Club on Friday morning. :: XI-2-g A.L.S. 1p.

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He wishes Edwards a happy New Year. He has not received the catalogue as yet. He attended St. Patrick's Cathedral all decorated with lights. An all male voiced choir sang. It is his opinion that the Holy Father did a great wrong in his decree about Church music. :: XI-2-g A.L.S. 3pp.

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Mr. J.H. Murray has sent him McMahon's letter from Youngstown. When Dr. Loughlin first mentioned the project he decided to take such part in it as other engagements would permit. Supposing that McMahon would not be overburdened with lectures at the first meeting he proposes to give a few talks on business. He lists four topics and an introduction. Unless the experiment is a financial success he would pay his own expenses. :: I-1-j - A.L.S. - 2pp. - 4to. - {1}

Scope and Contents Harson scarcely knows what particular facts to ask about, in references to Brownson's father's Orestes A. Brownson life, since the sketch he proposes to write must necessarily be short, but he wishes to use details which are not to be found in the usual sketches of his life, nearly all of which are made up bodily from The Convert. A comprehensive life is very much needed, and Father Isaac T. Hecker, to whom Herson had suggested the project, believes that the matter might be better treated by...

Scope and Contents Harson is greatly pleased to learn that the initiative has been taken with the view of holding a Catholic Congress next November; it is a movement he has been hoping for some years to see undertaken. The conventions of the C.Y.M.N.U. have been an indifferent amateur attempt at something of this character. He has hoped to see new strength added to the National Union, from which might come the beginnings of a Catholic Congress, but this strength has not been acquired. Brownson's action makes...

Scope and Contents He was pleased to learn that his article in The Pilot impressed Edwards so favorably. He would like to help along the world of Catholic thought. Those with positive faith in God could be easily numbered. This outburst explains his admiration for Orestes A. Brownson. Twenty years ago he wrote to Lawrence Kehoe expressing a hope that he would do certain things. Kehoe replied there were many things he could do if he had support. The Catholic public spirit has changed very little. He sent the...