Scope and Contents She is writing from her old home where she is suffering from an intense fit of homesickness. She wants Hudson to tell her she might stay at her old home. She was married when a happy school girl, the only daughter of indulgent parents. Her life has been very happy. She asks Hudson to pray for her and her children. God is sending her to Hudson as a last resort. She will be there during the next week. Hudson should answer her at Shoals where she will write again. :: X-2-f A.L.S. 2pp....

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"The Festival of the Most Holy Rosary" by Rose Howe has been received. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Brown asks Hudson to visit a Methodist friend who she feels Hudson can convert to Catholicism. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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She wrote to Mr. Fleming giving Hudson's commission and entreating him to visit at once from Pittsburgh. She repeated her former belief that by so doing he would be restored to sight. His wife is a Catholic; his eldest boy, about 9, accompanies him. He became acquainted with Father Doyle at Washington and said he believed Father Doyle suspected him of being raised a Catholic. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Brown encloses the letter of a friend and asks Hudson to present his name to Father Alexis Granger, asking the prayers of the Association of Our Lady in his behalf. Brown also encloses the letter of Capt. Hastings, a Protestant, to whom she sent the Ave Maria; it is quite amusing. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Brown forwards a letter she received from Ella McIntire . She discusses the chances of converting McIntire to Catholicism. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Brown thanks Hudson for his letter and the copies of the Ave Maria he sent her. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Brown thanks Hudson for sending copies of the Ave Maria and requests more. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Brown thanks Hudson for the picture. She is glad to hear that Hudson's health has improved. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents She asks Hudson to forgive her delay in sending him New Year's greetings. She often thinks of her friends at Notre Dame and offers prayers for them. Their friend, Mrs. O'Brien, attributes her improved health to their prayers. She encloses 25¢ for Father Lambing's "Masses for the Dead", which she will pass on to a friend who does not believe it right to accept a fee for Masses for the dead. She prays daily to St. Joseph to send her a hundred dollars for Hudson next spring. She closes...

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Brown will contribute to Notre Dame's Library. She will confer with the administrator of the will to see if she can raise $100 to send Hudson. Brown thanks Hudson for his prayers; her father's health has been restored. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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The administrator of the will informed Brown that he cannot grant her request. Once Brown receives her inheritance Hudson will receive $100. Bishop Francis Silas Chatard will administer Confirmation on July 2nd at St. John's in Loogootee. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Brown requests Hudson to join her friends in a novena for the improvement of the nervous illness of a friend, Mrs. Anna O'Brien. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Brown sends one hundred dollars to Hudson. She thanks Hudson for the copy of Father Andrew Lambing's book. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Brown hopes that Hudson's health is restored. Enclosed is a check for $100. She requests that no publicity be given the offering. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Brown thanks Hudson for his letter of condolence. She sends her congratulations to Father Sorin. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Brown is sorry to hear of Father Daniel E. Hudson's, C.S.C., illness. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents She sends a letter to Hudson written to her by a close friend who along with his family she is trying to convert to the Catholic faith. At present he is a Methodist and his wife a Campbellite. Now that her supply of Catholic literature which she can lend him is nearly exhausted she asks Hudson to advice her before she proceeds any farther with work toward his conversion. She thinks it advisable that his name be forwarded to the Association so that he may benefit from their prayers. She...

Scope and Contents Brown thanks Timon for all the kindness to her and her sister. The people here are very friendly, but there are no Catholics among them. Most of them are Methodists; they are anxious to see and hear a Catholic priest preach. Colonel Brown wrote that a priest intended coming at the same time he did. Mary understood before she left home that the vacations would commence the first of next month. She wrote Mrs. Brown that if any of the family should visit Springfield that Mary's sister...

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Mrs. Brown writes to McMaster explaining that, although her father had owed him $8.00 on the newspaper, her mother had not known of it. She mentions the sudden death of her father and the ill health and hard times of her mother but states that the money will be paid in part or in full as soon as it could possibly be done. She also asks the discontinuance of the newspaper. :: I-2-a A. L. S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Sister De Sales and Sister Blandine enter their retreat for profession that night. The Mother and other sisters will make their annual retreat with them. The novices will be professed on August 21. She has not been well because of a cold. Sister Blandine is a convert, an English lady, and an accomplished harpist. She was delighted to see that he had an assistant and the number of churches he had built that year. She does not love crosses but fears them. Mrs. Frith is visiting a friend of her...

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She has time only to tell him that she has been professed. She hopes that her health will be much improved. Her brother has come for this letter. She asks to be remembered to Mr. and Mrs. Binsse. :: I-1-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Brown sends Hudson at the request of Pauline P. Stump the "Way of the Cross." She thinks Hudson's influence would aid in its sale. Stump has two other books ready for publication, "The Heart of St. Gertrude" and "A Manual of Devotion to the Sacred Heart." :: X-3-h A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Sister writes to thank Hudson for his letter. The translation of the book is by a friend of hers who is in need. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents She writes of her happiness in her vocation. Continued May 21. She is well and Mrs. Brinley says she looks healthier since she came to religion. The Mother tells her she should be grateful for McFarland's direction, which prepared her for much that has happened. She asks him to remember her to Mr. and Mrs. Binsse and suggest to Mrs. Binsse that her sister, Cornelia, might be converted by Mrs. Binsse for whom she has great affection. The founders of their community in the United States were...

Scope and Contents She realizes that McFarland is not accepting her note as an answer to his long letter. She is busy and when not busy in not often well enough to write. She made her profession four months ago. In November she had a visit from 3 sisters and a brother. She regrets that they are still not Catholics. She does not feel the joy this Christmas she felt back in Georgetown. She is pleased that he has an assistant. Father Joseph Balfe is their chaplain and Father Thaddeus Amat, C.M. is their...

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Brown is sorry he did not get to meet Brother Stanislaus. The brother who called Brown informed him that Hudson was buying a new press. If this is true Hudson should tell Brown so he can attend to Hudson's needs at once. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 8vo

Scope and Contents McMaster's draft for 100 francs was received. McMaster will receive the Civilta Cattolica regularly. He has subscribed for only 3 months because he has doubts about anything a Roman tells him. He hopes that McMaster will prize the paper when he gets it because anything Roman is dear, even though it is not a good newspaper. There is little news to get about the Council and the Freeman will probably have difficulty getting it. He need not tell McMaster that every one here is not his...

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Browne sends $3 to McMaster and mentions that he hopes to see acknowledged in an early issue of the Journal his check for $200 along with the list of names and a protest of the Catholics of St. Joseph. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Browne asks Hudson's permission to use the little story, "Who Did It?" She has another book collection of stories ready for publication and she counted on it as one of the number. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.