Scope and Contents She thanks Hudson for the six Ave Marias and is glad she followed an impulse and wrote. She only meant him to slip an extract from a letter into his report of the week at Lourdes, and did not expect the narrative to be given a high place in the synagogue. A sketch of H. Perreyre's ? life is in the post and she meant to choose P. Desson but she found Perry's letters and could not resist writing about him. She enjoyed doing the notice of his life and someday will do a sketch of P. Desson...

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Miss O'Meara is sending manuscripts and hopes they will arrive for the New Year. She wonders whether her two last letters have reached Hudson. :: X-2-g A.Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara sends the remaining pages of the manuscript on P. Besson. She hopes he has received her package. :: X-2-g A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Miss O'Meara is sending the remainder of her manuscripts. Hudson should have received the other package by now. :: X-2-g A.Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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She thanks Hudson for the enclosure and the letter of last week. She is thinking of a sketch of Soeur Rosalie's life but modern types are perhaps more useful. It is hard work possessing one's soul in peace these troubling times. She had an inspiring letter from Cardinal Henry Edward Manning about her Perreyve. He is angry at a hostile notice of it in the "Tablets." She hopes Hudson will not condemn Perreyve as a liberal. :: X-2-h A. Postcard S.

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O'Meara forwards with her letter a letter sent from Cracovie. It is a relief to learn that the notice of H. P. was not Hudson's. Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne advised cutting it down because there was something too sentimental in the style to suit English tastes. O'Meara has found that "Journée" was translated by an Anglican Sisterhood. She has begun to collect material for St. Roselie. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents O'Meara submits a translation of a legend about Henri Perreyne . "Pere Besson" is getting on and she will send Hudson the first part in time to begin publication in January. She inquires if Hudson would help her publish Perreyne's "Journee des Malades". Catholic publishers in London to whom she submited a translation of Perreyne's work together with a sketch of his life told her that they can do nothing with Catholic books and Washbourne says he means to up the business altogether....

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O'Meara fears that Hudson did not receive her letter of September 29th in which she enclosed an editorial in answer to Hudson's question about P. Besson . She would be grateful to Hudson if he pushed her sketch. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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O'Meara sends Hudson the first part of her article "Soeur Rosalie". She has inscribed Hudson for prayers at the Notre Dame des Victoires. :: X-2-h A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents O'Meara submits a story entitled "Soeur Rosalie" which is 175 pages in length. The price according to the agreement would be forty pounds, but she will not hold Hudson to the agreement unless the Ave Maria is flourishing. She put Hudson's name down for prayers at Notre Dame des Victoires. O'Meara does not like to hear that Hudson is ill so frequently. The Church's canonization of St. Benedict Labre was a glorious stroke of opportunism. The anti-Christians are so sensible to it that they...

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O'Meara has been unable to obtain the relic of Miss Berneaux . The superior of the religious house here has asked O'Meara to make a digest of the Annals of the Propagation of Faith. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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O'Meara thanks Hudson for the almanac and the lecture on Henry W. Longfellow . The French Senate has voted God out of the Primary Schools and yesterday proclaimed France officially atheist. :: X-2-i A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara sends pictures of Soeur Rosalie. There are no photographs of the other one that Hudson requested. She has been unable to learn if the letters have been translated, but once it is done she will forward the translation. :: X-2-j A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara submits an article for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents She hopes that the portraits of P. Lacordaire and the letters reached Hudson intact. She forgot to include the bill but there is no hurry. She hopes Hudson's health is improved. She commands Hudson to Out Lady of Notre Dame des Victoires. They are in the slough of atheism there and the spirit of hate is already being felt in the air. Nature seems to resent the revolt and impiety of the nation; the rivers are overflowing in every direction. If the Seine rises 50 centimeters higher Paris...

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O'Meara is glad she carried out Hudson's commission satisfactorily. If the Expulsion Law is passed it may cause a Revolution. There is feeling favoring the Bonapartes, and the country is tired of persecution. The people will accept any ruler who promises to do better than the Republic. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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O'Meara is pleased to have the money from Hudson as it is sorely needed. She hopes that Hudson is more careful with his health than he is with his money. O'Meara calls Hudson's attention to her article in the April number of the Philadelphia Quarterly on the Church and Revolution. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents O'Meara submits a manuscript and asks Hudson to name it. She warns Hudson to beware of Monsignor Thomas John Capel . He has been a thorn in the side of the church at home for years, but for Henry Cardinal Manning 's compassion and hope of his ultimate conversion, he would have been shown up. His cleverness and deceit enabled him to escape the condemnation that nearly over took him in Rome. He has no diocese and not a bishop and never again will have faculties as a priest in England. The...

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O'Meara writes concerning photographs and pictures, their cost and where they may be obtained. :: X-2-l A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara hopes that the book and other things that she sent have reached Hudson safely. She discusses the picture of Raphael. The wood cut that Hudson sent her is not Raphael's. His is at the Vatican. O'Meara doesn't know if it has been photographed or not. :: X-2-m A. Postcard. S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara will look for the engraving of Murillo's Annunciation. She doubts if it can be secured in Paris, but if she does get it the cost will be 15 francs. O'Meara thanks Hudson for the notice of Mrs. Nam's book. :: X-2-n A Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Hudson's request for an engraving of Murillo's Ann will cost two hundred francs while a photograph will cost fifteen francs. The publishers have set her St. Rosalie aside. :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara is working on a tale about the blind Bishop Louis de Segur . She encloses a sketch that she did for a literary periodical in England, together with a reply to Father Edward Sorin 's letter. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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O'Meara has been expecting to get back the manuscript which Hudson rejected. :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara thanks Hudson for his note and card. Hudson is correct about C. Lebourit; but there are four letters due besides these two. None published in 1884 were paid for. :: X-2-o A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents O'Meara meant to send Hudson a short sketch for Easter but was unable to do so. She placed Hudson's name in the book of prayers in the Sacristy of Notre Dame des Victoires. France is in the ridiculous situation of begging for a mountebank to govern her and no one has been found brave enough to govern her. An Orleanist monarchy would be an improvement, but it would not last any more than Louis Philippe's government. The Catholics have no confidence in the Comte de Paris. Joseph Cardinal...

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O'Meara is grieved to learn of Hudson's illness. He need not bother about the missing letters. :: X-2-o A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara hopes that Hudson is getting better. E. de Marie told O'Meara that she wrote a letter to Hudson recently. :: X-2-o A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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O'Meara sent the sketch of the "Blind Bishop". Father Joseph DamienDeVeuster is well known throughout England. Mr. Hugh Chapman, an Anglican priest whom O'Meara has been attempting to trap into the fold, has taken up the subject of DeVeuster with zeal. Her return voyage to Europe was terrible. She hopes Mother AngelaGillespie will forgive O'Meara for not visiting her. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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O'Meara doesn't move until April. The war scare is over. :: X-3-d A.Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.