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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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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.

Scope and Contents She thanks Hudson for the check. She hopes the missing number which contained the quota of Cyril will soon appear. It must have been lost in the mail. She is going to tell Hudson of an account of a grace granted to a poor sufferer by Our Lady of Lourdes. The girl was dying with an incurable disease of the heart and had spent her whole fortune on doctors and medicine to no effect. She lost the use of her limbs and was attended in her room by the Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul. She made...

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...

Scope and Contents Hudson's letter to her was satisfactory. She will be pleased to receive the Ave Maria, to indicate the choice of subject if Hudson wishes to have another manuscript from her. "The Battle of Connemare" may be called a children's book, but it was written for mature readers; she wished to illustrate the contrast between the Catholic priest and the selfish Protestant person. She describes the novel. The 50 pounds she indicated as the price was based on an agreement made with Hudson's...

Scope and Contents She received both Hudson's notes by the same post, and asks him to throw the missing manuscript into the fire. She should have sent him the sketch of Mother Teresa Kelly ten days ago; the delay is caused by her having given it to a friend to copy. She is grateful to see that Hudson published her account of the miracle. One needs such consolations these days, especially in France where the devil seems to be having things his own way. There is despair at the city of Paris withdrawing all...

Scope and Contents She is sending Hudson her address for the next two months. He should not let her name appear at the head of the story in the Ave Maria as it will get her into trouble with Cardinal Manning. If she had been allowed to publish it in England she could have gotten any price for it, but she owes it to the United States to make this sacrifice to their feelings. Father Denis has been taken to Rome and made a great gun in the order, much to his despair. His people tried to keep him by a...

Scope and Contents She is pleased to receive the Ave Maria weekly but it saddens her to think that she is no longer associated with the publishing of it. Her one consolation, however, is the thought that the Ave Maria is a source of great enjoyment to the many readers to whom she lends it, and especially the Passionist Fathers. She hopes that the Ave Maria is enjoying a period of progress and prosperity. The French people are praying that the life of their Cardinal who was arrested on his way to Rome and...

Scope and Contents She will write the sketch on Father Lecordaire as soon as time permits. Father Dennis was pleased to hear from Hudson and told her that Hudson may count on his poor prayers and those of his family. She wonders if there is any use in offering her story to the Ave Maria which she wrote two years ago at Father Edward Sorin's and Mother Angela's advice. She feels as though this contains the most powerful teaching she has yet done. She cannot publish it in her country as Cardinal Manning has...

Scope and Contents She is sending the complete manuscript of "Cyril's Vocation" instead of drawing up an outline of it that would not have given Hudson a complete story to judge. She sent it by parcel post in four parcels. If Hudson likes it, he should keep it until it can be published; if he does not like it, he should return it. Her name should be omitted if it is published. She is in disgrace with some of Hudson's readers and her fame would prejudice the readers rather than attract them. Many English...

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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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 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...

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.

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.

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O'Meara thanks Hudson for the copy of "Lepers of Molokai". France and England are experiencing bad times. :: X-3-b 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.

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O'Meara sends a copy of the last pages of her manuscript that was lost. :: X-3-h 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.