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Osuf thanks Hudson for publicity in the Ave Maria in behalf of the leper hospital. Their situation has changed in the mission. They have letters whereby the Pope has instituted a hierarchy in Japan. There are four sees: Tokyo, Nagasaki, Osaka and Hakodate. :: X-3-m A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo.

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Osouf and Father A. Pettier have received Hudson's two messages since their last trip to Notre Dame. They thank Hudson for his interest in Japan. Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan has given them a good letter, but most priests are taken up with parish work, and it is difficult to obtain collections in the churches. :: X-2-n A.L.S. French 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Hudson's letter of January 26 has arrived to find Osouf at Nagasaki where the Bishops of Japan and the delegate of the Superior of the mission of Korea were gathered for the first synod. Osouf thanks Hudson for the welcome he gave the request regarding the Leprosarium of Father Testevuide. During a confirmation tour Osouf is spending time with Testevuide, who was touched by Hudson's appeal. During the synod the people came from long distances to gain the indulgence which the Holy Father...

Scope and Contents Osouf is sad to read of the death of Father Joseph P. Roles of Chicago at whose house as at Notre Dame, Osouf received such charming hospitality. He encloses the new statistics of his mission. Enclosed He sends two letters of Father Testevuide and his hospital for lepers together with a copy of the Japan Mail, a Protestant newspaper, which has an article pleading the cause of his work. No enclosures. He asks Hudson to make them known to his many readers. :: X-3-k A.L.S. French 6pp....

Scope and Contents With Hudson's letter of July 22 Osouf received a draft for $163.84 instead of the $145 which Hudson announced. This adds to the alms of the charitable readers of Ave Maria. Osouf has sent the entire sum to their procurator for the hospital of Father Testevuide and he will says the 25 Masses for the dead. Father A Pettier is at Yokohama scarcely living with his poor health. Father Mugabure is once more in exile from Japan looking for help to continue to live and work in poverty. if he...

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The books which Hudson sent have arrived. The lepers are now entrusted to Father Vigroux who carries on as Father G. Testevuide did. In the future Osouf will inform Hudson of the state of their Vicariate after the separation of the new Vicariate from Hakodate. :: X-3-m A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Osouf has just returned from a tour of the north of his mission. He is grateful to Father General for including him with the bishops of the English speaking world in receiving the Ave Maria. He will always remember his visit at Notre Dame; he is grateful for Hudson's continued interest in Japan. The Christians demonstrated the respect they have for their bishop at a public reception and there was a great number of communicants on the days he confirmed. He visited about a dozen places...

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Oster would like to get 21 copies of the work, "Gaurdian Angels", in English. He wants to know from what firm he can make the purchase. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Enclosed is $2 for Mount Carmel which McMaster can credit Retso. From Father B. Baumann, $1. :: I-2-g L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He testifies that a young man named Bjoering, a convert, was received on probation in the novitiate of the Redemptorist Father at St. Nicolas du Port, Province of Loraine, France, during 1866-7, from where he was dismissed because of the doubtfullness of the sincerity of his conversion. He was a Dane, had been a soldier in the Danish army, and former editor of a little journal in Germany. He was given 30 francs by the head of the house when he left St. Nicolas to try to enter the...

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O'Sullivan thanks Hudson for the copy of the Ave Maria. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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O'Sullivan submits a poem for the Youth Department. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Is there an agent of the AVE MARIA, by the name of Brother Eusebius Galligan C.S.C., who is authorized to receive children into the University who are unable to pay their expenses? A Bro. Eusebius told a Mrs. Sheats of Nashville, Tennessee to send her nephew to Notre Dame and "it would not cost her a single cent." However, Father Thomas Walsh wrote, telling her she had been misinformed. :: X-2-j A. L. S. 2pp 12mo

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Father O'Sullivan sends McMaster a message of condolence. He has been attacked by the Hudson Register through a writer, Parker Williams . He asks McMaster to publish the truth and to defend him from the scandal and libel which Williams has been spreading about him. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents O'Sullivan encloses $16; ten dollars toward defraying the expenses of Rev. friends to Rome, and six dollars as payment for the Freeman until 1781. He says that the priests can never repay McMaster for his great efforts and exertions in their behalf, and feels that no other man in this country and attached to the press, but McMaster, could or would have dared to speak and write as he has done. He feels that Jus is a noble man, a champion of Right and one qualified to speak, where...

Scope and Contents O'Sullivan lauds McMaster and Jus for their excellent work in advocating the cause of the clergy in America, but feels that they are ready to let the matter drop. He thinks that now is the time to get up the petition, and he and some friends will pay the expenses to send circulars to every priest and to send someone to Rome to lay the matter before the Holy Father. All that is necessary is to make McMaster the bold, fearless leader, and to carry on the fight. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 3pp....

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Father O'Sullivan requests a copy of the "Index to Brownson's Review." He prefers to pay for it but understands it is free. Stamps are enclosed. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He is obliged to Father Hudson for letting him know of Elmer's Otis sickness and asks to be sent a daily postal until his son is well. The family all had a cry and Mrs. Otis has not been in her usual spirits since. In a letter to Elmer, he was told of his mother's sore eyes which are now better. He asks Father Hudson to open a Christmas box he is sending Elmer, since it contains perishables. He read in the "Ave Maria" of the Chord of St. Francis of Assisi and asks Father Hudson to have...

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Otis asks Hudson to send him two issues of the Ave Maria that he failed to receive. About a year ago Mrs. Otis presented him with another son which they named John Vincent. He was sorry to hear from his son Elmer that Hudson has been ill. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Enclosed are clippings on the death of Father Thomas J. Johnston from the San Antonio Daily Express. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Otis encloses $3 in money order to pay for postage and Masses which he wishes said. Otis also requests some books for which he will pay later. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Otis finds life at Fort Meade most monotonous. Spiritually the winter was a drought since the nearest priest is fifteen miles away. He looks forward to a visit to Notre Dame. Mrs. Otis' health has improved. Otis finds numbers 36 and 48 of the Ave Maria missing and requests that these copies be sent to him. What does Hudson hear from Colonel Dallas? :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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He did not expect it to be so long before he wrote Hudson as agreed. He speaks of missing his family and those at Notre Dame; he tells of the performance of his religious duties. He received a hearty welcome from everyone on his arrival, but he has not forgotten his old friends at Notre Dame and prays for them. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 6 pp. 12mo.

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Marie Cabell has died such an edifying death that Otis feels he must send the account to Hudson and friends at Notre Dame. Cabell was a nominal Catholic but had not made his first Communion. He is more Catholic than many who have. Enclosure:

Scope and Contents Otis thanks Hudson for visiting Mattie and comforting her. St. Mary's is not the school the college is; it lacks the liberality that prevails in the college. He had a disagreeable experience with Marie at the academy. At the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis, his girls found everything they wanted and were happy, while at St. Mary's Academy they were anything but satisfied. If Mother Angela were alive she would soon remedy the defects. Regarding the Catholic Congress, the editor...

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Otis remarks that he has not been receiving his Ave Maria regularly since he changed his subscription from weekly to monthly. He hopes his boy is doing well. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Otis' father sent Father Sorin a testimonial of their love and respect. Otis feels indebted to Sorin for many things that he would not part with and like all pupils of Notre Dame, his respect for him increases. Otis' father and family are at Fort Davis while Otis is working for the government in San Antonio, and will probably remain here for another year, when he hopes to begin studies in Europe for the priesthood. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Otis notifies Hudson of some missing numbers of the Ave Maria which he asks Hudson to send him. The climate at San Antonio is pleasing and the vegetation is coming out fine. Mrs. Elmer Otis is not in good health. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Otis asks Hudson to send him number four of the Ave Maria. He was astonished by the death of Ryder. Otis' health has improved. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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He and Mrs. Otis heard a Mass offered at their request on the Sunday last at Manhassett, Long Island for the repose of the soul of Mrs. McMaster. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.