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The Ave Maria and the Encyclical are excellent. Brownson does not know yet whether he shall introduce the bill into the Senate at the commencement of the session or wait for the decision of the House. Pettibone was on the Pension Committee last Congress. Brownson's matter came before the committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Finerty would be of service even if not on the military committee. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Arrangements have been completed to have the works of Brownson's father published by a Detroit firm. Brownson asks Hudson to explain how he can get advertising gratis. He intends to make the volume a little larger than the Review. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Brownson sends a sample page from the first volume of the works of Orestes A. Brownson :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Brownson thanks Hudson for the notice of Orestes Brownson 's works in the Scholastic. In his circular, Brownson intended to give the impression that the size of the edition would be determined by the subscription. The volume of mail he has received indicates more interest in the works than anticipated. Can Hudson furnish all the numbers of the Ave Maria containing articles by Orestes Brownson. Father Ernst Van Dyke 's health has improved. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Brownson returns four volumes of the Ave Maria sent by Hudson together with two copies of Brownson's Works for the Lemonnier Library and a third copy for Hudson. He met Father Peter Cooney at Monroe last summer and he subscribed to it. Brownson wishes to know if Cooney has returned from his trip to Texas. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Brownson has received through Father Ernest Van Dyke a copy of "A Troubled Heart". He thinks there is much in it which is part of the experience of every New Englander who has had the grace of God to pass from heresy to the Roman Catholic Church. Brownson considers the book a good one for Catholics to give their Protestant friends. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Brownson would like to know the cost of advertising Orestes Brownson's worked in the Ave Maria. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Brownson thinks that Hudson's plan of publishing his father's articles with the sketch by McCarthy is the only way to make up a satisfactory pamphlet. He made only three changes in the sketch after deliberation. Brownson inquires if anything has been decided about the transfer of Orestes Brownson 's body to Notre Dame. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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In Irving's account of the storm of February, 1493 the mistake is in saying "three days" when he should have said "three hours". Brownson would like to think a day or two about writing an article on Columbus's devotion to the Blessed Virign before promising. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Brownson can promise an article on Columbus's devotion to the Blessed Virgin. He is surprised at the view Winsor takes in his book. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Brownson asks Edwards the cost of 250 copies of a photograph of his father Orestes A. Brownson the negative of which Edwards has. Father Daniel B. Hudson has said that Brownson probably could get some copies from this negative. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Brownson has sent a box of books for the Notre Dame Library and enclosed with the books a coat and cap for his son Philip Brownson . He will send what manuscripts he can when he has time, but his father's letters he will need just now for the life of Orestes A. Brownson, he is preparing. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The engraver works from prints with negatives, so Brownson had the prints made. On examination, he finds they are nearly all poor photographs, some sharp enough about the head but indistinct in parts, so that he cannot make good pictures of them. The frame is omitted on one side of some, which would make it necessary to cut off the other sides. They also are bad in size. Brownson asks if the photographers guarantee satisfaction; if so, they might do better. He regrets making so much trouble...

Scope and Contents On his return from the East Brownson finds a copy of the Michigan Catholic containing a report of his lecture at the Church of which he is pastor, on February 2, 1890. He is reported as saying, "I say this with due deference to the writer of the preface to the Souvenir Volume of the Catholic Congress, whose unproved statements are worthy only of such consideration as the authority of the writer as a man of observation and culture can give them." The statements are undoubtedly those made by...

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Brownson returns Clarke's paper as requested. It is expressly agreed between their committee and the advisory committee that suggestions are only suggestions, the matter being left to the judgement of the authors. Brownson thinks satisfactory arrangements will be made for Eliza Allen Starr's lecture in Detroit. P.S. Of course, Clarke can make any alteration he chooses. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents He sends for Onahan's consideration a crude plan he thought of in connection with a congress. He would have a committee draw up an address to the Catholics of the U.S., get the approval of the Archbishops and prominent laymen throughout the country and arrange for a meeting and temporary organization of the congress. He prefers Washington, D.C. He can write to William Richards of Washington to get a good name from there for the committee. Peter L. Foy from St. Louis or perhaps Henry J....

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Brownson thanks Hudson for Judge Edmund F. Dunne's address. He accepts and goes in heart and soul. :: X-3-j A.Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Bishop Bernard McQuaid of Rochester wishes a copy of Hudson's Index. McQuaid is at work on the Land League Question and he wishes to refer to some articles in Brownson's Review, but does not know where to find them. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Brownson writes to Hudson to explain a difficult situation. During the summer Father Ernest Van Dyke secured an invitation for Philip Brownson to study at Notre Dame. He stated he would take Philip to South Bend at the start of the school year. A week before school began, Van Dyke announced he was taking a water trip and asked Major Henry Brownson to join him; when reminded that Philip had to be taken to Notre Dame, Van Dyke made no attempt to carry out his previous offer. Major...

Scope and Contents Orestes thanks Henry for sending the Detroit Press and supposes it was sent on account of the chess column as Orestes notified Henry that he was to continue his chess journal. The editor of the column, T. P. Bull of 240 Howard St., is a good soul whom Orestes has known for some 12 years. The next Journal Chess will be out in a few days and Orestes hopes Henry will look over the copy. Orestes has had plenty of trouble with the purchasers of the Chess Journal, but he has avoided law suits...

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It was the Hon, John Lawler of La Crosse, Wisconsin who wanted the "Review". He is the patron and friend of St. John College at La Crosse, and is very wealthy. Orestes encloses Lawler's letter declaring that be has found a set. There is nothing new for Orestes to mention. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Orestes's son Edward Brownson has married Katie Glass, a sister of the wife of his son John Brownson . He has decided not to send his son Charles to school but to try to educate himself, the moral condition of the schools being low. He asks whether the Sadliers' failure will affect Henry or the estate of their father Orestes A. Brownson. He would like to have Henry send him a spare prayer book in Latin or French and a copy of Thomas a Kempis, on anything suitable for Sunday reading. ::...

Scope and Contents Henry's favor of the 21st was duly received. Orestes is sorry to hear of Henry's trouble with the gout, for he has been afflicted himself and describes his own remedies. Once when their father Orestes A. Brownson came to see him, he shared Orestes Jr. 's corn bread diet and the long walk to town, but finally went to a restaurant, remarking that he preferred his corpulence and gout to his son's diet and exercise. Winter is coming on, and Orestes is very tired of teaching his school. He thanks...

Scope and Contents Orestes has received Henry's letter of March 7 and sympathizes with him in his heavy labors and offers encouragement. His first grandson was born to his son John and his wife last Monday. John Brownson is studiyng medicine and teaching school making $65 a month to Orestes $60. Orestes lists his work program for the day, his work on the farm consisting chiefly of heavy work which the girls cannot to. They are very helpful on the farm, as is his youngest son Charles, now 8. He asks Henry how...

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Orestes has not heard from Henry for some time and fears that he may be ill or overworked. He regrets that more people do not subscribe for Brownson's works. His family is well, Mary in Denver, Sarah teaching school a few miles away, John still studying medicine, Edward with his wife and child living at home and working on the farm, Charley beginning to read, Rosie, now 11, promising to become a good scholar, May and Orestes himself getting old. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Orestes has not answered Henry's letter before because he has had nothing good to write. A local doctor will take a subscription to their father's works; and the local priests praise him, but have other ways of spending their money. He hopes Henry is cured of his gout and that he and his family are in good health. His own family is well, his wife and he are older and not so able to work, his son John Brownson expecting to go to medical college, Mary in Denver, Edward a fireman on a train in...

Scope and Contents Orestes wishes that he could see Henry's family. Henry's letter describes them beautufully. His own son John Brownson has three children, Ned Brownson, two, the last born on June 11 in Wisconsin, Orestes is confident that John will make a good Doctor and begs Henry to send him whatever medical books he has. Orestes is trying to educate his son Charles away from the vulgarities of boys, and he is very good in mathematics. His daughter Sally has finished her first year teaching school, but her...

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The books sent by Henry to John have arrived and Orestes sends his thanks. Only Orestes' wife and three youngest children are left at home. He would be glad to have any of Henry's children spend some time on the farm, if Henry is willing. P.S. Orestes is busy with farm work, but soon will have return to his school. He hopes Henry's gout is better. He is in very good health himself. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

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Orestes thanks Henry for the Greek books he sent, which will be useful if his friends can make him principal of the high school. He hopes that the sale of Brownson's Works is going well and believes that Henry was right in including the works that their father had produced before his conversion. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Orestes includes statistics of the age, height, weight and health of his family. He is unable to send his children to college but they read a great deal. He thinks Henry right about not grieving after wealth, for he seems to get along as well as formerly. The weather has destroyed their crops. He hopes Henry will be able to help his son John Brownson get charge of the medical department at Notre Dame, if one is established, for he is amply qualified and will not dishonor the name of Brownson...