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Sister submits a poem written by Clementine Dochez, a niece of Sister Alphonse, S.N.D :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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She thanks Hudson for publishing the article she sent in and tells him that she can make no other returns besides her prayers. She hopes that Hudson and the Ave Maria will be blessed. She tells him that the Ave Maria is hailed with pleasure in her community. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Enclosed is $20 a Catholic lady asked her to send. Mrs. S. asks to have Masses and prayers offered for her Protestant husband who has contracted the habit of taking opium. She speaks of his reform after prayers of the Association of the Sacred Heart were said for him. :: X-2-f A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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St. Agnes is acquainted with the Pauls. They were a large family, but most of them have passed away. Daniel Paul spoke of Hudson with great admiration. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Acknowledging Clarke's of Nov.4, Sister Agnes has no papers of Bishop Francis McFarland . Clarke might be able to get them from Mother M. Angela Fitzgerald, R.S.M., and other information as she was with Bishop Thomas Galberry at his last moments. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Mother Agnese was very pleased when she received the picture of Gertrude. She knows McMaster must be proud to have three good nuns as daughters. She can not help thinking that Alphonsus will be claimed by the Redemptorists. Their Boarding School near Paris would be glad to have American girls and so she wishes he would advertise it in his paper. Mother Mary Walburga will write him on the subject. :: I-2-e A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dom Robot of the Benedictine province of France, and prefect apostolic of Indian Territory has established in American an Association in honor of St. Michael and the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary to promote the conversion of the Indians and begs for the members of the Association and the privilege of a plenary indulgence on the feasts of St. Michael and Our Lady of the Rosary, on the usual conditions, and an indulgence of 300 days once a day when they recite the Ave Maria for the...

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Ahern submits an article entitled "Privileged Sanctuaries". :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Ahern encloses $11.00 as dues from two mission bands organized by Alice Delaney for the Indian Missions. He sends $3.00 subscription fee for the Freeman's Journal. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Hudson has forgotten the old editor of the North Western Chronicle . There is no publication in the country that approaches Hudson's. Ahern is manager of one of the large life companies of New York. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Ahern sends an editorial of the St. Paul Dispatch. It placed the price of the Ave Maria at $5.50, but Ahern will have to correct the estimate. The reviewer of the Pioneer Press says let the Ave Maria be sent in the ordinary way to the Pioneer Press. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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The editor of the Northwestern Chronicle acknowledges the number of May 20 with the notice of Bishop Ireland's lecture. The editor of the Chronicle is closing his connection with this paper. :: X-2-i A.L.Incomplete 1p. 8vo.

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Akers has just returned from flood damaged Johnstown and submits an account of the damage to Catholic Churches in the area and a list of prominent Catholics killed by the flood. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents She is an Englishwoman, a convert who to escape persecution from her family came to Sicily, where she married fifteen years ago, a Palermitan, a professor of Italian and German. He is a quiet studious man not given to politics therefore little respected by the free thinkers and progressives of the city. Being young enough to begin life anew, she has a strong preference for America, particularly Ohio, Indiana or South Illinois. She and her husband are not ambitious, any thing her husband...

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Enclosed is $2.50 to pay for a year's subscription to the Ave Maria. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Hudson's letter of the 8th received. Number of Ave Marias sent is all right, but since Mr. Hilfer's number was sent to Kentucky it should be only three. The number sent to Alberic belongs to Mrs. Palk-Grace. Lizzie McLaughlin did not get it since June, it is not known if she will renew her subscription. John McCloskey does not expect it. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Alberick has not been in this country long and does not know much about the bishop. But he has given directions to an old brother who knew him to furnish Clarke with as much information as possible. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Alberick hopes Clarke will excuse them for keeping the notes so long; but it could not be helped for the old man who wrote them was sick for some days. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

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Father Albers has just read the article by Jus in the Freeman's Journal, and willingly signs his name to the petition for his right and the right of other churchmen. He also asks that the Freeman's Journal be sent to him weekly. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Father Albers requests that McMaster send a free copy of his Journal for the benefit of the Catholic Convicts of the Illinois State Penitentiary. He received a copy of almost ever paper in the United States last year, and would like to see McMaster's paper added. :: I-2-f A post-cardS Post card

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Gratitude is expressed for the copy of "Glimpses of the Supernatural". :: X-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Alden thanks Brownson for sending him Tarducci's Life of Columbus. In translating this work Brownson has made a valuable contribution to literature, and Alden congratulates him upon the ease and naturalness characterising the style— so that no one would suspect that it is a translation. He is much impressed with Tarducci's work: he gives a reality to Columbus which cannot be found in any other life. One cannot take it up anywhere without being irresistably impelled to read on and on. The...

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Aldrich thanks Brownson for the gift of manuscripts of his father Orestes A. Brownson and hopes that Brownson can send him an autograph and engraved portrait of Dr. Brownson for the Iowa State Library. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Aldrich asks Brownson for some specimens of his Father's Orestes A. Brownson writing for the Iowa State Library. He hopes that Brownson may issue a compendium of his father's works for those who cannot afford the entire series. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Aldrich thanks Brownson for the autograph and portraits of his father Orestes A. Brownson for the Iowa State library. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Alemany asks McFarland to forward the enclosed note no enclosure to the Pastor who attends or is near Ware House Point, Connecticut, as Alemany does not know his name. :: I-1-b L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Alemany has received a letter from Father Thomas Quinn saying that he had McFarland's permission to seek admission into any other diocese. Not knowing the reasons for Quinn's step he asks if he is a sound, pious, steady priest and whether McFarland would accept him if he were the Archbishop of San Francisco. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Alemany expects to spend a day or two in New York City prospecting. :: I-1-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents The agent in Barcelona has received the box of books. Alemany should have written before, but he was very busy translating into Italian the life of a saintly Dominican Sister, much like that of St. Catherine of Sienna, who he hopes will be canonized. Alemany wants to know how much he owes. He might have to purchase some little property adjoining their Dominican Church called El Pilar, where he hears confessions. Several young men have called asking to be received. He has a novice master...

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The Prefect of Propaganda has asked him to inform him on the laws of the states on marriage and their enforcement. Knowing no other way to get his information he asks McFarland to let him know these facts about Rhode Island and Connecticut. :: I-1-c L.S. 1p. 8vo.