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Meditating about Whit Sunday, Richards decided to put his thoughts on paper and submits them for the Ave Maria. Richards thanks Hudson for the copy of Rose Howe 's "Record of a Suffering Soul". :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Richards submits an article for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

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Richards approves of Hudson's awaiting until Eliane is out before calling attention to the Scandal of marrying cousins. He relates an incident of how the parents of one such couple attempted to break up a romance. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Richards asks Hudson to clarify a difficulty over the conditions that must be fulfilled to gain a certain indulgence. He read "Elaine" with pleasure. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

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It was with regret that Richards learned through the Columbian that Hudson was seriously ill. Richards thanks Hudson for the copy of Charles Warren Stoddard 's book "Troubled Heart". He delivered a lecture in Winchester last night on the Catholic view of the bible. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Richards was impressed with the enclosed narrative as it came from the life of a poor blind child. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Richards believes Frances Fisher Tiernan 's writings are not appreciated and patronized as they ought to be by Catholics. Believing the columns of the Ave Maria is the place to call the attention of Catholics to good Catholic literature, Richards submits and article on the subject. To promote this cause he has given notices on works by Father Zahm and "Troubled Heart". :: X-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Richards congratulates Hudson on the healthy condition of subscription list. He hopes Father J. Talbot Smith saw Hudson's articles on convent schools. It is too bad that a Catholic priest should disparage Catholic schools. Hudson's remark on the American spirit suggested an article which he has submitted to the Catholic Review. Helen Murtagh and Richards are anxious to get some more beads. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Richards' new position with the Bureau of Charities in Boston has kept him from revamping his sketch. He now submits the manuscript for Hudson's approval. Richards is too poor to refuse compensation. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Richards forwards manuscripts to Hudson but there is great doubt as to their worth. Hudson's judgment and criticisms will be accepted and appreciated regardless of what they may be. Mr. Richards will let Hudson choose any convert he pleases for him to write on. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Richards expresses gratitude for the reprint of the life of Haydn. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

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Richards submits an article to Hudson. He thanks Hudson for Hudson's kind words in regard to the Lady Fullerton article. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Richards sends a check of $5.00 of which $3.00 is for his subscription, and $2.00 for Mount Carmel which he wishes to have acknowledged as being from H.L.R. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 11p. 12mo.

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The statements in an article on Georgetown College y Mrs. Milton E.Smith re authentic and accurate. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents If there is in existence a program of the work of the Catholic Congress or any other publication intended to explain its character, purpose and methods, will Brownson forward it as soon as possible to the following gentlemen, delegates of Georgetown College to that body: Francis kernan, Utica, New York; John Brisbae Walker, editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York City; Thomas J. Semmes, New Oreleans, Louisiana; Martin F. Morris, Washington, D. C.; Richard H. Clarke; New York City;...

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Richards asks Clarke to come to the annual meeting of the Alumni Society and make a short speech of his own choice. The Executive Committee proposed Clarke's name as president of the Alumni Society. Thus it is fitting that Clarke as one of the oldest graduates should answer the toast of the Alumni. He asks an answer by telegram. P.S. He gives the address of the meeting. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Richards is delighted that Clarke will be present at the Alumni meeting and answer the first toast. Richards thanks Clarke for the information about the articles concerning the part of Catholics in the American Revolution. He will refer Mr. Dahlgren to both articles mentioned. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Richards was glad to get Brownson's note of the 6th and mails his manuscript to his address. Last Sunday night he saw the Pope's address to 300 French workingmen on Sunday, October 20; and he has used all his spare time since in making a new introduction and conclusion, revising, cutting down, amending. He can read it in 38 minutes and could cut it down to 30. If the paper is accepted will Brownson tell him what day he can read it. As it is no. 6 on the list, he presumes it will not be...

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Richards is giving all his spare time to the preparation of that essay on labor and capital and thinks he can have a fair copy ready by the 31st.Will that be too late and if not where should he send it in order to reach Brownson promptly? :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Richards is glad Brownson thought to write him about Claudio Jannet. He has written to Father John Hogan, who is a friend, to let him know of Jannet's coming, and he hopes to have them, with Bishop John J. Keane, at his home. He expects to see Major Edmund Mallet in time. He was about to ask Brownson to refer him to the volume and page where Dr. Orestes A. Brownson spoke of John Henry Cardinal Newman's "Grammar of Assent", which he has been unable to find. He asks if Brownson read Leslie...

Scope and Contents Richards apologizes for his oversight in not seeing "Essay at a Grammar of Assent" in the index of Brownson's Works, but he is glad it gave him a chance to hear from Brownson. He had come to accept Brownson's view on John Henry Cardinal Newman some years ago and cannot think Brownson malicious toward him. Leslie Stephen, with all his "cold, clear-headed, hard-headed"—Newman's words—legal astuteness, is an irreverent sceptic and seems to delight in ignoring Newman's profound reverence, and in...

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It was fortunate that Brownson gave him another week; his nephew, Father Joseph H. Richards, S.J. the president of Georgetown encouraged him to complete the paper. He saw the Pope's address only last Sunday and had to change some of his paper. He arranges to send Brownson the paper so that he can have it for practicing his delivery. Brownson is to come to his home from Baltimore; if necessary; he will wait until Brownson has finished his business there. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Richards asks Brownson to quote the discount on the series set of his father's works to John Galvin, care of U.S. Senator James F. Wilson, Fairfield Iowa. Wilson is the patron of the local library and Galvin, a law student in his office, has been raising money among the Catholics of the town to pay for the set. Rachards thinks the third volume of the set not quite up to the first two, the workmanship not first-rate, the paper too heavy, the press work uneven. He suggests that Brownson pass...

Scope and Contents On reading the enclosed editorial from the Catholic American of Nov. 24, 1888, Richards wrote the enclosed article which appeared in the same paper, Dec, 29, 1888; they may be of interest to Brownson. The article is not all he could wish, but he wanted draw attention to the fact, apparently not known to Costelloe, Lilly and other able English and American Catholic writters, that Dr. Orestes A. Brownson worked out and presented most clear and satisfactory solutions of the great problems that...

Scope and Contents Richards was pleased to get Brownson's note of the 20th. It is an unsafe rule to publish any papers in the proceedings of the Congress except those ordered to be published by the Congress itself. However, he will not stand on that and has written to W.H. Hughes that he will send him a copy of his paper as soon as he can copy it. At the close of the Congress he was tired out and considerably disgusted when President John Lee Carroll announced at the close of John H. Campbell's reading that...

Scope and Contents Richards met Claudio Jannet at Major Edmund Mallet 's but could not understand his French or English fully. He was here about three days, then left for New York and sailed at once for France. He invites Brownson to visit him in Washington. He would have written sooner but he has been occupied since reading Leslie Stephen on Cardinal Newman and Salter's "Another View of Newman" in writing an essay —12 pages of which he sends Brownson. He wants to know whether, after the Vatican Council,...

Scope and Contents Richards was glad to get Brownson's letter which answered every point and asks if the 'perhaps' that he quoted from Orestes A. Brownson was written in view of the Vatican decree why it was not mentioned in some of his articles. The index does not show that he ever alluded to a decree on that point, and Richards thinks he used the word in consequence of the Papal requirement made on the Traditionalists. Probably his nephew J. Havens Richards, S.J. confused the latter with a decree of the...

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Richards favors the publication of an index to Brownson's works, notes that the article on Civil and Religious Freedom is omitted, and wonders why. Also he has discovered and error in the printing of Volume 6. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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Richards proposes to lend the book with the article to Milton E. Smith long enough him to copy the article into the News. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Wm. Richards was consoled by his brother's letter of the 24th and has a much brighter view of the future. Yesterday he reached the end of his Indian experience and wishes to tell his brother of it. He has been forced to operate with the so-called Catholic Indian Bureau on one hand and the Government Indian Bureau on the other. The first Bureau is composed of General Charles Ewing, Father J. B. A. Brouillet, Charles S. Lusk, who is a clerk of Ewing and who is paid by Brouillet, and also...