Scope and Contents Henry's explanation of everything is satisfactory to Orestes and more favorable than he expected. He has nothing more to say except that it way be satisfactory to Sarah M. Brownson Tenney also. He is surprised that Henry has four sons and asks their names. One of Orestes' pupils lived near Henry and often told Orestes of Henry's daughter. He asks the age of his daughters. Orestes eldest son is John Joseph Brownson, 19 years, next is William Henry Edward, 13 years old and Charles Augustus is...

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Orestes thanks Henry for his check for $692.40. He hopes to make a payment with it toward a home of his own. He trusts Henry and Sarah will realize on the estate as fast as possible and will send Orestes his third as fast as convenient. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Orestes has purchased a home and still $950. behind on its payment. Although he has some time yet, he is terribly cramped for money. He asks if possible to receive any more of Brownson's estate, even if the amount should be very small. Henry may be sure only pressing necessity would cause, Orestes to write this, after all Henry has already done. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Orestes thanks Henry for sending him the $143 on account of Brownson's estate. It seems overpowering to think that Sarah M. Brownson Tenney is no more on earth. Now Orestes and Henry are all that are left of that once large and apparently lasting family of father, mother, seven sons and a daughter. What changes a few years have brought about, all sad. Henry's letter affords Orestes very great consolation in telling of the happy manner of dear sister's death; if well prepared and ready what...

Scope and Contents Orestes thanks Henry for his letter as well for the weekly "Free Press". Henry's photographs came safe and has been very much admired. Orestes is now having his turn of sick children. His Louisa Brownson is very sick with measles. If Henry has time and feels disposed, an article from Der Lindes' chess book would be quite welcome. Orestes finds much trouble reading German and some of the other languages are a sealed book to him. He has commenced a couple of correspondece games with the good...

Scope and Contents Orestes hopes Henry will not be offended at this letter since what he says is not particularly pleasing. So far Orestes has been paying fifty dollars a month but this summer wants to move out onto the farm and build a house since material and labor are very low now. He has pinched for this, but times have been hard for him so he asks Henry to lend him $100 or $200 for a year with interest. Henry will be of the utmost assistance if he can help Orestes by getting him started on a farm where...

Scope and Contents Orestes' family is well except Charles Augustus Brownson, 3 years old, who has the chicken pox. Bart. E. Linehan of Dubuque wishes to purchase a set of "Brownson's Review" for 1844 to 1864 inclusive. Orestes asks Henry where it may be had. Orestes is glad the "Convert" is selling so well and the information that Sadlier's will soon furnish a semi-annual statement comes like a shower to a man on the Sahara. His son John Brownson who will be of age next tuesday is teaching school about six...

Scope and Contents Orestes thinks the price of $175 for the sets of "Brownson's Review" must have scared Mr. Linehan as nothing has since been heared from him. Orestes does not think it would do any good to write to Mr. Lawrence Kehoe as he will do more for Henry than for Orestes who is a stranger to him. Orestes asks if Sadlier made his January returns of which Henry spoke in Dec. Orestes supposes there is no use looking for dividends. Orestes is plodding along, still keeping from debt and that is all. This...

Scope and Contents Henry's letter of the 4th gave Orestes great pleasure. Orestes pitched headlong down the stairs from the very top and is now uneasy about his head which may perhaps give way any day and leave him insane. He sympathizes with Henry who is suffering from the gout at an early age. Orestes asks that Fifine give a full account of all her children. John Brownson was married Easter tuesday April 23. by Father James WArd, who boasts that he has sat at the table of the great Dr. Orestes A. Brownson ....

Scope and Contents Orestes has not heard from Henry for some time. Orestes had a close call last week in March when he fell downstairs one night. He had his right foot broken, left knee and shoulder bruised, right hand and wrist sprained and stiff for life. He can write only with the fore arm and shoulder mouvement in excruciating pain. The two middle fingers of left hand broken. His son John Brownson was married the April 23 to a very exemplary young lady. Of course Orestes cannot thrash any school-boys,...

Scope and Contents Mary Brownson, Orestes' eldest daughter was married yesterday to A. B. Worthington, a music teacher, and Orestes has lost the school which has been under his charge for the last 14 years. He has at home Ned, 15 years old, Sally, 13, Annie 11, Louisa 9, Rosa 7 and Charley 3 years. Orestes owes $300 on the farm, which debt harrasses him. It would do no good to tell why another was preferred to him in his school in which he has uniformly done well. It was to gain votes for political office and...

Scope and Contents Orestes thanks Henry for the $50 check and can not find words to express his gratitude. Henry urges Orestes in his letter no to despair, but it seemed so hard to be stopped just when he was coming out of hard times. It was very mean to be thrown out of a 14 years position without warning to accomidate a saloon politician. As Henry says, it may be for the best. It brings Orestes away from the denunciations of the Church against the partisans of Public Schools and it relieves Orestes of the...

Scope and Contents Orestes is sorry to hear of Henry's accident to his shoulder and hopes it did not occur through somnambulism, as Orestes' wife still thinks he got his fall down stairs in that state. He asks Henry if he has any photos to gave of his family. He is glad to hear Philip Brownson is better. He does not know what any of them look like except that father Gara said that Mrs. Fifine Brownson is short and someone else that she wears gold spectacles. Orestes agrees that Henry's is right in not sending...

Scope and Contents Orestes congratulates Henry on the birth of his daughter Josephine Brownson . He thanks Henry for the photographs of Fifine Brownson and his son Orestes Brownson . Fifine looks decidedly literary and seems kind. Little Orestes seems a very intelligent child and looks in the forehead just above the eyes a little like Henry did when he was a child. On the whole, Orestes looks rather delicate and as if he needs fresh mountain air. Orestes asks Henry for the photographs of all the other members...

Scope and Contents Orestes congratulates Henry upon Philip's Brownson success at college but cautions Henry not to let Philip study too hard for the physical is essential as well as the mental. Orestes' daughter Sarah Brownson has been promoted to the Dubuque High School standing twelfth in a list of 36 successful applicants. His son John Brownson and wife have made Orestes a grandfather. A daughter was born to them yesterday at 7 p.m.Annie Brownson and Louisa Brownson have been taken into the Church choir....

Scope and Contents Orestes presumes Henry's partner is a good Democrat and that if Winfield Scott Hancock and English are elected he will be rewarded. Orestes takes no papers and has all he can do to keep up his farm work. He has no knowledge of political parties at present. He is intensely interested in Henry's family and laments the poverty that prevents a closer union. It is a great blessing to have talented children and still greater blessing to have obedient ones. Orestes second son Edward Brownson has...

Scope and Contents Orestes is glad to hear that Henry and family are all well and progressing so finely. Henry's children will apparently receive the advantages of an excellent education. Orestes wants to hear often of them. All his family are well except Sarah Brownson, 15 years old who has a very bad cough and he fears it is the beginning of comsumption. The mercury fell to 10 below zero without any warning and Orestes is sorry to say he was caught without any warm clothing. Is it all due to Orestes'...

Scope and Contents Orestes thanks Henry for his favor of the 18th. and congratulates him on being rid of his dissolute partner. He trusts that Henry is prospering. He inquires whether Henry's son Philip, now 12 is to be a scholar or a lawyer, and asks about a report he has heard about Henry's putting out a new edition of their father works, if he has the time. He warns him of the greediness of publishers. Orestes has but few of his father writings but he reads and rereads them with pleasure. He asks why his...

Scope and Contents Orestes, after a recent talk with a gentleman, refers to Henry the following questions: is knowledge a virtue? If knowledge is power, is it a virtue? Does the development of the intellect necessarily make us better? He asks for Henry's opinion and reasons. Also he asks whether all intellectual philosophy is but a following out of the plan laid down by Aristotle. He asks where he can find a complete treatise on Aristotle's plan and how he can learn it. He will have time during the winter to...

Scope and Contents Although Orestes has received no answer to his last letter he cannot resist writing again. He hopes that Henry's gout is not giving him trouble and that he and his family are in good health. He notes that Henry's former law partner has met with a fatal accident and asks Henry to express his grief to his wife at her brother's death. He asks Henry not to forget to write him a few lines, since they alone are left of their father's family. Orestes' family is well, his son John Brownson is for...

Scope and Contents Orestes is much pleased to see in the copy of the Detroit Free Press which Henry sent to him that Philip J. Brownson is progressing so well. Long may be continue and become as good as he promises to be great. The other children must be doing well. With brains directed by true religion Orestes admits that his only block has come from not obeying the Church. Orestes sends Henry the Dubuque Herald wherein is mentioned that John Brownson passed the examination for a Principal's Certificate but...

Scope and Contents In the name of all the Brownsons Orestes thanks and congratulates Henry upon the great and noble work of republishing the works of the great Orestes A. Brownson. May Heaven grant Henry health and Strenght to continue and conclude the noble undertaking. Henry is to save a copy for Orestes as he shall have the money in time on Nov. 1 and every 3 months thereafter. If Orestes can be of any assistance, Henry should let him know. Orestes hopes Henry makes the edition as large as he can, for there...

Scope and Contents Orestes encloses a letter from John J. Fitzgibbon of Chicago, whom he calls a wealthy and and educated citizen, whose acquaintance he made some time ago. He asks Henry to answer the enclosed letter, since he can better give Fitzgibbon the facts which he wants about their father, and asks that he send him a volume at once. Orestes assures Henry that Fitzagibbon is as good a friend as he professes to be, intellectually and financially the poor of the best lay Catholics. The letter is written...

Scope and Contents Orestes is sorry that Henry too has bad times but is happy at the friendly tone and kind words of Henry's letter. The times seem to be getting harder and harder. Orestes has build a home on the farm, a frame with four rooms, but minus plastering, painting cellar and has moved into it so that he has no house rent to pay and has plenty of wood to burn. Orestes and the boys work at mining every day since school was out and have made between 25 and 30 dollars so that they have plenty to eat....

Scope and Contents Orestes has received Henry's letter of the 20th. and volume 1 of Orestes A. Brownson 's Works. In his isolation he has as yet met no one who has seen the work, but he assures Henry that he and his family find it excellent. He admires the introduction, calling it one of the grandest articles ever written by a Brownson. The language he says, is incomparable and quotes Sarah Brownson as asking why Henry does not write more. The more he reads of his father's writings the more he admires him and...

Scope and Contents Henry's kind letter was duly received. He sees that Henry is still hard at work to perpetuate the greatness of their father's Orestes A. Brownson name. His memory of home affairs is chiefly of his anti-Catholic days when he saw little of his father since he was constantly studying. Occasionaly however, he would send for Orestes to play chess, and from eight a.m. to twelve p.m. there was no respite. If Orestes has any chess reputation, their father laid the foundation. Letter is incomplete....

Scope and Contents Henry's letter was received today, reminding him that the only one left in all their family still thinks of him. It was indeed a happy birthday for him; best of all was the prospect of seeing Henry soon, on his way to St. Paul. If Brownson will call Dr. John J. Brownson of Dubuque, his son, he will bring him out to Orestes' home. He is glad that the end is drawing near, although he has not accomplished much. The future seems so dark and uncertain to him; man is such an atom of Creation, and...

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He received the four lectures of Rev. Thomas Hughes, S. J . and has read them with interest and pleasure. Hughes is a learned man. The moment Orestes begins to follow such arguments, difficulties and abstractions arise in his mind that he cannot harmonize. He gives examples of what he means. He is happier and better when following the path indicated by the Church than when ignoring them, and that is about all his mind can comprehend. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Brownson has just received a letter from Frank Henry Francis Brownson who hopes to be relieved today or tomorrow and will hasten to embrace his wife and child as soon as possible. Frank says that Josephine has not get along well. Brownson is not surprised; she had not time to get strong before he went away and she has worried and kept back her recovery. Brownson likes her all the better for having a little human infirmity; he has a horror of perfect women. Brownson owes her a thousand...

Scope and Contents Orestes tells Henry to accept the 15th of Feb. if no other date can be agreed upon, and to telegraph him accordingly, so that he may be in Chicago a day or two beforehand so as to rest. He is not particular about the terms, for his only inducement to accept the invitation is the opportunity to visit Henry, Fefine and Philip. $150 will answer, or $100 and expenses. He apologizes for any nonsense in his last letter Nov. 19, 1869 of which he was ashamed as soon as he had sent it. He knows...