Scope and Contents Severance inquieres if some one will edit and publish Orestes A. Brownson's writings or if they will be untouched in the condition they were left. In the latter case, he would like to receive the numbers of the Review containing the Refutation of Atheism, save the first published in October 1873. Severance is a University clergyman, and had, been a subscriber to Brownson's Review for years. As an author he is very much interested in Brownson and lives near Brownson's boyhood home in...

Scope and Contents Severance has received the Essay in Refutation of Atheism and hopes to read it soon. He has always respected Brownson's father as an intellectual athlete and has been of assistance in his own reasoning. He has been interested in Brownson's views for many years, an admirer of the Review and of Charles Elwood, but more in harmony with Brownson's views at this period, than at a later time. He calls Brownson the leading contemporary American writer, one who was well aware of the intellectual...

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Seymour encloses a Latin hymn. He wonders if the Ave Maria would like an article on Catholic hymns in the Protestant Church. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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He hopes McMaster can come to Albany, for he is anxious to talk with him about public affairs. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He will be glad to see McMaster any time this week before Saturday. ` P.S. It would be convenient to see him Wednesday evening. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He received McMaster's letter and enclosure and will see him in New York before Jan. 1. He is recovered from the labors of the canvass and will discuss the subject of their future policy in a few days. He is now overwhelmed with correspondence. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Seymour wishes to discuss his speech, delivered at Albany, with McMaster and he feels that he will be able to convince McMaster of his sincerity. He states that his deep concern over the shaping of party ties was his reason for withdrawing his name from the Convention, and he states that he has been trying to show the danger that exists of losing New York. George H. Pendleton was his choice for Vice President, but if he is nominated, Seymour will support him. He states that McMaster's...

Scope and Contents Seymour sends a critique of a piece of music. The college has dismissed Seymour owing her $141. The college was started by a Chicago-Cincinnati firm on a trial basis. Her refusal to do trade work, take a dozen voices in a class and let them sing anything, and her decision to reside in a convent, which gave the college a Catholic tinge and invoked the disapproval of the Episopalian Bishop, the important social patron, as well as Miss Garrity's decision to employ only Protestant teachers,...

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Seymour will be married Tuesday. The petty jealousy of envious teachers and Catholics has determined Mr. Fonda to marry her immediately. Bishop William McCloskey and Father W.J. Dunn advise the step although Fonda is a Presbyterian. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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She and Mr. Fonda returned to Louisville about the 15th. She gives an account of her recent trip to Europe. She thinks Stoddard's letter in the Ave Maria on Verona is delightful. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Fonda is hard at work teaching her vocal pupils. Fonda hopes to go to Europe next June to remain as long as Mr. Fonda wishes. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Fonda's book "Austrian Pansies" has been revised. E. P. Dutton, Holt Company and Brentano would publish the book if Fonda would eliminate the Catholic spirit. Protestant firms refuse it unless she makes it suitable for Protestant trade. Fonda asks if the University Press would undertake the work. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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She asks for an Index to the Ave Maria of 1888. Hensel sends with this letter, "A Memory of St. Ursula". Mr. Fonda is not well. She wishes that the Fonda estate were settled so that Mr. Fonda and she could go to Europe and live. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Seymour acknowledges receipt of five dollars for the "Antwerp" paper. She is busy with her school. She opens it and gives it into charge of her young teachers. Seymour asks Hudson to tell Maurice Francis Egan how much she likes his "talks". She thanks the Ave Maria for noticing her article which appeared in Harpers. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

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Seymour is glad Hudson likes her sketch of Lanzendorf. She does not wonder that Hudson is puzzled with regards to her various names, which she attempts to explain. Seymour is planning to send a sketch on the life of St. Stanislaus Kotska. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Hudson will see by the enclosed criticisms that Fonda is charmed with the "Hosanna" and Millard's Masses. She sends Hudson a translation. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Seymour has been trying to write Hudson about the dreadful stories, but cannot. The account of the preservation of the statue of the Blessed Virgin is from a Protestant. The tabernacle and the presence lamp were also uninjured. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Seymour with the group of girls she is chaperoning spent two weeks in England after an unpleasant Atlantic passage. She sends a sketch. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Dutton, Holt and Bretano examined "Austrian Pansies" and said if she would eliminate the Catholic spirit of the book they would publish it. Under what conditions could Notre Dame publish it? :: X-3-k A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

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Enclosed is a sketch of the chapel of St. Stanislaus in Vienna. Her grandmother, her only living relative, whom she came to this country to visit, has suffered a paralytic stroke and is helpless, so she has resigned her position in the Austrian imperial family. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Seymour encloses a photograph of the "Madonna of the Hands" and the Guido Reni, "Ecce Homo" of the Dresden Gallery. The Murillo photos are in Germantown which she will forward to Hudson. Seymour asks Hudson to send payment for the last articles she submitted to the Ave Maria. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Seymour sends Hudson a sketch of Westminister and St. Pauls. She is staying at the Hotel du Dome in the shadow of the portals of the Cologne Cathedral. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Seymour ought to have spoken of St. John of Nepomuk more at length. She does not think it improves one's Catholicity to dwell in Bohemia. Seymour knows her descriptions sun guide-booky. She has been asked lately to write some more Sunday School books. Half the church people believe her still in the Church of England. What would be the harm of protestantizing her "Muriel and Stella" enough for Anglicans? The inconsistencies of the Catholic literature business provoke Seymour. :: X-2-n...

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She encloses two short translations from the Marian Stories. Hudson did not give her much encouragement for publishing "Austrian Pansies." Could Hudson give an estimate of what it would cost to bring out the book illustrated by photogravure? Does Hudson remember her "Cathedral of Amiens?" The Pilot and Catholic World have declined it :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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Fonda is busy arranging for the opening of her Vocal School "St. Cyr." She sends her appreciation of "Vade Mecum", and hopes it will do the Hymal good. Mr. Keely, the author, left St. Ambrose out in the cold. Fonda and her husband are sorry they were unable to spend the next day with Hudson but their visit was a flying one to Chicago. She will write Sister Aloysius. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Enclosed is an article for the Ave Maria. Hudson's kind note on the "Austrian Pansies" arrived. Fonda is glad that Hudson liked "St. Denis." Servants aid Fonda who has a sore arm. Fonda hopes to have charge of the Cathedral Choir soon. :: X-3-f A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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She had difficulty translating a story from the German. Tomorrow she will send Hudson her critique on the music. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Seymour sends Hudson some photos of Murillo's "The Holy Family" and the "Perla de la Conceptione". She is writing a sketch on the Little Beguinage of Our Lady of Ghent. Enclosed with the photos is a composition that Seymour wrote for a vocal pupil of hers. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Seymour thanks Hudson for the $7. If Hudson knew how Maurice Francis Egan and others provoke her by their boasts of the payments they get for their works. Seymour discusses her ancestral background. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Seymour writes a farewell letter before she departs for Europe. She will chaperone several young ladies on a tour of Europe until October. While in Europe she plans to send Hudson sketches of things she has seen. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.