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Seymour is in Atlantic City for a rest. Her arm still bothers her. Seymour will chaperone a group of her art students on a trip to Europe. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Seymour wishes that Hudson had sent her recent manuscripts back to her rather than have printed them in the Ave Maria. On reading them she was displeased. Her article on Maryland settlements entitled "Pictures of a Century" is being looked over by the Catholic Standard, but if they cannot examine them before she goes to Europe, Seymour will send them to Hudson. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Seymour is happy that Hudson liked her article entitled Symbolism. She thinks that it is better because Hudson must have remodeled it. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Seymour received money order for $10. Her injured arm is worse. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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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.

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Seymour sends two sketches. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Mrs. Jameson and other protestant art critics insist upon the fact that Raphael painted curtains on the canvas to give it pyramidal form, but Seymour says the picture was painted for Pope Sixtus, but it was the Vision of St. Barbara, which Raphael painted. Three years ago, Seymour wrote a serial for the St. Nicholas. It was considered too Romanish. Last year Seymour tried to find a Catholic publisher to publish it in book form, but they said they had no call for such books that their...

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Seymour says that her arm is better. She can write with it as the nerves are better. The doctors are not doing anything for it except to look at it. She will send the entire story of "Muriel and Stella." Seymour hopes that Hudson's health is restored and is very thankful for the kindly interest that Hudson has taken in her work. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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She sends the last of the papers prepared on the Saints. The doctors cannot do anything else for Miss Seymour's arm. She cannot even hold a pen any longer. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Contemplating moving, she did not care to store the articles she sent sometime ago. Her arm has become worse. If she could only play the piano as she once did. She is studying singing. She is offered a place in a Protestant choir which she will have to take unless her own Church see fit to dispense with its Protestant singers. She ought not to complain for Protestants support her. :: X-2-m 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.

Scope and Contents She sends a true Christmas story of her life in Austria. She is still quite ill. She has prepared lectures on "Journeys on the Continent" on Music, and on European cities; she is now preparing lectures on the Art Schools of Europe. This pays better than teaching but it is too bad she devotes all her energies to Protestant schools while Catholic convents are employing Protestant teachers for music and elocution who do not have her knowledge. She is glad she is a Catholic but had she...

Scope and Contents She thanks Hudson for the $10 for the Christmas story. Her recent Ave Marias have been forwarded from New York, indicating that her address has not been changed as requested. She again gives her present address. She is still on the sick list suffering from overtaxed nerves. If only she could die rather than suffer and live in a way that is against her whole nature. She must seek her livelihood by teaching in Protestant Schools and everything she is forced to teach is anti-Catholic. Her...

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Seymour has received the $11 that Hudson sent only to have it stolen with $15 and her purse. Now she is without money until she starts teaching again. Three of her sketches on "Painters" have been published and she wonders if Hudson has more money for her. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Seymour received the $6 for the "Palestrina". Seymour thanks Hudson for recommending her for a teaching position at St. Mary's Academy. She feels that Hudson's efforts will be of no avail because her testimonials and recommendations were already in the possession of the sisters, yet they hired another teacher. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Seymour thanks Hudson for the payment for the sketches. The reasons that the sisters at St. Mary's give for refusing to hire Seymour are strange. As longs as her grandmother lives she is forced to remain in the United States. The ostracism she endures from her friends and relatives since becoming a Catholic is killing her. Seymour describes her cultural background which unfits her for the circles of society into which her life as a teacher brings her. She has been on the point of...

Scope and Contents Seymour seeks a teaching position in music, voice culture, or English literature and modern languages. She supposes an announcement that a woman holding a diploma and certificates from the Conservatories of Vienna and Budapest would be enough to place in her ad. If Hudson receives offers which he thinks Seymour should accept he should forward them to her. Seymour is writing some sketches on early Catholic painters; in the first paper she discusses the XIII Century at Venice. The second...

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Seymour thanks Hudson for the $30 that he sent her. She has been engaged to teach vocal music and French in two of the Sisters of St. Joseph Convents. Monsignor Capel is going to visit her. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Seymour received Hudson's Journal with her article in it. :: X-2-l A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Seymour broke her arm in a fall. She must write since she cannot teach in her condition. An article is enclosed for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Seymour has been afflicted with nervous prostration which will confine her to the house for three months. She has been able to give private lectures in the home at which she is boarding. Hudson's suggestion that Seymour write an article on Franz Liszt is a pleasant idea, but because of his youthful indiscretions in having children by various women, Seymour thinks it would not be well to write such a biographical sketch for the Ave Maria. Seymour is willing to write on any other subject....

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Seymour completes her work on Flemish and German Art with the two enclosed papers. Now she would like to know how many papers she has sent to Hudson, and how much money she has coming to her for them. She doesn't need the money now but will in August. The story of Haydn's life is good but not well translated. The translator is not familiar with English equivelants for German idioms. There is an error in the story of Johanna Keller :: X-2-l A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

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Seymour sends two sketches on Catholic art in Europe. She feels few Catholics appreciate Catholic art, and look upon church as a mere religious exercise and not a spirit of prayer in life that permeates thought, deed and act. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Seymour informs Hudson that she has received the missing numbers of the Ave Maria. She submits a sketch of the Madonna del Sasso. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Enclosed are two pressed pansies sent by Sister Mary of St. Joseph, Convent of Petit Beguines de Notre Dame de Gand. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

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Two weeks ago she sent a sketch, "The Eve of the Festival." She has given up her New York flat and has come to this lovely village for the summer. In the fall she will take a new apartment because she had so much sorrow in the one she left. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2 pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents She thanks Hudson for his letter and enclosure. She likes to keep a copy of what she writes and she sends one copy to Father M. A. Holmes of Rochester, New York, who is interested in her writings. She is sorry Hudson is ill. Early this morning she went to the Catholic Church St. Peter's which Father P. Cuddihy caused to be built, in which work her father greatly assisted him. She has many friends in the vicinity who are quite shocked at her Catholicity. But she is sure she is right and...

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The accompanying manuscript was written last year for the "Catholic World" but was returned after being accepted. If Hudson cannot use it he should return it and she will rearrange it for secular papers. They have a gentle young priest from Boston there for the summer and she feels she has one friend at least. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Seymour inquires about payment for an article. She thinks the Ave Maria is the best Catholic family magazine and inquires why the Catholic World publishers such trashy articles. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.