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The article Seymour promised at an earlier date is sent to Hudson. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Seymour returns to New York after an absence of twenty-five years. She is now alone, but has her faith. Yesterday afternoon Seymour spent with Maurice Francis Egan and his wife. Today the Ave Marias came with Seymour's Vienna Memories. She has another sketch on the death of the Archduke Francis Carl. In society there Seymour will be addressed as Lady Alice, but for general newspaper work the title had best be dropped. It was strange that a foreign monarch found her worthy to be raised...

Scope and Contents Seymour sends a sketch. Friends have been profuse with promises of assistance but the only ones that have aided her are the Episcopalian minister, the Reverend Brown of St. Mary the Virgin's on 45th St. and his wife. Maurice Francis Egan is constantly busy and can do nothing. Father Harmon C. Denny, S.J., is out whenever Seymour calls. Despite the fact that Seymour holds testimonials signed by Franz Liszt and Marchesi of the Vienna Conservatory, she can get no pupils. Even the Sacred...

Scope and Contents Seymour visited Maurice Francis Egan and his wife in Brooklyn to seek his aid in finding employment. Her only means of support at present is writing criticisms for the Home Journal at a nominal salary. Hudson misunderstands Seymour, she did not intend to enter the convent, but she loves the studious life she enjoyed there. Seymour gives a synopsis of her family pedigree. She married the Reverend Ward Seymour, an Episcopalian minister, when she was but 15, but when he became insane she...

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Impossible to find the large photograph. Seymour will attempt to replace it, she sends three small ones. She also sends a copy of Home Journal with her writings on "Oedipus". :: X-2-i A. Postcard S. 1p. 23mo.

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Seymour thanks Hudson for the $5 and the enclosed note for Father O'Hare. She is grateful for Hudson's sympathy over her disillusioning love affair. Maurice Francis Egan is put out over the whole affair. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Seymour thanks Hudson for the money which arrived today. When she first came to New York, Seymour was promised many pupils, a position as teacher of English literature, and an offer to lecture at the Gardiner Institute, but all were withdrawn. The Reverend Charles Gardiner head of the Institute declined to fulfill the engagement when he learned Seymour was a Catholic. She asks what is the title of the other paper Hudson publishes and offers to write articles for it. She was happy to...

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Seymour submits a sketch. She has written to Father Patrick O'Hare and hopes to visit him on Tuesday. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Seymour is downhearted over the failure to be hired as a music teacher at a Catholic school which Hudson recommended. She has been unemployed for three months and people will not employ her when they learn she is a Catholic. Besides this she is ill. Seymour is entertaining thoughts of leaving the Church. Maurice Francis Egan has tried to help her but has experienced little success. The Catholic World has had two of her articles since last summer but has not published them, and Seymour...

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Seymour thanks Hudson for the $5, if all editors were as thoughtful as Hudson, her worries would be relieved. She was invited by two Catholic families to supper and after hearing her piano playing and singing they promised to get her pupils. Seymour sends Hudson an article; she is also writing articles for the Catholic World and Harpers Magazine. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Seymour has spent the week's holiday confined to bed due to illness. The letters have been stolen from her desk. Mr. Galway called to tell Seymour that he did not care who had them. Seymour is still plagued by the belief that ritualists and old protestant friends are leagued against her. Catholics do not befriend her. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Seymour sends the first of three sketches she is writing on early Catholic Masters of Music. At present she is in a Protestant school teaching history. Her next two sketches will be on the Age of Palestrina and the Anerio. An envelope marked Certificate for Music from the Vienna Conservatory is enclosed. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Seymour is lecturing and writing on the early masters of music. For her next story, Seymour will write about the rise of the Oratorio of St. Philip Neri, 1660. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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She sends a note to be added to her sketch of Palestrina, hoping that it will not be too late. The Ave Maria was not received last week, but the mail is slow because the weather is very severe. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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Seymour acknowledges the receipt of $8. She has received all the numbers of the Ave Maria except number three. Nugent Robinson's story is good. She wishes there was a Catholic magazine like Harpers to supply stories for Catholic girls 15-25 years of age. Such stories as Robinson's should be spread more widely. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Seymour is teaching history in a Protestant school. Since she is a Catholic this places her in an embarrassing situation. She comments on a book that is being read quite extensively, Nicholas Murray Kirwan 's Letters to Archbishop John Hughes . If Seymour were at Notre Dame she feels she could be of great assistance to Hudson, because her work on the Home Journal taught her something about editorial duty. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 6pp. 8vo.

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Hudson is to have the Ave Maria sent to her new address which she gives. She will write when she finishes furnishing her little home. :: X-2-i A.Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Seymour thanks Hudson for the $6. She cannot leave her teaching position because she promised to remain until July 5th. Seymour has charge of the Vocal Department as well as teaching German and French. On the 19th of March she will lecture in Philadelphia at the Academy of Fine Arts on "Artist Life in Vienna". She lectures under the auspices of Mrs. George W. Childs, the Fallons and other distinguished families. Proceeds are for the benefit of the School of Design. She hopes that this...

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She sends a sketch of a personal experience. If Hudson cannot use it, he should return it, if it is accepted, she would be glad to have the money in advance. She is resting, relying on her pen to furnish her a living. She gives a forwarding address in Barrington, Mass. In the future Hudson should use her pen name, Octavia Hensel ; it is her musical nom de plume as well. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Seymour is pleased to hear that her articles on painters will appear in the Ave Maria, but sorry to hear they prove too literary. She makes a few notations in the way of correction on the manuscript. In August she will go to Canandaigua, New York. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Seymour is moving because it is the summer vacation. She is going to Hastings, New York, Wednesday. If anything of hers has been published, she asks Hudson to send her some money. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Seymour sails for America tomorrow. Death of her grandmother forces her to return to the United States to settle the estate. She asks Hudson to keep what money is due her until he hears from her again. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Hensel encloses a story entitled "Martinswand" for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Hensel is quite ill. She hopes that the $7.50 will reach her soon. :: X-3-f A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Seymour is surprised to find she neglected the Litany Father Lawrence Moeslein, C.P. sent her for her Lacordaire Literary Society in Nashville. She submits a translation from the German of Keller. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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The Ave Maria reached Hensel. She wishes to pay for the copy of the Ave Maria that is sent to Tom, her boy. :: X-3-f A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents She had a vision of St. Ignatius Loyola. It made her remember the Montserrat paper she had promised Hudson. She has "Little Ting Ting" under way. Hensel asks Hudson to name a book about the Canoness or Stiftsdamen Orders of Europe. She knows a few of the Vienna ladies whose relatives belong to the Silesianna ? Convent and Stiftesdamen of St. Veit at Prague. Hensel means to have such an order in the United States before she dies. Miss Chaffee from Detroit gave a talk on the fine art of...

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"Ting Ting" turned out an Easter story. Enclosed also is something for the Montserrat article. Hudson did not tell her to destroy Mrs. D. 's letter so she returned it. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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She writes the articles on St. Ignatius as if a power outside herself made her do it. When she came home from her classes at the College she took her pen and off flew "Ignatius the Pilgrim". In the enclosed article "Seraphael" is Monsignor Cicconni, S.J. He was very sarcastic and made "mince meat" of her every day. His words guided and consoled her. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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The college of music is a semi-fraud. It is a private venture run by a Chicago business woman photographist. Seymour resigned when they broke her contract. She has taken a flat; the convent was too far from her music room. A special friend of Seymour will soon be with Hudson. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.