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Lambing received the thirty copies of "Mixed Marriages", but no bill. Yesterday Lambing visited Mr. John O'Brien the oldest resident of Pittsburgh. He arrived in 1806, before there was a Catholic Church or resident priest and when there were but six Catholic families. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Enclosed find a $3.75 money order in payment for the bill on the pamphlets. Father Augustine Wirth has asked Lambing to write an article on mixed marriages for his book of sermons that will be published. Father John Malady, a young priest stationed at Washington, Pennsylvania, died suddenly a short time ago. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Father Lambing can breathe easier now that school is over. He wrote a few sermons which he discusses on mixed marriages for Father Wirth's last volume. He refers to an article in the Irish Eccl . Record, by the Pres. of Marymouth College on the question of whether we should say the Lord or Our Lord in the Hail Mary. He favors the Lord in opposition to Cardinal Wiseman. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Hudson's letter was received. He sends a brief notice of Mr. O'Brien for Hudson's judgment. Instead of copying the article in the "Irish Ecclesiastical Record" he will send Hudson the volume. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 1 p. 8 vo.

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Has Hudson seen the decision of the Roman Congress regarding the nuptial blessing in the "London Tablet," June 24, 1882, p. 989? He has urged Father J McCabe C.S.Sp. of the Pittsburgh Catholic College to visit Notre Dame on his trip to Chicago. :: X-2-j A. Postcard S.

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Hudson's letter of the 12th with notice of Masses was received. He sends the "Tablet" containing a notice on a marriage decision. The facts might be inserted in the Ave Maria with a reference to his article. He is preparing an article to be sent in next week. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 2 pp. 8vo.

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Lambing is engaged in composing his lecture and will submit his manuscript by the end of the week. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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The group that Lambing was going to deliver his lectures before has postponed its meeting and Lambing must delay sending the manuscript to Hudson. Lambing hopes Hudson's health has improved. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Lambing thinks it would be well for the Ave Maria to warn certain Catholic papers of the impropriety of admitting certain medical advertisements. Of the same class are those principally from Portland and Augusta, Maine, issuing agents so many dollars per month to sell articles. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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The rumor that Lambing would be transferred has proved false. How soon does Hudson expect to begin "Masses for the Dead". :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Lambing returns the corrected proof. He will take care of having the work copyrighted. As for remuneration, Lambing is willing to take 75 copies out of every 1000 copies printed. He sends his lecture for Hudson to determine if it is worth publication in the Ave Maria. Lambing will have more about medical advertisements; they are becoming an outrage, look at the Catholic. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Lambing returns 18 pages of proof. He received the money order Hudson forwarded with the letter from Galveston. He has applied for copyrights on his pamphlet entitled "Masses". Lambing has written an article on medical advertisements for Hudson and has stopped the Catholic for that reason. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 4to. 1p.

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Lambing sends his article on medical advertisements together with the letter from the priest in Galveston, Lambing asks Hudson to place an advertisement about his pamphlet in the Ave Maria. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Lambing returns the proof with corrections. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Lambing returns the proof with an addition. Judge Edmund Dunne 's article on Purgatory pleased him. Lambing sends a typographical curio sity which appeared in Pittsburgh recently. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Lambing apologizes for not sending in the advertisement sooner. He expects his pamphlet "Masses" to have wide circulation. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Lambing wants to get three sets of the Ave Maria containing the article he wrote on the Rosary. His brother, Father Michael Lambing and he expect to leave for Notre Dame Sunday. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Lambing sends the second part of his article. He was in New York recently and saw John G. Shea at Elizabeth, New Jersey. Lambing's article on Washington has caused quite a stir in some quarters. He has broken with the "Guardian Angel" and will write no more for it, because the editors persist in making blunders in setting up his articles. Father W. P. Power is now in Arkansas and will call on Hudson on his return. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Lambing has just finished traveling about 2400 miles. He thinks he can furnish part three of "Rosary" for October. Hudson can begin publishing part two now. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Lambing encloses $13.75 for the Masses. Lambing can finish the second part of the "Rosary" any time it is desired. Lambing calls to attention an article by Sister Anastasia in the Ave Maria, on an old Bible that Lambing owns. It was brought out in 1478. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Lambing encloses the conclusion to the second part of his article on the Rosary. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Lambing is feeling better but he cannot write just now. He asks for some Lourdes Water and a Catalogue. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Lambing has concluded not to write anything on the "Sisten of May". It cannot be proved to an absolute demonstration. Lambing's father was 77 on October 10; he is the youngest of the four oldest members of his family. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Lambing encloses an article on the Rosary, which he did not have time to correct. He will leave it to Hudson to put it in good shape. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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A notice from the "Standard" is enclosed with a few suggestions for the Ave Maria. Lambing suggests that the Ave Maria print this story. John G. Shea should be asked to write an article on it. It would increase devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the history of the devotion to the Blessed Mother would be traced. :: X-2-l A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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Lambing would like to borrow Volume One of the "The Magazine of American History." :: X-2-l A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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He sends a copy of his "Sunday School Teacher's Manual" for notice in the Ave Maria, and he extends to Hudson best wishes for the New Year. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He received Hudson's letter. The duties of his parish have prevented him from writing for the Ave Maria lately. Much of his time is spent in working on a History of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He has a prospectus made of a volume on Matrimony, Civil and Mixed Marriages, and Divorce, which he intends to write, but these plans must wait until the History is completed. He mentions a few changes which should be made when the next edition of his pamphlet on "Mixed Marriages" is printed. Then...

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Lambing asks Hudson if he thinks it would not be well to have the Bishop of Fort Wayne examine the "Mixed Marriages", so as to get approbation for the next edition. He wants Hudson to inform him of his suggestions in time to carry them out without being hurried; for a city pastor is not the most independent of men. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Lambing is about through with the revision of his manuscript, but will retain it until he returns from the retreat on the 27th. He would like to spend a few of these hot days in the shade of Notre Dame. He informs Hudson, confidentially, that the Catholic Parent's Friend is soon going to suspend publication, as the editor wanted Lambing to take a share in it and have it published in the east, but he has lost enough on the Catholic public. :: X-2-d A.L.S. 2pp. crown 8vo.