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Stoddard is gaining his strength back. A senator came to take him out, but he did not go. Theodore Dwight begs him to come to breakfast with him tomorrow. The copy for the article on Father Joseph Damien De Veuster worries him. He feels as if he had not the heart to go at it and wishes Hudson would take and edit it. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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It was not Stoddard's fault that the Bishop of Covington Camillus Paul Maes telegraphed Hudson. After he reached Covington, Stoddard spent ten desolate days before the doctor gave him three different kinds of medicine that restored his health. He has returned to Washington feeling much better. His reception on his return was sensational. Stoddard thanks Hudson for the relic of Father Damein. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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Stoddard likes Hudson's idea of a book list. Stoddard feels the new English Sisters will make trouble at Molokai. Does not Henry Cardinal Manning know that the sisters have been at Molokai for a long time? How unlike the arrival of Father Joseph Damien De Veuster is the arrival of this woman Amy C. Fowler. One newspaper announced she had gone or was going to take De Veuster's place. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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James Cardinal Gibbons is at Catholic University. Stoddard submits some lines for the Ave Maria. He asks Hudson to destroy the enclosed unsigned letter. No enclosure. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Stoddard submits some lines he wrote twentyfive years ago and read in San Francisco before the Society of California Pioneers. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Hudson is getting ahead of Stoddard in the collecting of Father Joseph Damien De Veuster relics. A friend going to Honolulu on the same steamer as Sister Gertrude said that the Sisters all know Stoddard. Stoddard wants William Whitman Storey's "Conversation in a Studio". It was Mrs. Storey who gave Stoddard a letter to Cuida. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Theodore Dwight is still in Boston and is expected home next week. Dwight writes that he is likely to spend the summer in the old house in Quincy, Massachusetts, and he wishes Stoddard to stay with him. Some of the priests who are likely to be assigned to parishes during the vacation have asked Stoddard to come to them. Donaldson has thrown his house open to Stoddard. He was asked to join the Theodore Vails at their farm in New Hampshire. They are expecting to close June 19. Stoddard...

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Stoddard is home after three weeks in New York. He would have returned four days earlier, but he met Benoni Irwin, the artist who painted a portrait of Stoddard in 1872. Stoddard sat for another portrait and the old one was given to him. For ten days Stoddard was in the flat of Reginald Birch, who did the illustrations of Little Lord Faunteroy. Stoddard had not seen him for fourteen years. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard has many invitations for visiting in the coming summer, one of them is from Donaldson. Can Hudson come to Father Ernest Van Dyke's at the end of June for a conference? Theodore Dwight has just returned from Boston. Stoddard is to go to New York by the night train to see his sister. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard mailed the volume of poems "Bugle Notes". The Ave Maria containing Stoddard's "Figs of Thistles" arrived. He doubts he will be understood. His portrait has been photographed by Father George M. Searle, C.S.P., the astronomer. He has come upon a negative of the Lyric in San Francisco. Does Hudson recall how he went out of the Lyric to join the Bohemians and how the Reverend Pinky White came to them. The other day Stoddard met White. He is assistant pastor of a little Episcopal...

Scope and Contents Hudson may already have seen the "Open Letter" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stoddard received it direct from Australia and has seen nothing in the public press on it. He wishes the Ave Maria might have the first slice out of it. When he gets at his Father Joseph Damien De Veuster, SS.CC. sketch, Stoddard will have his say concerning the Stevenson reports. He has conceived a sketch about Walter Murray Gibson. He opposed whole foreign elements in Hawaii for years and was finally banished...

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Theodore Dwight took Stoddard to Mount Vernon. Stoddard has not been well since he went to New York to say good-bye to his sister. When he and Dwight had returned Bishop Camillus Maes of Covington had departed. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 8pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard acknowledges receipt of the money. Theodore Dwight helped pick out Stoddard's room. Yesterday, Stoddard met his class for the first time and was cordially received. Last Sunday he went to High Mass at St. Matthew's in Washington, after which he went to Henry Adam's house and had breakfast with him and Dwight. Adams was professor of Mediaeval History at Harvard for seven years. He is a charming man and gave Stoddard many good points concerning the methods he employed when he...

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In a few days Stoddard will return to Munich. There, he hopes to find letters from Hudson. All days long they have been either driving in the crisp air, or warming themselves in the tropical atmosphere of the baths built by the Turks. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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Can Hudson send copies of the "Troubled Heart" to the enclosed address? Robert Louis Stevenson sent Stoddard his latest "Kidnapped". Stoddard has a portfolio of rare etchings. :: X-3-b A.L. Incomplete 1p. 12mo.

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Stoddard requests proofs be sent to his new address. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He is pleased that "Bob's" creator takes pleasure in the Staff and Scrip. What has become of Rene, of John English and Hardenberg? If convenient Hudson might send $10.00 Wilson Barret, the rival of Henry Irving will be in Chicago and Tim and Stoddard are booked for him. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard came to Chicago to satisfy himself as to the literary and financial prospects and to discover if he liked the place. He has decided to return to Covington and asks Hudson for $30. He will send Hudson an article on his return to Covington. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard sends some verses from his volume of verses. He suggests that Hudson meet him in Covington where he can stay with Bishop Camillus Maes :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard thanks Hudson for the money. He sends Hudson more material. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Stoddard has been ill. He fears the Italian sketches are a burden to Hudson. A little money would be acceptable. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 32mo.

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Stoddard hopes to be home the Monday following Easter Monday. Hudson's last letter frightened him. It sounded as though he was about to put off his fleshly robe. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Stoddard is enjoying complete rest. He called on Bishop Camillus Maes but failed to see him. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard would appreciate receiving a relic of the Cure d' Ars from Hudson. He is writing a sketch for Rossiter Johnson describing the photo of Father Damien. Hudson will find him a rare fellow. Stoddard plans to visit Chicago before going to Washington and inquires when he can meet Hudson andRene Papin there. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard will be unable to meet Hudson in Chicago, because of the expense and his heavy schedule of work. He is preparing lectures for the courses he will be teaching at the Catholic University. Hudson's package with the part of Father Damien's cassock arrived safely. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard works daily on notes for the courses he will teach and longs to be away to Washington. Only two men in this world have impressed him and to these only has he been able to bow down, Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII, yet he could not ask these to pray for him. The sketch of De Veuster is admirable, he is forwarding it to Rossiter Johnson. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard asks Hudson to send him $50 of the money Hudson is holding for him. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 3pp. 32mo.

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Stoddard received the draft and the article "Dion and the Crypts". It is a shocking piece of book making, he does not see how any publisher can be so tasteless. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard received the money but he is in need of more. Fraulein Marie Wendheim is a Catholic and her uncle was prince Bishop of Prague. She and her sisters have his miter and other souvenirs. Hudson may be thinking of Frau Wilhelmine von Hillern, her mother was from Birch-Pfeifer, whose plays still grace the German stage. Stoddard discusses the autobiography entitled "A Checkered Life". Rossiter Johnson should be grateful to Hudson not to Stoddard, for Stoddard did nothing in the...

Scope and Contents The attacks on Father Joseph DamienDe Veuster are fiendish, surely there is no bigotry like anti-Catholic bigotry. Stoddard thinks it best to ignore the attacks. Father Henry W. Cleary's article on his retreat into the Pyrenees is the most pleasing Stoddard has read in many a day. Stoddard had a letter from Bishop John Joseph Keane in which he asked Stoddard to join him in Washington about the 5th. Theodore Dwight writes inquiring when Stoddard arrives in Washington, for he wishes to be...