Scope and Contents Stoddard has just spent a couple of pleasant days at the Starr's on Walnut Hills. They have invited Stoddard to go with them to their summer home in Massachusetts. He plans to leave Covington for Boston next Monday. Did Hudson see Octavius B. Frothingham's life of Richard Henry Channing. In it there are letters addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Mercens Spring, grandparents of his Arthur. Poor Father Joseph Damien Deveuster, thirteen years of holy and sublime silence and these upstarts broadcast...

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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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It would be good to send the inquirer in the London Academy a copy of "The Lepers". Rene Papin is waiting to hear from Hudson. Stoddard sends two installments of his manuscript, "South Seas" together with the conclusion of "Damascus". He has been ill most of the time. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard comments on errors he has found in the proof. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Stoddard thanks Hudson for the package. The Atlantic is correct, Molokai has a musk odor, but Stoddard likes it better than the rank odor of the Pilot's reply to Baily Aldrich . Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson sent Stoddard a clipping from the London "Academy" in which inquires are made about Father Damien Joseph De Veuster, SS.CC. Robert Louis Stevenson is hemorrhaging but he talks about going to Teneriffe Island. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard has found a friend who owns a copy of his first book of poems. He copied out a few and sends them to Hudson. Ray Stephens joins Stoddard in greetings. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. folio

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Stoddard feared that Hudson was ill. He notifies Hudson that his mother has died. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard submits an article for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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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 requests that Hudson have his baggage forwarded to his new address. There are but two in all the mob at Notre Dame, in whom Stollard places trust; Hudson and Professor William Hoynes . Stoddard has lost respect for Father Walsh. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard will send the "S S" papers but they need revising. He sends a clipping concerning Molokai. Hudson can see how that letter was manufactured, Stoddard requests copies of "Lepers of Molokai" be sent to the people on the list that he encloses. He has been under treatment while at Covington attempting to get the malaria out of his system. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard thinks Schicky unreliable and he asks Hudson to pay the bill and charge it to his account. The boys spoke about the settlement, but thanks to the bullheadedness of Father Thomas Walsh, C.S.C., it turned out as it did. This is one of the memories for which Stoddard has to thank him. His health has been thoroughly shaken. Stoddard is glad he went to Notre Dame but what he learned there of the hypocrisy of priests and blackguardism of brothers has done him lasting injury. :: X-3-c...

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Stoddard has been kept so busy that he has been unable to keep up with his correspondence. He sends Hudson a clipping from a newspaper which Hudson might mount. Stoddard has met friends he knew in Rome, Venice, Munich, San Francisco, and Honolulu. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 4pp. 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...

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Stoddard is in such a state of break up that he cannot stop to return the manuscript of "The Man Who Was Guilty", but will send it from Washington. He asks Hudson to send what money is due him. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

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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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Rossiter Johnson informs Stoddard that he would prefer the photograph of Father Joseph Damien De Veuster in 1875, which Stoddard brought with him from the settlement. Stoddard has been very busy and is looking forward to seeing Hudson. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard is glad Rene V. Papin is in another place. The photo of Hudson that Stoddard likes is- berretta low down on his forehead and his chin upon his breast; he sends a sketch of it. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard is well and happy. He arrived on the Salt Lake train and wishes Hudson were with him. :: X-2-o A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Stoddard remembered Hudson before the unveiled picture of Our Lady of Good Council and Notre Dame is warm in his heart today. :: X-3-i A. Postcard. S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard received the book and the photo of St. Aloysius, both of which delight him. He was not baptized Charles Warren, but Charles, Joseph, Aloysius, Francisco, Antonio, Benedict, Dominic, Ignatius Sebastian. Has Hudson heard of the Arcadia Society in Rome? While in Rome, Stoddard's friend Bishop Francis Silas Chatard introduced him to members of the Society and he received a copy of Odes and Addresses which was issued from the Propaganda. Last evening Stoddard met Father Leonore,...

Scope and Contents The letters Stoddard likes most to receive are those of Hudson and Father John Pinasco, S.J., president of Santa Clara College. Stoddard thanks Hudson for the medal and picture. He plans to send Hudson some notes on Bishop Louis Maigret, who died recently. The notice of the book "The Religious: A Treatise on the Vows and Virtues of the Religious State" attracted Stoddard's attention and he wants it because he believes it contains the explanation he has been seeking concerning a...

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Stoddard has commenced writing a novel. The Redpath Lyceum Bureau promises to try Stoddard with a lecture on the Hawaiian Kingdom, when he returns to San Francisco. He received letters from Father Edmund Hill and from Eliza Allen Starr with copies of her "Patron Saints". :: X-2-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard's mail now comes in "lots" as he gets many letters. He feels out of the world with the quietness that reigns in the islands. It was very refreshing to receive Hudson's letter. Stoddard does not care to return to the world, but he is fearful for the future. Living is very expensive where he is now, far more than in the United States. Stoddard trys to be contended and thanks Hudson for his prayers. Father John Pinasco, S.J ., has sent Stoddard a statue of the Madonna. Could...