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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Stoddard thanks Hudson and Brothers Polycarp James White and Benjamin Richard Barron for their efforts to get his luggage to Covington. Tomorrow Stoddard plans to begin a cruise that will last several days; when he returns he will try to get Hudson started on the "S and S" copy. He recommends that Hudson read the book "Whom God Hath Joined". :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Stoddard thanks Hudson for the card from Lourdes. He hopes to have all the copy of the Staff and Scrip papers in Hudson's hands within a month. He comments on a number of these stories. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Stoddard submits his promised article "Under the Crescent". Ira B. Dutton should thank his stars that he has been permitted to become the servant of Father Joseph Damien DeVeuster . His mother and sister returned safely to San Francisco from Honolulu on the same ship that brought Father John A. Zahm, C.S.C. back from the Hawaiian Islands. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Stoddard thanks Hudson for the article from the South Bend newspaper. He tells Hudson about an article in the Chicago Herald on the "Lepers of Molokai", stating that Father Joseph Damien DeVeuster had contracted leprosy within six months. Stoddard sends a pamphlet on the cure of leprosy. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Now that the Exposition is on, Stoddard could use some money. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

The similarity between the hero of the story "Sealed Orders" and Ira Dutton aroused Stoddard's interest. He comments on points where the story and the life of Dutton disagree. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Stoddard returns the Father Joseph Damien DeVeuster documents. It is an ingenious account of the Corpus Christi feast at Kalamoa. A single line from Damien's letter would make fine advertising for the sketch about the lepers. He suggests the members of Notre Dame band send some of their instruments to Molokai. Stoddard likes Hudson's division of the Staff and Scrip papers. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Hudson's letter and proofs came. As for Staff and Scrip, there is material enough for a long series of papers. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Stoddard has not received the proof of his verses and inquires where Hudson sent them. He plans to write a new series of articles entitled "Staff and Scrip" and gives a list of proposed titles. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 7pp. 12mo.

Stoddard made the alteration in the article and inquires if Hudson received the proofs. He sent Hudson some lines from the Cistercian volume which he thinks may be of use for the Ave Maria. A copy of the index to volumes XVIII and XIX of the Scholastic is requested. He sends a new poem. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

The title Stoddard likes for his latest series of articles is "Under Italian Skys". He lists the titles of each article in the series with comments on some of them. Hudson will never be completely well until he finds a retreat. Stoddard would not be surprised if Hudson went to Molokai. Ira B Dutton can do good work at Molokai but Stoddard fears Hudson would wither among those fiery furnaces of physical and moral corruption. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Stoddard is finishing the "Corpus Christi" sketch. He hopes some generous firm or society will send a set of brass instruments to the lepers at Molokai. Stoddard submits excerpts from the "Lives and Legends" and asks Hudson not to be discouraged at the light tone of "Crossing the Rubicon". He discusses other articles of the new series he is writing for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Stoddard suggests that it would be safe to run the article without his supervision. He thanks Hudson for the bound volume of the Ave Maria. Bayard Taylor arrived safely. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Stoddard is glad Hudson waited a week to publish "Torcello", because his attempts to finish the Venetian papers have been in vain. Hudson will have them in a day or two. If Hudson wants more letters, Stoddard will send him a list. He thanks Hudson for getting the volumes on Hawthorne and Longfellow. Benziger Brothers can make the tabernacles for Father Joseph Damien De Veuster . He invites Hudson to visit him in Cincinnati. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Stoddard returns the notice Hudson sent him. He sends Hudson a number of publishers' reviews on various literary works. A poem is submitted. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Stoddard asks Hudson's advice on the enclosed letter. He supposes, if the woman is desirous of going to the lepers she will get there by offering herself to the Franciscans of Syracuse. Hudson is the one to advice her not Stoddard. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Stoddard has sent Hudson several messages which need his attention. Hudson is too true a friend to allow any unprincipled person to estrange them. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Stoddard's nervous system is completely shattered. Had he been at Notre Dame when the fatal telegram arrived he thinks he would have died. He thanks Hudson for the draft of $100. Stoddard has Berchmans' book; he gives Bob Ingersoll a drubbing in his article that appeared in the Saturday Review. The Boston article in the "American" leaves a delicious flavor in the mouth. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Stoddard submits story number twelve in the series entitled "Under Italian Skies". He will look at the poem and see if he can offer a suggestion that will help Hudson to shorten it. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Stoddard recieved the Hawiian Letters. Two verses "Bedtime Stories" and "Told In the Twilight" for Hudson's book have been copyrighted. The Jap story is quaint. Stoddard encloses a letter from the Chronicle which he asks Hudson to turn over to the right party. He can assure him that if they publish his letters, he can be sure of his money. :: X-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

Stoddard's health has not improved. If he could get back to a Christian climate, the Pacific Coast approaches it, nothing will tempt him to leave. As long as Hudson has a breath in his body he will be grinding at the same old mill and when his life is over the mill will run itself into the ground. He asks Hudson to send him some money. Stoddard is glad Rene Papin thinks "Cuori" came from Hudson. :: X-3-e A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Stoddard is nervous and shaky with the heat. His friends are trying to persuade him to take a trip to Niagara and Toronto, but he is not inclined to go. Farny the artist, who is keeping bachelor quarters in Covington, invited him to his place where he met Niehaus the sculptor of Garfield's statue in Washington. :: X-3-e A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.