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Stoddard sends a photograph of himself taken in Rome. Why not write Russell Rudd at the British legation in Athens. He hopes to get to Genazzano tomorrow and then go with the Vails to Florence. Stoddard is satisfied that he can no longer live in Italy. He had a pleasant time with W.W. Story yesterday; he and his people are wild over Father Joseph Damien DeVeuster :: X-3-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard thanks Hudson for the favors, the back issues of the Ave Maria, and for the invitation to the Notre Dame Commencement. Stoddard will send other verses soon. His address is changed; he informs Hudson of his new one. Stoddard's parents have gone to the Sandwich Islands with his sister. Now he is alone. :: X-2-f A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo

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Stoddard asks Hudson if he can use his lines. He is no better. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He does not know what Hudson thinks of him. He promised contributions. He sent two contributions for the Ave Maria but he has not heard from Hudson since and he never saw them appear in the Ave Maria. He does not know if the verses reached Hudson. He was very unhappy that he could not do anything for Hudson. He misses the Ave Maria. He has saved the back numbers in order to have them bound. An index for 78 could not obtained from Mr. Floods. He sends another contribution, a sketch of...

Scope and Contents He is the one whose writings Hudson has been reading. He has written for the San Francisco Chronicle for six years, and traveled to Europe, Egypt, up the Nile, to the Holy Land, to Constantinople, and spent two years in Italy. While in Rome he met Daniel Paul. Stoddard has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Scribners, Lippincotts, the Galaxy. In '67 he published a volume of poems and in '73 a volume of sketches called "South Sea Idyls" were published. He is making a meager living writing...

Scope and Contents Many unhappy days have come to Stoddard since he last heard from Hudson. He has been ill and wanted to die, as he did not desire to live on and struggle. While Stoddard was confined to bed his 67 year old father was discharged from a position held 5 years. His only brother's salary was reduced from $8 a week to $6, and that is insufficient for the four living at home. Stoddard is selling his souvenirs of travel to help and asks Hudson to pray for them. His family are all Protestants,...

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Stoddard has arrived in San Francisco from Hawaiian Islands. He will meet the Hawaiian representative and they will proceed to New Orleans to see the World's Fair if Hudson or Father Thomas Walsh, the President of Notre Dame do not object. All expenses of Stoddard's trip will be paid by the Hawaiian Representative. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard requests a copy of a book. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 32mo.

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Tomorrow the ship stops at Southampton but Stoddard has to stay with the ship to Bremen. The voyage has made Stoddard contented. He cannot become interested in the immediate future. If he loses all interest he will return with Mr. Vail, when he returns in October. Stoddard spent a glorious day with Arthur, after a separation of ten years. He is now a lovely lad. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Tommorrow Stoddard will go to Amesterdam; in a few days he should be in Paris. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Hudson is to send a copy of "A Troubled Heart" to Marie von Wendheim and Wilhelmine von Hillern. :: X-3-i L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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Stoddard received a letter Father Joseph Damien sent with a picture, which he forwards to Hudson. He quotes part of the letter for Hudson's benefit. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Stoddard is spending a holiday in the Austrian capital before returning to Munich. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard thanks Hudson for the picture of St. Aloysius and the letters of Father Lacordaire . He would like Lacordaire's letters in French. Stoddard has no notes of Father Junipero Serra . Hudson had best ask Father Joachim Adam to prepare a paper. Father Angelo Casanova discovered the body of Serra after it had long been a mystery where it lay. This was written up about two years ago in the San Francisco Chronicle. Stoddard encloses a clipping. Stoddard's health is good but his spirits...

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Marion Crawford will winter in Munich. Stoddard thanks Hudson for sending money to his sister. He sends Hudson the proof of the article for Appletons Encyclopedia. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard has received the ink stand. He will return the corrected proof shortly. :: X-3-k A.L.S 1p. 8vo.

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Bishop John Joseph Keane is resting easily after an accident in which he was shaken and bruised. His trip to Europe is abandoned. Stoddard is leaving for a visit to Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren's country estate in Maryland. If Stoddard is unable to get to Detroit, Hudson must come to Boston to see his folks and to see Stoddard and Theodore Dwight at Quincy. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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Stoddard arrived home with 30cents and had to borrow $1.50 from Father Philip Joseph Garrigan. If Hudson can send $25.00 it could come in handy. Stoddard is trying to complete the Legend of Lanai. Bishop Keane asks for Hudson often. Archbishop William Henry Elder is giving the retreat. Reginald Birch gave stoddard an old twohour glass. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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It is only for Hudson's sake that he has written for the Ave Maria. Stoddard would like to spend his next vacation in California. Stoddard expects Theodore F. Dwight back for the winter. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Hudson's letter is delicious. All Saints Day was the 23rd anniversary of Stoddard's baptism. Mr. I. has heard nothing of the trouble at Notre Dame. Stoddard will try to have "Traces of Travel" started by the time Hudson needs them. He may send the Legend of Lanai an installment per week. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Had Stoddard not met the Ave Maria in Rome ages ago he would never have written to Hudson. Had he not written Stoddard would never have gone to Notre Dame. Had he not gone to Notre Dame Hudson would never have talked to Bishop John Joseph Keane, Stoddard would not have been ill and gone to Kentucky to be rescued by the Theodore Vails and taken to Rome where the Bishop asked Stoddard to join his forces. Stoddard does not think Fay Adams has anything of his. Hudson had frightened Stoddard...

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Cascia's sonnet "A Pledge Divine" is extremely good. Stoddard sends the first part of "Legend of Lanai". Thanksgiving happened to be Father Augustine F.? Hewit's birthday and there was much toasting and speech making. In the evening Stoddard went to the home of Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren. Theodore Dwight has just gone to Boston. The malaria is tugging at Stoddard. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Hudson's letter came this noon. How stupid of Stoddard to send Hudson's letter to Indianapolis but he has two new friends there, James Whitcomb Riley and Meredith Nicholson, who write often. Two days ago Stoddard led Mrs. Ladd, whose husband died in Europe two years ago, to the altar of St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington. Is it not absurd-Stoddard as matchmaker? :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Hudson will have parts 2, 3 and 4 of the Legend of Lanai at once. Stoddard cannot sleep and is desparately blue. They have no vacation at Christmas or Easter. That infernal old blowhard Archbishop John Ireland is said to be responsible for this triumph of idiocy. The proper place for him is in some wild-west combination. The children are outraged; the professors disgusted and the whole concern sinking into obscurity. Stoddard is satisfied that Catholics will never have a university and...

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Stoddard sends his metrical version of the passage in Virgil. It is to be printed without his name or initials. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents His trip to Boston was rather a burden. It took 18 hours and the buffet car failed them. On the way back Stoddard spent a quiet day in New York with Reginald Birch. Bishop John J. Keane produced a clipping from a Washington paper containing verses of Stoddard lately in the Current Literature entitled " A Toast". The verses read at a bachelor dinner have crept into print. A foul minded woman saw something nasty in them and has frightened the Bishop. Stoddard never wrote anything more...

Scope and Contents Whenever the phials of his wrath are full to bursting, Stoddard empties them on Hudson's head. Stoddard is sorry Hudson has anything to send him for Christmas. He is sending nothing this year; he cannot afford it. Stoddard cannot get to work on the concluding part of the Legend of Lanai before next week. The faculty have kicked and there will be no lectures on Friday and Saturday following Christmas. What we need is another reformation to get rid of the idiots. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp....

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One of Stoddard's students Father Thomas McGoldrick, just left a little book at his door. Bishop John J. Keane is safe home again. He has seen James Cardinal Gibbons. At a reception tendered the Bishop by the students last evening a vacation was declared. Stoddard is free to do the last installment of the Legend. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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On Sunday Stoddard hopes to start for Boston. The last installment of Legend of Lanai will be on hand a little later. Stoddard hopes to go to New York Thursday and return Saturday. :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Hudson's draft arrived. It went straight to Brooklyn. Twice a day the legitimate postman drives out from Washington and leaves them mail. Stoddard does not sleep well. His lectures mean 8,000 words per week. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.