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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.

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Stoddard thanks Hudson for Miss Starr's Christian Art. He asks Hudson to send copies of his books to Dwight. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard is glad to have Hudson's letter and card about his Toast. It is evident that all Catholics are not idiots. At their faculty table he hears good things of Maurice Francis Egan's "Disappearance of John Longworthy". Only eight more lectures and then comes the short vacation. Stoddard caught a glimpse of Colonel William Hoynes the other day. When Hudson goes, Stoddard turns his back on Catholic organs. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard has been to see the Dorseys. He will probably go no more. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard fears the alterations in his proof will disgust Hudson. He is under the influence of quinine most of the time. Two weeks from today he hopes to be in Covington. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard is home again. He thanks Hudson for the bust and picture of the Martyr Chanel. Robert Louis Stevenson's letters from the South Seas seem dreary and dry, and written by one who will not get nearer the people. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard thanks Hudson for his two letters. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard thanks Hudson for the Easter offering. If he is obliged to stay there he will have to take his meals elsewhere. The caterer? of the bungalow Stoddard left before coming to Notre Dame is Attorney General of Queen's cabinet in Honolulu. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard encloses a card for Maurice Francis Egan's photo. A young student has just left Stoddard. They sat in silence most of the time and listened to Father Leo, a young Benedictine monk who lives over Stoddard and has a piano. Stoddard received Boyle O'Reilly's Life from his wife Mary O'Reilly. Can Hudson find room in the Ave Maria for a screed concerning the book? Father Leo is now singing "Don't Forget Me" which Roy Stevens used to sing for Stoddard. Frank Millet, with whom...

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Stoddard asks Hudson to send him a copy of Mr. Dwyer's lecture on Dante delivered at Notre Dame. After Mass he spent hours with Kate Field. She was the one person who got at Dickens, and she knows stacks of wonderful people. Thank God, Father John A. Zahm leaves them after Thursday. The people are on to him there. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents After Dwyer left there he wrote to Father A. Russell Nevins, C.S.P., prefect of the Paulists, to send him his manuscript marked Dante. The manuscript Nevins sent was the original of Thomas O'Gorman. Dwyer borrowed it, and O'Gorman was unable to get it back. The George Eliot lecture was doubtless a copy of George M. Johnston's lectures which he delivered there. Dwyer visited him at his Baltimore home. Dwyer was a novice in the Paulist community for two and a half years. Father Augustine...

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Stoddard thanks Hudson for a glance at the letter which he returns. He has spent a day's vacation with Theodore Dwight. Stoddard prefers his solitary seclusion to the society of the Capital. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Stoddard encloses the verses he meant to send before now. Last Monday Theodore Dwight drove out and took Stoddard away for a couple of hours. They went to see the statue by St. Gaudens erected at the grave of Mrs. Henry Adams, wife of their friend, the historian Henry Adams. Stanford White, the architect, says the statue is worthy of Michael Angelo. On Tuesday, Stoddard went down to spend the night with Dwight, who is now back in Boston. Kate Field is most enlivening. Stoddard cannot...

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The book Hudson sends is exquisite. Hudson's sister's picture interested Stoddard. Stoddard's sister is on her way home; the McKinley Bill has done her out of her income from the plantation. He is happy that he can send her $50.00 a month to help her out in the home she is going to make for their father, now 78. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard thought Mrs. Moulton had forgotten him. He never did see Robert Buchanan. The letter to C.W.S. in the "Boston American" must be meant for Stoddard. If Robert Louis Stevenson hopes to retain his prestige he had better stop writing. He sees the South Seas only from a Scotsman's standpoint. Theodore Dwight is there for a few days. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard sends the copy Hudson asked for. He will get a half dozen letters from Scotland ready in the Christmas vacation. Hudson can arrange the Irish letters to suit himself. Stoddard has a jolly letter from Robert Buchanan, a copy of which he will send soon. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard can not afford to go anywhere this holiday. He lunched yesterday with the Bellamy Storers. He hopes to get the Scotch letters off this week. He does not know if Flora Haines Loughead is a Catholic, but is almost sure she is not. Father O'Brien sent a copy of his "Robert Parsons" and asked Stoddard for a few lines of recommendation. A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. Enclosure:

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Stoddard thanks Hudson for the book of poems. He does not like Watson Gilder personally - he is a prig of the first water - but he is a poet. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Stoffel inquires if it is Hudson or Father Louis L'Etourneau whom he is to blame for robbing him of his office and dignity? How cheap will Hudson give him one year's subscription to the Ave Maria? :: X-3-e A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Father Martin Van de Laar and Stoffel attempted to visit Hudson last Thursday, but did not find him in. He asks Hudson to send him a copy of the Irish Ecclesiastical Record. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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She appeals to Hudson to procure funds for relief of the poor. She is a member of a Convent which runs an orphanage for the training of young girls. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Stone acknowledges Clarke's note informing him that he had been elected Vice-president of the U.S. Catholic Historical Society. Stone accepts the position under Clarke's leadership. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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As they were thinking of sailing, Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Keane requested Stone deliver a discourse at the inauguration of the Catholic University . Father Edmund Hill, C.P. is with him and they will be in Baltimore until the thirteenth and then return to West Hoboken until the 20th, when they sail for South America. Hudson may send any money he has for them to West Hoboken. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Stone has been skipping about in a bewildering manner. He has received various letters with sensational intelligence from Rome and South America. He sends some verses of Father Edmund Hill, C.P.. Hill is innocent but he confides too much in the public. Lately he wrote asking to be recalled from South America, and a few days later he wrote another letter withdrawing the first. The Argentine mission has recently been transferred to the jurisdiction of the North American Province. It is...

Scope and Contents Fidelis looks upon Hudson as the noblest man he has ever met. The memory of Hudson's kindness and courtesy to Father Edmund Hill, C.P. and him together with memories of their visit to Notre Dame will abide with them always. Troubles in family affairs and in Congregation matters have prevented his writing sooner. It will be impossible for either of them to retrace their steps and give a retreat at Notre Dame. They are going to return to South America in a couple of weeks, which will cut...