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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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McMahon may be assured that he is deeply interested in the Catholic Summer School. If he can be of service he will be glad to know it. This summer his time is fully occupied, he tries to make arrangements early in the season. He would like to know something concerning the program of lectures if a report is published. :: I-1-j - A.L.S. - 2pp. - 12mo. - {1}

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Stoddard left Nantucket on the 3rd and was fifteen hours getting to New York. On September 11 he fled home. Hudson may do all the cutting he thinks fit in the letters Stoddard sent. They are waiting for Bishop John J. Keane 's return tonight. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard would like some money. He is awaiting the box from Hudson. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Hudson's package was received. Stoddard is glad to have his photo. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Stoddard will attend to the proof at once. He has a letter from Samoa. Dwyer who was fired by the Paulists is living with the priests in the House of the Angel Guardian, Boston. He is supposed to have just returned from the Hawaiian Islands. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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The thing may be cut down or one of the last letters may be dropped. Stoddard knows the book will be a delight to him. To think that Hudson has seen his sister after twenty years! Stoddard's trip to New York was delightful. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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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.

Scope and Contents It was written by one of their pupils, a priest, who owns stock in the newspaper. He is a fool and a bore. Will Hudson get Stoddard a photograph of Mr. Coyne? Rudyard Kipling's reputation has come so suddenly that he doubts it will last. He found the article on Robert Louis Stevenson entertaining. Fred Somers, the editor of Current Literature, is not a Catholic, but is favorably disposed. Stoddard has just been showing "Ambos" of the Chicago Tribune through the house. :: X-3-k A.L.S....

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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.

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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.