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Scope and Contents Mannix comments adversely on the books Hudson sent for her to review. Mannix thinks the installments of Miss Fisher's story are too short, while she does not care for "Palms". She is glad to hear that Thomas F. Galwey is having better luck in his literary work. Mrs. Galwey is there with her sister Mrs. Disney . Maurice Francis Egan should be shown the bad taste of his chats on books. Miss Margaret McCabe has agreed to Mannix's suggestion that they should pay fifty dollars for articles...

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Mannix requests Hudson give her space in the Ave Maria for an article on the Working Girl's Home. She describes plans for establishing a home for working girls and working boys. Mannix inquires about her article "Helpers of the Holy Souls". She was disappointed with Stoddard's account of a visit to Lourdes. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix discusses the difficulties of publishing the Working Girl's Advocate . She will be glad to review "Midshipman Bob". Critical comments are made about Reid's story "Philip's Restitution". Mannix had not expected to see her verses in the latest number of the Ave Maria because she intended them for Hudson. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 7pp. 12mo.

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Mannix comments on Ella Lorraine Dorsey's book "Midshipman Bob" which Hudson sent her. She does not know what will become of the Working Girl's Advocate. Mannix inquires whether Frances C. Fisher Tiernan writes under a nom de plume because she never sees anything but Christian Reid outside the Ave Maria. The illness of her son prevented her from writing for the Ave Maria. She comments on the type of articles she writes best. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Her article on the "Working Girls' Home" has already produced good results. Parts have been reprinted in the newspapers and sent to Margaret McCabe . A St. Paul woman who read her article in the Ave Maria placed her plans to establish a home their before the bishop and received his approval. She is coming to Cincinnati to exchange views. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Mannix thanks Hudson for the money. The latest story Mannix submitted was intended for the Youth Department in the Christmas issue. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

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Mannix submits a criticism of the story "Midshipman Bob" together with the memoir of Sister Louise :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Mannix submits a story for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mannix is disappointed about the sketch of Superior Louise. She is sure it must have been Sister Alphonse who wrote to Hudson. Does Hudson know that the sisters want Mannix to write a life of Sister Louise ? "Our Lady's Cradle song" was not written by Mannix. Mannix thinks the poem Hudson intends for the month of the Holy Infancy is one of the best she has ever written. What a good story-teller T. F. Galwey is getting to be. Both Mrs. and Miss Dorsey are excellent writers. Eliza Allen...

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Since Mannix has not felt well this summer, she thought of returning Mrs. Blake's volume of poems, due to her inability to write a review of it. Now she submits a short review. She can not agree with the praise of the work by the Boston Pilot, for Mannix does not consider Blake's work equal to that of Adelide Procter . The name of Father Thomas E. Walsh, C.S.C., reminds her of her brother, who had the same name and died about eighteen months ago. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix thanks Hudson for the book. She would like to know what Hudson wants her to do with a number of sketches she has on hand. Mannix asks why Hudson stopped the publication of Nugent Robinson 's story "Father Tom". :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mannix thinks girls between ten and fifteen would like her series of stories entitled "Little Portraits". She thought Maurice Francis Egan 's latest story in the Ave Maria uninteresting and coarse. Her translation of a child's story from the German is sent. Mannix criticizes the latest work that has been published on Blessed Margaret Mary's life. Has Hudson heard from Father Francis Weninger, S.J.? She thinks Hudson should have written directly to him, because when she called on...

Scope and Contents Mannix's husband John B. Mannix has been arrested on separate charges of perjury and embezzlement, and proceedings have been instituted for his disbarment. The two creditors who were abusive in their attacks on Archbishop John Baptist Purcell instigated the proceedings against her husband. She was sorry to hear that Hudson is ill. Mannix likes Ella Lorraine Dorsey's "Midshipman Bob" and thanks Hudson for the copies of "Lepers of Molokai". She sends Hudson some leaflets on the Holy Face....

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Mannix requests a copy of the article "The City of Refuge, Our Lady Help of Christians". She inquires where she can get a life of Don Bosco in book form. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Mannix's husband John B. Mannix has been sustained by the advice of Father Eugene Brady, S.J., in his resolution to remain in Cincinnati despite the advice of his family and many priests to leave this city. To leave, he feels would be an admission of guilt. She sends leaflets on the Holy Face, which Miss McCabe is giving away in her efforts to spread the confraternity. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 4to.

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

Scope and Contents Mannix is pleased to learn that Hudson liked the Working Girls Advocate. The Carmelites of New Orleans write that Miss McCabe ought to make it a "Holy Face Union" similar to the "Sacred Heart Union". The work "Don Bosco" has been received. She inquires if this is an abridged translation of a larger work. The dream of Mannix's life is to establish a home for working boys. She would like to translate the new edition of "The Letters of Lacordaire to the Baroness of Pruilly?". :: X-3-b...

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Mannix sends an account of a cure brought through the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Cincinnati area. Father B. A. Baumeister, the parish priest has published an account of the cure in a local German newspaper. She has received a copy of the "Life of Jean Leon Papin Dupont", and she thinks Pere Janviers work on Dupont's life is better. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix submits a translation of a French article. She inquires what he thinks of the Working Girls Advocate. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mannix regrets that she could not have her article, "Our Lady of Good Counsel", ready for the feast, but she was ill. She sends some verses. Mannix is pleased to have her work commended by capable critics. After reading Charles Warren Stoddard's account of hardships during his Holy Land trip, her desire to visit has died. The allusion to indecent prints that are exhibited in shop windows which appeared in the Ave Maria pleased Mannix. The story "Mid-Shipman Bob" must be Anna Hanson...

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Mannix is pleased to learn that Hudson likes her verses. She inquires if Hudson has seen a story presently being published by Lippincott's, which she thinks is either the slipshod work of either Maurice Francis Egan or Thomas Galwey . "Midshipman Bob" is a good story. She describes her family to Hudson. In the last number of the Advocate there is a story from the Ave Maria. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Whenever Hudson wishes Mannix to review anything she asks Hudson give her a month's notice. Due to household duties she has little time to read and write. She hopes Hudson likes her criticism of the works that she has reviewed. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Mannix asks a literary contribution to their Fair Journal which is to be published in connection with the parish fair being given for the new church; she means a literary contribution. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Mannix can send Hudson the issue of the Dublin Review containing the article on "The Holy Face". Miss McCabe has suggested publishing a newspaper, similar to the St. Joseph Advocate that is published in behalf of the colored people, in the interests of the Working Girls Home. Mannix sends Hudson a sketch of the home. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Mannix has learned that Christian Ried Frances Tiernan is translating the "Life of Jean Leon Dupont". She plans to translate Dupont's "Visits to Mary For Every Day in the Year". Mannix sends a translation of a poem by Heine. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mannix submits another manuscript. She read Lady Georgiana Fullerton 's book long ago. If Hudson can not use the article he should save it for next year. Mannix thinks that neither Miss Forbes or Maurice Francis Egan write as well as they did in the past. Mary Meline can write a good essay but of late she has become too sentimental. By the time his anniversary comes around Mannix hopes to send Hudson a sketch on Father Charles Driscol, S.J. Father William J. Halley, last of the old...

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Mannix after a long delay sends some verses. The duties of a mother leave Mannix little time for literary endeavers. At Hudson's request, Mannix describes her only son. She intends to have the pictures of all her children taken and when she does, she will send Hudson one. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Mannix thinks it strange that a sketch should be copied from the "Bazar Journal" first by the Ave Maria then by a New Zealand paper, and then by the Catholic Review. She is delighted with "Troubled Heart" and wonders if Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard is the author. When it is published she would like a copy. Mannix wants Hudson to republish her "Little Portraits of Little Ladies". Where can she obtain a copy of Eliza Allen Starr 's "Lives of the Saints". :: X-2-o A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Mannix feels that Hudson did not care for her "Two Poets". She has not found the Catholic World to be up to standards regarding the type of literature that is admitted to its pages, for many of the stories according to Mannix are coarse and vulgar. Father Augustine Hewit does not see all the material before it is printed. Mannix promises to send the sketch for this month; she would like to try writing the story "Patron Saints". :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix encloses some verses for the Ave Maria. The death of Father Charles Driscol, S.J., is a great loss to Mannix. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.