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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.

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If Hudson does not intend to print Mannix's verses he is requested to return them to her. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Mannix thanks Hudson for the book "Stories for Stormy Sundays". Correspondence with Eliza Allen Starr shows her to be a zealous woman. Mannix would like to write a short memoir of Father Charles Driscoll, S.J. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Mannix has not been able to reply to Hudson because she has been helping her get things ready for the presentation of the creditor's case to the Supreme Court. The clergy attacks Mannix's husband for carrying matters too far against the Church, while the creditors accuse him of being under the thumb of clergy. Catholics of this diocese ought to make an effort to pay the debt. Many Protestants and Jews have expressed a willingness to help. In Mannix's opinion the fault lies almost with...

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Mannix was disappointed with Mrs. Madeleine Dahlgren's, "Washington Winter". She is pleased to hear that Hudson liked her notice of the book. Some of her verses have appeared in the "Catholic World". Mannix has received a copy of Hudson's "Glimpse of the Supernatural". :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix received this morning a printed notice of the "Glimpse of the Supernatural." Enclosed was the note that Mannix sent to Hudson, which she does not understand. Maybe it was returned for want of necessary postage. Mannix thinks that perhaps Hudson wants her to write a notice for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Mannix regrets that she has not been able to do the work that she promised on "Glimpses of the Supernatural", because of illness. She regards the book highly. Mannix thinks that some of the revelations are too human. She is displeased with Cincinnati; there are too many saloons and gambling houses and the city lacks schools where virtue and goodness are stressed. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Mannix informs Hudson that she gave birth to her seventh child, which she named Ruth Dominica Mary Mannix . Miss Mary Melina, a friend of of Mannix's would like to write for the Ave Maria. Mannix says that she is not a good story writer, but many newspapers find her a good correspondent. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Mannix encloses a translation of a French sonnet. She thinks the Ave Maria is improving all the time. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents Mannix has completed the translation of a little French story. There has been a delay in sending it because the enclosure is not large enough to hold it. Mannix is grateful for the "Life of Haydn", which Hudson so generously sent to her. Prof. Joseph Lyons does some excellent publications. As for example, the "Scholastic", that was recently sent to her. Mannix wrote several little stories for the "Young Crusader". Now, she wants to have them put into book form. She has no pecuniary...

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Mannix returns the proofs with which she can find no fault. She has some verses in the "Pilot" last week. She sends them to Hudson. Mannix agrees with Hudson that Miss Eleanor Donnelly writes entirely too much. Mannix does not write that way. She writes under inspiration. The noise of the children running about the house does not confuse her. Mannix will send Hudson a translation in French shortly. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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She hoped to hear from Professor Joseph A. Lyons but has not. She sends the French translation and some verses. The Catholic Fireside has recently secured the services of Mary Meline, a niece of the late James F. Meline ; she went from here about two weeks ago. Mannix will be glad to see "Glimpses of the Supernatural". Cincinnati is in the midst of a great flood. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents She has sent the manuscript of "Ash Wednesday" to John Boyle O'Reilly. She had been sending her children to a school taught by a Catholic lady but she has discontinued her school and Mannix must teach them herself. She will perhaps be obliged to send her boy who is 8 to St. Xavier's but she intends to teach the girls herself. She is waiting for Joseph A. Lyon 's letter. Hudson can have no idea of the misery caused by the flood. She is glad he is interested in the "Fireside." She will do...

Scope and Contents The second trial of her husband,John B. Mannix, is set for March 7th. His business is good and if the trial does not go against him and he is not disbarred they hope to be able to pay off some of their debts. She recently read that Charles Warren Stoddard was no longer at Notre Dame, the same articles referred to him as a word painter. Mannix does not like the story "Fairy Gold",because of its abrupt ending. She is waiting for Kathleen O'Meara's article on Monsignor de Segur. Because of...