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The Bishop of Tarbes has published a Pastoral Letter condemning the slander of Monsieur Goblet . The second objective of the letter is to collect testimony proving the cures obtained through Our Lady of Lourdes. America has been favored; perhaps some of the readers of the Ave Maria might add to the number of authentic documents. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Marchal purchased for Hudson two pictures from the House of Bonmard. The latter is the publisher of the chromo-reproduction of St. Peter's head painted by Monsignor de Segur for Pope Pius IX. She comments on articles she has sent Hudson. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Marchal has taken 19 francs from Hudson's account as payment for her two articles. She submits an account of a cure at the recent National Pilgrimage to Lourdes. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Marchal thanks Hudson for the money. She hopes Hudson's health has improved. Marchal submits an article. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Marchal thanks Hudson for the $ 12 postal order. She saw Mr. Daniel and forwarded Hudson's message, he promised to forward the samples. Marchal inquires if Hudson received her story "St. Nicholas Eve". She has since forwarded three more stories. Regarding her article "Countess Rostopchine", she asks Hudson to look it over and make sure she has not written on Kathleen O'Meara's article. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Marchal gives a detailed account of her efforts to get the pictures Hudson desires. Several publishers will send Hudson samples. She sends a notice of the work "The Good Thief". :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Concerning the cliches, Hudson should write the editor of the Pelerin, Pere Bailly . As for the paper France Illustree published by Abbe Roussel, its blocks cost 12 centimes per square. She sends specimens of pictures from various French newspapers. They follow with interest Stoddard's account of the pilgrimage to the Holy Land. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Marchel sends Hudson two articles, "Our Lady's Little Protege" and "Little Pierre's First Communion Taper". The first is by Abbe Cathelin, cure de St. Philippe du Roule. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Marchal has translated the accounts of a striking miracle at Lourdes, which she sends Hudson for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Marchel thanks Hudson for the books. She thinks she recognized Charles Warren Stoddard 's style in the biographical notice on Daniel Paul . Since the Franco-Prussian War, Marchal's father, an Alsacian, has been unable to regain his former position. During her stay in Ireland she met Father Matthew Russell, S.J. She requests Hudson's approval to do an article on the life of the foundress of the Propagation of the Faith and the Living Rosary. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.

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Marchal sends a list of articles that she wrote which have been published by the Ave Maria. She is sorry her article on the Coronation of Our Lady of Boulogne did not reach Hudson in time for the September 19th issue. Marchal was disappointed that her notice of Pauline-Marie Jaricot was not accepted. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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Marchal presents two legends, one from the pen of Paul Feval . She has translated a short story by Mme Julie Lavergne, entitled "Le Regiment de la Reine." :: X-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

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Marchal has not forgotten her commission, but Bonasse, who undertook to strike them promised to send the medals to Marchal within a few days. Failing to do so, Marchal returned to the shop and learned that because of a higher price than quoted the medals were not sent. She forwards them together with an account of the unveiling of the statue of Blessed Urban II. :: X-3-e A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Marchal trusts Hudson has received the articles, "Blessed Imelda", "Adolphe Baudon", "A Maxim of Don Bosco", "A Cure Through the Intercession of Blessed de la Salle", "An Episode of a Young Scapegrace Converted." The Ave Maria published St. Zita and A Miracle of Our Lady Help of Christians. They have had a Eucharistic Congress in Paris lately. :: X-3-g A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Marchal congratulates Hudson on the sacerdotal jubilee of Father Edward Sorin. Tomorrow the 16th a special Mass will be offered at Notre Dame des Victoires to commemorate the event. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents For some years Marchal has been the Paris weekly correspondent of the London Tablet, but a letter from the editor, John George Snead Cox, informs Marchal that the Paris Letter will be done by a permanent member of the staff. The Catholic press of England is not flourishing probably because those who ought to uphold it prefer subscribing to Protestant papers. Marchal was also correspondent for two years to the Catholic Review of New York, before the death of Patrick V. Hickey. The new...

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Before receiving Hudson's letter of April 21 she had written to the editor of the Catholic Review and had received an unfavorable answer. The letters Hudson saw in the Catholic Review, which were signed Temoin, may have been those of her cousin Kathleen. She sends a notice of a miracle of Blessed Perboyre performed in 1290. The Corpus Christi ceremonies at St. Jean and St. Francois, at which the Cardinal Archbishop officiated were imposing. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents They are spending a few days at Havre. Marchal's brother arrived with the Normandie and started again five days later. During his stay they made two pilgrimages—Notre Dame de Grace at Honfleur and Notre Dame des Flots at Sainte Adresse. Marchal has not been able to attend to finding the number of the Annals of the Propagation of the Faith that alluded to the Ave Maria. She now sends the copy containing a mention of the "Ave Maria." Yesterday Marchal dispatched an account of a miracle...

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They attend midnight devotions at the Jesuit College of the Immaculate Conception. The winter is extremely severe. Marchal and her mother heard several masses at Notre Dame des Victories on the 8th. Her brother needs Hudson's prayers. He is a sailor, at present Lieutenant on the "Gascogne". :: X-3-l A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Her mother was laid up for many weeks in consequence of the extraordinarily cold season. Marchal posted a notice of the Irish missionary St. Fridolin. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

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The pictures were sent off, but that of the Cure d'Ars was not to be found. Marchal's letter of February 22 and the manuscript on Saint Fridolin must already have reached Hudson. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Marchal submits an article entitled "The Countess Rastopchine, Grandmother of Monsigneur de Segur", which she translated from the French. She is pleased to know that her articles, "St. Hubert", "St. Nicholas Eve" and "Lowly Heroes" have met with Hudson's approval. :: X-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Marchal sent Hudson the two booklets "Deux Noels" and "L' Immaculee Conception", the day she received Hudson's card. She sent an account of the National Pilgrimage. They were glad to see the article in the Ave Maria exposing Edward Clifford's indelicate and dishonest book on Father Joseph Damien De Veuster . His reticence on Charles Warren Stoddard's "Lepers of Molokai" struck them because it was through Stoddard and the Ave Maria that De Veuster's work became known to the world. She...

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They are still impressed by the solemn triduum that took place at the Lazarist chapel in honor of Blessed Jean Gabriel Perboyre . She will forward a notice to the Ave Maria. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Marchal acknowledges receipt of the fifteen dollars sent by Hudson and asks Hudson to remember her family in his Christmas Mass. Her brother has returned from the Antilles and now sails between Havre and New York. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo.

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The delay in her manuscript was caused by her father's illness. She intends to post the sketch on Blessed Perboyre tomorrow. She hopes the influenza raging in America may escape Notre Dame. The effects of it in France were horrible. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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The January issue of the Ave Maria was of special interest to Marchal because of the article written by Kathleen O'Meara, a relative of Marchal's, about the Cure d'Ars. Marchal submits three articles. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Marchal trusts Hudson's strength is now restored. She hopes Hudson will reread the "Queen's Regiment" and judge it more leniently. Mme. Lavergne, the author, meant to illustrate the charity and condescension of princesses and the frame she placed them in is an exact picture of the times. They saw Brother Azarias's Patrick Mullany tribute to Kathleen O'Meara's memory: it gave a true portrait of her cultivated mind and the fervour of her energetic soul. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Marchal acknowledges receipt of Hudson's note and the remittance of $30. She thanks Hudson for it and for having taken the trouble of writing a pretty introduction to her article "Saint Jude". :: X-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Marchal posted accounts of the Holy Robe of Treves and of the Holy Tunic of Argenteuil. Hudson has of course heard of the death of Doctor de Saint Maclon a few days after the National Pilgrimage. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.