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Father Neagle asks Onahan to take another look at Sadliers in regard to the inconsistency of his figures on the Cath(olic) population of the (Archdiocese of Boston.)

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Mr. O'Brien of Detroit asked Weadock to select a subject, but Weadock doubts whether he can attend the Columbian Catholic Congress. If he does attend he will say something on Father Richard, the priestcongressman.

Scope and Contents A bill for $170 written by John McElroy for board and room for William Seton 3. and Richard Seton at Georgetown College. Neale writes his note at the foot of the bill: The balance is to be paid to the College clerk, McElroy. Neale invites Barry to dinner next Sunday. On page 2.: May 22, 1906, McElroy receipts the bill paid by James Barry and Barry acknowledges receipt of $170 from Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton on July 4, 1806. Page 3.: Bishop John Carroll has paid $200 to the ...

Scope and Contents Neale was busy throughout the Christmas Season. He feels people know little about priests as passengers do about the engineer on a boat. Neale thanks Hudson for the notice given the books "Short Points to Mental Prayer" and "Catholic Belief". The latter work Neale used to settle many questions. Neale thinks Robert Ingersoll would make an excellent convert if he could be brought to examine Catholic doctrine. He contends that Ingersoll is a wit, a poet, an orator and a noble spirited man,...

Scope and Contents Neale says he is not collecting money to build a floating church. He already has three churches which are in need of repairs and the people have not the money to buy the needed articles. If the contributions for the floating church are not reclaimed Neale will take it as an indication that the contributors wish it to be used for repairing the three churches. After reading the article in the Ave Maria about his plans to build a floating church; Neale got scared and wrote to his superior...

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Neale gives more reasons for the need of a floating chapel in the Chesapeake Bay. The man who gets up a floating chapel must be free. Neale asks Hudson if he can put him in touch with the Hong Kong people. Neale sent Hudson a likeness of his friend, Father Livius Vigilanti :: X-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Neale thanks Van Ness for her sketch of his family and impression of himself. He understands her objection to leaving the note in the manuscript. The Sisters of Charity at Leonardtown are doing well in their new school and should have a large number of students. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Neale apologizes for not sending an article for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Neale hopes that Hudson's helath has improved. About 180 scholastics are leaving this area by steamer after spending their vacation here. Neale received a letter with a $2.50 post office money order for Hudson, sent by Mrs. S. M. Neale, Hearne, Texas in payment for a subscription to the Ave Maria. :: X-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Neale is grieved to hear of Hudson's delicate health. Since taking it over, the Ave Maria has improved greatly, but Hudson is trying to go out in a blaze of glory. The lecture "Christian Schools and Scholars" which appeared in the Ave Maria was the first article of its kind that satisfied Neale. The Month published by the Jesuits, thinks Dr. Story in his work on Luther is too strong. As for Elizabeth Ten Broeck 's manuscript he returned it with the objections of his family to its being...

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Neale has been talking about a floating church for seven years. It would be the best way to get to all the faithful living along the bays and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. Archbishop James Gibbons likes the idea. Neale feels he is not the man to carry out the job. A man spoke of giving him $5000 two years ago, but Neale told him there was no prospect of building the church. He had plans drawn up by head of the Charleston Navy Yard. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Neale has received $127.75 from Hudson and hopes that Hudson has received his letter expressing how Neale feels regarding the floating chapel. Neale prefers to repair his own churches if the contributors will permit him to do so. The floating chapel will cost at least $5,000. While Bishop Henry Northrop was confirming on May 26th, Neale missed his note book which contained a check for $20 sent to him by Hudson, payable to Father Pye. Neale wishes Hudson to stop payment on it. :: X-2-m...

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Neale returns the copy, ashamed of all the trouble he has caused Hudson. They take no papers and Neale controls no money, so he hopes Hudson will not be slighted because he does not subscribe to the Ave Maria. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Acknowledgement is made of the receipt of $52 from Hudson. :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Sketch of the floating chapel Stella Maris :: X-2-m Drawing 1p. 32mo.

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Neale is stationed at Bohemia Manor on the eastern shore of Maryland, where the Jesuits had a school long before they established Georgetown College where Charles Carroll of Carrollton went to school. He submits two articles that Hudson might use. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Neale knows a priest, a victim of misrepresentation, who possesses excellent literary and linguistic talents as well as high moral character, who would be a good acquisition for Hudson. By a mistake he has gotten out of the Socity of Jesus. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Putting Neale forward as about to get up a ship-church was a mistake. He was rapped over the knuckles by his superior when J. J. McCormick of Boston started a collection for it years ago. Ben Butler was to lecture for it and Denis Kearney, the sandlot orator, was to help. The Archbishop of Baltimore James Gibbons wrote and approval of the idea. The boat is to be used all around the lower shores of the Chesapeake and Potomac. Father W. H. Carroll is in Loyola College, Baltimore. Neale...

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Neale thanks Hudson for his help. He has received $510.50 from Hudson. He took a party of scholastics in a sailboat to see where St. Mary's City once stood. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Nealis wrote a story for the Ave Maria some time ago, but she has not seen or heard of it. If Hudson cannot use it, she wants the manuscripts for another magazine. She needs funds badly and inquires about Hudson publishing her book. :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Nealis is pleased to learn that Hudson liked the last story she wrote. :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Nealis saw her last contribution in the Ave Maria, but she has not gotten her copy from Hudson. Sister Leonie is going to write to Father-General Edward Sorin, C.S.C. to inquire if there wasn't a way in which Nealis might earn money to pay for her boys. :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Nealis approves of alterations that were made in her legends. :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Nealis submits a story for the Ave Maria and asks Hudson for advice. :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Nealis is about to move and she has been so busy with the manuscript for the publishers that she had not time to write. The Cork Examiner of May 17th copied Nealis' "My Medal". :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Gratitude is expressed for the letter and enclosure received from Hudson. :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Nealis has left her husband who refuses to support her and her children. Under the advice of the Bishop, she has come to Boston to make a living. In order to save her boys, aged 13, 10 and 5, she will send them to New York to a night school. Nealis has an income of $200 per year with which she can educate her boys. This income comes from the money her mother left. Nealis has left the money to Father C. Lefebvre, C.S.C., who has agreed to take the boys and educate them at St. Joseph's...

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Nealis regrets the appearance of the manuscripts that she sent Hudson. A story will be sent for the Children's Department. She has hopes of getting a position on the Democratic Daily that will be started soon. Nealis is corresponding with Lowell and Son, Montreal, about publishing her volume of poems for which Anna Sadlier is to write the preface. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Nealis submits an article for the children's department of the Ave Maria. Mrs. Anna Sadlier has written a preface for Nealis' book. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Nealis is going to New Brunswick to visit her children who are on vacation. Mr. O'Loughlin of the Catholic Herald will publish the poems of Nealis under the title "Drift". :: X-2-n A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.