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Wehnet says he will send Edwards two medallions of Orestes A. Brownson. His model is broken but he can make new ones. :: XI-1-k A.L.S. Postcard

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Brownson, with the copy of the Life of the Cabots, sends Edwards some letters, as he once suggested. They are all that he had time to pick out, but he will send more in the next package. Some of them, Edwards will observe, must be kept from all eyes for the present. :: XI-1-k A.L.S. 1p.

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Brownson has sent a box of books for the Notre Dame Library and enclosed with the books a coat and cap for his son Philip Brownson . He will send what manuscripts he can when he has time, but his father's letters he will need just now for the life of Orestes A. Brownson, he is preparing. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Brownson asks Edwards the cost of 250 copies of a photograph of his father Orestes A. Brownson the negative of which Edwards has. Father Daniel B. Hudson has said that Brownson probably could get some copies from this negative. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents The engraver works from prints with negatives, so Brownson had the prints made. On examination, he finds they are nearly all poor photographs, some sharp enough about the head but indistinct in parts, so that he cannot make good pictures of them. The frame is omitted on one side of some, which would make it necessary to cut off the other sides. They also are bad in size. Brownson asks if the photographers guarantee satisfaction; if so, they might do better. He regrets making so much trouble...

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He requests Edwards to consult the Ave Maria for 1865 for the corrected text which was misprinted in vol. viii of Brownson's Works.

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Telegram, description of Orestes A. Brownson . Eyes dark hazel, complexion ruddy, eye brows and beard mixed grey. :: XI-1-c A.L.S. Telegram

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Brownson would be grateful if Father John O'Connell writes the article Edwards mentioned. He has been preparing an index of his father's works and finds that they have a logical unity of thought and explain the fundamental principles of all that is; and he feels that they must be more widely known. He is grateful for Edward's interest in Philip Brownson. :: XI-1-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Brownson finds that any time that Father General Edward P. Sorin, C.S.C. and Edwards appoint will be suitable for him to bring the remains of his father Orestes A. Brownson to Notre Dame. Father Ernest Van Dyke will accompany him, and thinks it better that the remains be removed at once to the chapel being prepared for them, if it will soon be ready. :: XI-1-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Brownson agrees to the date of June 17 for Bringing the remains of his father Orestes A. Brownson to Notre Dame, and asks about the reparations for the ceremony. :: XI-1-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Father Ernest Van Dyke and Brownson will leave Detroit with the remains of Brownson's father Orestes A. Brownson on the Michigan Central and will reach Notre Dame on Thursday morning. Father Van Dyke will not make any remarks at the ceremony. :: XI-1-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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They will take the early train from Niles. He asks if they are to get off at Notre Dame or South Bend. They are glad Prof. Joseph A. Lyons is coming. :: XI-1-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He sends the bill as requested. He is very glad to hear good accounts of Philip. He changed very much during vacation.

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Enclosed find banknote to be placed in Notre Dame museum. :: XI-1-k A.L.S. 1p.

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Brownson's sword was taken from him by the Confederates who captured him on Sunday, May 3, 1863. After he was exchanged he carried this sabre till December, 1870.

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This is his father's Orestes A. Brownson backgommon board. For many years in his old age he spent hours at this game, his right hand playing against his left.

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Captain Edwards Patrick Brownson carried this revolver during the Civil War. Originally an aide-de-camp to Gen. John C. Fremont, he joined the army of the Potomac and was serving on Gen. W.S. Hancock's staff when mortally wounded at Ream's Station, Aug. 24, 1864. He died in the 21st year of his life.

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He sent Brownson's Early Life as Edwards suggested to Catholic Citizen for Mr. Desmond, but has never seen any notice.

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He is sorry Edwards didn't find time to call when last in Detroit. His son who wrote Edwards was at St. Anne's College, Church point N. S. But the college was destroyed by fire and all lay professors were turned adrift. He has not received many notices from Catholic papers about his life of his father. :: XI-2-b A.L.S. 2pp.

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Brownson does not think C. H. French has given up the notion of buying the negatives. In his letter of January 22nd he said he would try to get them. He could not have considered the price too high, for he must have expected to pay more than that for them. :: XI-1-j A.L.S. 1p.

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He thanks Edwards for his trouble. He is sorry to be so particular but he wants to get the pictures as perfect as possible.

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He mailed the proofs of the pictures in the "Life of Columbus". He was delayed beyond the time announced. :: XI-1-h A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He is delighted over the spiritual blessing Edwards procured him from the Holy Father. He is sorry that Edwards was unable to visit him while in Detroit. The family is always glad to see Edwards.

Scope and Contents Brownson thanks Edwards for his order for "Columbus" which he sends by express. Owing to the number of books Edwards has bought from him, he charges only the wholesale price and will hereafter make the same discount on any orders for his books. The photographs were defective, but by having wash drawings made, the pictures do very well. He asks what Edwards and Luigi Gregori think of them. Edwards' suggestion to have John Gilmary Shea boom the work is good; but Brownson would like to have...

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Brownson asks whether he sent 4 copies of "Columbus". Edwards' order was for 2 and Brownson charged 2 only—$2.70 after deducting 10%. If Edwards wants 2 more, he will send them; if he prefers, he may apply the $2.70 on the bill of July 26, 1890. :: XI-1-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Brownson sends by express 2 more copies of "columbus", which with the other 2 sets, comes to $5.40, which amount Edwards paid two days ago. He sends regards to all his friends. :: XI-1-i A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He thanks him for the enclosure; they will be very useful. :: XI-2-b "Postcard, signed"

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He has been a little worried about the box he sent Edwards with the manuscript of Brownson's Middle Life and his father's Orestes A. Brownson correspondence. He has not heard if Edwards has received it. :: XI-2-c A.L.S. 1p.

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He sees from the Notre Dame catalogue that Orestes A. Brownson's "American Republic" is used in the university. He has been thinking of publishing an edition of it to sell for $1 and asks how many copies he could sell N.D. O'Shea's copyright has expired if he can call that a copyright which was merely a bargain to publish the work and pay his father so much per copy which he has not paid. :: XI-1-l A.L.S. 2pp.

Scope and Contents On his return from the East Brownson finds a copy of the Michigan Catholic containing a report of his lecture at the Church of which he is pastor, on February 2, 1890. He is reported as saying, "I say this with due deference to the writer of the preface to the Souvenir Volume of the Catholic Congress, whose unproved statements are worthy only of such consideration as the authority of the writer as a man of observation and culture can give them." The statements are undoubtedly those made by...