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Scope and Contents Brownson has been intending to write Henry for months, but exhaustion, indolence or a horror of writing more than he is actually obliged to has prevented him from doing so. As Henry has never written an encouraging word about his Review, Brownson presumes Henry is disappointed in it. Its permanent sale will be about 1000 copies. He has been unfortunate in his printers and publishers both. He is promised a better proof-reader hereafter. His health has been pretty good thus far, though his...

Scope and Contents Brownson has had no heart to write Henry for a long time. Sarah has probably informed Henry of her coming marriage to that old codger Judge William J. Tenney . She can get married providing she gets off Brownson's hands. But that has not been her intention. She had made all her arrangements without his Knowledge or suspicion, got him to consent to move into one of the judge's houses and to let her fit it up. She had engaged herself to the judge and between them they had arranged for her,...

Scope and Contents Henry must excuse Brownson for not writing for the two months since Henry left him because of the gout in his hand and the work connected with the April number. Brownson was inexpressibly shocked and grieved at the death of Elise Van Dyke ?, so bright, so loving, and so young. He offers his condolence to Mr. Miran and to her and to Fifine as well as to him. Sarah Brownson Tenney lives in the judge's William J. Tenney old house at 85 Elizabeth Avenue. She appears to be very contented and...

Scope and Contents Mr. Moran requested Brownson to lecture the coming season. He has delayed answering. If he discontinues his Review, he could accept. But he has finally concluded to continue it another year and asks Henry to inform Mr. Moran that he must decline. Brownson learns through Sarah M. Brownson Tenney that he has another grandson. He hopes he will be like his noble uncle Edward Patrick Brownson after whom he is named. He has heard nothing form Henry for a long time. Brownson has not written for he...

Scope and Contents Brownson thanks Henry for remembering his birthday. The day was passed in great suffering for he was very ill. He was thoughtful, however, that he was let alone, and no virago entered his room to scold and abuse him. He is glad to hear Fifine gains strength in the country air. Children cannot well be brought up in cities. New York ought to be a healthy city and yet the weekly list of deaths uniformly exceeds the list of births and left to itself the population of the city would show a...

Scope and Contents Brownson has been very ill and suffering also from his eyes and the little time he has been able to write, he has had so much other writing that he could not write Henry. Yet not a day has passed without his thinking of Henry, dear Fifine and the children. He thanks Henry for the photographs. Phippy Philip Brownson is a fine looking boy but rather slender and delicate. Sally Brownson is very bright and intelligent looking and as she grows up will look like her mother, though somewhat like...

Scope and Contents Brownson has received from Healy Harmon ? $10 which he says Brownson loaned him in the fell of 1860. Brownson has no recollection of this and Sarah M. Brownson Tenney is pretty sure Henry did. Henry certainly was very kind to him and gave him far more than ten dollars' worth of clothes. Henry is entitled to the money and needs it more than Brownson does. Healy seems to have left off drink and to have become sober and rational: but the Harmon blood has insanity in it. Brownson has been very...

Scope and Contents Brownson's mind is made up for he feels he has no home here. He thanks dear Fifine, in whom he counts on finding an affectionate daughter. But as Brownson gives Henry his library from the time it enters his house, and pays all expenses, Henry could do no less than come to take charge of the moving. What may be only a slight hill to Henry is a mountain to Brownson in his loss of physical energy. It may be difficult for Henry to spare the time, but he needs not be tied down to a particular...

Scope and Contents Brownson feels no uneasiness about the house or the rooms Henry proposes to assign him. He has full confidence that Henry and Fifine will make him comfortable. Brownson only wants to be able to go to Church He will take his two great chairs, desk, card table an the library table. Henry is to bring the dimensions of any room Brownson is expected to furnish. Brownson will also take along his bed, bedstead and perhaps a few other articles so Henry will have no expense for furniture. The rest of...

Scope and Contents Brownson congratulates Henry on his freedom. He has no fears of his steady application to his profession and is sure that by diligence Henry will succeed. Brownson approves of Henry going into partnership with his brother-in-law, to whom Brownson sends his regards. The gas fixtures will be sent as soon as Brownson can get someone to pack them. The boy can hardly go up town to get someone and Henry's mother, though better, cannot go out yet. She has had a severe attack of bronchitis. Brownson...

Scope and Contents Henry's mother and Brownson have concluded that the gas fixtures are not worth the expense of sending. They were damaged in the moving from N. York. The Brownsons have thought it best to send 50 dollars toward meeting the expense of purchasing new ones. Henry is to regard it as a wedding present as yesterday was the anniversary of his marriage. Brownson advises Henry not to use gas for light. Brownson much prefers kerosene. It makes a better and steadier light, is far less hurtful to the...

Scope and Contents Brownson has this moment received General Sherman's reply which is enclosed. It is respectful and kind, but perhaps Henry will not be perfectly satisfied with it. Henry undoubtedly can return to Detroit, but Brownson thinks there must be some mistake about Henry's been on recruiting service at Fort Leavenworth. Henry knows better what course to take. Brownson presumes the Army Bill will pass before the adjournment of Congress and at any rate Henry will do well to make his application to to...

Scope and Contents Brownson asks Henry if he received a letter from him enclosing one from General William Tecumseh Sherman . Not having heard from Henry he is afraid the letter has not reached him. The General says Henry is highly appreciated and that they found an old law which permitted them to retire 176 instead of 160, only that under it they had retired sixteen officers selected from the whole army with great care; that as soon as the Army Bill passes, he will appoint a retiring board. In the meantime,...

Scope and Contents Brownson is unable to determine why Henry has not written him. He has led a solitary life since Christmas, unable to go to church and receive the consolation of the sacraments, with no one but his wife and an occasional neighbor to visit him. Henry has not written him since the marriage. He must not forget his love for his parents because of the love he has for his wife. The fight between Father Isaac Hecker and Brownson grew out of the former neglecting one of Brownson's artiċles and...

Scope and Contents Brownson answered Henry's letter immediately in the hope that it may reach him before he leaves. Both Henry's parents are very disappointed that they will not see their son and his wife this spring. Henry is being sent to Atlanta, a healthy and pleasant city according to him. The coast of Georgia is unhealthy but the interior, is healthier than Henry's native state. The nights are cold there due to the cool winds from the mountains. Brownson is still suffering from the gout and while not...

Scope and Contents An attack of the gout in his foot and little finger of his left hand prevented Brownson from answering Henry's letter. He asks Henry about his attitude towards his new commander. Brownson hopes that the matter of impeachment is ended now. If Ben Wade becomes acting President Henry most likely will get on a step for Sickles will probably go on a foreign mission. Everything seems to indicate that Grant will be the next president and Sherman will command the army and Brownson is of the opinion...

Scope and Contents Henry's mother writing him today, Brownson sends a line in the same envelope. Ned has gone; Brownson hopes he arrived safe at General Fremont's headquarters. Brownson received the money Frank sent; he felt bad to receive it but it went out to fit Sarah out as bridesmaid to Jenny White and to help fit Ned out for the wars. He is sorry he spoke to Frank so unkindly; Frank must forgive him. His eyes are about as they were when Frank was at home; he has had a severe attack of rheumatic gout. His...

Scope and Contents Orestes wrote Henry a long letter and addressed it to him simply at Chicago. Brownson now has the proper address but the letter had been sent before receiving it. In his letter to his son Brownson suggested several acquaintances but neglected to speak of Mr. Bellows who, as a boy, must have known Brownson inasmuch as his father was the cause of Brownson's departure from Walpole, N.H. His father sent him with a present of some bottles of wine to Henry's mother and father on the birth of...

Scope and Contents The Appletons of New York have some German historical romances, written by Frau Mundt and her husband of Bertin, which they want translated. They were published under the name of Fraulein Louise Muhlbuch. Judge William J. Tenny of Elizabeth, the reader for Appleton Co. requested Brownson to write and offer the job to Henry. If Henry wishes to undertake one or more he is to write directly to the Appleton's and make his own arrangements with them since they are awaiting his answer. It is...

Scope and Contents Brownson has just written to his daughter Abbie and said what he thought proper. He is anxious to learn the details concerning the postponement of the marriage and whether Mary has calumniated either Henry or her sister and asks to be taken into Henry's confidence. Brownson has written Wilson concerning the Military Bill. Dr. Henry S. Hewit thinks the result of the Bill will make Henry a full major and likes it all with the exception of the Veteran Resources provision, a feature to which...

Scope and Contents Brownson addresses the letter to Henry at Fort Warren although he knows that his son is attending a court martial at Fort Adams. He has not yet fully recovered from an attack of rheumetic gout. Wilson's Bill will probably not become a law and it has no chance whatever if disapproved by Grant, Sherman, Mead and Thomas. Schenk, Chairman of the Military Committee of the House, is for increasing the army to one hundred thousand, and this will move up in rank the regimental officers of the...

Scope and Contents Brownson has been ill with a severe attack of the gout and has not been away from home since the time he met Henry in New York. He is pleased that Henry enjoys Detroit but knows he will not like Mackinaw, an out-of-the-way place with few people. Brownson is anxious to know whether Henry's appointment as captain has been confirmed. The volunteers have got everything and remonstrance has had no effect. Brownson is not quite certain whether the Bill that passed is substantially the same as...

Scope and Contents Brownson has sent Henry the letter from Gerogetown College which explains itself. Not knowing whether Henry is counted among its Alumni or not Brownson will take no notice of it, though he himself is an honorary member of the Philosophy Society. Brownson has been busy writing two articles for the Catholic World in review of Mr. Gutler's Papacy Schismatic. He has written nothing for Ave Maria for some time since the plan of the periodical is so narrow that it prevents latitude in writing....

Scope and Contents Brownson has just suffered his most severe attack of the gout. This fact together with the amount of writing he has to do for the Catholic World and the Tablet have been the reasons for not writing Henry. However he is anxious to hear from his son and asks him to write soon. Henry is cautioned not to believe that his parents do not care to hear from him just because they do not answer his letters. His mother worries, and is afraid if a fortnight goes by without hearing from him. She feels...

Scope and Contents Brownson has received Henry's letter of the 21st and 22nd and was surprised that the Appleton's had made other arrangements before receiving his letter which had been mailed the same day. Judge William Fenny spoke to him. Henry is not going to Fort Brady and evidently General Ruggles telling General Harding to send another Company was an order. Brownson prefers that Henry remain in Detroit even though it would be more pleasant to command a post. Henry has learned to obey now and that is the...

Scope and Contents Brownson is writing to Henry at the request of his mother and she in turn will write the letter that Brownson was going to write to Fifine. The death of Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere grieved Brownson, who is afraid that his equal will be hard to secure as a successor. General Schofield will not long remain as Secretary of War and it is believed that General Rawlins will succeed him, although Brownson thinks Rawlins will be the Collector for the port of New York. General Sherman's order on...

Scope and Contents Brownson was mistaken in his reading of the new law for the reduction of the army and either the President or General Sherman made the reduction much more rapidly than was expected or necessary. It was Brownson's opinion that the officers were to retire to their respective homes and await orders but the Herald claims a much different preparation is intended. He is anxious to know Henry's fate and thinks that if Henry does not remain in command then efforts must be made to have him detailed...

Scope and Contents Brownson supposes that Henry is better acquainted with the late infamous law passed by the Congress than he is. He did not require the instant consolidation of the infantry regiments but left it to the discretion of the President and General of the Army who, in Brownson's eyes, acted with undue precipitancy. Six hundred and four officers are ordered to their homes awaiting orders and all under the pretense of economy, which in the end will prove to be no economy at all. Henry's mother is...

Scope and Contents Henry wrote to his mother some weeks ago that he was ordered to report at St. Louis for recruiting service and would leave on the following Monday. Since then he has not been heard from and Brownson is in doubt as to whether his own letters are reaching Henry. However, he asks his son to answer immediately if he does receive his mail and inform his father as to his whereabouts. Everyone is well at the Brownson home and they send their love to Henry and dear Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p....

Scope and Contents Brownson failed to reply to Henry's last letter from Salem because he did not know where to direct his answer. He is very glad that Henry has learned of the improvement of Fifine's health. He sympathizes with Henry's parental pride in Master Vandyke Brownson. Representing as he does at least three distinguished races he ought to be something extraordinary. The numbers of the Catholic World which Brownson promised Henry for Father Ernest Van Dyke had been disposed of by promise when Henry had...