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Scope and Contents Orestes congratulates Henry on the birth of his daughter Josephine Brownson . He thanks Henry for the photographs of Fifine Brownson and his son Orestes Brownson . Fifine looks decidedly literary and seems kind. Little Orestes seems a very intelligent child and looks in the forehead just above the eyes a little like Henry did when he was a child. On the whole, Orestes looks rather delicate and as if he needs fresh mountain air. Orestes asks Henry for the photographs of all the other members...

Scope and Contents Orestes congratulates Henry upon Philip's Brownson success at college but cautions Henry not to let Philip study too hard for the physical is essential as well as the mental. Orestes' daughter Sarah Brownson has been promoted to the Dubuque High School standing twelfth in a list of 36 successful applicants. His son John Brownson and wife have made Orestes a grandfather. A daughter was born to them yesterday at 7 p.m.Annie Brownson and Louisa Brownson have been taken into the Church choir....

Scope and Contents Orestes presumes Henry's partner is a good Democrat and that if Winfield Scott Hancock and English are elected he will be rewarded. Orestes takes no papers and has all he can do to keep up his farm work. He has no knowledge of political parties at present. He is intensely interested in Henry's family and laments the poverty that prevents a closer union. It is a great blessing to have talented children and still greater blessing to have obedient ones. Orestes second son Edward Brownson has...

Scope and Contents Orestes is glad to hear that Henry and family are all well and progressing so finely. Henry's children will apparently receive the advantages of an excellent education. Orestes wants to hear often of them. All his family are well except Sarah Brownson, 15 years old who has a very bad cough and he fears it is the beginning of comsumption. The mercury fell to 10 below zero without any warning and Orestes is sorry to say he was caught without any warm clothing. Is it all due to Orestes'...

Scope and Contents Orestes thanks Henry for his favor of the 18th. and congratulates him on being rid of his dissolute partner. He trusts that Henry is prospering. He inquires whether Henry's son Philip, now 12 is to be a scholar or a lawyer, and asks about a report he has heard about Henry's putting out a new edition of their father works, if he has the time. He warns him of the greediness of publishers. Orestes has but few of his father writings but he reads and rereads them with pleasure. He asks why his...

Scope and Contents Orestes, after a recent talk with a gentleman, refers to Henry the following questions: is knowledge a virtue? If knowledge is power, is it a virtue? Does the development of the intellect necessarily make us better? He asks for Henry's opinion and reasons. Also he asks whether all intellectual philosophy is but a following out of the plan laid down by Aristotle. He asks where he can find a complete treatise on Aristotle's plan and how he can learn it. He will have time during the winter to...

Scope and Contents Although Orestes has received no answer to his last letter he cannot resist writing again. He hopes that Henry's gout is not giving him trouble and that he and his family are in good health. He notes that Henry's former law partner has met with a fatal accident and asks Henry to express his grief to his wife at her brother's death. He asks Henry not to forget to write him a few lines, since they alone are left of their father's family. Orestes' family is well, his son John Brownson is for...

Scope and Contents Orestes is much pleased to see in the copy of the Detroit Free Press which Henry sent to him that Philip J. Brownson is progressing so well. Long may be continue and become as good as he promises to be great. The other children must be doing well. With brains directed by true religion Orestes admits that his only block has come from not obeying the Church. Orestes sends Henry the Dubuque Herald wherein is mentioned that John Brownson passed the examination for a Principal's Certificate but...

Scope and Contents In the name of all the Brownsons Orestes thanks and congratulates Henry upon the great and noble work of republishing the works of the great Orestes A. Brownson. May Heaven grant Henry health and Strenght to continue and conclude the noble undertaking. Henry is to save a copy for Orestes as he shall have the money in time on Nov. 1 and every 3 months thereafter. If Orestes can be of any assistance, Henry should let him know. Orestes hopes Henry makes the edition as large as he can, for there...

Scope and Contents Orestes encloses a letter from John J. Fitzgibbon of Chicago, whom he calls a wealthy and and educated citizen, whose acquaintance he made some time ago. He asks Henry to answer the enclosed letter, since he can better give Fitzgibbon the facts which he wants about their father, and asks that he send him a volume at once. Orestes assures Henry that Fitzagibbon is as good a friend as he professes to be, intellectually and financially the poor of the best lay Catholics. The letter is written...

Scope and Contents Orestes is sorry that Henry too has bad times but is happy at the friendly tone and kind words of Henry's letter. The times seem to be getting harder and harder. Orestes has build a home on the farm, a frame with four rooms, but minus plastering, painting cellar and has moved into it so that he has no house rent to pay and has plenty of wood to burn. Orestes and the boys work at mining every day since school was out and have made between 25 and 30 dollars so that they have plenty to eat....

Scope and Contents Orestes has received Henry's letter of the 20th. and volume 1 of Orestes A. Brownson 's Works. In his isolation he has as yet met no one who has seen the work, but he assures Henry that he and his family find it excellent. He admires the introduction, calling it one of the grandest articles ever written by a Brownson. The language he says, is incomparable and quotes Sarah Brownson as asking why Henry does not write more. The more he reads of his father's writings the more he admires him and...

Scope and Contents Henry's kind letter was duly received. He sees that Henry is still hard at work to perpetuate the greatness of their father's Orestes A. Brownson name. His memory of home affairs is chiefly of his anti-Catholic days when he saw little of his father since he was constantly studying. Occasionaly however, he would send for Orestes to play chess, and from eight a.m. to twelve p.m. there was no respite. If Orestes has any chess reputation, their father laid the foundation. Letter is incomplete....

Scope and Contents Henry's letter was received today, reminding him that the only one left in all their family still thinks of him. It was indeed a happy birthday for him; best of all was the prospect of seeing Henry soon, on his way to St. Paul. If Brownson will call Dr. John J. Brownson of Dubuque, his son, he will bring him out to Orestes' home. He is glad that the end is drawing near, although he has not accomplished much. The future seems so dark and uncertain to him; man is such an atom of Creation, and...

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He received the four lectures of Rev. Thomas Hughes, S. J . and has read them with interest and pleasure. Hughes is a learned man. The moment Orestes begins to follow such arguments, difficulties and abstractions arise in his mind that he cannot harmonize. He gives examples of what he means. He is happier and better when following the path indicated by the Church than when ignoring them, and that is about all his mind can comprehend. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Brownson has just received a letter from Frank Henry Francis Brownson who hopes to be relieved today or tomorrow and will hasten to embrace his wife and child as soon as possible. Frank says that Josephine has not get along well. Brownson is not surprised; she had not time to get strong before he went away and she has worried and kept back her recovery. Brownson likes her all the better for having a little human infirmity; he has a horror of perfect women. Brownson owes her a thousand...

Scope and Contents Orestes tells Henry to accept the 15th of Feb. if no other date can be agreed upon, and to telegraph him accordingly, so that he may be in Chicago a day or two beforehand so as to rest. He is not particular about the terms, for his only inducement to accept the invitation is the opportunity to visit Henry, Fefine and Philip. $150 will answer, or $100 and expenses. He apologizes for any nonsense in his last letter Nov. 19, 1869 of which he was ashamed as soon as he had sent it. He knows...

Scope and Contents Orestes wishes Henry to read the enclosed and then send it on to the Institute. He thinks they will invite Henry to take his place, and he hopes Henry will accept. His subject would have been "The Church and Liberty" and he should have labored to prove that the Church is the only basis for all true liberty. He went to New York the week before last and came home with a severe cold and a slight attack of gout. He has subdued the inflammation and got rid of the pain, but is too weak and stiff...

Scope and Contents Father Augustine Hewit wanted him to write an article on the School Question and Father Issac Hecker wrote Orestes from Rome the outlines of an article on Church and State for Orestes to fill up for the Catholic World. These with article on Emerson and the concluding one on the Abbe Martin have with Orestes' writing for the Tablet, kept him so perplexed and busy that he has had hardly a moment in which to write Henry and Fifine. Orestes begs Henry to excuse him, especially as his eyes are so...

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He cound not find Edwards commencement afternoon to bid him goodbye. The Rev. President refuses to allow him to receive the History and Sophomore medals. The hot weather suits him fine.

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Philip thanks Edwards for his favor of the 16th and assures him of his good intentions. He leaves for a week's trip to Escanaba tomorrow. He has received a letter from Gus ( ) and hopes Edwards can prevail upon him to return to school this year. Edwards should see the blue ribbon meeting at the Hamtramck race course. He is sorry he did not see Willie Henry, but he did not know he was in town; he will be glad to see Edwards next month.

Scope and Contents Henry's letter to his mother indicated that he and Pifine are keeping house and are in better health. Mrs. Brownson had not been aware of the change made in the Commissioner of the Bureau although it is her practice to read the army news. Her husband has been made a present of a wheel chair from some friends in New York. On the previous Sunday Brownson tried walking throughout the house and today he is dressed for the first time in several days. He has asked his wife to mention, when writing...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson tells Henry that she is sorry to hear that he has not been well. She had hoped that the climate in Detroit would agree with him better than the East. Brownson is relieved of his lameness, but the Dr. who calls to see him each week thinks that the nail of his toe will have to be taken out. He walked to church on the previous Sunday, walks in the garden a good deal, and plans on going to the city in the following week. . Mr. and Mrs. Sadlier have just been over to express their...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson has been expecting a letter from Henry for some time since he had told her of his intention to write in 3 or 4 days. However, the letter has not arrived and his mother feels that either he or Josephine are sick. Henry and Josephine must visit the Brownson if they pass anywhere near them, otherwise they will be greatly disappointed. Brownson has been troubled for a week with a stiffness in his neck that seems to be working down towards his feet. He has been working hard for some...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson writes to let Henry know they are well and that Henry's father will not visit Henry just yet, but will let him know when. He desires to know the street and number as Henry might be busy in his office when he arrives. Mrs. Brownson has been uneasy since she learned little Philip has the croup. Henry must have been alarmed and she knows how to pity him as Sarah was threatened with it until she was four or five years old and for years kept a bottle of medecine ready for fear of an...

Scope and Contents Henry's father arrived home yesterday at 3 p.m., having stayed the night before with Father Isaac T. Hecker as it was 7 p.m. when he got into New York. He had no trouble of any kind, and Mrs. Brownson thinks he looks healthier than when he left. He had a very pleasant visit and it will do him an immense amount of good. He has given her such a cheering account of Henry, Fifine and the children that it does her heart good. She encloses the dollar for some change Brownson borrowed of Henry....

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson has been trying to find time to acknowledge Henry's letter of the 7th and also to tell him how much obliged she is to him and Fifine for all their kindness and attention to Brownson. He has told her a great deal about the younger Brownsons, and she rejoices very much at their happiness and prosperity. Henry's father told her an anecdote of two women who came to Henry's office. One Henry charged nothing and the other only a small fee. She hopes Henry will strew his path through...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson received Henry's letter of the 27th, but since Mr. Brownson had previously written him, she supposed it was useless to write then. Henry will probably be married by the time he receives this letter and his mother wishes him and Josephine every blessing, spiritual and temporal. Mrs. Brownson looks upon Josephine as a daughter and hopes that she will always be a mother to Josephine. It will be impossible for Mr. and Mrs. Brownson to be present at the wedding on the following...

Scope and Contents Henry's mother is glad to hear that he and Fifine are well and that he has not had another attack as on the night before he left. She feels his illness keenly and claims that the love between husband and wife is no stronger than the love which parents have for their children. Being deprived of a proper use of his hand, as well the care and vexations of officers and men, is great suffering for Henry and Mrs. Brownson wonders how he bears these trials so uncomplainingly. General Hancock wrote...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson is acknowledging Henry's letter and is very glad that he and Fifine are comfortably settled in their new home. She would prefer having her son in civil rather than in military life and if he succeeds in his plans they all will be perfectly satisfied. At first thought they do not know what the Government may do, but then there possibly may come that sober second thought for which the American people are noted. Fifine probably has seen enough of military life to be pleased with...