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Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson thanks Henry for his congratulations upon her 67th birthday and is grateful she has been spared so long, although she regrets her life has been no better. She is glad Henry has left the Army and is pleasantly situated, and especially because Fifine is such a good wife. Henry's father's health is as usual. He returned from Boston pleased with his visit. Anna Brownson came back with him and stayed two or three weeks. Anna has much improved. Her father lives in Cambridge and his...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson received Henry's letter of the 4th and both she and Henry's father wish he could be retired. She thinks it would be a fine thing if he had two thirds or even one half of his present salary for the rest of his life and cautions him against resigning as Congress may do a little justice before it adjourns. She wrote to Fifine before she received Henry's letter. Henry's father wanted to write Fifine a long time ago but could not because he had a deal of writing to do and his hand...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson explains that she had left unanswered Henry's letter for so long because, her girl having left her, she was alone until she secured another. She was sorry to hear Henry was in Kansas so far. She hopes Henry will not be obliged to stay long from his family. Fifine will be happy to have her mother with her. Little Philip will not let Fifine be lonesome. Mrs. Brownson hopes Henry may be retired as he wishes. She is sure Henry has had moving enough for anyone. She believes Henry...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson writes to tell Henry that his father has gout in his right hand, which prevents him from writing Henry and Fifine. Otherwise his health is pretty good. He had engaged to lecture at the Paulist Institute the 1st of May but Sarah wrote he could not come. Father Joseph B. Bodfish came over today and persuaded Brownson to go since Bodfish will arrange the trip. Mrs. Brownson has been very anxious to hear from Fifine and would have written her had she not been so concerned with her...

Scope and Contents No doubt Henry would be surprised to hear that she is here among the mountains if his father had not told him. Sarah Brownson started the idea and Brownson joined her in it, so she was almost imperceptibly led to taking this journey. She is not sorry but will be glad when she is home. She and Sarah have been here two weeks and are boarding with a very agreeable widow lady. They have been to Ebensburg about 5 miles from here and visited the church although it is not large. She never saw one...

Scope and Contents Mrs. Brownson received Henry's letter of the 13th yesterday and was much surprised that he had not heard from them lately. This is the tenth letter she has written him since he left home on March7. The last time she wrote she enclosed a letter for Henry by Edward Patrick Brownson. Orestes A. Brownson is lame but walked to church last Sunday. Edward received his commission as additional aide de camp to General Fremont with the rank of captain about the 6th and left home on the 11th. He...

Scope and Contents Sarah will be perfectly delighted to have Henry come, not only for the pleasure of seeing him, but because she shall have someone to rely upon. Orestes A. Brownson has given his consent before any arrangement was made, and yet has fought every inch of the way with her. She feels so utterly alone at this time that if Henry were to come he would be father, mother, brother and sister to her. The judge William J. Tenney told her to tell Henry that it is worth the journey to see how sweet and...

Scope and Contents Sarah is sorry about the delay in sending Henry's box. She told Orestes A. Brownson that Henry had put aside the books he wished and if Brownson had any more to send, he would have to put them in another box. Nothing is settled yet. Father Michael A. Corrigan has not answered Brownson's letter and so Brownson proposes to go to Orange tomorrow with Decker. Sarah would rather he would not, for fear Brownson will be too confiding to that detestable Lackman. The Benedictine nuns cannot give...

Scope and Contents Sarah received Henry's letter and the contract. She is much easier in mind now that she has that magic paper. She has had a little talk with Mr. Blumling and he says that if the sale is good he will give her still more, as he desires to forward her interest as well as his own. He cannot decide yet what the price of the book will be, as he has had all his printed in Germany until this one, and she supposes does not know how things cost here. It used to be cheaper to send a book to Germany to...

Scope and Contents Sarah has received Mr. George Van Dyke's subscription for the Review. The Review is an entire success. Brownson and Sarah are altogether opposed to any agents, as they ruined them financially before, but he compromised with Pustet so far as to have a very few. Their commision makes a very great difference even when they can be made to pay up, and from the letters they receive and what they hear, it is evident the Review cannot be helped off like any other periodical or book. It is not fun to...

Scope and Contents Sarah has been on the point of writing Henry and acknowledging Mr. Caluon's ? subscription a dozen times. Mr. McTerney, tailor, has also sent a Detroit subscription. The Review does very well. The papers have not done talking about it yet, and the letters still come in praising. The Nun of Kenmare scolded like O'Connell's fishwoman in a letter to Brownson. She goes at him as only an Irishman and a nun can. But personally she says it is nothing to her what he says, it is only out of regard...

Scope and Contents Sarah was very glad to have a letter from Henry and hear that he is getting on so well. She thinks to have a house of one's own is about the height of human happiness. Sarah was very gratified at Henry's big order for Life of Gallitzin. She straightened out the sentences as well as she could without taking the whole thing to pieces for the second edition. She had such a quantity of things to say, and such a horror of boring people with long stories that she did not observe until the book was...

Scope and Contents Sarah invites Henry, Fifine, Mrs. Van Dyke and her family to come see Sarah married to Judge William J. Tenney on Nov. 26th at 10 a.m. The ceremony is to be performed by Bishop Michael A. Corrigan in St. Michael's Church, and afterwards they are to have a reception here, leaving in the afternoon for New England. Afterwards they are to live here and Orestes A. Brownson be undisturbed, as he is now. Sarah should be very glad to have Henry here and would make him as comfortable as possible. He...

Scope and Contents Sarah is very glad to say to Brownson in writing that which she has so often said to him in words. She does not stoop to deny the motives he ascribes to her and the judge William J. Tenney . She knows that he judges everything that occurs according to its effect upon his comfort and case, and if she had had no higher motive, that of itself would have caused her to see that Brownson were not inconvenienced, before she could look for any happiness for herself. She is perfectly and entirely...

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Bruedar asks the meaning of the scriptural quotation of Christ: "Thou art Peter and upon this rock…." He believes these words should be taken literally. A Lutheran minister opposes him on their exact meaning, citing the Greek text as the basis of his argument. He asks Hudson to help him give an accurate answer in this discussion. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Brummer asks for a dispensation for the marriage of Susan F. Meyers, a Catholic, to Pearson Schakley, a non-Catholic. He does not know if there have been any changes made in the regulations since he left for the South. Father C.F. Hone received the cope Purcell sent. Hone was to go to Cincinnati for the Holy Oils but since he didn't Brummer will have to go. He would like to have the Church dedicated on Holy Trinity Sunday. Ten persons in the congregation are very sick and if they do not get...

Scope and Contents Purcell's letter of May 27 was received with much pleasure, but the news contained in it of Brummer's uncle's death stunned him. He had heard nothing about it from home. One of the priests who came in the pilgrimage was asked to notify him of the death, but failed to do so. He hopes his Mother will not take the loss too severely. The Pilgrims arrived a week ago last Monday. The next day they were received by the Pope, visited the basilica of St. Peters, and the next day the remaining 6...

Scope and Contents Brummer says that Father Damien Kleuber tells him that Purcell is not going to ordain him and send him as pastor to Miltonsburg and Wills Creek this fall as he promised. Brummer hopes this is not true because everything is prepared for a new pastor. He says if Purcell cannot send Klueber to please send someone. The trouble at Wills Creek has subsided and he sees that his teachers and his own lack of kindness and humility caused if all. The people have engaged a teacher and finishing the...

Scope and Contents Brummer just arrived in Beaver, being held up because of so much typhoid fever in the missions and the teacher, Mr. Klueber, is sick. Brummer along with Father John M. Jacquet will gladly meet Father Damien Klueber for monthly conferences if the weather permits. He hopes Purcell will send Klueber immediately because he does not know how long he can hold out. Brummer married a Catholic and a Protestant and is to marry one of Archer's boys to a non-Catholic next week. :: II-4-o A.L.S. 1pg....

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The people of St. Francis Church have presented him with $54 without Brummer having done any good there in the short time he was with them. He asks Purcell to give St. Francis a pastor at the very first chance. Brummer is much better than he was yesterday and hopes to be soon restored. He has not taken leave of hardly any of the priests and hopes they will not be offended. The least thing fatigues him. ` P.S. He will write when he arrives in New Orleans. :: II-5-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents He writes in behalf of Casper Garst a former seminarian for Purcell and now a scholastic of the Jesuit order. On account of his ill health Garst has been given permission to come home. The Jesuits fear he will not be able to stand the duties intended for him and would obtain dispensation from his vows if some bishop will receive him as a secular. This Bishop of Covington will accept him but he prefers to come to Purcell. He asks for Purcell's decision. Martin Draifs who has been a teacher...

Scope and Contents Brummer just returned from Logan and Schmelzers, Ohio where Father C.F. Hone invited him to hear the Confessions of the Germans and he begs Purcell to make him pastor of either Sacred Heart or Schmelzers so that he could attend the surrounding missions, after Purcell names a pastor for Lancaster. The congregation at Lancaster is very good and are contributing greatly towards the new church and the conversion of the old one into a school house. He hopes to have First Communion around the last...

Scope and Contents Brummer read Purcell's appeal for contributions for the Seminary from the pulpit and he sends Purcell $183.09, the amount contributed. He wonders if the new pastor will be there for the next Sunday. They are preparing for the dedication of June 5th, and asks why it has not appeared in the Telegraph. Because it has not appeared therein they have had to telegraph Erie and Notre Dame. He asks if Father Edward Purcell will fulfill the congregation's desires by preaching the dedication sermon. He...

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In coming to Lancaster from his mission of Good Hope he finds that the people of Lancaster were without services yesterday. If Purcell says so, he will attend to Lancaster. Purcell should write him at Bremen. ` P.S. A gentleman by the name of Henry Sheran wishes to study under him. Brummer will accept him if Purcell will receive him. :: II-5-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Brummer would prefer another priest than Father Klueber for the missions because his brother who is a teacher lives in Duckcreek and being very careless and in debt feels that his brother can aid him. Brummer does not think the congregation would approve of Father Klueber . Brummer suggests to Purcell that if Klueber is sent, to give him the whole mission. Brummer has improved the appearance of the Church greatly but further improvements must wait because of the crop failure and lack of...

Scope and Contents Brummer has a letter from S. Burkard that Purcell sent to him. The writer, his brother, and his deceased parents never paid on the building of St. Joseph's Church, school, or anything else, nor helped in any way. Therefor the people would not allow them to bury their parents there. In Miltonsburg, the father and brothers paid a little and for this they claimed the right to be buried there. Brummer rode 20 miles from Duckcreek and from Miltonsburg once to give the mother the last sacraments....

Scope and Contents Brummer has decided to write out his difficulties so that he can be more clear and Purcell can more easily answer. He is sorry that he has caused Purcell any difficulty the day previous. He has told his complaints to no one but his confessor. As to his requiring special food and special service, he insists that he never had any notion of requiring meat on Friday. He did have a special permission regarding the use of lard and bacon during Lent but did not long use it. As to drinking he has...

Scope and Contents Brummer is sorry to see that Purcell was pained by what he said about a work of the Sacred Heart. He did not intend to lecture the Archbishop. He occasionally finds children wandering in the streets during school hours who are Irish or Catholic and he thought they should be in school. But there would be difficulty getting them into school. He denies that he had any base motive in making his suggestion to the Archbishop. As to the charges he made against Father S., he made them in the...

Scope and Contents He arrived in time to assist at Mass celebrated by Father L.C.M. Chambodut. The sermon was preached by Father McGee. He went to hear Father Joseph Anstaett explaining Catechism to his children in the German church. The Bishop John M. Odin and his two priests are very kind to Brummer; Odin advised Brummer to remain with him until after Easter. The he will give him some place in the country. His health is improving but he does not think he will ever be able to take care of a large congregation...

Scope and Contents They concluded their retreat last Saturday and classes resume tomorrow. There will be 30 students this year. Although they may be forced to leave by the government before the year has clapsed, it is believed by many that a change for the better will soon take place. The government has taken possession of a number of religious houses and the monks have been forced to find a home where they could. The Jesuits have been driven out of Gesu, the Roman College and San Andrea on the Quirinal. The...