Scope and Contents Dahlgren has received volume 18 of Brownson's Works and is sorry that they are not selling well She has considered for some time writing a Catholic novel but has had no encouragement from the Catholic press. She has just finished a novel on race prejudice which will begin to appear serially in the Brooklyn Magazine in October; and she has begun another novels. She is pleased to find in volume 18 Orestes A. Brownson's praise of her translation of Executive power, which she never before had...

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Mrs. Dahlgren is grateful for the photograph of Brownson's father Orestes A. Brownson and reminds him that his parents were the God parents of her twins. She has a just finished a novelette. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

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Dahlgren hopes to order an additional set of Brownson's Works for her town house when certain dividents are paid in November. Her son Eric Dahlgren in his last year at Georgetown, has begun readings in the work of Orestes A. Brownson. Her novel "Divorced" is just out. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Dahlgren congratulates Brownson upon giving to the English-speaking public so valuable a Life of Columbus at so opportune a moment and encloses a money order for a copy. She hopes they may again meet. She was always honored by the friendship of his distinguished father Orestes A. Brownson, who was the god-father of her twins, Eric and Ulrica. Eric was married last December to Miss Drexel of New York and they are now in Europe. Ulrica is soon to be married to Josiah Pierce, Jr., of old New...

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Mrs. Dahlgren encloses $3 for volumes 18 of Brownson's Works and congratulates Brownson on his labors. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dahlgren begs acceptance of her new book—"South Mountain Magic" and hopes for notice in the "Ave Maria". The profits, if any, will be used for St. Joseph's Chapel. She hopes to finish the edifice in July, but must then wait in order to complete her plans. She was disappointed that Hudson did not visit Washington last winter. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Mrs. Dhalgren is sorry to learn that Henry's claim had taken an unfortunate aspect. She knows how almost impossible it is ever to get a hearing for a claim against the government. On receiving Henry's letter she asking the kind offices of SenatorEdwin Conger. As she has received no reply, which she did not request knowing haw fully the Senator's time is occupied, she is unable to say what will be done. Should she receive any information on the subject, she will let Henry know. It will be a...

Scope and Contents She desires to recommend to the confraternity of Our Lady of Lourdes, a Catholic convert, Mrs. Henriques, who is mortally ill and is taking the water of Lourdes faithfully. She is anguished at leaving two daughters, 12 and 13 who need their mother most now. The disease is thought to be an internal cancer and is baffling medical aid. Enclosed is $1 for more copies of the Ave Maria containing her report of George Morgan's cure. She has given away all the numbers Hudson sent her. George...

Scope and Contents She wrote the account of the cure with great respect for minute details believing that it is by the seemingly insignificant facts that the reader is most greatly affected. Not wishing the following observation published because it would undoubtedly embarrass the attending doctor who by his own admission expected the death of the patient at any moment she feels certain that he would ascribe the recovery to supernatural causes if it were not for the fact that he is a Protestant. Because...

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She thanks Hudson for the gratifying notice of "South Sea Sketches" and wishes him a happy New Year. She is rapidly convalescing due to the many mementoes made for her. During her confinement she has partly written a book on the "Superstitions of South Mountain," but if her health improves she cannot finish it for the publishers in the spring. She wishes two copies of Eliot Ryder's "Catholic Poets" to be sent to her together with the bill. :: X-2-i A.L.S. 3 pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents She encloses a poem, a translation of Heinie, written by Mrs. Long. If Hudson does not publish it he should return the manuscript. Mrs. Long has published many beautiful things and she is anxious for her conversion and to have her work run in Catholic channels. Her son, Lieut. Long Edes, was a Catholic convert. The writer will be indebted for the promised notice of the "Memoir" of Admiral Dahlgren. The nuns of Mt. Carmel have asked her to write something on St. Teresa. Perhaps Hudson...

Scope and Contents She received Hudson's favor enclosing a proof of the notice in the Ave Maria of her "Memoirs." She is grateful for the commendation of the book. What Hudson suggests as to the Admiral's "success" being advanced by her is praise due to his first wife. She shared his early trials for seventeen years. Thousands of things were too sacred for the public eye and would have given deeper insight into his noble heart. After reading the original of St. Teresa and much that was written about her...

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She has requested Osgood and Company to send Hudson a copy of the "Memoirs of Admiral Dahlgren." She is now engaged in writing "Our Lady of Liesse" for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-j A.L.S. 4 pp. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Dahlgren received a letter from Eliza Allen Starr stating she asked Osgood to send Hudson a copy of "South Sea Sketches". She sends one. Dahlgren had the fortune to receive favorable notice in New England by the Protestant Press. The only adverse criticism came from the Baltimore Catholic Mirror, for which Archbishop James Gibbons wrote and apologized. St. Joseph's Chapel on South Mountain is underway and she hopes to present it for dedication to Gibbons next summer. Enclosed is a...

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Hudson has written to ask Dahlgren for the original of the translation on the Basilian Nuns. It belongs to Madame de Villebois, a nun of the Sacred Heart at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Dahlgren sent Hudson's note to Madame Kleinwachter, Superior of the convent where de Villebois is living. :: X-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dahlgren acknowledges receipt of the Ave Maria containing the article "Soldier Prelate" and suggests a copy be sent to the Marquise Martha de Chambrun in Paris, who is the daughter of M. de Concelle and also a cousin of Monsignor Xavier de Merode. On her mother's side she is a granddaughter of LaFayette. Concelle has two children, Francois at Paris and the marquise. Concelle is nearly a nonogenarian and a friend of Pius IX. His nephew, the Marquis de Noailles, was French Ambassador to...

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Dahlgren thanks Hudson for the book. She has completed a novel entitled "An Autobiography of the Light and Shadows of a Life", which has not yet been offered to any publisher. Dahlgren is still thinking of working up the manuscripts on the prosecution of the Basilian nuns as a romance. Mother Angela urged Dahlgren to write it. Dahlgren is anxious to get things for her church. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dahlgren thanks Hudson for the information that he forwarded to her regarding Eliot Ryder . Mr. Hudson to whom Dahlgren referred Ryder, paid him for an article, but could not keep him permanently. She says Ryder did something unpleasant before he left town, but she does not know exactly what. Dahlgren refers to several mistakes she made and noticed in a recent article that she wrote. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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If Hudson should publish Dahlgren's sketch on Our Lady of Liesse, she would like ten copies. She learned from General Hagen that Eliot Ryder, to whom she gave a letter of recommendation for employment, that Hagen would have hired Ryder but he presented himself intoxicated. Hagen told him that when he could bring a certificate that he did not drink he would hire him. Upon this Ryder left the city. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Dahlgren would like to have her two books, "South Sea Sketches" and "South Mountain Magic" put on the list of premium books. She had in mind furnishing the St. Joseph's Chapel by herself. At the present time she is writing a novel with the same object in view. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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Dahlgren asked Osgood the publisher what reduction for premiums for Catholic books he could offer. He offered a fifty percent discount. Dahlgren has just written a novel, "A Washington Winter, "once she gets it published she will send Hudson a copy. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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Dahlgren thanks Hudson for the promise that he has made regarding her books. The Washington Catholic is publishing the entire "Dame De Liesse" from the Ave Maria. If the weather is right Dahlgren intends to go to her country seat at Boonsboro, Maryland. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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A letter to Dahlgren from her daughter, which she quotes, gives an account of meeting Miss Addis, a girl who was miraculousally cured at Lourdes. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Dahlgren thanks Clarke for his admirable brochure. If the Catholics of Maryland erred, it was in being too liberal! Perhaps without the admixture of dissent, they would have built a stronger colony in the end. This country is in a bad way and it looks as if it will get worse. The poor freezing and starving Catholic Indians are being made confessors for the Faith. Dahlgren placed a bundle of papers in the hands of the new Secretary showing the villainous practices in the White Earth...

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Dahlgren inquires if Hudson wants a story entitled "Christine of Sweden" translated from the French by Helen Squire :: X-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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A request is made of return the manuscripts of Mrs. Madeleine Dahlgren :: X-2-n A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Here is Nicolas Janis, a new student for the college. His father, Francois Janis desires that his son improve in English, French, geography, and arithmetic. Timon can obtain the money from John Baptist Vallé, Jr. desires that Timon furnish the necessary books. Dahmen is very busy., P.S. Mr. Grafton still wants to give the church and presbytery to Father John Boullier, C.M., but wishes to do nothing without first going to the Mine. Dahmen is waiting for the arrival of Boullier. ::...

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Timon sent a little note with the key to the music box asking him to send an exact amount of the Masses he still has and to consider himself discharged of the obligation. Timon is to accept 85. On the address side of the letter: Politeness of J.B. St. Gemme. :: IV-3-j A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents If Dahmen had thought it necessary to speak about the note, he would have done so; he has seen Timon's father, James Timon many times since. An accident happened to Dahmen before he embarked on the Mississippi; he injured a nerve in his leg obliging him to stay four days at Kaskaskia, and finally arrived in St. Louis. But last Sunday he renewed the injury and can neither walk nor mount a horse. Bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M. and perhaps Father Joseph Anthony Lutz will be there tomorrow....

Scope and Contents Dahmen sees that the Bishop is writing to Timon. For three days he has been walking again, carefully. Mr. Beauvais of Kaskaskia arrived here yesterday on the horse of Father Joseph Anthony Lutz, who will return here by the stage. Dahmen has been here a long time; Timon is to have him leave if possible. Father Peter J. Doutreluingne has been here for a week; he will return to Old Mines Monday. He wants to take Dahmen with him to Old Mines to remain a few days with Father John Boullier, ...