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The papers that Hudson s ent to Peabody have arrived. DeLande cannot understand the deplorable lack of religious reading. Kindly send copy of the Ave Maria of December 31, 1887, containing the poem on Father John Bapst :: X-3-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.

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DeLande would like to follow Hudson's suggestion and write articles verifying legends for the Youth Department of the Ave Maria, but she asks Hudson to suggest a work of this type that has not been worked over. She submits two articles. DeLande inquires if Hudson remembers Father Richard Nagle, who has been made Chancellor of the Boston Archdiocese. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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DeLande together with three others sent an offering of $5 for Father Joseph Damien DeVeuster, but received no acknowledgement. She would like to know if the money was received. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2p. 12mo.

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DeLande submits an article for the Ave Maria. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Father Delaney sends McMaster 35 dollars, five dollars for subscriptions to the Journal for Edward McCormick, and 30 dollars for the Pope. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Hudson has doubtless received his certificate of membership in the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and the invitation for the coming convention. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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He certifies to a copy of the records of a marriage between John Fallon and Mary McEnery, witnessed by Peter Conafrey and his wife Bridget and Bernard Leonard performed by S. Macnamee. In the Bishop Francis P. McFarland papers. :: I-1-a A.D.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Delany sends a draft of fifty dollars for Masses for her deceased parents. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Fr. Delbaer is inclosing a more detailed and specific account of the sacrilegious imposition practiced upon the clergy in this country in the matter of altar wine. He had written a previous account, but thought it too detailed, and has condensed it. He gives McMaster permission to publish it, or use it for his own personal information. The article of about 5 pages in 4to. is entitled "a very serious warning to all priests of the U. S. and also of Canada," and deals with his experience...

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He encloses $1, not for the Ave Maria, as he has a life subscription, but for the post horse that brings it to him. He does not believe in starving a free horse. He would have cheerfully given the same amount to the steed which carried Puerum Matrem Ejus in Egyptum. He wishes continued prosperity. :: X-2-f A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents He encloses a paper for publication, and gives his own name and address, and those of four witnesses. The wine dealer from whom the impure altarwine was bought was Kritz of Bella Vista Vineyard, California. The pure wine was bought from Peter Walsem of Warsaw, Illinois. He would prefer that these names be kept secret, since he is now in correspondence with Kritz, and can soon furnish more details of the transactions. The enclosure: a detailed account, designed for publication, of how...

Scope and Contents Delbaere is living in the priest's house; Father J. T. Stephens left it at 4 A.M. the eve of the Epiphany. Lefevere had told Delbaere that all the furniture belonged to the house, but nearly all worth taking was gone—even the pigeons! John Clancy has the pew books. A collection was made in the Church for Stephens, and the committee brought it to him in Detroit. They intended to petition Lefevere not to remove Stephens, but Stephens dissuaded them, saying that Lefevere was engaged with Bishop...

Scope and Contents He encloses $10 for renewal of his subscription. He distributed the sample papers among parishioners, but very few can afford to buy it. He compliments McMaster on his stand against Ontologism. He feels that system contains the seeds of all possible error, and will prevent entirely the study of Scholastic philosophy. He feels that the ontological students are grand-fathered by Malebranche. Their misconceptions and misrepresentations of doctrine of the Scholastics form the main...

Scope and Contents Delbaere has read McMaster's article called, "a False and Pernicious Criticism," and writes McMaster that his own criticism is itself, erroneous and unitentionally unjust in several respects. De Consilio spoke of two non-catholics uniting in marriage, who, though admitting the possibility of a divorce, a vinculo, by an error of understanding, yet mean for the time being to give their free consent to the marriage. Delbaere believes McMaster has italicized some of these words himself, but...

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Incomplete clipping from the Detroit Tribune containing a letter of Delbaere to Bishop Caspar Henry Borgess answering charges of the Bishop and his council. A note by Richard R. Elliott that Delbaere is just an "educated Noodle". :: III-2-n Clipping 3 columns

Scope and Contents Delbaere's room in the cathedral rectory is such that priests invited for a chat and a smoke refuse to enter it. He desires no change merely for comfort or show, but to stop criticism. Father John F. Van Gennip asked him whether he any work to do in the cathedral. Father James Hennessee Hennessey said his room was never intended for a priest; Father CharlesChambille inquired recently whether Lefevere had as yet given Delbaere any place. If these priests talk that way what must others, less...

Scope and Contents Father Delbeare sends McMaster $5.40 as mission dues to aid the Indian Missions. He promises also to say a weekly Mass and daily memento for the undertaking, which may be a wonderful means of redress toward the Indians for the calamities they have suffered at the hands of the country. The society will meet the approval of the Church everywhere and should grow like the mustard-seed of the Bible. American Catholics have not done as well as they might have done in furthering the work of...

Scope and Contents Delbreil is pleased to have some direct news from Brute after ten years. He would enjoy more to speak to him verbally but fear that they will not meet until they meet in haven. He blessed the Lord for the progress of the church in North America. Brute is fortunate to have been called to contribute to this growth personally. He has only a small sum of 70 francs to send. This is not for lack of feeling but because of the poverty to their church since the revolution. Even the presence of...

Scope and Contents Delebecque received Lefevere's letter of July 19. He thanks him for the details about Father de Balle who, he hopes, will always be a worthy priest. He is sorry that Lefevere admitted Father Charles Lemagie . He fears that if the clergy know he is a missionary in the diocese of Detroit they will have a bad opinion of the diocese. He advises him to use him only to say Mass and not to put his name in the Almanac as it is known there. The Bishops of Belgium have done everything possible in...

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Delehant sends McMaster $5.40 for the Indian Missions from his mission group and also $3. as a subscription to the Freeman's Journal. In the future he will try to be more prompt. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Everyone concerned with the letters of Christopher Columbus knows that the piece about which Metayer de Guichainville has written is a forgery. The work of Harisse leaves no possible doubt of that. There has never been an original letter of Columbus in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. :: III-3-d A.L.S. in French 1p. 12mo.

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Kelly sends McMaster $11.55 for the Indian Fund. Father E. W. Gavin of Waukegan is one of the 54 contributors. She names eight others who have donated the money. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He asks that McMaster send the Freeman's Journal beginning with the last April issue. Father F Kuppens, S. J. and De Meester have started a mission among the Sioux Indians and desires to keep in touch with the Catholic news of the world. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents To his great surprise, he discovered an error in the Decree, J.C. which he does not think is the proof. He without delay wrote to Baltimore, and very luckily it had not yet been sent to Paris, and so it will be corrected for the publication in Rome, where he hopes to be himself as he has made up his mind to go to Europe for various purposes. He proposes leaving early next week from Providence and Boston, from there taking the steamer to Halifax thence to St. John, New Foundland and...

Scope and Contents Page 20. Pages 1-19 are missing. P.S. Demers asks McMaster to have patience with him. There are so many things he must give utterance to, now that he has the opportunity to tell the truth. He has seen in the Baltimore Mirror an article calling the Archbishop of Halifax Thomas L. Connolly, O.M.Cay. the best orator and discourser among the Fathers of the Vatican Council. Demers hopes Connolly laughed at this, for nobody believes it. Connolly, however, is among the first of the opposition,...

Scope and Contents He is alone, having allowed his secretary to go to Belgium, and McMaster can see the difficulty he has writing because of an infirmity in his arm. He writes to tell McMaster how things are going. McMaster is one with him—who can sacrifice noble feelings towards persons in order to expose their wrongs. These "wrongs" have already brought sad and bitter friuts by destroying the prestige attached to the American Episcopacy in Europe, principally since the last Council of Baltimore. At...

Scope and Contents Since his bishop has put an interdict upon the Journal, neither he nor the members of his band can any longer receive it. He copies part of the pastoral of Bishop Peter Joseph Baltes of Alton in which the Bishop is condemning the use of books, prayer books, and newspapers published without the authorization of the Bishop of the place, specifically mentions the Journal of McMaster, the Irish World of Patrick Ford and the Western Watchman of Father Donald S. Phelan and prohibits priests...

Scope and Contents Shortly before his death Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere gave De Montaubricq orders that if work on the small church at Huron River was not finished by spring to suspend service as he ordered for Newport, two years ago until the rectory was finished. Now is the time, since Easter is over, to do it but he wishes to do nothing without Hennaert's advice. For eight months, since the work began, there have been difficulties especially with the Mannansons, donators of the land. Most of the inhabitants...

Scope and Contents He regrets he can no longer go to the Huron River . Beyond the bad will to end the work of the Church, almost every Sunday there are scandals of which he has had enough. The Manansons are behaving disgracefully. They have arranged their land so that later the church will adjoin a saloon, etc., instead of leaving 60 feet as agreed. Since M. Despretres Father Charles Depreiter connives with his opponents and wishes to take over services at Huron, let him do so. DeMontaubricq will return...

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Dempsey submits an article for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 16mo.