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BRH Henry F. Brownson Papers Guide University of Notre Dame Archives University of Notre Dame Archives 2017 Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 Description based on paper finding aids and inhouse database. English BRH Henry F. Brownson Papers 1855-1908. Brownson, Henry F., (Henry Francis), 1835-1913. 2 linear feet. University of Notre Dame Archives Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 English. Preferred Citation Henry F Brownson Papers (BRH), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556 Scope and Content Correspondence, material on the American Catholic Congress of Baltimore (1889), and miscellaneous material including one scrapbook of clippings. Calendared. Background Son of Orestes and Sarah (Healy) Brownson; one of the leaders of the American Catholic Congress of Baltimore in 1889; author of a three-volume biography of his father and editor of his father's works in twenty volumes. Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 1803-1876. Catholic Congress of the United States (1st :d 1889 : c Baltimore. Brownson, Henry F., (Henry Francis), 1835-1913. Related Material Orestes Augustus Brownson Papers CBRH Henry F. Brownson: Manuscripts CBRH III-3-h Peabody, Elizabeth P., _____ , to Orestes A. Brownson 1839 Jul 6 Copy of letter found in the papers of Henry F. Brownson. Calendar of original, and original in the senior Brownson's papers, under the same date. :: III-3-h A.D. 3pp. 4to. CBRH III-3-h Neumann, Bishop John Nepomucene, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1852 Sep. 23 A document attesting the authenticity of a relic of St. Alphonsus Liguori . Among the papers of Henry F. Brownson. :: III-3-h A. and Printed D.S. 1p. 4to. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Henry F., Boston, Massachusetts, to John Dalberg Acton, Munich, Bavaria 1855 Jan. 28 Soon after his return form Minich, Brownson wrote Acton, enclosing his letter with one from Orestes A. Brownson . He has not received an answer. Perhaps Acton never received his letter. Orestes received a letter two days ago from Count Charles de Montalembert in which Montalembert said he had not received Orestes' last letter. Henry hopes that it is not because the kindness with which Acton always treated him in Munich either was not real or has undergone a great change. He realizes he was often troublesome to his friends. He attempted on his return from Europe to be an assistant to his father and wrote two articles on Joseph Maria von Radowitz and one on Joseph Ignatius Ritter 's "History of Philosophy." These did not turn out so well as he expected and he thinks he shall never make anything more than an amateur Reviewer. On a late visit to New York Orestes spent considerable time with George Bancroft and feels persuaded that Bancroft will soon become a Catholic. Both Bancroft and George Ripley will in all probability join the Church before a great while. Bancroft's son intends visiting Munich to study art. Dr. John Williamson Nevin, whom they all thought about to enter the Church, has made no progress for nearly two years. Nathaniel P. Willis is raging mad because his sister, Mrs. Tarrington, has shown him in his real character in an autobiography under the name of Ruth Hall . The Know-Nothings are in power in Massachusetts . Bills are now before the Legislature which will disfranchise Catholics. If this should happen his father would remove his family to New York. Orestes' article against them in Brownson's Quarterly Review for last July raised the whole Irish population in America against him. The excitement against him was so great that he wrote a conclusion to the number for October, saying that the Review would be discontinued. His friends persuaded him not to publish the notice. Henry would be most happy to send Acton the volumes of the Review which he lacks and also any American books that he wants. :: III-3-a A.L.S. Xerox Copy from Acton Papers 8pp. 12mo. 15 CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1858 Feb. 26 Brownson has been admitted and sworn as an Attorney Procter, Solicitor, Counsel and Advocate of the Court of the Southern District of New York, Circuit Court of the United States. Signed by Kenneth G. White. :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. 4to. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1860 Jan. 19 Passport issued to Brownson giving his description; countersigned for France Feb. 20, 1860. :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. folio CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1860 Oct. 19 Henry's mother has received his letter of the 28th. Brownson had been told by Father Remigius Tellier that Ed. Oaksmith had left the novitiate and gone to college in Paris, but infers from Henry's letter that he is still there with him and Henry is asked by Brownson to make him his affectionate remonstrances. Brownson was too busy with his Review to answer Henry's letter of Aug. 8. Brownson finished Mr. Ward's philosophical introduction to his Treatise on Nature and Grace just on the previous day and he considers it a most difficult and perplexing job. Ward is Brownson's old opponent in the Dublin Review and in the latter's opinion Ward has an able but very crooked mind. The matter of sending Henry tobacco through the source suggested has become extremely difficult since his friend has left the steamer. However, Brownson promises that if it is in his power to send it, he will do so at the earliest possible moment. Brownson has not seen Dan Bryan since the day Henry sailed. The Visitor has made no change in the provinces, Father Tellier remaining Superior of the Mission. The Scholasticate is to be located in Conewago, Pennsylvania, but for the present it will remain in Boston with Fathers Gresslin and Verdun as professors of theology. St. John's College promises a better year than last. Ned's professor is Father Vetter, who appears to be an able man and is, according to Ned, an Austrian, an Alsatian or from the Debatable Land, and uses F. Rathenflue for a text book. Brownson's October number has kicked up a babling and made Archbishop John Hughes perfectly frantic. His article on the Rights of the Temporal together with Dr. Jeremiah Cumming's on vocations to the priesthood have done the work. The greatest wrath is shown at the Dr. and a trial is threatened. Although lawyers have been retained Brownson feels the storm will blow over. He expresses the wish that Henry have the opportunity of reading this issue which he thinks to be the best yet and cautions Henry that none of his former positions on papal power has been abandoned nor does he endorse the Emperor's conduct on Count Cavour but has merely attempted to place the temporal principality of the Pope on its true basis as well as to apologize for the Italian people. He does not believe the temporal principality of the Pope necessary to the exercise of his spiritual sovereignty nor that the political and religious interests of Europe require the unification of Italy and elevation of it to the rank of a great power either as a federal state or a unitarian monarchical state. Brownson, however, recognizes no one's right to dispossess the Pope against his conduct. Father Gary, a Benedictine monk of St. Gregory's College, Dawn Side, near Bath, England, has sent Brownson the plan and outline of a philosophy text-book which he is writing in English and in which he takes the system defended by the Review. Brownson is not certain that he can answer Henry's question but discusses the fact that while Descartes holds extension to be the essence of matter, Leibniz, for good reasons, denies it. That extension is not the essence of body, or is only an accident of body is known from the Real Presence in the Blessed Eucharist, a point disputed between Henry and Brownson at a time when the former was translating Balmes. Brownson holds, in the main, F. Boscovich's doctrine, rejects the atomic theory, and agrees with Leibniz that substance is vis activa, and semper involvit conatum. Our bodies in the future state will be transformed or glorified, made like unto the glorious body of our Lord, which we know was impassible, and encountered no resistance in what we call matter. What we call extension, according to Brownson, is simply the force of the body, or the energy of the vis activa, and he sees no difficulty in supposing it to retain in the future its exterior form or circumscription. It would then have extension in heaven in the same sense as it has here. Brownson cautions Henry against supposing that even now it is a congeries of molecules. These, he maintains, are accidents and can be changed without changing the body and disappear without its disappearing. Returning to Henry's difficulty of the vis activa Brownson points out that the soul is separable from the body in one sense, but not from the living body, otherwise communion in a way would not suffice. In the living body the flesh and the body are inseparable, indivisible, as communion in one. The body and blood are indivisible in the Holy Eucharist and Brownson questions Henry's right to say that blood is not of the species of the human body, for when the blood is omitted the body is destroyed, which is, properly speaking, no longer a human body but a carcass monad. For Brownson, the soul is the forma corporis and he is not prepared to maintain that the body is a simple or rather single monad or vis activa. He sees no objection to supposing the body as composite, the union of two or more monads, a living union produced and sustained by joining soul and body. The stigmata which our Lord showed to Thomas may be explained by supposing that His body was not yet glorified since He had not yet ascended to the Father or else they may be regarded as habits of the body retained in the glorified state, as are the habits of the soul. The soul carries with it its habits or else it would not retain the divinity infused or a priori in this life and so why should not the body then retain its habits. Heaven and hell Brownson regards as primarily as a state rather than a place, heaven not being above the stars any more than hell is under or in the centre of the earth. However, he will not say that heaven is not a place but that he is not in the habit of thinking of it as a place. God is here and everywhere, in us and outside of us; the souls of the departed are not physically at a distance from us; the saints, though above us by virtue and beatitude, can hear us when we pray to them. Space and therefore place has nothing in it and space is only the relation of existences to one another and simply designates the relative degrees of their respective forces. Hence, the distance of two existences from one another is not a distance of space, but a difference of their respective forces. Equalize in all respects the vis activa of each and there will be no distance, no space between them. The different orders in heaven Brownson attributes to various degrees of participation in Being, which God has as His first and formal cause. This is substantially what Henry claims only he speaks as an ascetic and Brownson as a philosopher or speculative theologian. Whether all souls are created equal or not, all souls do not attain to equal virtue and hence do not participate equally in beatitude. Brownson believes that Henry's main difficulty grows out of some remains of the old doctrine or false notions of space and from regarding it as place rather than a state. Space is the different degree in which existences spiritual or material participate in being, that is in God as first cause. And the various degrees of our virtues may be called moral space. In some sense space may be considered as being in heaven activity as well as on earth though not time because heaven admits of no change or vicissitudes. Brownson admits that these are only crude thoughts of his own reflection, not having had time to consult what the theologians say, and suggests that they will meet Henry's difficulties. If they should not, Brownson wishes his son to state to him wherein the difficulties lie if the house rules permit. -- He has taken a slightly active part in elections lately and favours Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, the Republican candidate whom Brownson claims will be the next president without much difficulty. Horace Greely and Brownson both addressed a political meeting a few evenings previous at the Port. The Democratic party is very much divided and has two candidates in the field, Douglas and Breckinridge. The Americans have Bell of Tenessee and Edward Everett for president and vice-president. The South threatens terribly, but will submit. Henry is urged to tell his friends in Europe to have no fear. Brownson fears that some of his friends in France are in political movements not friendly to the Imperial government and declares that he himself is no friend of the Empire or of the Imperial regime but is opposed to a new revolution in France and to any dynastic change. Only such changes, as those not detrimental to the dynasty or to the position and powers of the present Emperor as chief of the state, are favoured; nor does he wish a republic or the Bourbons. In regard to Italy, Brownson wishes matters there were permanently settled. He does not share the general distrust of the Italian people and has no fears on the score of religion should the Pope ever leave his temporal principality. The pastorals of the bishops Brownson has rejoiced in, since they prove their attachment to the papacy but they contain many things as to the temporal principality of the pope which he thinks unwarranted either by history or theology. These are matters in which his son can but take little interest just now since it is his business to sever his affections from the world and to acquire the habit of being in himself in interior communion with God. Henry seems happy in the Jesuits and the choice of a vocation has been a great relief on the rest. His absence left Brownson very lonely at first but he has since became reconciled and remarks that he would follow his son's example were he a young man again. He is weary of the cares and vexations of the world and finds it no easy matter to take care of his soul. Henry is to remember his father in his communions. He is remembered in his father's. Brownson urges Henry to persevere in the good that he has entered and admits that while the life may be rugged, God's grace is sufficient if relied upon. Henry is to fix his eye on God, to guard against melancholy and anxiety, to cultivate cheerfulness and learn to laugh at trials and difficulties; to take his crosses good humoredly, to attempt no more than he can carry through and to exercise his American habit of being in a hurry. The well-prepared workman will do more in a year than an ill-prepared one in a lifetime and God rather than the person himself is the one Who does the work. Henry's mother has almost completely regained her former health of a year ago and Sarah's health and temper have much improved. Ned is doing well; Orestes is working along, but is having a hard time of it; Brownson's health is passable and his spirits are good and his Review is going so, so. He has not received the Etudes de Theologie since the previous December and suspects the fault to be with F.O.A., who probably neglected attending to it. Brownson mentions the beginning of a new era in the life of the Review. All questions, not pertaining to faith or discipline from the American point of view, will be discussed. Its stand is taken and it is now live or or die. They are about to be no longer expatriated in their own country. Brownson will be a Roman Catholic but not European or Greek. Henry is told to write as often as he can. P.S. Father Mac Clellan late of the Church of the Transfiguration has resigned his parish to become a Jesuit. He is supposed to go to France for his novitiate and Brownson is in the hope that Mr. Runsal ? will go with him, although he has been recently suspended for a trifle. The seminary is discontinued. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1862 Feb 20 Brownson is commissioned a Second Lieutenant, as of December 1, 1861. Signed by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. Folio CBRH III-3-a Caresche, Joseph P., Washington, D.C., to 2nd Lieutenant Henry F. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey 1862 Mar 7 Henry's commission is forwarded with orders: On receipt of his commission he will repair, without delay, to Washington and report for duty with his company "L," now serving in the army of the Potomac. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah Healy, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, _____ 1862 Jun 24 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 arrived in Washington on the 12th. He was waiting with an army and a navy surgeon to go to Manassas Junction. Mr. Howell went to Washington to see the Army of the Potomac and expects to see Henry. Fathers Henry and Howell say four Masses this week for Henry and Edward. A cousin of General Kearney was there two or three times last week. He is authorized to get up a company and has an office in Dr. Grier's, their mayor's office. They hope Henry has received the letters they sent on the 12th. Sarah M. Brownson intends going next Saturday to Bridgeport to see Mrs. Henry S. Hewit. Dr. Henry S. Hewit's health is improving but he is very impatient; he is still at Cincinnati. ` A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. ` Enclosure: CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry Frank Brownson, _____ 1862 Jun 24. 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 Brownson's Quarterly Review for July was out on the 17th with a good number, but too opposed to slavery to be popular. There is a great lack of wisdom and energy in the administration. Brownson is afraid of foreign intervention, unless a decisive victory is won at Richmond and not a fiasco as Halleck at Corinth. Beauregard and the flower of his army is probably at Richmond. Brownson's Catholic position is good at the Propaganda but not very good here. Let come what may he will live and die in the Church; there is no salvation out of her communion. Frank's mother says she is well but she worries in her sleep about Frank and Edward and Brownson is not without anxiety himself. He has four Masses said this week for them. Sarah M. Is very lonesome and half admitted the other day that she is human. She avoids Brownson as she will continue to do as long as he lives. He must be a very crabbed Father for none of his children are happy with him; he will try to leave them a name that will be no dishonor to bear. Frank is a soldier and he trusts every inch one; he wishes he were young enough and well enough to be with him. ` A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 7pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, 1862 Jul 9 Brownson, greatly relieved that Henry has escaped death in a recent battle, asks him to write at his earliest opportunity concerning the wounds he received and which Henry dismissed as light in his letter of the 4th inst. Brownson declared his gratitude to God to whom he had several Masses offered for Henry's protection. He is hardly less grateful that Henry has done his duty as an American officer and that none of his guns were lost. Despite the fact that the correspondents made no mention of his son's battery Brownson praises his son as a real soldier in four severe battles, convinced that Porter's Corps saved the army of the Potomack. He asks Henry to express his profound thanks and admiration to General P.J. Porter whose coolness, bravery, perseverance and wise disposition of worn-out troops was responsible for his victory over superior numbers, and whose character and conduct Brownson considers the best in the field of Generals. General Sukes and Colonel Hewitt are cited for their important role and Brownson notes that Hewitt's disposition of the artillery as well as his conduct on the field, especially in the battle of the 27 inst., was particularly noteworthy. In his opinion McLellan's [sic] annihilation was prevented only by the splendid fighting of his troops in action. Brownson declared that in the public feeling a great disaster has been suffered but claims the disaster to be less than he feared. More than a week before the battle, he told his wife that the position of the army was untenable and that McClellan was neglecting his right which would be turned, rendering his advance on the left impossible and pointed out that he would have to fight for the salvation of his army in place of attacking Richmond. McClellan did the best he could to extricate the army from its position, Brownson admits, but demands an explanation as to why this fine army should have been so long exposed. General Burnside, who is marching to the aid of the main army, can reach them; Brownson declares that the strategic position of the army has greatly increased and can now guard against Burnside's advance from the West or Hope's from the Northeast. Brownson fears, that unless the gunboats succeed in opening the James River, the corps to which his son belongs will find difficulty in advancing far enough to cooperate with either advancing corps. However, he hopes Henry and his unit may hold their own. The Administration in Brownson's opinion has failed utterly in its duty, and the President Lincoln with his real peculiar policies, according to Brownson is in danger of ruining the nation. Brownson declares that Lincoln appears to sympathize only with traitors and thinks that, by satisfying the Border States, for instance "Kentucky," and placing traitors in the Federal Army, he is wondrous wise. All of the disasters suffered are the fault of the President Lincoln and the press wishes to make Stanton the Scapegoat. After making these remarks Brownson maintains he is unable to speak on this subject and glosses over his cutting remarks by reminding Henry that after all the President is his Commander-in-Chief. The anxiety Brownson has for his country makes him ill and is so great that he can hardly be civil. Sarah Brownson has written him about all the news and Brownson reminds him that he too has written him a letter in which is enclosed one from Henry's mother. He expresses his disappointment over Edward, and Sarah seems to manage without his knowledge, aid, or counsel. Brownson is slightly sad over receiving forty dollars from Henry since it seems that he is taking blood and continues in his sadness because of former unkindnesses to his son for which he begs forgiveness. His health is gone, the country he has loved so much is going, the Bishops of his Church have denounced him, and his children who love and honor him think that they best aid him by refusing Brownson all confidence. Being old, infirm, solitary, forsaken, and with occasional influence of the gout in his temper Brownson considers life to be a hard trial and fearing lest he become an intruder childishly stores himself away in a small corner of the house. Sarah is an object of Brownson's pity and one from whom he would like to escape. He admires as an afterthought her good qualities, claiming that she could work herself to death save in a way that would please her mother and him. Brownson again begs Henry's forgiveness for former unkindnesses and declares his love for him. Henry is advised in regard to drinking and is counseled about the great danger of indulging too much in his idle hours. Brownson admits this as the reason for his harshness to Henry when he was at home since he could not bear his son's destroying himself in this way. Brownson discusses the disposition of his personal belongings. Henry is to receive the library and papers. None of the other children are to receive the books since Brownson believes they cannot prize them. Expressing the possibility that Henry may consider him disordered, Brownson declares it maybe so and urges his son to keep the honor of the name. :: III-3-a A.L.S. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1862 Jul 17 Brownson is commissioned a First Lieutenant as of February 28, 1862. Signed by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. Folio CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1862 Oct 3 Brownson sends this letter in care of Mr. Swinton, who visits the army camps arranging Times' Correspondence. Brownson urges Henry to treat him with great kindness. He has a letter from Ned, informing him of Henry's merits as an army officer and in which Ned asks his Father to secure a Star for Henry. Brownson can do nothing until Congress meets and then he will not ask Stanton whom he now considers a nobody. He regards the battle of Antietam as indecisive. General McClellan has no great faculty for converting his fights into real victories. Brownson fears that the enemy will yet turn the flank of the army, taking Wheeling and Pittsburgh. While his army appears to be looking South the enemy will be North of it. He cautions Henry that if they do not permit the enemy to escape in the direction of Wheeling he will be captured. Buell, he thinks will take care of Bragg in Kuntucky and Charleston, South Carolina will probably soon be attacked. The Proclamation is considered a menace not an act, but Brownson maintains it will upon its wish permit the administration to a policy and that General Halleck will satisfy him in the long run. Henry is cautioned not to think of dictatorship and is told that Seward, whose malign influence has been so disastrous, will probably go out of the cabinet and Edward Everett go in. Brownson suggests that if things do not get better after that, then there be a resignation or an impeachment. Brownson has ordered some copies of the Review sent on to Ned and states that Ned is responsible for the press's nomination of Brownson to Congress and ought to be scolded for doing it. Ned has told Brownson of Henry's loss of his valise containing his shirts and Brownson asks Henry to let him know how it can be replaced. Henry's note explaining that his escape from hurt has given him great relief. His mother has offered her thanks in Mass more than once. Brownson has heard of Henry's gallant conduct in the battles before Richmond and that General McClellan has recommended him for tow brevets. This latter information, Henry is asked to keep secret. Henry is asked to inform him as to his present situation. Fremont, who recently visited Brownson is not a great General after all. Brownson also mentions having seen Mitchell and Hunter whom he likes and that Dr. Hewitt has charge of the hospital at Frederick. There is no further news and all is quiet at Elizabeth. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, 1862 Dec 23 Brownson thanks Henry for the birthday present he sent him through his brother Ned and quotes the postmaster Major Leslie in regard to the government's lack of funds. General Burnside's failure has deeply grieved and chagrined Brownson but he retains his confidence in him and the whole army. Burnside's recent letter to Halleck puts a better face on the gloomy situation and assumes the whole responsibility. Burnside's proferred resignation is straightforward and manly but Brownson fears it will not be accepted, but if he thinks Abe Franklin should be his successor. Brownson discusses the fictitious reputation of both Sigel and McDowell and blames Lincoln for his cooperation with McClellan on the Peninsula issue. Brownson suggests that Banks replace Stanton, whom he has given up. He discusses his recent Review in which he condemns the Administration and the nigger policy of President Lincoln. Brownson is not an abolitionist, though strongly opposed to slavery, and urges abolition only as a means of prosecuting the war. Brownson declares that there are no military reasons for the President's blunder and usurpation and cannot be justified by military necessity. This "compensated emancipation" if adopted would free no slaves but would put millions into the hands of President Lincoln's creatures. Holding Lincoln responsible for all the miscarriages and claiming that Seward follows the President rather than vice versa, Brownson has called upon Lincoln to resign. Brownson urges Henry to write concerning his whereabouts and activities in addition to his future plans and tells him that the turn of events have left him with a little influence on the Administration, Governor Andrew being a possible exception. Brownson refuses to ask the President for anything and of Stanton he is distrustful. He acknowledges Henry's command of two 26 powder batteries and asks whether he intends remaining on Colonel Hay's staff or to take a battery. Brownson urges Henry to use his influence with Ned in order to make him study military knowledge because Brownson is assured that Ned will never be a military man, pride and laziness preventing fulfillment of his ambition. Brownson has unsuccessfully contested a seat in Congress and maintains that he consented only to please Sarah and Edward Brownson. He questions the success of his Review for the coming year but finally dispels his private grief with grief for his country. Hearing of disaster for the Army of the Cumberland, under General Rosecrans he is afraid lest the rivers fail to rise and prevent supplies from reaching the army but trusts in God who alone can help them. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp 4to. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1864 Mar 8 Brownson is commissioned a Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, as of April 3, 1863., Signed by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. Folio CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Captain Henry F. Brownson, A.A.G.,, Head Quarters of 25 Corps, Army of Virginia 1865 Apr 22 Henry's failure to write has caused great uneasiness in the Brownson family especially since he was still ill upon leaving home. Brownson has received a copy of the Pittsburgh Progress of the seventh, post marked Washington, D.C. the 15th of April which he supposed was from his son. He thinks Henry must have written home and that the fault lies in the Elizabeth post office which is poorly managed. Henry is urged to write immediately upon receiving this letter which is short because of the mysteriousness of Henry's situation. Events of great magnitude have occurred since his son's departure. Richmond was taken, Lee's army has surrendered, and Lincoln was assassinated. Brownson believes the heaviest fighting to be over but considers the rumor of Johnston's surrender to Sherman as doubtful. The rebels have lost their best friend in Lincoln and the country has probably gained since Andrew Johnson promises to make a superior president. Brownson has moved downstairs and now has a room for his son whenever he chooses to occupy it, called Henry's room. This room was formerly occupied by himself and Mrs. Brownson but at present they are staying downstairs and Brownson has converted the back parlor into his library. The tenth Corps is reestablished and the 25th is supposedly broken up. This letter will be addressed to him in care of Head Quarters of the 25th Corps, Army of Virginia. May God grant that all is well with his son. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, 1865 Nov 11 Brownson acknowledges Henry's note and concludes that, since he made no mention of the fact, his health must be better. He is pleased that his son has comfortable quarters and anticipates occupying them with him next summer. Mr. Smith's death has pained Brownson inasmuch as they were both old friends. Brownson is anxious to learn whether he became a Catholic before his death, whether Mrs. Smith still lives in the old place, and whether she was left well-off. Henry is asked to offer his Father's condolences to her and Abby. Brownson asks about cousins John, Mary and Joseph. Cousin John has gone to Cambridge according to Henry and this fact reminded Brownson that he wishes to give his son a letter of introduction to the sublibrarian of Cambridge Library and to Dr. Walton, the late president, if he still lives as well as to Dr. Hill, the present president. The latter has some wholly unfounded pretensions in philosophy. Through him, however, Henry may become acquainted with Charles Eliot Norton, one of the present editors of the North American. He is a son of Professor Andrews Norton author of Norton's Four Gospels which Henry has undoubtedly seen in his Father's library. Henry should also know Dr. Noyes, the translator of John, and a man dry but learned. Dr. Francis, formerly a professor at Cambridge, abolitionist and author of Philothia should also be visited. Dr. Lathrop, cousin John's unitarian pastor is one through whom Henry may gain admission to a Boston club. Brownson instructs Henry to find Theodore Metcalf, and his sister Julia, both Catholics. He is a druggist in Tremont Row. Julia is a distant relative of Brownson's and a woman of common sense, and Henry is urged to become acquainted with her. Romain, also Señora Fario and her daughter, a Spanish lady and a Catholic Julia Metcalf will invite them and others to her to meet Henry. Julia is an old maid but a favorite of Brownson's and he hopes that Henry will make her a friend. She lives on South Street and Henry's being a son of Brownson is sufficient to recommend him. Dec. 11 is Thanksgiving Day and Henry cannot go home sooner than he is welcomed. Sarah has returned home from Dubuque and Brownson finds her much better. Henry is asked not to allude to the past when meeting her but rather to let bygones be bygones and give his Father and mother the satisfaction of feeling that their children love one another. Brownson is thankful that the elections have gone Union. He definitely does not think much of either Rivard or Barton but thinks it best to support the Administration. Mrs. Brownson is as well as usual and is very happy to have Sarah back. She would have died had Sarah remained away. Brownson is very well and contented and asks God to bless his son. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, _____ 1865 Nov 28 Brownson tells Henry that he has been expecting him home on December 7, Thanksgiving Day, and that he will be grieved if the latter is not able to come. Sarah's presence should not be reason for keeping Henry away since Brownson is of the opinion that being home has cured her of some follies. Brownson has converted his office into a sleeping room. Henry is again asked to come and keep Thanksgiving Day with the family. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, 3rd U.S. Artillery 1866 Jan. 2 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 Grant is also opposed. Schofield is sent to France with a secret mission to the Emperor. William H. Seward has gone to see Maximilian and will promise no disturbance to the latter if the Emperor Napoleon will withdraw the French troops. In so doing, the Monroe Doctrine will be saved in appearance but given up in reality. Seward's diplomacy will end in surrender and the New York Times will claim it as a victory. Brownson will probably have to leave his present house since his rent will be raised a hundred dollars and he asks Henry to see what he can find for him in Chelsea. He wants six rooms at least and doesn't want to pay over $200. but will pay 25 or 50 more if necessary. Father Patrick Stroin will aid Henry, at any rate he is to get a house as near the church as possible. Brownson doesn's insist upon living in Chelsea but does insist upon being close to a church. He cautions Henry not to resign his commission until he has a way in which he can support himself. Brownson is in hope that Henry's contemplated marriage will not fall through since there is no good reason why it should. Mr. Smith's expressions are unintelligible to him. He considers Abbie to be truthful and is not afraid to take her word. He wishes Henry a Happy New Year. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, 3rd U.S. Artillery, Fort Warren 1866 Jan. 29 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 regular army. Sherman dislikes militia and volunteers and wishes all wars to be carried out by regular soldiers. Brownson wishes to know whether an officer could be an editor provided he discharged faithfully his military duties and maintained the proper attitude towards the government and his superiors. This question is the result of Brownson's desire to have Henry as the proprietor and editor of Brownson's Quarterly Review. Henry, who is now on good terms with the Jesuits, could secure their support by publishing an article favorable to them in the first number. Articles from naval and army officers would be of great interest and value and Brownson claims that his own aid may be secured if Henry wished. At any rate Henry would be the sole and responsible editor and could count on all of his father's friends as well as on a circle of his own. Brownson is of the opinion that it may be more popular than before. Henry is asked to decide totally for himself. If the Review is resumed it should be published at Boston as a General Review, holding itself responsible to authority but without asking its approbation in advance. It is possible however that Henry's position as an officer is incompatible with an undertaking of this sort. Brownson has given up writing because his books will not sell. The American Republic is comparatively a failure and his Review cannot be resumed by him for reasons which however, would not militate against Henry. Brownson fears that he has done mischief by his letter to his god-daughter Abbie, inasmuch as he has received no acknowledgement of it. Brownson told her that he was pleased with the engagement, that he would be happy to have her as a daughter and in addition spoke handsomely of Henry. He had intended writing her mother earlier but he has not done so inasmuch as he does not know the state of affairs. Henry is asked to enlighten him if he sees proper. Brownson is not sure whether he can do anything for his son in Washington. His letters are not acknowledged and he is afraid that the world looks upon him as dead and buried. :: III-3-a A.L. S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, 3rd U.S. Artillery 1866 Mar. 12 Brownson has for some time been expecting to receive the papers from Henry which will enable the latter to sell the horses and he hopes it is not too late. He is disappointed that his son did not come home. The senate has returned the brevets to the Secretary of war to be submitted to a Board for examination but Henry should have no apprehension because of his distinguished and meritorious services in the field. Brownson is displeased over the turn of events in Washington. Both parties seem to him about equally wrong and he has lost all sympathy with Charles Sumner . To give Congress the power to determine the question of suffrage would change radically the Constitution and make the government one of the people consolidated, not one of the people as States. The soveroignty rests in the states not in the people outside of State organizations and in the states collectively not severally as John C. Calhoun contended. The leading radicals in Congress if successful would entirely eliminate the federation element and make the government a centralized democracy. Andrew Johnson is violent, hotheaded and arbitrery but is right in defending States' rights although his defense is not placed on correct grounds. He committed a fatal error in repudiating the agreement between Sherman and Johnston. The governments which he organized in the seceding states are not legitimate and neither his nor Congress' recognition can make them legitimate however and Congress would have to admit their representatives, provided they took an oath to uphold the Constitution. In Brownson's opinion that President has already too much power and it will be increased in the present conflict with Congress, since the socialistic democracy can no more triumph than the egoistical. Brownson is interested in finding out Henry's reaction to his book. He is writing another called The Problem of the Age, designed to show the principle which reconciles Faith and Reason, Revelation and Science, Theology and Philosophy, Authority and Liberty, the Church and Society, Stability and Progress. He wishes to do for his age what St. Augustine did in De Civitate Dei and St. Thomas in his Contra Gentiles. Brownson considers his ambition greater than his ability but claims that all he has written and published in the last twenty-five years had a bearing on this ambition. Henry is asked to help in whatever way he can and to come and see his father as soon as he can. He is reminded to take the regrets crosses and disappointments of life with a light heart and cheerful confidence in God. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1866 May 5 Special Orders assigning Brownson to recruiting duties at Williamsburg, New York. :: III-3-h A.D.S. copy 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1866 Aug. 20 Brownson is commissioned a Captain as of July 1, 1862 for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia. Signed by President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. folio CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1866 Aug. 20 Brownson is commissioned a Major as of May 3, 1863 for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia. Signed by President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. folio CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major H.F. Brownson, 3rd U.S. Artillery 1866 Oct. 14 Brownson has waited to get the election results before writing his son. He is happy to know of Henry's good health and is convinced that the salt water and salt air in a cold climate will be necessary to Henry for some years. Brownson is dissatisfied with the climate where he lives and finds himself in a disgusting lassitude as a result of it. It provokes the use of stimulants, and at the same time renders them hurtful. The same climate exixts in New York and along the coast from New Haven to the Rio Grande and to some extent through the interior of the western and southwestern states. The finest and healthiest parts of the country are the upland sections of the states lately in rebellion as well as the states and territories on the western slope of the Rocky mountains in addition to the New England States. Old Tom Wally, who had travelled over the globe, always insisted that Boston had the best climate of any city in the world although he did not pretend that Massachusetts has the best soil. Brownson is pleased that Henry has furnished his quarters so well and so inexpensively and hopes to enjoy them with him either at Fort Warren or Fort Independence. He hopes to visit his son in the Spring despite his recent attack of illness which left him too lame to walk much. The elections have gone to the Republicans thus far and the constitutional amendments will undoubtedly be ratified. Brownson greatly dislikes the financial and tariff policy of congress and its dealings with the army but wishes it to be sustained supreme and the government to grow into an erective monarchy. It is doubtful whether the President has done anything for which he could be impeached and it is just as doubtful that Congress would support such a move. Butler's Cincinnati speech will do him no credit. He shows too plainly his spite against Grant and the Army and cannot damage Grant in the country at large. His own military record is not half enough for that and neither the regular army not the Boys in Blue will take him as a representative military man. Grant's popularity overshadows Butler's administrative and oratorical abilities. Brownson thinks that the Army will be sustained and placed on a popular footing as soon as reconstruction takes place and the union fairly restored. The President's Andrew Johnson pilgrimage to the tomb of Douglas has hurt him and Raymond has returned to the ranks of the Republicans. Henceforth men who love their country will oppose all duties on imports except for revenue purpose, seek to modify the national bank system and to convince the people to rely on a regular army rather than a volunteer militia. Brownson would have the regular army increased to a hundred anf fifty thousand men, containing the cadre for three hundred thousand. He doubts the withdrawal of French troops from Mexico and considers the key to the recent events to be Napoleon's desire to prevent the union of Germany and Austria with her non-Germanic provinces and to prepare alliances which will prevent Russia's advance southwards as well as to settle the Eastern question and sustain the Turks to allay the fears of Great Britain for the Indian Empire. Perhaps the Emperor also wishes to guard against the influences on Europe of the great and growing American Republic. Thus far his policy has been successful but his spinal affliction and kidney disease may prevent the health and peace he needs to consolidate it. Brownson's article on Imperial Policy had been written for the Catholic World before Lavallette's Imperial Circular appeared in this country and is significant inasmuch as it proves that Brownson had correctly sized up the Imperial Policy. Henry is cautioned not to believe that Napoleon has been defeated or disappointed but has intentionally abandoned Henry IV's policy of suffering no great power on the frontiers of France. Fathers Howell and David will soon be leaving and as yet the Bishop has made no appointments while they are still in the parish. Brownson expects the Council to come out strongly for the Temporal Sovereignty now that it is lost. He does not think that the Holy Father is in any danger of being disturbed and presumes matters will go on the same until the present Pope dies and a new one is elected. The matter will then be settled amicably but not so advantageously as it might have been in 1860. The press is certain that Maximilian will abdicate but Brownson looks for him to maintain himself on the Mexican throne, a wise move in case he is abandoned by France. The Liberals are fighting each other in Mexico but Maximilian seems to have the strongest party and the majority of the people. He holds the smallest but most thickly populated Mexican territories. Genianism is on the way and Brownson hopes that the nigger question will soon be settled. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Battery Major H.F. Brownson, Fort Warren Massachusetts 1866 Nov. 14 Edward gave no reason to Brownson for leaving except that he did not like the place however it is said that he gave his family another reason. which Brownson will not repeat because of his refusal to believe it. Henry is asked to write and explain the reason. The Radicals have made a clean sweep, and will be even stronger in the next Congress but Brownson does not believe that Butler will carry through his programme. The Constitutional Amendment will probably be insisted on and although Brownson does not like Andrew Johnson, he sees no ground for impeachment and the President asks no more of Congress than Congress yielded to Lincoln. The Virginia members of Congress were admitted because Mr. Pierrepoint's establishment at Wheeling was recognized by the Executive as the State of Virginia on the advice of Attorney-General Bates. Johnson claims to do no more than Lincoln. Bates maintained that it belongs to the Executive to determine whether a state is or is not a state of the Union while Congress judges of the election and qualification of members. In this case, Congress acquiesced with scarcely a disputing voice. In Brownson's opinion the Executive is wrong but Congress cannot now reclaim its decision without condemning itself. Lincoln was not censured and neither should be Johnson for following in his footsteps, and Brownson considers Johnson much less dangerous than Lincoln. If the papers are to be credited then Brownson's predictions in regard to Maximilian are already falsified but if he has abdicated there is yet no official proof. It seems that the government is proposing to buy off the French by paying them their demands on Mexico and then annexing Mexico. Congress' actions are very uncertain since the North still has nigger on the brain. The whole matter is a muddle and General Sherman with Mr. Minister Campbell may easily make it worse. Brownson's prediction was based on a letter from Mexico in the Tribune which showed good sense. Since the Herald came out for the constitutional amendment it has been a very good paper, and with a tremendous influence. Horace Greeley stands a good chance of succeeding Judge Harris in the Senate, and Brownson doesn't know whether the Herald is against Greeley or merely enjoying a laugh by ridiculing him. A war of Russia against Austria and an alliance of Prussia and Russia which the papers claim as certain are considered improbably by Brownson. Prussia aims to consolidate Germany under the Hohenzollerns and become a great maritime power in the North and Baltic Seas which will make her Russia's rival. Russia can fight Austria only on the Eastern Question, a problem which the other European powers will not allow opened. It will not be opened in the interest of Russia and hardly in the interest of the Eastern Christians themselves France wants Syria, Egypt, Tripoli and Tunis. Spain wants the Empire of Morocco which Great Britain will strongly resist. Greece wants Candia and all the other Greek Islands, Thessaly, Macedonia, Albania and Constantinople and is opposed by Britain, Italy and Austria but might be favored by France and Russia. Russia wants to drive the Turks out of Europe and Asia Minor and liberate the Christians and is opposed by other powers on the grounds that Russia would become too powerful. Great Britain wishes to protect her Indian population against Russia's advance from the northwest and France from the Southwest through Egypt and to the monopoly of trade of the whole Turkish Empire and all Upper or Central Asia as well as all Northern or Eastern Africa which has as rivals Greece, Spain, France, Austria, Italy and Russia. Prussia will probably exchange the Danubian principalities for the German portion of Austria; and Austria, the least dangerous power to her interests, will be allowed by Great Britain to extend eastward and absorb all the Slavonic provinces of Turkey. This will not be opposed by France and perhaps Prussia but will be opposed by Russia and Italy. Will Austria succeed and will Greece expand into a great power and absorb all the Christian populations of the East? None of the powers are prepared to broach these questions at present. Prussia is busy with her internal affairs, Great Britain with the Reform Question which is growing serious, Austria has to repair losses, Russia has not yet completed her railroads and France for the moment is without effective allies. Russia is best prepared but the whole diplomatic influence of Europe is against her moving. Brownson does not expect Russia to move immediately but when the question does come up, he expects the whole world, United States included, will take part. Henry is questioned concerning the pain in his side. Brownson is sorry that the exchange could not be effected with Rip but considers Henry as well off with M.G. as he would be with H. or De N. even though he is so far from Church. Brownson will not visit Henry before Spring because he has no decent clothes and can as yet get none. He expects a visit from Count Chabrae from France, a friend of Montalambert and anticipates learning something about the Emperor. Brownson hopes to get an engagement as American correspondent for Sir John Acton's new paper, destined to replace the late H F Revue. It is a weekly publication. Mrs. Brownson is in good health as well as Brownson's except he cannot get a shoe on either foot. Henry is told to keep up his courage and to visit home at Christmas if he can. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-h Townsend, E.D., Washington, D.C., to Orestes A. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey 1866 Dec. 5 Brownson's communication requesting a leave of absence for Major Henry F. Brownson to enable him to become secretary to Admiral J. A. Dahlgren was received; his request was refused. :: III-3-h A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Bt. Major Henry Brownson 1866 Dec. 8 The Adjutant-General has informed Brownson that the Secretary refused Henry's leave of absence. Brownson has not heard from Henry since he left home and does not know whether he is at Fort Warren or not. He is just recovering from a fit of gout. The day of writing is the anniversary of Mrs. Brownson's baptism and she is at Mass. The Brownson's are hosts to an actress, Mrs. Sally Brownson Goodrich Thayer, a cousin of Henrys, and a person who is intelligent and free from an engagement. She was from San Francisco although born in Benton, Mississippi. Brownson comments on his incorrect spelling of this state. Henry is asked to call in at home on his way to Detroit or if he is not able, then to write soon. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 Jan. 1 Brownson's letter to Henry is the first of the new year and express Brownson's pleasure at his son's presence in Detroit rather than in St. Paul. Brownson taught school at Springwells, 11 miles from Detroit in 1824. The outlying River Rough section is infected with malaria although the city of Detroit itself is pleasant and healthy. In Brownson's day there General Cass was Governor of Michigan and Judge Woodbridge was Chief Justice. Detroit's population was from eleven to twelve hundred of mostly French origin and the whole territory of Michigan had only 17,000 inhabitants. In 1824 Jefferson Ave., running from Lake St. Clair to the Fort, was laid out. Brownson's memories of Detroit are very pleasant and the First Catholic Church he saw was St. Ann's Church in this old United States Settlement. He has visited the city only twice since having left it. In his opinion the Cathedral was not remarkable. The bishop Peter Paul Lefevere was a good man but small, and one of Brownson's warmest friends was Father J. Hennessy, former pastor of the Cathedral. The Church in Detroit is chiefly Belgain in tone and spirit. Doubtless, some of the old wealthy French families remain, and whom Henry will find agreeable society. Henry is still senior captain of his corps and it is hardly possible that a captain will be appointed from the regular army with a commission older than his. Brownson feels, that with promotion taking place in the corps Henry should become a Major soon. Congress will probably raise the pay of officers or at any rate restore the fifty cent commutation. Brownson thinks Henry should be enjoying himself and he is glad that his son likes General Hecker. Henry is asked to present Brownson's regards to Major Harding. Brownson has engaged to furnish a four column editorial each week for the New York Tablet . The pay is $10 per week, an inadequate but important sum to Brownson. If he is able to fulfill his engagements with the Tablet, Ave Maria, and Catholic World, he will not charge Henry for his board when he visits him and in addition he will buy a new hat and clothes and appear once more like a gentleman. Brownson claims that his prediction with regard to Mexico is likely to be fulfilled. Maximillian is staying in spite of the liberals and aims to divert U.S. attention from the Eastern Question as well as to prevent a U.S. alliance with Russia. A general European War on the Eastern Question seems inevitable and U.S. may be drawn into it since U.S. has several questions to settle with Great Britain and France and the people sympathize with the Greeks. However, Brownson who is also on the side of Russia thinks that the people of the U.S. will fight only on their own continent. Napoleon is alarmed at the prospective growth of Russia and U.S. and seeks to combine all the old European states against them. Brownson believes that this policy comes too late. In his opinion great unitarian states are generally too strong for allied or confederate states and the U.S. will take possession of the whole continent of America. Probably the great battle for the empire of the world will ultimately be fought in Asia between U.S. and Russia. At any rate the expension of these two great powers cannot be successfully resisted and very soon their united dimplomacy will be all powerful. Brownson's health is generally good except for his feet, which hurt him. He plans having shoes specially fit. Mrs. Brownson's health and appetite have improved since the cold weather came on. P.S. Henry's mother sends her warm love, as does Brownson. He is cautioned not to visit his brother Orestes as yet, for a new comer is expected there in February. Henry is asked to write Orestes, however. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 Feb. 1 Brownson grieves at Henry's disappointment over a certain section of the Bill which was unjust and unfair, and he has written to Senators Wilson and Frelinghuysen in protest. He feels, however, that it will do no good since this ex-volunteer army is so numerous and so powerful through their vote that there is hardly a member of Congress who dares resist them. Henry is asked if he, with his fellow officers, could bring pressure to bear on Senators Chandler and Howard or consult Judge Watkins who has influence. Capt. Ward, reputed to be the wealthiest man in Detroit, should have influence. Henry is told that he cannot better serve his country than in working to keep the regular army respectable and efficient. The Bill is hostile to the necessary Esprit de Corps and ought to be resisted by Henry and his fellow officers. Brownson's hope is in the improbability of the Bill passing due to the shortness of the Session and Congress' lack of time to act upon it. There is so little statesmanship in wither House that if the members do act they will surely act wrong. Henry is asked if his case is as bad as he represents it and Brownson is interested in finding out what procedure of dealing with the officers is used. He would also like to know what would be Henry's position should the Senate fail to confirm his commission as Captain in this Session. Is he now a civilian again or would he fall back on his previous rank in the artillery Brownson believes that his commission will be confirmed if the Senate acts on it but is anxious to know the effect of non-confirmation of it and also of Henry's resignation of his commission before confirmation. Brownson offers to do what he can for his son. Brownson become so angry at Wilson's Bill that he has little heart for writing but is working hard for the Catholic World Ave Maria, and Tablet. Father Edward Sorin finds Brownson's articles praised in the National Review and is delighted. Brownson's engagement with the Tablet is for a year and his pay is determined by whether his articles are accepted or not. No engagement exists with the Catholic World and the acceptance of his articles is to be determined by Father Issac T. Hecker who is disposed to make Brownson feel that by accepting his articles he is doing him a favor. Since the English engagement would pay his only 18 pounds a year Brownson decided to leave it go. He asks Henry to take his disappointment philosophically and tells him there is always a way to live and thrive. Henry is asked to give his father's regards to Judge Wilkins, a worthy man from a good Pennsylvania family. His son, Eliot, married one of the McCarthys of Syracuse and he hopes McCarthy is elected a member of the next Congress. Mrs. Brownson's health has been good during the winter and she sends her love to Henry. Brownson can get out now that he has received his shoes and has thus far escaped any severe attack of the gout. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1867 Mar. 5 Brownson is commissioned a Captain in the Forty-third Regiment of Infantry as of July 28, 1866. Signed by President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. folio CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major. Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 Mar. 13 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 originally reported and he is somewhat vague as to the status of officers in it. Sarah Brownson sends her love to Katy Woodbridge but does not remember having received a letter from her. Kearny finally left after remaining all winter and Henry's cousins, the Goodriches, have been visiting the Brownsons a good deal. Jesse is a fine fellow but without religion. Sallie Brownson Goodrich, who is separated from her husband, is bright and Brownson likes her. Henry's mother has been much better during this winter and while her cough will always remain, Dr. Hewit does not think it is serious. It comes from wet asthma. She sends her love and feel a little hurt that Henry has not written her. Brownson will refuse this second offer to go to the South Pacific. The impeachment will fall through and the South will probably be represented in the present Congress next winter. It is time they were. Brownson is happy over the failure of the Tariff Bill and hopes that it continues to fail. The present big danger is the national bank system and it seems that Congress had very little financial talent and the administration less. The country will probably survive but it may be delivered from such fanatics as Summer and Philips who can never let well alone. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson 1867 Apr. 12 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 unfortunate that the Regular Army is, in politics, at the mercy of the late Volunteer Army. Evidently Mr. Prelinghuysen did all he could to prevent the injustice done by Schenck's Hill but it was of no use. Henry's commission is older than that of the great majority of his corps. Things look a little squally in Europe and it looks as though Austria is on the eve of dissolution. Napoleon probably will not be able to form the anticipated alliance and France may become only a second rate European power. The rate of population is every year diminishing. Prussia and Russia evidently have a good understanding and if Russia wishes to advance in the East, Prussia will offer no opposition. The Derby Ministry will, in Brownson's opinion, remain in office and carry a Reform Bill of some sort. As for the now purchased Russian America, Brownson does not believe that it is of much value although it may form a stepping stone to the acquisition of British Columbia. His article on the Church and Monarchy is being published in the Catholic World now and probably in June an article on Cousin and his philosophy will appear. Both of these articles may interest Henry. Brownson now takes the Army and Navy Journal and asks Henry whether he sees the Tablet. He intends resuming his contributions to the Ave Maria which were suspended in consequence of his poor health. Extreme radicalism has received a check and Butler has fizzled as a member of Congress. No impeachment will take place and the South will come back under the Reconstruction Bill and once back the disfrancsing clauses of the Bill fall of themselves, for when once restored, they stand on an equality with states that did not secede. New Jersey rejects negro suffrage, Wisconsin adopts suffrage and Sumner goes to Europe. Henry's mother has not been well during Lent but is better since Brownson has been venting her from fasting. She received Henry's letter and asks Brownson to thank him. She worries if a fortnight passes without hearing from him. Brownson reminds Henry that in case he accepts the offer from Appleton's to give the romances a free translation in his own English style without doing any more than to preserve the thought and spirit of the original. The English is waht interests the Appleton's. Henry is asked to write as often as he can because Brownson's life is very lonely and he cannot get out to see anyone, and when he works hard it brings out the gout. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, Fort Wayne, Michigan 1867 April 24 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 best preparation to command. The Sault Ste Marie is at present out of the world, though less so than a few years ago. The good Bishop Frederick Baraga is there, a Swiss or Alsation German and a holy man, but with the terrible smell of the Indian. Henry liked Brownson's Old Quarrel Article and the latter thought it would help clarify Henry's views. The original point is the exposition he gives of what the peripatetics meant by their phantasma and intelligible species. He had hinted at it before in his Review but had never fully developed it. Brownson believes that he has defended the Scholastic philosophy and has shown the ground of reconciliation between it and his own or Gioberti's. Gioberti is less original than Brownson once supposed and while he does not reject anything he took from him, nevertheless, Brownson does not rate him as high as he once did. At one time he mastered Brownson, but the reverse is now the case. Brownson hopes that he has smoothed out the way for Henry and insists that Henry must carry on what his father has begun. The next article by Brownson in the Catholic World is on Cousin and will appear in June. Cousin also once mastered him but again the reverse is true. Brownson claims that he never masters anyone until he has made himself a disciple of the man and allows himself to be mastered first. It is on the principle —credo ut intelligam—we understand by our sympathy with the author and by allowing ourselves to be carried away by him, and then criticize him as we would ourselves. However, an open mind and heart must prevail. This has been Brownson's method of study throughout life. The drawback in his case has been that the circumstances in his life have compelled him to write and publish while the process was going on and before he had time to complete it-thus the charge of fickleness and frequent changes of opinion. The world will never know, according to Brownson, the steadiness with which he has always adhered to his principles and the generous sympathy with which he has studied. The loving heart is the true auxiliary of the comprehensive mind- the truth Plato had in mind when he made love and intelligence the two wings of the Soul on which it soars to the Empyrean. Henry is told that he, too, will soar much higher when he finds fuller scope for the strong and generous affections which are implanted in his nature and which have never yet had fair play. Brownson is not sorry that Henry has left off whiskey and if he persevores his life will be far happier and more useful. In addition his example will have an excellent effect in the army and on Henry's position in it. If matters should not turn out for Henry as he expects it is possible that he will be all the better for it. His life has been solitary and marked by many disappointments along with much internal suffering. Henry has the real Brownson nature and while he is a strong man he needs to love and be loved. That portion of his nature which his early aspirations led him to suppress or turn into unnatural channels needs to be developed to make him a complete and rounded man. It is better to run the risk of poverty, nay, even a domestic jar, than to live as he has done. Brownson trusts Henry's judgement and would welcome with all his heart the woman Henry chooses. Sir John Acton and his associates in the Home and Foreign Review have started their new weekly journal, The Chronicle. Brownson does not think much of it and has not yet made up his mind whether he will write for it or not. He was asked to write six articles a year for 13 pounds an article but finds his writing for the Catholic World all that he can handle. Father Issac T. Hecker no longer appears to be doing Brownson a favor by accepting the latter's articles, but appears to understand that the obligation is on the other side. Sarah Brownson has been ill for some weeks but Henry's mother is better and sends her love. Brownson's garden has been planted, his health is very good and he is suffering little now from the gout. His lameness is due chiefly to the nail on his gouty toe. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sally, H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 May 12 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 pleasure over Brownson's two articles which were that very day written for the Tablet. Sarah has been quite sick for about 4 weeks with headaches and fever. The quinine seemed to break the fever and she is getting a little better each day. Sarah has had a great deal to try her in the past six months. Elizabeth has not changed such since Henry last saw it. The old hotel which stood at the corner of Broad and Water Streets, which burned last winter, is having its rubbish removed. Many buildings have been improved on Broad St. Nature has done its best for the humble Brownson home, since everything looks remarkably fresh and green, and in addition the landlord has put up a strong garden fence. A pear tree laden with blossoms, blew down a few evenings ago and Mrs. Brownson is glad of it since the tree was badly decayed. She has been thinking of her son's suffering in the past and what he will suffer in the future because of his hand. He should be consoled however, by the fact that he was doing his duty and his own individual efforts have done more to preserve law and order than he is perhaps aware of or can be in this life. His mother hopes that he can bear his many troubles patiently. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-h Kiddoo, Lieut. Col. J. B., Fort Wayne, Michigan, to Major Henry F. Brownson, Fort Wayne, Michigan 1867 May 22 Permission has been obtained to form a regimental band; he lists assessments on the officers according to rank, and describes steps taken to form the band. If the assessment cannot be paid, Brownson is to inform headquarters so that other means may be employed. :: III-3-h A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 June 9 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. Henry's article for the Ave Maria was very good and his mother was greatly pleased with it. Brownson has not been into the city since the previous November though he is less of a cripple than he was. He will be obliged to have a nail cut out which has grown into his toe. Sarah can now sit up a short time each day. Her attack was a bilious fever and she has that fool Westcot as her doctor. Henry's mother is very tired from nursing her. Henry is asked about his health and how he is getting along with his new commanders. His department and his Regiment are seldom noticed in the papers and Brownson infers that they are all peaceably disposed. The spring must have been as disagreeable for Henry as it was for Brownson in 1824. If Henry escapes the fever and ague in August and September he can count himself proof against the complaint. The River Rouge is worse than the Chickahominy, though Detroit is not so bad. Brownson wishes to know where the fort stands. Whether it is the old fort built against the Indians and later surrendered to the British or whether a new one has been built to protect the river front. Brownson has no news to write Henry. Impeachment, of course, has exploded, the President has grown prudent, Seward is garrulous but harmless, McCulloch blunders as usual and the finances are in a bad state. The real pressure of the war is just becoming apparent as well as the curse of the protective policy. The capital of the country is getting into few hands and the people at large are impoverished and controlled by the landholders and great corporations. Henry's mother sends her love and is impatient to hear from him. Henry is asked to write immediately so that his parents may know whether he is well or ill. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 June 30 Mrs. Brownson was greatly pleased with Henry's letter of May 17. She hopes he is well now and cautions him to be careful of his condition. She is also glad that he finds good company in Detroit and hopes that he will be stationed there for some time. Mr. Brownson's health is good, and he went to New York two weeks previous to attend Judge White's funeral as well as to visit Dr. Hewit about his foot. Last Tuesday, Dr. Hewit came over and took out part of the mail and as a result Brownson has not walked much since then. Brownson stayed two nights with Father Isaac Hecker and had a pleasant visit. He is working hard and still writes for the Catholic World as well as the Tablet. Mr. and Mrs. Sadlier and Mary have all visited the Brownson's and invited them to Rockaway. Sarah is much better although not fully recovered from her fever. A dressmaker has been with the Brownson's for nine or ten days and Mrs. Brownson has not had much leisure. Miss Kearney has two aunts in Elizabeth and they live in a large house and intend taking in boarders, one of them, Mrs. Jordan, is trying for a divorce from her husband, who was Chief of Beaureguares's Staff during the Rebellion. Mrs. Brownson is sorry for these two women who went to school in her town for several years. Henry is asked to try and forgive all the Rebels for we cannot be forgiven unless we forgive. She tells Henry that his father has been busy and will answer him soon. She went to Church yesterday and today for the Sisters on Washington Avenue. He has already collected 4 or 5 thousand dollars and the supposed cost of the building is 15 thousand. Sarah Hatfield, who has sold Mrs. Brownson eggs and milk since she has been in Elizabeth, died last week. Mr. Hatfield is an excellent neighbor and Henry's father likes him. very well and supposes that Hatfield will become a Catholic. Judge William Henry, Appleton's reader, calls on the Brownson's frequently and is also liked by Brownson. She has not heard from Orestes for a longer time than usual and hopes that his family are all well. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 Aug. 27 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 that Henry was angry with her when he was last home and thought she did not care about seeing him. Brownson tells Henry that if this is so then Henry does her great wrong for she loves to have him visit her. He is asked to come home in the middle of September, if possible, when the weather will be cooler, the mosquitoes less troublesome, and the grapes will be eatable. In addition, they can celebrate Brownson's birthday. Brownson does not regret Stanton's suspension, thou it will hurt the President and he feels the same was in regard to other changes made or expected. He favors the policy of the President rather than that of Congress even though a mess has been made between them. The country just has no statesmen. Brownson declares himself to be no Democrat and yet has no sympathy with the Republicans, being tired also of insane doctrines held by the Radicals. He is not sorry that he is too old and too infirm to be an to be an Active politician and he places his only hope for the country in the providence of God. Orestes Jr. has visited Henry and Brownson hopes that the visit was pleasant. Orestes is said to have great natural abilities but lacks in general information, his mind needing breadth and expansion as well. He will never be a philosopher but he is what is better than that namely, an honest man and good Christian. Brownson thanks Henry for treat Orestes so well. Orestes seems to have lost all memory of things that occurred when he was home after the death of Pauline. Brownson asks Henry to come home as soon as possible and make the hear of his family glad. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 Nov. 1 Mrs. Brownson apologizes to Henry for having forgotten to say goodbye to him at the Ferry and assures him that she is, at all times, wishing for his best good. Henry was sick and worried when she saw him last and was full of care in getting away. She thanks him very much for his kindness and in going to the Ferry with her. She likes Miss Josephine Van Dyke, Henry's fiancee, very much and is pleased to have her as a daughter-in-law. She sends her love through Henry to Miss Van Dyke as well as to her family. Henry's father has had a pleasant visit with the Paulists and is going to write two articles for their January number. She attended mass at 5:45 a.m. this morning and the stars were still out at that time. She is anxious to know how Henry's party came out. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 Nov. 24 Mrs. Brownson fears that Henry thinks her very negligent for not having written him but explains that she has been too busy. Things are going better at the Brownson home than they did and Mrs. Brownson has the best girl working for her that she has ever had. Annie Brownson arrived on November 11 and is expected to stay all or part of the winter. She has improved greatly and is now a firm and pious Catholic. Mrs. Brownson likes her much better than before. Annie wishes to be remembered to Henry. The party at Brownsons went off well and was attended by about 40 persons. Several were invited who did not come, but some have called since. Among them was a Mrs. Waterbury, who is said by some to be the most intellectual woman in Elizabeth. Mr. Brownson is very busy but promised to writes on the previous day. Henry is asked whether he saw the notice in the papers of Jimmie White's death. Henry is supposedly keeping house. His mother inquires about Miss Josephine Van Dyke and sends her love. Annie speaks with much pleasure of the cordial manner in which Henry received her at Mrs. Smith's. She is of the opinion that they wished to keep her estranged from the Brownson family. They appeared loath to have her and she was very happy when Henry arose and met her so kindly. She helped Mary and Abbie prepare for their wedding and she stayed a few days after Mr. Smith's death. Mary became very excited a short time after her father's death and told Annie that something dreadful had happened in their family and they would be obliged to go to Europe. The Dr. said that Mr. Smith had no disease. November 25- Everyone at the Brownson home expect to go to Mrs. Allen's party. Mrs. Brownson does not care to go but can hardly avoid it. She is interested in finding out how Henry is progressing in the furnishing of his house. Brownson sends his love to Henry and Miss Van Dyke and says he will write this week. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Blizabeth New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1867 Nov. 30 Brownson received Henry's letter of the 25 inst. and was glad to learn that everything was going on as usual. Not knowing what train his son would take Brownson was unable to see him off at the depot. He has since been very busy, working very hard for small pay. He has written two articles and a literary notice of a new batch of Muklbach books, two articles for the Ave Maria and a complement for the Tablet. He has seen and spoken with Father Isaac T Hecker and although there is not precise harmony in their views it seems that they can get along together without much mutual snarling or growling. Impeachment will be voted down as it should be, Congress is likely to have a fit of economy and will most likely reduce the army though probably not the number of regiments. Brownson is glad to learn for certain that there is but one captain in Henry's crops who ranks him. Henry is assured for the future. Fifine Miss Josephine Van Dyke will help him greatly in this and will be in more ways than one a blessing. Mr. and Mrs. Brownson are greatly pleased with their daughter-elect and are completely taken captive by her. Brownson considers it an honor to have such a daughter and is greateful to Henry for selecting one so worthy of him and his parents, as well as to her for accepting the alliance. Brownson sends love to her and claims that he never felt prouder than when Henry told him he could call her his daughter. Mrs. Brownson loves her as much but uses fewer words about it. Anna Brownson is visiting the Brownsons and while she is a good woman, sensible and pious, Brownson feels kindly towards her but does not love her. If Josephine sends him an invitation to the wedding it will break his heart not to accept but he will accept if his health reamains good and if he can find himself a decent suit of clothes in season. Brownson is sorry for the reason that prevents the wedding tour and would obviate it if he could. However, he believes that it is just as well and perhaps better that Henry need not continue making sacrifices just for Society. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1868 Jan. 5 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 Wednesday, but they will be present in their minds. Mrs. Brownson is happy that Henry has picked such a good person for his wife, one so very amiable and so much good sense-as the Bible expresses it, "in whom the heart of her husband can fully trust." Henry is asked to write, explaining all the particulars of the wedding as well as to give his mother's regards to Mrs. Van Dyke and Miss Whipple. A Happy New Year to Henry and Jospehine. Annie Brownson is still with the Brownson's and they like her very much. Mrs. Brownson will never cease to love and respect her until she has forgotten dear John. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Brownson, Fort Wayne, Michigan 1868 Jan. 21 Mrs. Brownson is happy to hear that they are married and well settled in their own home. It was a relief for her to receive Henry's telegraph despatch the day after his marriage and she is anxious to learn the details of the wedding. She is sorry that none of their family were present at the wedding but is happy that Orestes Brownson did not go because he has been confined to his room for several days since with the gout. It seems somewhat doubtful as to whether he will take the journey to see Henry and Fifine this winter. Accidents have been so frequent lately that one is almost afraid to have his friends travel. There has been much cold weather in Elizabeth and Mrs. Brownson is happy that her son and daughter-in-law are themselves in comfortable quarters. Mrs. Flemming called at the Brownson's to congratulate them on Henry's marriage. Mary is married and gone away, and Annie is seldom home so her family is getting very small. Mrs. Brownson hopes that he and his wife will treat each other with the utmost love and respect and so live as those that must give an account of their time and talents hereafter. This will always be her prayer. Henry is asked to give her love to Mrs. Van Dyke whom she hopes to see sometime. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth New Jersey, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Brownson, Fort, Wayne, Michigan 1868 Jan. 25 Brownson has had a difficulty with his old enemy and was thoroughly beaten. This is his excuse for not having written Henry sooner and offered his congratulations. He hopes that God may bless both Henry and his wife with the riches of His grace and that Our Lady may always be a near and loving protector. Brownson new has four daughters and believes that the youngest will be his pet. He is sorry not to have been at the wedding but could not risk so long a journey in winter especially since he had the gout. He had an attack while in Boston which detained him there some days but finally he slowly began to recover after being home for some time. Brownson explains this to Henry so the latter will not attribute Brownson's absence from the wedding to laziness or indifference. Henry and his bride should be economical whether they are rich or poor, and guard against expecting too much of each other as well as looking upon each other as perfect. Certain infirmities cling to us in this world and we must not break our hearts if we find this out. Trials and crosses will come but they must be borne with love and courage and above all with mutual confidence. It is a great comfort to Brownson to know that both of them are good Catholics who kneel at the same altar and hope for the same heaven. He asks them to take his advice, which he trusts can hardly over be needed. It is to be hoped that Fifine's eyes improve so that she may write Brownson one of her charming letters. His own eyes are not too well but he expects them to be better in a day or two. Henry is expected to remain at Fort Wayne, or at least move not further than Fort Gratiot, so that Brownson may visit him in the spring. Henry is asked how he likes his new commander. Congress will not diminish the army but it may refuse to continue the extra pay. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Fort, Wayne, Michigan 1868 Feb. 18 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 mutilating another because their views conflicted with some views on original sin published by the Age. In the first instance Brownson was in ignorance but on the second occasion he thought he had avoided the main objection and expressed his view in the words of the Council of Trent. This was not correct however, for while Father Hewit might contradict the Council of Trent, nobody in the Catholic World must contradict Father Hewit whose orthodoxy on more than one point is suspected. After firing off several letters at Father Hecker, Brownson feels better and threatens to expose it in the Tablet, if another such case occurs. However, Father Hecker and he are good friends again and Brownson would not be surprised if Father Hewit, who is a holy man, modifies at least the exression of his doctrine which can be found in Vol IV. pp. 528-530. Brownson asks forgiveness for calling Henry and Fifine his children. There are few in this world who claim relationship to him. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, U.S. Artillery 1868 Mar. 10 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 that nothing better can be hoped on Henry wrote to his mother that he was not well but has mentioned nothing of his health since. Brownson hopes that both he and Fifine are well and is very happy to be told that Fifine loves him. He is not surprised that Henry's love for her grows more each day since after five minutes conversation with her Brownson was convinced that Henry would always find her a noble woman. She has all the best qualities and virtues of Henry's mother but with more cultivation, more knowledge of the world and a childish playfulness that Mrs. Sarah H. Brownson never had. Brownson is of the opinion that his son Henry should make a better husband than his father for he has Catholic faith and love, something which his father did not have until middle life. The love and respect of the Brownson family is sent to Fifine. Mrs. Brownson will measure her love for Fifine by her power to make Henry happy, while Brownson measures her love for Henry by his power to prove himself the husband she desires as well as the husband she has. Henry's father asks to be remembered to Mrs. Van Dyke, who must be a noble woman to have such a noble daughter. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1868 Mar. 23 Proceedings of a Board of Survey concerning deficiency of clothing in Brownson's command. :: III-3-h A.D.S. 7pp. 4to. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1868 Mar. 28 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 time past. Annie Brownson expects to leave on Tuesday of Holy Week. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Fort Wayne, Michigan 1868 Apr. 7 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 well, is somewhat better. Father Isaac T. Hecker who cannot do without Brownson has made up and the latter has several articles in the May number. The Sadliers are in good humor about the Tablet and James is going to try and make the Catholics buy Brownson a house. Annie Brownson leaves today and is delighted with her winter visit. Mrs. Brownson's health is pretty good. Brownson has walked to church and things are going very well in general. He asks to be remembered to Henry's wife. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson. Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 May 21 Neuralgia, rheumatism and gout have prevented Brownson from answering Henry's letter sooner. He is unable to lie in bed or sit at a desk without great pain and is much worse than when Henry and Fifine were there. He seems to be slowly getting better though it seems that his brain is being affected since he is unable to pursue a connected train of thought. Mrs. Brownson received a letter from Henry and is enclosing Brownson's letter in her reply. Both Henry and Fifine like Atlanta and are not paying an unreasonable price for board. Brownson is anxious to have Henry become acquainted with the real Georgians. He has always liked the Southern people. Negro suffrage will amount to little since the southern states are returned. The Negroes are southerners and will very soon vote with the southern whites against the northerners. They have nothing of loyalty and are not likely to be influenced by gratitude when once their freedom is secured. Impeachment is a failure and Grant will probably be the next President. Brownson has written nothing for the Catholic World and only two articles for the Tablet since Henry last visited him. Henry is asked to write soon and often, also to give his love to Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 May 21 Mrs. Brownson was about to answer Henry's letter to his father, since Brownson thought he would not be able to write his son, when she received Henry's letter to her. She is very glad that both Henry and Fifine like the Brownsons. She does not like the people of the South. However, she hope for the time when the northern and southern states a more united than ever. Henry's father has been unwell and has written only one article for the Tablet recently. The weather has been very infavorable and Mrs. Brownson is of the opinion that his condition will improve when the weather becomes settled. Henry and Fifine have a good boarding house and Henry's mother hopes that Fifine finds good lady friends since it is difficult for her to be so far away from home. Mrs. Brownson feels that Henry is kind to her and can not imagine how Fifine should ever deserve an unkind look or word. Henry is asked to write her concerning his health and also the effect of the climate upon him. Today is Ascension Day but the rain prevented everyone but Hannah from going to church. The sun came out this afternoon however, in all its glory and is making amends for its absence. Mrs. Brownson has received a letter from Orestes Brownson Jr . and she asks Henry to write to him. He may have his faults but he also has very many good qualities and Mrs. Brownson grieves to see her children at variance. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 June 5 Brownson is answering Henry's request for one hundred dollars and asks that the latter replace the money at the time mentioned, inasmuch as illness has prevented Brownson from earning as much as before. The rheumatism has not left Brownson's neck but his head is much better and he can think as well as usual. He wrote an article on the previous day for the Ave Maria and is about to begin one for the Catholic World on the Present State of Philosophy. Brownson diverges more each day from Father Isaac Hecker's liberalism and virtual rationalism and doubts if they shall long be able to get on together. It is not unlikely that the Review will be revived, without involving Brownson in any pecuniary responsibility, by the Sadliers under his absolute control. Brownson is pleased to learn that the condition of Fifine's eyes are improving and expects that the change of climate is responsible for it. Congress is demoralized but General Grant is trying to get Henry's extra pay continued. The army will probably like the new Secretary of War, General Schofield, who is a gentleman and a soldier. Brownson thinks that it would be funny to find his cousin, Chase, the Democratic candidate for President. He himself much prefers Hancock. Mrs. Brownson and he send their love to Henry and Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.Signature cut off 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 June 28. Mrs. Brownson, through lack of time, has been unable to express her joys and thanks for Henry's letter. She speaks of his father's illness in its various stages, during which time he was attended by Dr. Grier and Dr. Hewit. The condition was diegnosed as acute rheumatism from which there was intense suffering. Brownson has taken a great deal of medicine and his diet consists mainly of beef tea. Mrs. Brownson has a bed in the office from where she can look after her husband throughout the night. Brownson began recovering on the previous Wednesday and sat up for the first time in many days. Mr. Hewit and Dr. Grier have been very kind, the former sending a colored servant to relieve Mrs. Brownson who had become much worn out. It was very distressing to Mrs. Brownson to see her husband suffer so much. He is of the opinion that since Congress has passed a law to abolish the Freedman's Bureau Henry will not be staying long in Georgia. Mrs. Brownson hopes that Fifine is better, Henry's letter did a world of good. P.S. Monday, 29. The doctors were there and said Mr. Brownson is gaining. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry P. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 July 20 Mrs. Brownson is writing this letter to Henry on behalf of her husband who is dictating it. His recovery is very slow and the rheumatism is at present causing great pain in the right wrist, however, Mrs. Brownson's tender, faithful and vigilant care is largely responsible for his feeling better. Brownson is happy to hear that Henry is well again and sees no reason why he shouldn't preserve his health with ordinary care and prudence. The nomination of Seymour and Blair will, according to Brownson bring thousands of such doubtful Republicans as Henry to the support of Grant and Colfax. General Grant has long been Brownson's choice but he never would have chosen Colfax for the Vice-Presidency even though he is a little above the ordinary run of Politicians. Brownson has never but regards it as for the true interest of the South to accept them, reorganize, and get back into the union. The success of Grant and Colfax in the coming election will secure the restoration of all the states that seceded. When these states are once restored they will stand on an equal footing with those states which did not secede and whatever is unconstitutional in the reconstruction measures will fall of itself and whatever is amiss in the several constitutions adopted can be set right by state authority. Congress will not likely pass, during its present session, any measure for reducing the army. If however any measure is passed unfavorable to Henry, he would do well to remember that Dr. Hewit has great personal influence with both General of the army and the Secretary of War, and he would be delighted to render Henry any service in his power. Brownson is glad to hear that Fifine is well and happy and he sends his warmest affections and a father's blessing. Mrs. Brownson adds a few lines of her own to the letter and joins with her husband in extending their love and best wishes. She is very happy that Brownson is recovering and considers Dr. Hewit as a real friend throughout her husband's illness. The weather has been extremely hot in Elizabeth since July 4. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 Aug. 11 On the night that Mrs. Brownson wrote a letter to Henry for her husband she was taken ill with a sickness that lasted four days. For about ten days after she was very weak but now feels much better. During this time she did not see Brownson at all and Sarah took good care of her. Brownson is gaining slowly and has-been out for a ride twice in a carriage which was brought to his door in order that he might be placed in it. He has very little pain anymore but his knees and ankles swell when he attempts to walk. Brownson is not writing for the Catholic World, first, because he does not feel well, and secondly, because he does not feel just right toward it. Mrs. Brownson has written six or seven articles to the Tablet through her husband's dictation. Rheumatism in his hand has prevented him from writing but he is of the opinion that he will be able to write in the following week. Brownson's spirits and appetite fell about a week previous, due to his extreme discouragement, but after going out twice he feels much better. Dr. Hewit now comes once a week. Mrs. Brownson is very glad to hear that Henry health is much better and that Josephine is feeling fine. When Josephine's brother was in New York the Brownson's expected a visit from him but he did not come. Henry sent his father a letter containing a check. Mrs. Brownson is anxious to know how Henry and Fifine are reacting to the South and is of the opinion that it will take a long time to settle matters there. She would like to have Henry continue with his exercises for his own good health, having seen his father suffer much from inactivity during the past summer. Orestes has written his mother to the effect that he now weighs 199 pounds and has just returned from Missouri. An enclosed envelope is to be given to Fifine and Henry is to tell her that Sarah had more than she wanted. Sarah sent a little present to Fifine and she is to wear it under her breastpin. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Mrs. Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry, F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 Sept. 6 Mrs. Brownson has been informed by Henry that his mother-in-law, Mrs. Van Dyke, has passed away Because of the vindicxtive spirit of the Southerners, Henry's mother hopes that he and Fifine will leave the South by Christmas. Brownson is too sick to express anxiety over others and is now unable to walk a step. For the past few days he has suffered greatly and his appetite has become very poor. Dr. Hewit is the only one left to attend him since Dr. Grier has given up his practice. Brownson being his last patient. On the advice of Dr. Hewit, Mrs. Brownson has been giving her husband some Gettysburg water, which is said to have effected many cures. She is very discouraged with the effects of strichnine, laudanum, quinine, etc. and fears that if this particular water does not help, then nothing will. Brownson asks his wife to tell Henry that his recent relapse was almost as bad as his first. Henry was sent the paper with Wilson's speech since his father wanted him to see it. Mrs. Brownson sends her love to Henry and Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 Sept. 10 Mrs. Brownson is writing to Henry in order to relieve his anxiety about his father. The Dr. found Brownson not so well on the previous evening but hopes to get him on his feet again. He was decidedly opposed to the castor oil, laudanum and spirits of turpentine which Brownson has hurt himself by taking, and has changed the medicines. Dr. Grier came to see Brownson on the previous afternoon after not having stopped by for two or three weeks. He lost his wife last summer and has not been worth much since, according to Mr. Brownson who intends dismissing him entirely. Dr. Brown, who also lost his wife, stopped in last week. As a result of a more sensible care of himself Brownson has slept comfortably for the past few nights and Mrs. Brownson is much more encouraged. The rheumatic pains are less acute, and at times he feels wonderfully restless which aggravates the rheumatism and vice versa. P.S. His father received his letter and paper. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Sally H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 Oct. 18 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 to Henry, that his relapse care about as the result of an overuse of his ankles. He also wishes Henry to know that he considers Grant's election sure and unites with Mrs. Brownson in sending their love to Pifine and Henry. He expects from Pifine a glowing account of her housekeeping on their next meeting. The weather has become quite cold in Elizabeth and the Brownson's keep 3 or 4 fires burning at all times. Brownson is writing only for the Tablet and there have been several weeks when he could not write even that. He is desirous of having Henry verify or deny the reports in Northern papers concerning the murders of Union men in the South. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 Nov. 13 Brownson, thanks Henry for his letter and is very happy about the fine condition of his health. Fifine was given a full account of Brownson's illness and although he is still improving, nevertheless, his knee and ankle joints are still weak. Grant and Colfax got through although the Democrats made large gains in the House of Representatives. This is a good condition inasmuch it will hold the extreme radicals in check and at the same time not impede legislation but restrain Congressional extravagance. Grant will make a good President but will probably be unable to check the evils in Southern Society. Many in the South kill a negro as they do a dog and Brownson is of the opinion that Grant can do little. Brownson's sickness has worn out his wife and this has been the reason why she hesitated having visitors but since her husband is well once again Henry and Fifine are urged to pay them a visit and to stay as long as they wish. They are told to shape their travel so as not to inconvenience Fifine and Brownson's anxiety is so great that he cannot avoid calling Henry's attention to the necessity of proper timing in connection with the journey. Brownson meant to tell Fifine in his letter to her that it was very hard of the Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere to place her brother Barnest Van Dyke, a delicate priest, on so laborious a mission. It may be a gain to a good priest to die, but it is not quite right for his Bishop to hasten his death by being indifferent to health. A Bishop should be a tender and considerate father to his clergy, but the majority of those Brownson has known have contented themselves with being their lords or masters. Brownson thinks it would be well if our bishops could forget that bishops were once secular princes and temporal lords. The Revolution in Spain breaks up the last wreck of the medieval system and the Church is now thrown back on her own resources as a spiritual kingdom placed in the midst of a hostile world. She has to convert the nations a new to the faith and the proper models for her pastors are those who lived and labored before she had gained a political status. The fewer reminiscences they retain of a secular principality and the more deeply they are impressed with the fact that they are fathers not lords, the more successful will be their missions. Brownson is growing less tolerant of European liberalism each day; he has lost his hostility to the Jesuits and has become quite reconciled to monasticism. The Jesuits and religious are the first that liberals attack on coming to power and this tells Brownson the whole story. Father Isaac Hecker and Brownson have quarrelled but the former has asked Brownson to write again for the Catholic World which he will do if his health permits. Brownson will write two articles for him soon to meet the expenses of his sickness but is afraid that he can never labor again as before. Most unwillingly comes his admission of growing old. Henry is urged to visit him as soon as possible and he is asked to give Brownson's tender regards to his daughter in return for her love. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Atlanta, Georgia 1868 Nov. 21 Mrs. Brownson has received Henry's letter and she is very anxious to have him and Fifine visit her an Brownson on their way to Detroit. She has requested Brownson to urge the visit in his letter to them and she expects to see them on or before Christmas. Henry's father is continuing to gain and is now eating much better. Langdon Healy from Brooklyn, visited the Brownson recently, and they found him very pleasant. Mrs. Brownson's health has improved considerably since her husband's recovery. She sends her best love to Fifine and Henry. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry 1869-1876 Law Register of cases in which he participated from August I, 1869 to November 23, 1876. :: III-3-h misc. Bound Volume 4to. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth New Jersey, to Mr. Henry F. and Mrs. J. V. Brownson 1869 Feb. 1 Brownson was very happy to hear of the safe arrival of Henry and Fifine and that they are enjoying themselves. Henry's mother is quite well and is much better for his visit, although Sarah is not very well. Brownson enjoys better health now than he has had for years. He is growing temperate, having drunk only a decanter and a half of whiskey since Henry's departure which is pretty good for Brownson. Father Isaac Hecker received a very cordial and encouraging letter from the Holy Father and was in fine spirits as a result. He had a book which he wanted, if found suitable, to be sent to Henry for his translation. Hecker wants Brownson to write for the magazine again and proposes to pay him, after April 1, an additional dollar per page. He is to conform to Father Hecker's ideas. This excellent man is utterly unconscious of the despotism he would exercise. Brownson is sorry that his prudence is so excessive and claims that he shall write as he pleases or not at all. The Tablet has not the mission of converting the country and Brownson wishes that Father Hecker would be contented to do the duty that is next to him and think less of great things. Great things are seldom done, "with malice aforethought." Wilson's Bill which has passed the Senate is unacceptable to Brownson because a commission in the army is or should be a life estate unless forfeited by misconduct and dismissed from the service by the sentence of court martial. This legislation on a man's property is simple robbery but Brownson sees nothing in it which will directly affect his son. Henry is asked to write soon and mention where he is situated. Mrs. Brownson joins with Brownson in sending her love. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1869 Feb. 19 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 to Brownson asking for any of Edward's letters which gave an account of the battle of Gettysburg, as well as his photograph. Sarah Brownson made some extracts from his letters and carried them to him. She had a dozen photographs taken from the best one she had and gave Mrs. Brownson six, one of which she is enclosing in this letter to Henry. She thinks it is a good likeness and wants to know whether Henry is of the same opinion. The weather has been very mild in Elizabeth up until today. One evening, a young man named Charles Hargous called in at the Brownson home. He claimed that he was the brother of Jack Hargous and that he had been in college with Edward. In coming from Washington he had fallen asleep and was robbed of 40 dollars and his ticket. He was now in the hopes that Brownson would lend him money to get home, promising to return it as soon as he arrived. Three or four dollars was what he had wanted and was very disappointed when Mrs. Brownson could lend him only one. It has since been learned that his name is Byrne and that he was in a low class when Edward was in college. It seems that he has tried to swindle others. Miss Howell died at the Sisters in New York about ten days ago, her funeral being last Saturday. Henry left his book of church music at the Brownson home and his mother will take care of it for him. His father and mother send their warmest love to him and Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, Fort Wayne, Michigan 1869 Mar. 9 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 taking command of the army indicates that the Secretary of War has far less to do with the army than before. The Army Bill limits the Brigadiers to eight, stops promotions and new appointments in the army staff and new appointments in the several branches of the service with the exception of the West Point graduates. It authorizes the President to consolidate the several regiments of infantry until reduced to 25 regiments, however this is not compulsory. Promotions in the line are evidently to be continued as usual, although Brownson does not know the precise shape in which the Bill actually passed. He hopes it will not affect Henry even though as a matter of prudence he should try living on his pay as a captain. Grant has done well in giving the go-by to the politicians, yet his first appointments are blunders. General Cox and Judge Hoar are excellent appointments but the others cannot be commended. A.J. Stewart is out and so far so good. An old man of 70 who pays 8 or ten millions in duty to the government each year is not a fit man to be the Secretary of the Treasury, however honest he may be. However, he is better than George H. Stewart, the man to whom it was first offered, a miserable fanatic and leader of most of the anti-Catholic movements in the country. Brownson thinks little of Grant's ability to judge character and he attributes the appointment of Boue to Grant's nepotism. Boutwell, who has the merit of never having been a Whig, is believed the next Secretary of the Treasury. Brownson would choose Cisco, formerly Assistant-Treasurer of New York, Grant will have greater opposition than he fought during the War and it is doubtful whether he will win. If he succumbs to the politicians there is no hope and if he does not, the Executive becomes Supreme and Congress will have nothing to do but register his edicts. Henry it to tell Fifine that Brownson has the book Gems of Devotion and he is to tell her to give Brownson's most respectful regards to her mother. Brownson asks to be remembered also to Ernest and extends his sympathy to Fifine's other brother Philip. Henry's mother is feeling quite well after having had a slight cold and Brownson, with the exception of sore feet, feels well. Mrs. Brownson joins her husband in sending Henry and Fifine their best.love. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, Fort Wayne, Michigan 1869 Mar. 24 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 in some detached service if he so desires. Henry is told to keep up his courage and feel that there is no cause for despair especially since he has so truehearted a wife and one he loves and who loves him in return. There are more ways than one of living even should Fifine have a half-dozen children and the army fail him altogether. He urges Henry to keep his heart whole, and secure as many friends and as much popularity as he honestly can. Fifine can help much in keeping the black look from his face and the sourness from his temper and aid in his cheerfulness, courageousness, and confidence of success. What may seem against him may turn out to be for him. Brownson reassures his son of his love and readiness to assist him to the fullest extent of his power. He sends his love to Fifine and begs Henry not to distrust her courage if calamity comes. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major. Henry F. Brownson, U.S.A. 1869 April 3 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 sending him The Times in which he will find a well-written plea for the Regular Army. Henry's father supposes his son to be much better off than if he had been one of the six hundred and four. Brownson would like to know who can be instrumental in helping Henry return to the Artillery if he wishes and asks his son if General Sherman's influence would be of any help. The New Administration has made a poor beginning and now stands at a heavy discount. The President has turned out to be a poor judge of men and has already succumbed to the politicians. He has blundered as much as he did in the campaign of 1864 when he sacrificed the greater part of the noble army of the Potomac. General Sherman's sympathies are civilian not military, and he hopes to succeed Grant as President but would most likely be a poor general for the army in time of peace. He and Grant could have saved the army in spite of Butler, Schenck and Garfield, for had they cared for the interests of the army the friends of the army in Congress would not have remained silent. The only consolation Brownson finds is in the severe castigation which Senator Sprague has given both Houses of Congress and the Government. Fifine must remain quiet and not worry, but rather pray that she will have an easy time and that there will be safe delivery for both mother and child. Brownson is troubled as he was a year ago but not quite so badly. Mrs. Brownson is feeling well and she sends her love to Henry and Fifine along with her husband. P.S. 1869, April 4. Brownson has no errand boy and so his letter will not get to the post-office until the next day. Father Isaac Hecker has raised Brownson's wages to 4 dollars per page but he is cut down to fewer pages so that he gets less money for more work since it is more work to write an article of 10 than of 16 pages. Brownson wishes to know whether Father Hecker accepted Henry's Gorini. Hecker has got so many old women working for him that a gentleman stands little chance with him. He promised Brownson to insert two articles of his, but Brownson has not yet received proof of the second. Chandler, Berian and Wm. Seton visited Brownson on the previous Saturday and both asked him to pay their respects to Henry, Berian especially. Brown has another contract and has gone to Texas. F.A. Spencer, the Paulist, is now a priest and said his first mass on Easter Sunday. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Frank Henry Francis Brownson 1869 April 8 Brownson informs his son that it is hard to say which course to follow. He believes that Congress will master out all those who are waiting orders at home. If Frank is in such a spot, he is liable to be called anytime. If mustered out of service, he is likely to receive $40.00 per month pension. Brownson wishes his son were out of the service and believes Detroit is his best location. He should go in partners with his brother-in-law or with someone who is already established in business, at least, for a while, all Frank needs is a start. It is Brownson's belief that Frank's regiment will not be ordered away because a war with England is not impossible because England must fight now or never. If there is anything which Brownson can do for Frank, let him know. Brownson could disclaim loudly against the injustice of Congress under the advice of Grant, Sherman and others but he can see no point in doing it. Our government is the most corrupt because it is controlled by bondholders, hence the army no longer affords an independent position and matters are likely to be worse before they are better so Brownson advises Frank to get independent of the government as soon as possible. If Frank goes into law he must stoop merely to make as many friends as he can which Brownson 45 years later resolved not to do. Brownson will not promise anything unless things come to the worst and then he will see what can be done. Don't be afraid that he cannot furnish his wife with a fine house as planned or if his pride will worry him. "She is like a sunlight to you in your darkest hours". Frank should get back to law as soon as he can because his genius is for the law. Brownson wants Frank to stick to Detroit unless he is absolutely obliged to leave. Brownson wil answer Frank's letter first and then Frank's wife next. I was threatened yesterday with the return of my old enemy but today he seems to have made up his mind to depart. I am taking the Arabian Mineral Spring Water. P.S. Father Gerard, a German Benedectine, heard Brownson's confession and gave him Holy Communion. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1869 May 10 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 Henry's present prospects. Six years ago Henry was in Libby prison where he suffered much throughout the Summer. Mrs. Brownson is in hopes that he will not be ordered away again during the present Summer. She has been very busy throughout the spring and has replaced Hannah with another girl who seems to be very good. Brownson's health continues as good as it has been and he is now taking Ballston Water. He plans on going to Ballston in the summer and visit his sister Daphne who is expecting him. Union County has established a Historical Society and Brownson has joined it although he refused the position of President. Five Catholics belong to it and includes Auguste Thabeau who lives in the County. Alice Frith's husband lives not far from Newark, where they attend Church. Mrs. Flemming visited the Brownson's in the previous week and asked to be remembered to Henry and Fifine. Mrs. Brownson sends her love to Fifine and wishes to know whether she received the work-basket sent her by Annie. Henry's mother is always happy to hear from him and hopes that he writes as often as it is convenient. Brownson said the Retiring Board had been dissolved and is of the opinion that they do many foolish things in Washington. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1869 May 18 Brownson congratulates Henry and Fifine on the birth of a son and on his baptism. He hopes and prays that Fifine is well. If Henry is ordered away or is already away on Indian or any other service, he is to let his father know immediately that he may try to have the order stayed or countermanded. Mrs. Eleonor Sherman is Brownson's very dear friend. The operation that Brownson underwent on his toe nail brought about a return of his old enemy but not in very great rage. Mrs. Brownson is suffering from a severe cold but has managed to go to Mass. He sends his regards to Mrs. Van Dyke and to his brother-in-law Philip. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1869 May 20 Henry's mother is very much rejoiced to hear of the safe arrival of her little grandchild and that he has been made a Christian. She hopes that he will be a second Samuel and know the Lord from his youth forward. It was consoling to learn that Fifine was better since Mrs. Brownson was anxious about her. She hopes that Fifine has a good nurse, one that will not allow her to see much company since she cannot be too careful of her self. Henry is to kiss Fifine and the baby for Mrs. Brownson and also to give them her best love. Sarah Brownson has been very busy or she would have made something for the baby, however she sends her love and congratulations. Mrs. Brownson is sending $5.00 to buy something for the baby even it is only a spoon. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, U.S.A., Salem, Roanoke County, Va. 1869 June 10 Brownson does not wonder why Henry has the blues but assures him that after all the blues do not help one. He confides that at Henry's age he had them horribly but the best remedy he found to be in reflecting upon the impossibility of knowing which events are for or against one until the final accounts are made up. He urges Henry to learn to rely in Providence who manages all things well. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. Brownson would write to General Sherman but he is afraid to tell him what the real trouble is. However, if the prospect remains as is now appears, he will go himself to Washington to see what he can do. Brownson claims that he has been very ill or lazy since Henry's visit and he has even neglected writing Fifine. His brain was topsy-turvy and the gout in his elbow annoyed him but his head is becoming clearer. Mrs. Brownson is better than at the time of Henry's visit but Sarah has had an attack of acute rheumatism. So, if one has not one kind of trouble then one is quite sure of having another. Henry is asked to acknowledge this letter immediately and tell him how the land lies. Thereupon he will see what can be done. He sends his love to Fifine and little Vandyke Brownson. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1869 June 13 Both of Henry's parents have received a letter from him recently and Orestes A. Brownson has already answered. They are glad that Fifine is recovering her strength and tell Henry not to be uneasy since her mother and sister will look after her. Mrs. Brownson is sorry that Henry has to stay in such a lonely place but is conforted by the thought of only a short stay there. Henry's father had a severe attack of rheumatism during the previous week which was concentrated in the elbow of his left arm. It has been very painful for 4 days but is getting better now. Brownson has given up the idea of going to Detroit as well as to Ballston, where his sister expects him to be benefited by the mineral water. Mrs. Brownson will be disappointed in not seeing Henry on his return journey but since the trip is long and the expenses are heavy she will understand. The weather has been cool in Elizabeth recently and fires have been necessary. There have been plenty of nice strawberries during the past week. She has about twenty Reviews together and she presumes the bridle went safely. Dr. Henry S. Hewit visited Brownson on the previous Friday, commented on how well Brownson here the pain of the nail extraction and claimed his general health to be good. Dr. Hewit's money matters go hard wirh him. He explained to Mrs. Brownson how severely parents can injure their children by beating them with a stick. She was unaware of this, according to her, or else she never would have published her children as much and she begs Henry never to strike a child on the head, nor severely anywhere. If it was only less difficult to undo a wrong Mrs. Brownson would certainly do so. She presumes that Henry will stay about three weeks longer in Virginia and asks him to write once a week if it is only a few lines. Sallie Goodrich was married to a man named. H. Edwin Tremain on June 1 by stephen Tynge. Her best love is sent to Henry and Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1869 June 27 Mrs. Brownson is much obliged to Henry for his recent letter and is glad to know that he is continuing well in the warm weather. She is sorry to hear that Fifine has not been well and is afraid that perhaps having too much company and excitement in her weak state is responsible. She inquires as to the baby's condition. The position of an army officer at present is indeed unpleasant but time may bring something more favourable and at least one is certain of pay while in the army. It would be better if Henry could get retired as he wishes and his mother hopes that he will not be sent anywhere this summer. A lame arm has prevented Orestes A. Brownson from writing Henry and in addition he had a great amount of work to do. Mr. James Sadlier is sick and Mrs. Sadlier wants Brownson to write all he can for The Tablet since she cannot write much now. Father Isaac T. Hecker wants an article on the recent law of the Legislature in favour of Catholic Schools. Dr. Hewit is of the opinion that Brownson's health has not been better in five years. At South Orange last week the Bishop James R. Boyley told Brownson that he looked as well and as young as he did 15 years ago. Mrs. Brownson hopes that the election will pass off quietly in Virginia although things are not so peaceable in Richmond. This is the anniversary of the battle of Games Mills—those were indeed dreadful times. The Elizabeth district is now having its hot weather. Love to Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1869 July 4 Mrs. Brownson is much distressed to hear of Fifine's poor condition and can well understand how hard it must be for Henry to be so far away and obliged to stay several days longer. In all probability, however, her mother sees that she has every attention. Orestes A. Brownson went to New York and has not returned yet. The Times announced him as having been at Fordham on Wednesday, and probably he is now enjoying himself somewhere. The Bishop had confirmation this morning and it was very warm in Church. Mrs. Brownson is sorry not to be able to see Henry on his return but since Fifine is so unwell she is aware of the fact that her son would not enjoy himself very much. She hopes, however, to see him before too long. It would please her if Henry could make a living by law inasmuch as he would be free from the army. As Bishop James R. Bayley said that very morning a cross will get into every house and the great thing was how we bore it. Mrs. Brownson hopes to hear from Henry soon to the efect that Fifine is better. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes Augustus, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Josephine Van Dyke Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1869 Jul. 9 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 blessings for the fine grandson she has given him and she must bring him up to surpass his grandfather. He must be reared to be the head of the Brownson family. If Brownson's health continues to be good, he will visit them in September, perhaps in the last of August. He can wear his shoes, has a new hat and suit. He has made a long visit to the Paulists, has attended two commencements and he believes Sarah Maria Brownson? is going to take him to Newark on Monday to a party in honor of a Benedictine monk. A year ago, the doctor thought Brownson was about to start on a long journey, never to return but he has nearly recovered. Josephine must recover; his son is not safe without her nor he without his son. Brownson wants very much to see his grandson, young Philip James Van Dyke Brownson in whose veins flow noble streams from three different races, English, French, and Dutch with perhaps a few drops of Irish. Brownson sends his regards to Josephine's mother, her brothers and sisters whom he loves for her sake, though he has never seen them. She is assured of his deep fatherly love; her mommy Sarah Healy Brownson? sends her quiet but deep love. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 4to. Gift of Mrs. Alexis Coquillard and Nancy Van Dyke Schumaker CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, U.S.A., Detroit, Michigan 1869 Aug. 1 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 asked his father. Brownson regrets being forced to disappoint both Henry and his brother-in-law. However, Henry has the first volume and of the other volumes not much more than half could be found, though what has become of them is not known. Brownson has walked to Church once, attended commencement at Seton Hall, and St. John's Fordham. He is good friends again with the Jesuits and although, their colleges are not perfect they are the best we have or hope to have. Father Isaac Hecker goes to the Council as procurator for Bishop Sylvester H. Rosecranz . He is growing less radical and will no doubt return from Rome as Conservative as Brownson. A nailless too prevents Brownson from walking further than around the yard, but with this exception his health is good, and he is slowly gaining strength. He asks if Henry receives the Catholic World. James Sadlier is very ill at some watering place, is losing his mind and is expected to die. He has virtually withdrawn from the firm, which places Brownson in a predicament, since neither he nor Denis Sadlier can get along. Brownson hopes to go into town Tuesday in order to see about it and is afraid that he can not be in Detroit before September. He hopes to celebrate his birthday with Henry and Fifine. The Sadliers have not fully paid him since last January and as a result he is almost moneyless. He would be pleased to lecture if he could. Brownson can do nothing for Henry until Mrs. Sherman and Mrs. Dahlgren get back to Washington permanently, for they are the only strings in his bow. The War Department will probably not bother Henry till Congress meets and it looks as though he will have to rely on his law business after that inasmuch as the next session of Congress will most likely discharge all officers now at home awaiting orders. Brownson has not seen Henry's name among those ordered to Mississippi and Texas. He sends his love to Fifine and asks her to kiss the young master for him. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1869 Aug. 15 Mrs. Brownson asks forgiveness for not having answered his letter until now and also for all of her delinquencies and shortcomings. She hopes Fifine is still improving and has more than regained her usual strength. Seeing the baby would please very much and it is to be hoped that he gets through the warm weather, which is so trying to small children. Henry, she supposes, feels anxious to know how things will turn out but he should trust that everything will be for the best even if not in harmony with our wishes. Orestes Brownson's health is good and he is busy preparing his book for the press, which the Sadliers will publish. James Sadlier has been and still is sick. Dr. Brown, who stayed overnight with the Brownsons recently, is going very soon with Mr. Eerrum to Europe and will be gone sometime. Dr. Hewit comes out about once in two weeks on business for himself. Brownson expects to sit for a picture the next day. A young artist from Germany, who is staying with the Benedictines in Newark, wants to paint Brownson's picture in the hope that it will help him in his profession. Annie Brownson wishes that it be raffled at one dollar a chance at the Fair for the orphans in Boston. Sarah will take about a dozen chances to see if she can dispose of them, and she would be pleased to have Henry take some. In this way there is a better chance for one of the family to win it. Sarah Brownson has gone out of the yard today for the first time in five or six weeks because of illness. Orestes Brownson Jr. salary has been increased to $1500 per annum and gets along well except with the Bishop John Hennessy, who will not allow Orestes' children the Sacraments nor catechism as long as they attend a public school. Orestes teaches in a public school and ten out of twelve teachers under him are Catholics. John is in Orestes' highest class. Orestes says it almost shakes his faith. Mrs. Brownson would be very glad if Henry would write to him. She sends her love to Fifine and hopes the latter will be able to write soon. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1869 Aug. 24 Henry's letter was duly received. He has felt bad about his school difficulties. Before beginning to teach in First Ward Public School he asked Bishop John Hennessy's permission; the bishop told him to go and teach. But since he has been teaching, the bishop prevents his children and all children that attend his school from receiving Sacraments and from attending cathechism classes. The bishop preaches against him, not by name, but by insinuation. Orestes is to open discussion on the public schools before the County Teachers' Association. He would be pleased to have Brownson correct his address. They are expecting their seventh child this week; his children have always been healthy. He hopes Henry will visit them; he hears that Henry is retired from the army and practising law. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 4to. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major Henry F. Brownson, U.S.A. 1869 Sep. 6 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. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1869 Sept. 26 Mrs. Brownson has been neglectful in answering Henry's letter but she has been very busy. An artist, Mr. Pinkelin was taking Brownson's picture for the orphans in Boston. It will be raffled there at the Fair in the hope that it will help the Fair as well as the artist. Brownson wanted a picture to be kept in the family so a copy was taken. The last one will be on exhibition in New York. The artist has recently come for Munich and is painting pictures much more cheaply now than he will when once established. Brownson paid him $50 for the second picture and the one of Mrs. Brownson will cost the same. She has sat for a week already and the painting is not finished yet. G.P.A. Healy's picture is a very exact likeness but it is not his best expression, for a hundred years hence it would not do him justice. Mrs. Brownson feels that if her grandchildren would like to see her picture as much as she would want them to, then it was worth all the time spent in sitting. James Sadlier died on the 21inst. and the news was telegraphed to Brownson the next day, whereupon he went to New York for the funeral. Mr. Sadlier had sold the Tablet to his brother Denis, some weeks prior to his death and Brownson was requested to prepare an obituary notice. Getting along with only Denis Sadlier is going to be difficult for Brownson who means to have more than ten dollars a week after this year. Mrs. Brownson expects him home on the next day and presumes he is at Rockaway just now. Mrs. James Sadlier had visited the Brownsons about four weeks ago with some friends and her second son. Frank, her oldest son, has been in the Insane Asylum for a long time. Mrs. Brownson thanks Henry for writing to Orestes and claims that the letter did his brother a great deal of good since he has got into a very trying position. The Church is right in forbidding Catholic children from attending public schools. Orestes Brownson Jr. no doubt teaches a good school and nearly all the teachers and children under him are Catholics. Sometimes by eating with Publicans and Sinners one is converted. Henry's father received a letter from him just about the time he was going to get Fifine in Detroit. The Brownsons are very anxious to know how Fifine and the baby stood the journey. Mrs. Brownson tells Henry to have the baby sleep in a crib beside his bad because she has just read of child smothering in bed in New York. Love and best wishes are sent to Henry and Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1869 Oct. 16 The Supreme Court of the State of Michigan has admitted Brownson as an Attorney, Solicitor, and Counselor in all the courts of the state. Signed by Thomas M. Cooley, Chief Justice, Oct. 16, 1869. :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Illinois 1869 Oct. 21 Mrs. Brownson is not surprised that Henry is uneasy about his parents if he has not heard from them since he has been in Chicago. Both his mother and father have written to him, however, since he arrived there, and have also received mail from him. All are well at the Brownson home and Henry's father has gone to New York. He went to see Mr. Sadlier about publishing a book and expects to return on Monday. He means to have Dennis Sadlier pay him more for his articles in The Tablet. Orestes A. Brownson thought well of Henry's partnership with Mr. Bellows but he must look well into it. Chicago is better for business, but Detroit has the better society and he wishes to have Henry near Fifine's friends. His right hand has been somewhat swollen of late but he promises to write Henry when it is better. Mrs. Brownson sends her love to Fifine and hopes that both she and the baby are well. Mrs. Brownson is glad of his visit to Aunt Betsy's and wishes to know how he liked her and Mr. Alexander. Orestes Brownson Jr. wrote his parents informing them that they are all pretty well. Ellen Louisa is just 4 months younger than Philip James. Orestes still continues to have trouble respecting Catholic schools and Brownson has written him two long letters on the subject. Mrs. Brownson asks Henry to write to him and to pray that he may live and die an obedient child of the Church. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Illinois 1869 Nov. 16 A sore wrist prevented Brownson from writing sooner to his son. He hopes that Fifine, Henry and the baby are getting on well but since he has not heard from Fifine in same time he is afraid that his letter to her, when Henry was in Virginia, was not taken in good part. Chicago is a better place than Detroit to practise law but is by no means a better place to live, especially for a Catholic. Society, especially the Catholic society, is far less refined but if Fifine can bear it Henry should be able. Chicago copies New York and rivals it in vice and immorality. Brownson was last in Chicago in 1863 and remembers meeting a brother of Bishop William H. Elder . He had already known the Bishop's father and one brother in Baltimore, another brother in New Orleans, a fourth in Bayou Tech? and a fifth brother in St. Louis. They were all good friends of Brownson and he asks Henry to remember him to them. Brownson asks to be remembered to James Y. Scammon, a Swedenborgian and formerly a lawyer, as well as to his brother Dr. Scammon. In case Mr. Arnold, Congressman from Henry's district is at home and Henry meets him, he is to pay the compliments of his father who knew Arnold in 1862, 1863, 1864 in Washington. Henry is also to become acquainted with Fathers Rolles, Mullin, Butler, and Thierry of Ottawa, who was a real friend to Brownson when his friends were few. There are many more of the clergy he knows and esteems but he cannot recall their names or places of residence. Of Catholics, Brownson can hardly name any. If Healy, the artist, is in Chicago Henry should see him. A Miss Starr from Boston, is worth knowing. Mrs. Braxton entertained Brownson and Norris on one of his visits to Chicago, and he is very anxious to find out if this old woman is still alive. At the time Brownson visited Chicago she owned Briggs House and was a great friend of Bishop Anthony O'Regan. If alive she can give Henry a history of every body in Chicago. A cousin of Brownson, Lucius B. Delano, lives in Ottawa and while once a rich man is now a well-to-do mechanic. His daughter Cornelia visited the Brownsons once in Elizabeth. Ibray and Caulfield are the only two Catholic lawyers that Brownson knows in Chicago and both are successful. If Henry expects to go into the law business in Chicago he must make as many acquaintances as possible and not mind if some of them are in humble life. Also get acquainted with the Catholic laity through the clergy and not be too stiff with them. Henry should also get acquainted with the Germans, who form an important element in Chicago and may be worth something to him since he has lived in Germany and knows German. Father Thomas C. Foley of Baltimore is, Brownson understands, to be consecrated Bishop in partibus and to be the administrator of the Chicago diocese. Brownson knows him pretty well, but is no favorite of his. He is rather an able man, good-looking and very amiable. Henry will find him very Baltimorist and intensely Southern. Foley was higly esteemed by the late Archbishop Francis P. Kenrick, and is esteemed perhaps still more highly by Archbishop Martin John Spalding. Very Rev. Dr. Francis J. Pabisch is most likely to be Bishop of Detroit. He is a German, and a man of ability and rare learning. He belongs at present to Cincinnati, and is no doubt recommended by Archbishop John B. Purcell. Henry presumably knows the Jesuits in Chicago. If Father Michael J. Corbett is there, Henry is to remember Brownson to him. Father Arnold Damen Dahmen and C. T. Smarius were once friends of Brownson, but he supposes they have excommunicated him. Father Isaac T. Hecker has gone to the Council as procurator for Bishop Sylvester H. Rosecrans, and Father Augustine T. Hewit edits the Catholic World during his absence. Mrs. James Sadlier is likely to continue in the firm. Denis talks very amiably, and is, dating from last July, paying Brownson fifteen dollars a week instead of only $10, Brownson means Sadlier shall pay him twenty dollars next January. Brownson's book is passing through the press. The title is "Conversations on Liberalism and the Church". The Sadliers publish it. It will be out he hopes in season for the holidays. He inquires whether Henry can get it announced in the Western Catholic. If Henry does not get the Tablet, Brownson will send it to him. Mrs. Denis Sadlier and her daughter remember Henry's and Hill's visit. Denis has a very fine place in Wilton ? just beyond Harlem. Pere Hyacinth, or rather Charles Loyson, has made a fool of himself and there is little hope of his return to his obedience. He says he is a Catholic, but holds that he and Protestants all belong to the same brotherhood of faith. Brownson is afraid there is a woman in the affair. At any rate, Brownson regards him as lost. Father Hecker, his former friend, has him frightened and has become conservative, almost, if not quite, a papist. Brownson desires to know what he can do to get Henry retired. Brownson cannot go to Washington gefore his book is through the press, but asks if he should write. Orestes Brownson Jr. has become a dramatic author. Brownson is afraid his mind is disordered. He asks Henry to be as easy with him as he can. Sarah Brownson's health and temper are much improved. Henry's mother is as well as usual and sends her love to him, Fifine and the baby whom Brownson shall call Vandyke. His own health is pretty good, only he is weak in the ankles and knees. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 7 pp. 12 mo. 10 CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Major H. F. Brownson, U.S.A., Chicago, Illinois 1869 Nov. 19 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 William. The Bellows family was large and was one of the most aristocratic families of New Hampshire. Colonel Bellows, after whom Bellows Falls, Vermont was named, was the great grandfather of George and he owned the greater part of Walpole. Jack Bellows, his father, made and lost a fine property in Boston. His oldest son John was a sad fellow, who stole considerably from his family, drank hard and was very fat. The last time Brownson heard of him he was a Unitarian minister in Thurston, Mass. The next son, Hamilton, was worse yet and his father had to keep him at home, forbid people from trusting him and never trust his son with any money himself. The next sons were twins Edward and Henry. Edward studied law and was found murdered in the woods in Michigan. Henry is a Minister in New York. There were, according to Brownson two younger sons, of whom George is probably one. They were a genial but not remarkably brilliant family and the history of all the branches is a sad one. Jack's younger sons had some Langdon blood in their veins and were the brightest of their name, with one or two exceptions. If Mr. Bellows is sober and steady he will be a good partner for Henry, but if he is not, then Henry should have nothing to do with him. Brownson thinks favorably of Henry's Milwaukee visit. Although Henry's son is called Philip, Brownson, for reasons of his own, will always call him Vandyke. Henry should not allow himself to forget Fifine in his interest for Philip. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Illinois 1869 Dec. 5 Mrs. Brownson expresses sympathy for not having written her son Henry before this, but assures him it is not from forgetfulness. Men's minds are so broad and elevated that they cannot easily descend to every day's particulars. Eliza, the girl living with the Brownsons was troubled with sore fingers for those weeks, forcing Mrs. Brownson to do the cooking. Since Orestes Brownson's book is being printed, she, Sarah and Eliza go downtown nearly every day, especially since St. Mary's parish has been celebrating its jubilee for the past two weeks. She is very glad to hear that Henry, Fifine and the baby are well and happy. She wants to see them all. She supposes the baby will soon sit alone and wonders when she will see it. She misses Henry very much since it is so long since he was home. Yesterday Mass was said for John Brownson. She says it is a sad time for all but feels she ought not complain since there was so much that was consoling about his death. Mr. Brownson's health is very good this fall and that he is writing a good deal and doing much good. His book is nearly printed and she has read all the proofs and thinks it will be an important book. She asks Henry if he has made his aunt Betsy a second visit. She wishes to be told all about it. She received a letter from Healy Harmon a few days ago who had been in Erving, Mass., and they think in an inebriate asylum. Healy says he has given up intemperance but Mrs. Brownson believes his mind is partially shattered. It has not been very cold. Henry would hardly recognize some parts of Elizabeth now after several streets have been paved and residences erected. She gives her love to Fifine and is sorry about her poor eyes but advises her to be patient since everyone has some cross. She asks Henry to kiss little Philip fo her. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Illinois 1869 Dec. 29 Mrs. Brownson wishes Henry and Fifine a happy New Year and the greatest blessings. She says that on Sunday, St. Stephen's day Dec. 26., the Brownson's commemorated the baptism of four of their children 25 years ago. She hopes Henry had a pleasant time in Milwaukee and that he will be back home by the time this letter reaches Chicago. She expresses concern over little Philip's health and hopes that they all are better for the journey. Her Father and she sympathize with his difficulties with the Army and counsel patience. Orestes has an invitation to lecture in Chicago and that he has left the arrangements to Henry. The lecture will take place toward the end of winter. She confides to Henry that she thinks Orestes will not have the courage to make the trip, although his health for the past six months has been good enough for the journey. She closes with love to Fifine and gratitude that she is a good wife to Henry. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Illinois 1870 Jan. 16 Mrs. Brownson acknowledges Henry's letter of Jan. 6th and expresses her pleasure at Henry's visit in Milwaukee. She thanks Fifine for writing and rejoices at her good health this winter. Henry's father has been waiting several days for a letter from him and is undecided about the trip to Chicago, although his health is good so far this winter. She thanks Henry for offering to accompany his father and says that he and Sarah are both anxious she should go but she hesitates because of the winter. She would not think of going to Chicago without going to Dubuque since she wants to see Henry, Fifine and especially the baby whom she doubts is a finer child than his father at his age. She is glad Henry is so fond of his child and cannot understand how a parent can feel otherwise although she knows there are some. She hopes that little Philip Brownson will live as a good Christian. Dr. Hewit calls at the Brownson' occassionally. He is to give a lecture on Wednesday evening Jan. 19. in Market Hall, although he expected to lecture in the Catholic institute which some did not think a good place. Father Michael E. Kane has noticed it in the Church. Henry's father and Sarah have done what they could for the lecture since the Doctor needs the money. She had Mrs. Rinklin ? take two pictures of himself one of which was sent to the Fair in Boston and the other to Dr. Hewit who thinks so much of it he shall hang it in his parlor by his own father's. Brownson's book is not out yet and it frets him a good deal, since Denis Sadlier is not the man James Sadlier was and Mrs. Brownson expects him always to annoy Orestes somehow. She gives her love to Fifine and tells her she does not recall al what age she gave her children meat but thinks Philip quite too young yet and advises that bread to crackers and milk or hasty pudding is better for him. She is surprised to hear Sarah Alexander was married and wants to know about her husband. Jan. 17.. It is her 66th birthday and hopes Henry will always pray for her. She says that it seems impossible she is so old, but that does not trouble her so much as the fact she lives no better. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Ill. 1870 Jan. 24 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 Henry's warm affection and respect for him and that Henry is prouder of his than of Henry's mother's name. He gives his love to Fifine, and asks her to kiss Philip for him. Henry's mother encloses a letter to Henry just returned from the dead letter office. His health is not perfect but fair and he hopes to keep his appointment. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes, Elizabeth, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Ill. 1870 Feb. 7 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 in the joints to dare attempt the journey, and the fatigue of two nights without sleep, for he cannot sleep in a sleeping car. He regrets it, because he wanted to see Henry, Fifine sic and the baby Philip. For the people he does not care much since he never had a good audience in Chicago. But he is really sorry to disappoint his children, and shall make it up to them, as soon as spring opens. If life and tolerable health are spared him, he will certainly do it, but now, he cannot wear his shoes. Another reason is that Mrs. Sudlier is ill, and her physician says that she must not put pen to paper for two or three weeks to come. He is obliged to write for her and himself too, so that it is very difficult for him to leave home at present; for his eyes are troubling him very much and he cannot use them to furnish the matter for the Tablet in advance. His book is out at last. A copy for Henry is lying on his table which his mother will send Henry by mail today or tomorrow and he hopes Henry will like it. He asks Henry to kiss the baby for him and gives his love to Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Ill. 1870 Mar. 5 Mrs. Brownson received Henry's very welcome letter of March 1st and says she would have written him soon even had she not received his letter yesterday. She is just as well pleased when Henry writes his father as when Henry writes her, although she is delighted to hear from Henry herself. His father is very much pleased to her from him, and always tells her how he is. She is glad to her Henry's health is good and thinks that he is heavy enough now, 190 pounds being enough for any one. She hopes Philip will not out his teeth hard, although it is better now than in the hot weather, but it is heard any season. She asks him if Philip has any teeth yet, and is sorry for Pifine but knows Henry will be considerate of her. She presumes Henry was disappointed that his father did not go to Chicago, but he went to New York a short time before he expected to leave and took cold and was afraid to take the journey. If ever he visits him, it will be in warm weather. She remarks that Congress does not seem to progress much expect to forget out iniquity but hopes that Henry will be retired soon and settled down. As soon as his father gets over his hurry he will write to Wilson, but now he is busy writing an article for Father Isaac Hecker on Church and State. He claims that had Henry been here to go with him to Chicago he would not have been afraid, although he is afraid to go alone. Dr. Henry S. Hewit said he could go if someone took care of him since he is clumsy. Her picture was given to Sarah and is in her room but is not a good picture. Competent Judges say the features are good but not expressive and she wishes the picture, had not been taken. Dr. Hewit had good judges look at his father's picture. They pronounce it a good picture, except the forehead is not broad enough. She asks Henry if he still likes the new nurse. The winter was mostly warm. She wonders if Henry finds it difficult to keep Lent and says she and his father do not fast but observe some difference. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes, Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Ill. 1870 Mar. 11 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 bad that he ought not to write at all. He assures Henry he did not fill out Father Hecker's, outlines. He has written the article in his own way. He expressed his own views which he thinks agree well enough with Father Hecker's, if Hecker only knew his own mind and could express it. And yet Orestes is not sure it will be accepted and printed as Orestes wrote it, as he has given "carte blanche" to Father Hewit, the Editor at present. Very few of the reports from Rome, if any, can be relied on. There is no doubt that too many of the prelates lack the courage of their faith, and are too afraid of the secular powers. Henry will like Orestes' article on the School Question. Orestes was glad Henry likes his books. They are already printing a second edition. Father Hecker made a mistake when he showed a reluctance to publish it in the Cath. World for which Orestes originally wrote it; though Hecker did not refuse it. Orestes published it with his own name as a feeler. If Henry were as good at writing as he is at thinking and could endure the wear of continuous thinking and writing together Orestes would have Henry revive Brownson's Quarterly Review; Orestes believes the public would now support it. The amount of writing would cost Orestes less labor than he now bestows on the Catholic world, and if he could get it reestablished and live to conduct it for three or four years, it might fall then into Henry's hands, and would be a valuable property to Henry. Orestes urges Henry to think of it. Orestes can't get about but can work in his study. He thanks Henry for sending him the article on the Funding System in the Chicago Tribune. It is the only sensible thing Orestes has seen on the subject, and says what every one who has mastered the simplest rudiments of finance knows perfectly. Salmon P. Chase never knew anything of finance, and Abraham Lincoln knew less. From the beginning of the war up to the present, the real manager of our finance has been the Philadelphia humbug, Jay Cooke, who has contrived to impoverish the country and to build up a collosal fortune for himself. It has been for better to have paid 18 per cent interest on the money actually borrowed, or $15, than $6 for $40, or even $50. Mr. Chase was told so at the time, but he would believe nobody but Jay Cooke. There never would have been any kind of bank supervision of legal tenders, or even of Treasury notes, if the Secretary had known anything, a loan of $500,000,000 would at any time during the war have been placed at 9 or 10, at furthest 12 per cent, and the banks could have continued to pay specie. There would have been no inflation, and the debt at the close of the war would have been less than one third what it was, and would with the high taxes we have had, been two thirds paid off by this time. But that was not what Jay Cooke wanted. He wrote elaborate essays to prove that "a national debt is a national blessing" and fools believed him. But how is the nation to pay its debt? The national resources are not equal to it, and funding it at a lower rate of interest is out of the question when money is worth more than the present note, and there is very little seeking permanent investment, and the country does not want its bonds to be taken abroad. Mr. Boutwell is no financier, and Mr. Grant is president. Logan's Army Bill, a Bill of abominable injustice, has passed the House. Some of its bad features may be modified in the Senate, but it will do great injustice, and hence the N.Y. Tribune finds it excellent. If there is an excreable man in the country, that man is Horace Greeley . He would take the penny from the poor man and give millions to swindly corporations and swear he was taxing them for the benefit of the poor or the laboring class. He is sick of the Republican party which has all the errors of the old, a big party, and those of the fanatics besides. He does not know how the coming bill will affect Henry, but counsels him not to be cast down. Henry should trust in Providence. Henry is young yet, has health, strength energy and ability and by no means, even at worst, is as Orestes was in 1865. Henry's talents will yet be in request. A young and growing family must not discourage Henry. Never does a new child become an additional burden and in some mysterious way, he found that it brought with it the ways and means. If worst comes to worst, it is well for Henry he has a family; as in an army the morale is three-fourths, also is it three-fourths in private life. Henry's family will be his salvation. He cannot afford to be despondent. His love and the love in return for it will make him brave and energetic. It is said that married men are braver in battle or at sea than bachelors. Nevertheless, if the Bill becomes a law Orestes hopes Henry will be able to get retired. That, however, will depend on President Grant, and as neither Orestes nor Henry have made Grant a president, are related to Grant or to his wife, nor went to school with nor bear the name of Grant, one cannot foresee what Grant will do; but perhaps Generals Sherman and Sheridan may have some influence with him. Henry must secure the good will of Sheridan, and Orestes will try and secure that of Gen. Sherman. Orestes and Henry must try as soon as the moment arrives. Orestes gives his love to Fifine, and asks Henry to kiss Philip for him and to tell Philip he hopes Philip will be the greatest best Brownson that ever lived. Henry's mother is pretty well; Sarah is so-so. He says his head is tolerably strong, but his understanding is weak, and his ankle and knee joints are not painful but stiff, and he is so clumsy that he does not venture out alone. Orestes wants very much to see Henry's wife and child, but he has no courage to move. He asks Henry to come see him as soon as he can. He invokes God's blessing on Henry, Fifine and Philip and hopes they may continue to love one another, and Orestes a little. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 1870 Mar. 31 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 does well not to take Fifine to Leavenworth as Fifine is better off where she is. She wishes she were near enough to have Fifine with her while Henry is absent. Mrs. Brownson has been quite well this winter until yesterday morning when a spell of dizziness brought her to bed, but she got partly over it and is quite well today. She was without a girl for a week and presumes the work was too hard at this season of the year. Henry's father has been well all winter and worked hard. She wonders how Henry liked the article on Schools in the last number of the Catholic World. The article coming out in the May number on Church and State was written at the request of Father Isaac Hecker and based somewhat on his plan. The Protestant community is greatly agitated over the school question. Orestes' reply to the Times in the last Tablet was very good. She asks Henry if he wrote the letter in the Tribune a few weeks ago on the schools signed with his initials. Henry's father thought it was well done, and thinks Congress will not pass the law this session. He sends Henry his love and wishes Henry to know he is busy writing a book and believes Henry owes him a letter. Orestes Brownson Jr. and his family were well except one of the children had the whooping cough. He has published three dramas this winter but Mrs. Brownson hopes he will get sick of such things when he is older. It is a great while since Mrs. Brownson and Henry have seen much of one another and it appears that she will not have that pleasure soon. She does not mind the trials of this world if they can be forever happy together in the next. Orestes and she have taken their house for another winter. She does not like the plan much, but they do not have the courage to move. She hopes Henry will like his brother officers. Dr. Hewit says Leavenworth is considered a very desirable post. She asks to hear from Henry frequently and hopes he is as well and happy as he can be away from his family. She sends her love to Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Fort Leavenworth Kansas 1870 April 29 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 household affairs. She asks Henry to give Fifine her love when he writes. Father Dubois was here last week. Mrs. Flemming was here a few days ago and sends her regards to Henry. She is going to have Julius Fay for a nephew. He will marry Anna Wood. Mrs. Brownson hopes Henry may be retired and settled down soon with his family. Henry'sfather thinks Henry can do this with three fourths of his present pay. She supposes Henry does not know how long he will be at Fort Leavenworth. She hopes Henry is well and asks him to write. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Fort Leavenworth, Ka.? 1870 May 13 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 has been lame about three weeks. He has done little the past week or two since the Doctor wishes him not to write even if his hand were well as this is the season when he is susceptible to gout. He wishes to know if he can do anything in regard to Henry's getting retired. They send their love to him and Fifine. She is sorry Fifine's health is not good. Little Philip will be a year old tomorrow and she wishes she could see him. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Ft. Leavenworth, Ka 1870 May 31 Henry's letter of the 23rd was received yesterday. They are sorry to hear Henry is not retired. His father will write Gen. Sherman this week and she will try to have him keep his word. Brownson would have written before but he had an idea it would do no good. Dr. Hewit has been to Washington to get some office and he said Mrs. Sherman said Grant would not give any office to a Catholic. Grant was in Elizabeth N.J. a visit to his brother Corbit and went to the Methodist meeting but did not make any great stir. Brownson's hand is better but he has had a good deal of toothache. He refuses to go to the dentist. He says that he will write Henry tomorrow and has just finished an article for the Tablet. He had nothing in the June Catholic World and will have only a notice of Prof. Boon's new book in the next. Mrs. Brownson is very glad to hear Fifine and the baby are so well. She hopes Henry will soon be settled. It is a year to would be in Elizabeth soon again. Henry has travelled thousands of miles in that time and has had much anxiety and care. She wishes it were in her power to do something for him. She is glad he dined at the Cathedral and supposes he goes to Church every Sunday. She wonders if Bro. Murphy knew him. Henry is right in saying he will never send a child to boarding school. She has often regretted doing so. The Brownson's were peculiarly situated and wonderfully ignorant of the injustice and iniquity to which Henry was exposed. It is astonishing how anyone can assume so much authority and feel so little responsibility. Henry's father walks in the garden every pleasant day and expects to lecture at Fordham on its Silver Anniversary. The President cordially invited Brownson several months ago. Father Daubresse? was here a month ago. They send their love. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 1870 June 9 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 be retired in official form. Brownson will be glad to do anything he can. Brownson will try to write Fifine. He has had an attack of the gout in his right hand occasioned by overwork. He is better now and has returned to his desk. He is as well as he expects to be, although he is unable to walk as far as to Church. The family is well as usual. He hopes to write Henry again soon and at length. When he hears from Henry. He gives his love to Fifine and Philip. P.S. Brownson asks Henry to give Bishop John B. Miege his grateful remembrance. Henry's new Bishop Caspar H. Bourgess at Detroit is the man who with G. H. Hilton 's help cheated Brownson out of his judgment against Walsh, at least he presumes so. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Fort Leavenworth Kansas 1870 Jun. 25 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, Sherman says Henry will do well to make his application officially. Sherman also thinks that Henry's relief and return to Detroit can be managed without difficulty, if Henry wishes it. Brownson saw Henry's brother-in-law Philip Van Dyke at Fordham yesterday and the day before. He says Fifine is not so strong as they wish her to be, but upon the whole, pretty well. The boy he says is a fine fellow, and quite well, and more attached to his grandmother than to his mother. Brownson did not get as many particulars as he wished, for Philip did not come last night as expected. He made a brilliant speech at the Silver Jubilee of St. John's College on Thursday, the 23rd. Henry's mother is well, only a little uneasy about not having heard from him. Brownson wrote to Fifine the dame day. The weather is intensely hot. The mercury was up yesterday to 94 in New York. It is hotter today and so hot that he can write no more. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Mich. 1870 July 15 Mrs. Brownson was very glad to hear Henry was relieved from duty at Fort Leavenworth. She wants a full account of all - Fifine's health and if the baby recognized Henry. She also wants to know if Henry recovered from his attack at Fort Leavenworth. Henry's father saw Philip Van Dyke at Fordham but did not learn as much about the family as if Van Dyke had kept his appointment to call. Henry's father Orestes A. Brownson 's health is as good as when Henry last saw him. Brownson has not written much for the past month. He probably will not write much more for the "Catholic World". He has seen Father Hecker for a short time since his return home and he thinks Father Isaac Hecker would go with the minority of Bishops on the dogma of Infallibility. Henry's father gave the address to the graduates at Fordham on the 29th inst. Sarah Brownson left with Jessie Tenny for a tour to Loretto and other towns in Pennsylvania. She has been busy through the summer and although her health is good as usual, a change of air will be beneficial to her. Henry's father was on the point of writing to General Sherman before receiving Henry's last letter. Brownson thinks no words are too hard to apply to Congress and wants to know whether Henry's change was in consequence of Brownson's letter to General Sherman or Henry's writing. They send their love to Henry and Fifine and regards to Mrs. Van Dyke and her family. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Mich. 1870 July 28 Mrs. Brownson is happy to learn from Henry's letter of the 18th that his family is well. She hopes he will be on the retired list soon and that he will visit them before long. Henry's father has not written because he thought Henry might be here, and on account of the hot weather. He is pretty well and has been writing some articles for the Tablet. He is going to have an article in the October issue on the Council that is to meet in Sept. The article in the last number of the Catholic World on the duties of Catholics in the 19th century is Father Augustine Hewit's who was here yesterday and says that Catholics have taken great offense at it. Her health is good as usual. She has had enough to do this summer and especially for the past five days. The girl who was with her for the past year was taken very sick last Sunday and a nurse came this morning to take care of her. Sarah has been absent two weeks on a trip to Pennsylvania and Mrs. Brownson expects her home next week. She gives her love to Fifine and to Mrs. Van Dyke and her family. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Laugel, George, Sand Beach, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Mich. 1870 Aug. 5 Laugel will bring Henry Gallitzin's life or excuses on his next visit to Detroit. He asks Henry to send him by boat 100 copies of the Free Mason. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Mich. 1870 Aug. 7 Brownson congratulates Henry on his birthday. He learned of it from Mrs. Brownson who keeps the family records. Brownson himself rejoices in his birthday only as it brings him so much nearer the time when he shall be called home. And yet the old are not less reluctant to die than the young, perhaps are even more unwilling to depart. The habit of life makes us unwilling to leave it, and then our work is never done and we have also much to do. Mrs. Brownson sends as a token of her remembrance to Henry and Fifine, fine dollars which Brownson begs Henry to accept as a small token of a mother's love. As she keeps the purse, Brownson has nothing to send but his good will. The hot weather is terrible. Eliza got sick, and the Brownsons nursed her for over a week until she got better, then sent her off and got another, Bridget, who was taken sick the third day after she came. She is getting better, can cook well, promises to be a good girl. Sarah Brownson has just returned from a trip in the mountainous regions of Pennsylvania, nearly worn out. Henry's mother is well, though she has everything to do. Brownson has had no serious attack of his old enemy, nothing more than some slight skirmishing as yet, but he has suffered from heat and other troubles. The nights are cooler. Brownson wants to talk with Henry about Henry's affairs, but he knows and can say nothing and supposes he can do nothing. He is disgusted with the government in all its branches. Grant is nobody ? and president, and Congress is worse. With regard to the war between France and Prussia, Brownson supposes he and Henry think alike. Brownson is on the side of France without being hostile to Germany. Brownson's countrymen, especially the Republican party, are on the side of Prussia, because she is the great Protestant power of the continent. Brownson likes Germany, not Prussia, and does not wish the old German empire to be Prussianized. The success of Prussia is in the extinction of Germany by her absorption in Prussia, not German in her nucleus, and more perfidious than Perfide Albion. Things look dark for Catholic interests. The nations are governed by Protestants, Jews, Infidels, Schismatics and lukewarm Catholics, and the Church has nearly all her work to do over again. The World has to be reconverted and she has only wooden Bishops and priests to do it with. But God is mighty and Brownson will not despair. Mrs. and Mrs. Brownson send their love to Henry, Fifine and the child. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1870 Sept. 6 Mrs. Brownson received Henry's note yesterday. Henry's father has not returned from New York yet so she answers Henry for herself and Brownson in the affirmative and thanks Henry for the honor he did the Brownson in selecting them as sponsors. She gives her love to Fifine and wishes both Henry and Fifine every blessing. Henry's father went to N.Y. on Friday. He gave a lecture in Brooklyn Sunday evening. The "World" says there were 2000 people present. The Brownsons have been expecting Henry for some time to visit them and hope they shall not be dissapointed. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1870 Oct. 1 The Brownsons have been looking for a line from Henry nearly two weeks, and are afraid something has gone wrong. Mrs. Brownson wonders if Fifine is worse or the children sick. Mrs. Brownson knows Henry must have a trial with so many women folks around. "Be patient in all things, the Lord is at hand", Mrs. Brownson believes St. Paul says. She hopes Henry arrived home safely and found Fifine improving. She sends her love to Fifine and wants to know how everyone does. She neglected to get the letters Henry spoke about and wants to know if he wishes her to send them. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Mich. 1870 Oct. 24 Mrs. Brownson was very glad to receive Henry's letter of the 7th inst. She had been afraid Henry had not got back well, or had found Fifine worse or the children sick. Henry must have been delighted to see Philip walk. George Brownson did not walk until he was Philip's age, until suddenly one day he was walking all around the room. Most children take a few steps at once—not so George—he wanted to master whatever he undertook. Mrs. Brownson hopes little Sally is doing well. She looks upon her with triple interest, as her grandchild, her godchild, and as her namesake. Henry's father's health is as good if not better than when Henry was here. He has been invited to lecture in Boston for the benefit of the Kearney Hospital but has finally decided not to go. Mr. Howell called here Saturday evening. He appeared better before he left than when he came. He is in some business in N. York. Father Michael E. Kane preached a very good sermon yesterday. For about three weeks he has said nothing about money matters. The Bishop James R. Bayley was in Elizabeth about three weeks ago. Mrs. Brownson never looked upon Father Kane with greater respect than she did yesterday. His subdued, earnest, humble manner seemed to say he was resolved to submit to authority, come what would. It is a good example for his people. Mrs. Brownson supposes Henry will soon hear something from Washington. She shall be so glad to see Henry settled down in civil life. The Brownsons have taken a little boy about ten years old for about two years. He is a smart, active little fellow, and goes to the Post office every day and does a good deal besides. Henry's father thinks of him every day and so does Mrs. Brownson. They send their love to Henry and Fifine. She asks Henry if the letters he had written home in France, which he has mentioned, were from his first or second visit. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Mich. 1870 Nov. 12 Brownson is enclosing a check for $75 which Henry may take his own time for paying. He asks Henry to acknowledge the receipt. Brownson has hardly had time or rather leisure to write since Henry was here. He has been so busy writing for the Tablet and Catholic World. His health continues as good as Henry found it, not stronger but growing stronger. He is to lecture in Boston on the evening of Dec. 8 for the benefit of the Kearney Hospital on Papal Infallibility. After Brownson has had time to rest on returning home, he shall be ready for Detroit. If he could count on Henry's being there, he should like to pass Christmas with Henry. Fifine and the children. He hopes to see Develin? on Monday and get duly clothed, so he can venture abroad. Brownson voted, contrary to his intention, and voted Republican, chiefly because he wanted to get Frank B. Chetwood ? for Mayor of Elizabeth, and got him. Orestes is not sorry to see the radicals weakened in the House. The strong Democratic minority will be a wholesome restraint on the protectionists, and hinder some evil, if they cannot effect any good, which is some gain. General Grant has gained nothing by getting into a quarrel with Gen. Cox, and removing him from office, as he has virtually done. For his part, Brownson has come to old Judge Person's conclusion, "The young man that is not a democrat is a knave; the old man that is a democrat is a fool." He has ceased to believe at all in democracy and he thinks with his countryman Fisher Ames, that it is "an illuminated hell", and say what we will of it, it is simply the logical political development of Protestantism. Popular self-government is a delusion, a humbug, an absurdity. The people need to be governed collectively as well as individually. Jacobinism is Calvinism without its long face, pious garb and guttural tones, and Evangelicalism the present from of Calvinism is seeking through Calvinism to establish in our republic the most complete and odious civil and religious despotism, and that two by the assistance of Paddy. Father Isaac Hecker's notion that democracy is favorable to Catholicity is worse than foolish. Democracy rests on popular opinion and never looks beyond, and no people that makes popular opinion its criterion of right and wrong, is or can be Catholic. Catholicity spreads among a people only in proportion as they habitually act from the Law of God, which is above kings and peoples, alike above popular opinion and the pleasure of the prince. Brownson has been disappointed in the French. He is ashamed of them. They have become a nation of braggarts, and are meeting with deserved chastisement. Brownson does not like Prussia any better, but likes France less. In so far as Catholic interests are concerned, Alsace and Lorraine might be annexed to Prussia without damage. Catholicity in our day prospers only in non-Catholic countries. The protection of the Church by Catholic princes, only enslaves her and enfeebles the faithful. The Holy Father is a prisoner. Brownson thinks he would have done better to have followed Brownson's advice in 1860. But still he is mightier now than he has ever been before, and his influence on both the Catholic and the non-Catholic mind is greater than ever. Satan is never more signally defeated than when he has won his victory. The sovereigns of Europe will not long consent to have the spiritual head of so many millions of their subjects a prisoner, even a prisoner at large of the King of Italy, and Catholics who still are Catholics, well pray earnestly for his freedom and become better Catholics. Brownson checks himself to tell Henry his mother's health is upon the whole very good. Her asthmatic cough continues, but grows no worse. She sends her love to Henry, Fifine and the children, especially her god-daughter. Her prayers for her god-child are worth much, Brownson's are worth nothing. Yet he gives his love and blessing to his daughter and to his grand-children, Philip and Sally. He asks Henry to write. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1870 Nov. 20 Mrs. Brownson acknowledges Henry's letter of Nov. 10, and would have answered if Brownson had not sent Henry a draft for $75 upon reading it. Brownson wrote on the 12th and would like to know if Henry has received the draft. Saily Brownson must be pretty. Her hair is so fine and dark. Mrs. Brownson is sorry she suffers from the cholic, but knows she will outgrow it and abundantly repay Henry for his care. Mrs. Brownson is happy to learn from Henry's letter of Nov. 13 that Fifine is pretty well. The Brownson have been expecting to see Mr. Van Dyke but they have not been here yet. Mrs. Brownson will take it very kind of them if they visit them. Henry's father hesitates about going to Boston to lecture on Dec. 8. He has written that he intended to go, but a week ago he had an attack of the gout in his foot and although it is much better he is afraid to go. Dr. Henry S. Hewit visited the Brownsons Thursday Nov. 17. and thought Brownson could go without any risk. Brownson has been writing quite steadily for a few weeks—an article on Beecher in the Catholic World caused him considerable labour. Mrs. Brownson finds the little boy they have taken very good for errands but he needs looking after. He is a very capable child but very unlike their conscientious little George who had he lived would be 30 years old. Orestes and his family were well the last time the Brownsons heard from them. Mr. and Mrs. Brownson send their love to Henry and Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Mich. 1870 Dec. 21 Henry is appointed to the 25th Reg. but Brownson does not know where it is and asks Henry to inform him as soon as possible. Brownson returned yesterday from Boston. He was absent a fortnight and is quite well excepting a cold and stopped about half the time with Mrs. Smith and all the rest except one night at Cousin John's. Anna Brownson returned with him and is now here. He likes her much. Brownson encloses a check for $50. $20 is from Mrs. Smith in payment of a debt principal and interest which she found from Henry's papers that Smith owed Henry. $20 is a present from him, $10 each to Philip and Sally to be employed for them as Henry and Fifine think proper. Brownson hopes Henry will not refuse since Mrs. Smith's and Abby's feelings towards Henry are all he could wish and it would would hurt Mrs. Smith were Henry to refuse. The remaining $10 is from Brownson and with the $75 he sent Henry, he begs Henry to accept as Brownson's Christmas present, with his love and best wishes for all. His hand is a little gouty and it is difficult for him to write. He gives his love to Fifine, Philip and Sally. P.S. If Henry is hard up he must let Brownson know. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Mich. 1870 Dec. 26 Brownson received Henry's letter of the 23th inst. this morning. He wrote Henry on the 21st enclosing a check on the Nat. State Bank of Elizabeth which Henry had not received when he wrote. Brownson wishes Henry Godspeed at the Biddle House. The $75 he sent Henry with the $10 in his last letter he begs Henry to accept as his Christmas present to Henry and Fifine. Brownson never expected Henry to pay him. Brownson is glad Henry has resigned and has no doubt Henry will be able to support his family at law after the first year. If Henry is prudent and economical and applies himself, he will at any rate have the sense of being a freeman, and he has done as his father wished, which he did not when he left the artillery but by so doing he got the right sort of wife. Brownson thinks Henry will be fitted to exercise at the law. If Brownson's letter of the 21st has not reached Henry he wishes to be informed immediately. He asks Henry to tell Fifine that a letter from her would give great pleasure but that the Brownsons do not want her to injure her eyes which is the reason why Brownson has not written her. When Henry is settled down, Brownson shall come to see them both and his grandchildren, unless his old enemy prevents. Having been to Boston, he is full of courage which he hopes is the case with Henry and his daughter. Brownson does not think Henry has lost time by entering the Army, but is very glad Henry is out of it. His love to all. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Jan. 7 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 cannot walk that far and they have no girls. Brownson does not think he can get them off before Monday or Tuesday and is afraid he will not be able to visit Henry much before spring. He is just recovering from his Boston trip and cannot leave there at present. His love to Fifine and the children. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Jan. 9 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 eyes and is far cheaper. Henry's mother thinks it costs one third as much as gas and they have never had an accident from it, and like it much better in every ways. Henry's mother had a girl come Saturday. She herself is much better. Anna Brownson has returned to Boston and the Brownsons have fallen into their usual routine. Brownson is not sure when he will visit Henry but will give him notice. The Brownsons send their love to all. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Jan. 30 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 income is $7,000 a year. Brownson has been to New York and stayed two or three days since his return and expects to visit Henry immediately after Easter. Mrs. Brownson would like to visit Henry but cannot. She would not feel satisfied without visiting Dubuque also. Dr. Brown was here a few days ago. It is a month since he returned from Rome. Bishop John McCloskey has accepted him for a Priest and he is going to St. Louis. Brown told the Brownsons about his visit to Rome and his experiences there. Mrs. Brownson sends Henry and Fifine a miraculous medal given Henry by Monsignor Robert Seton . The first volume of William Seton's book the "Charter Oak" is out and the Brownsons have a copy. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Feb. 27 Mrs. Brownson thanks Henry for his letter of the 6th. She is sorry about Sally Brownson's cholic. Brownson has had a severe attack of the gout brought on by writing too much—for besides the Catholic World and the Tablet he has written three articles for the "Ave Maria". He has a new suit ready for his visit to Detroit, but will have to postpone it until he catches up with work neglected because of the gout. Bishop Bayley James R. Bayley gave a lecture yesterday and made the Brownsons a short visit. Mrs. Brownson is much pleased with the Bishop. Father Michael E. Kane and Mr. Ahern ? have had a controversy in the Elizabeth papers over the frescoes in the Church and Father Kane said Brownson claimed They were "grand". Mr. Ulmstead was married to Mary Ephelia Stearns. Sister Simplicia of Boston sent the medals rather than Mons. Seton. Mrs. Brownson is very glad Henry hears Mass every morning and presumes he keeps Lent strictly. It must be hard for Henry to walk so far to his office. She gives her love to Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Emory, Clara Tilton, Omaha Barracks Nebraska?, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 ? March — Henry's letter found Mr. Emory in the midst of a most dangerous attack of pleurisy, and was among the agreeable incidents of the sick room. When Mr. Emory is strong enough he will write Henry. Nearly a year ago he sent Henry a long letter describing their plains life, and some months later it was returned to him from the dead letter office. Emory heard Henry was at Leavenworth and addressed it there—so Henry cannot have the credit of having written the first letter. She wishes they were as fortunate as Henry in being out of the Army. The post is very pleasant, but Mr. Emory dislikes company duty. Gen. Meade invited him to return to his staff which they expect to do about the first of May. She wishes they might stop at Detroit but it will be impossible. She shall travel without a nurse, and it will be necessary to make the journey as short as possible. She invites the Brownsons to Philadelphia. Col. Wildrick goes south to Pulaski. His wife does not join him until winter, not being able to stand the climate. If Henry would like to see Mrs. Wildrick's book, she will send it to him. She gets occasional scraps of Atlanta news through Gen. Meade's ? letters. Henry probably knows of Mrs. Simmons' death and Dr. A. K. Smith's marriage to Miss Allison, a daughter of the Paymaster. Katy Adams is married to a man named Jenkins. She supposes Henry's second child is another boy from his not telling. She would like to see Mrs. Brownson with her little kids at her knee. Henry does not deserve to have any children for having shown such an entire want of appreciation of the charms of her Incomparable daughter Matilda, while under the same roof. She hopes Mrs. Brownson doesn't allow the children to be frightened by that old pipe he was so fond of. If Henry wishes to do an act of charity during Lent he will write soon again to Mr. Emory. He will have to endure the monotony of a sick room quite a while before he can seek amusement outside. She has not had a night's rest for more than a week. No one could approach Emory but herself. She feels as weak as a baby, but the lead of anxiety being gone, she can endure the rest. God has been merciful. Love to Mrs. Brownson. If there are any pictures of the children to spare, she would love to have them. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 March 15 Brownson has had a severe attack of gout in his left wrist which disabled him for several weeks from writings. His wrist is not yet well, but is tolerably free from inflamation and pain. The attack was brought on by an over amount of Intellectual labor. Brownson finds, if he goes beyond a certain point, he is sure to bring on the gout, especially if Father Isaac T. Hecker wants him to write an article of extra difficulty at a brief notice. Brownson thinks the good Father feels that his articles are necessary to the credit of the Catholic World and suffers him to write as he pleases. The only trouble he has grows out of the fact that Father Augustine Hewit is not sound on the question of original sin and does not believe. It is necessary to be in communion with the Church in order to be saved. Hewit holds that Protestants may be saved through invincible ignorance and that original sin was no sin at all except the individual one of Adam and that our nature was not wounded at all by it. Father Hecker agrees with him on these points, and is in fact a semi-Pelagian, without knowing it. So he is obliged to abstain from bringing out what he regards as the orthodox doctrine of original sin, and of exclusive salvation. But in all other respects he is unrestrained. Dr. Braun has been writing in the Tablet much to Brownson's annoyance. Braun makes good points, but he writes in a vulgar, braggadocio or a regular Paddy Whuck style. Brownson has remonstrated but Braun is incurable. He has learning and any amount of unregulated ability. Brownson is glad Henry is out of the Army and a free man. The more Brownson sees of Gen. Grant, the less is he disposed to trust him. He seems determined to go out of office, if he does, a very rich man. Brownson does not like the Democratic party but abominates the Republican party and doubts if any change could be for the worse. Grant courts rich men and is at home only with blackguards. He has lost New Hampshire and will lose Connecticut and probably the entire south, whether Congress does or does not pass the Klu Klux bill. Brownson is pleased to learn that Henry is doing better than he expected. If Henry applies himself closely to his business, studies economy and keeps in good humor, he need have no apprehension for the future. Henry wishes to know why Brownson cannot write at Henry's house as well as at home. There are many reasons,—the chief reason is that when Brownson goes from home, he goes in part to get rid of writing and to give his brain a rest. He wants nothing on his mind. He hopes to visit Henry soon after Easter, but it will depend something on the weather, still more on the state of his health. At any point, he will start the earliest day possible. He gives his love to all. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N. J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 April 13 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 attack at night. Henry's father walked up to Church last Sunday. The weather during Holy Week was very warm, about 84. Elizabeth is growing fast and a great many new buildings are going up. William Seton and his brother Robert Seton the Priest were here yesterday. His two unmarried sisters were here last week and stayed over night. The Brownsons like them much. William Seton and his sisters start Saturday for Europe to be absent eight months. Mrs. Brownson is not going to Detroit with Brownson. She would not want to leave Sarah alone. Her love to Henry and Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, N. J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 April 18 If nothing now unforseen and unanticipated occurs to prevent him, Brownson shall leave New York for Detroit on Thursday the 27 inst. by the afternoon express train. The time it leaves New York he knows not, but believes it is 5 P.M. though it is possible he may leave by the 8 a.m. express, which fact he will let Henry know by writing. Brownson intends making a visit of two or three weeks, but not so long if extra expense is involved. Brownson comes from necessity ? and drinks no wine, beer or liquors of any sort. If a lecture is wanted, the notice can be given after his arrival. Love to Fifine and grandchildren. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Emory, C. D., Omaha Barracks, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 May 4 Henry's letter came about 5 or 6 weeks ago when Emory was sick with pleurisy but he appreciated it though he could not answer. He is now suffering from torpidity of the liver and general debility. He is under orders to return to his old position as A.D.C. to Jewell since the first week in April but will not be able to start till the 15th, and cannot take advantage of Henry's invitation to visit Detroit on route because of time and other circumstances. Emory is sorry Henry left the Army on personal grounds, but has not the least doubt that Henry will ever regret the step. Garrison life is monotonous, and Infantry are always sedentary soldiers in fact, and are generally posted in the meanest country as far as vegetation and climate go. Emory is glad to hear Henry is prosperous and congratulates him on his two children. That is the number Emory has now, his boy having being born in the house opposite Judge Erskine's about 3 months after Henry left. He believes Henry and he should have invested in Atlanta. Mrs. Simmons is dead and the Doctor has spruced up and will probably take another and younger wife. Emory is quite glad to go back to staff duty. The position does not increase his rank nor is it permanent but he likes the station better and will see more of the world and civilization. He would have made a move for the artillery but he had an application on file for the A.G.O. However Emory is afraid the A.G. Corps will never be thrown open. In all things that go to make up a regiment Emory found his better than he expected. It is wearisome on the plains and the cost of everything prevents him from investing in books. Opportunities will doubtless come, while with Gen. Meade, to go to Detroit and if so he will visit the Brownsons. Next fall he shall be in Philadelphia and should Henry come there, he must visit Emory and revive the old Judge Eraskine-house-times, the memories of which he shall ever cherish. Emory relieves Wildrick in Philadelphia. When Emory left on consolidation, Gen. Meade offered Wildrick the position with the understanding that Emory was to return as soon as consolidation was effected. He wonders if Henry has read Mrs. Wildrick's book "Marguerite Kent"? Emory and his wife send them regards to Henry and Fifine. Emory wrote Henry at Leavenworth and received the letter back from the Dead Letter Office. He gives Henry his address. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N. J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 May 26 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. Love to all. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, N. J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 June 15 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 life with many such good deeds. Henry's father upon his return suffered from diarrhea for about ten days. He is better now and works very busily. Yesterday he received Fifine's letter and was delighted with it. Last Sunday the cornerstone for a new Church was laid at the crossroads and Brownson was invited. Day before yesterday two Rev. Mothers from Brooklyn spent the day with the Brownsons. They were sisters of St. Joseph and one is the head of the Orphan Asylum and has 260 boys under her charge. Dr. and James Hewit were here yesterday. Henry's father's health continues very much as it was when at Henry's. He will write Fifine soon. She hopes yet to see her children's children. The Brownsons intend to illuminate their house tomorrow night. At 3rd Street N. York next Sunday there will be processions, music and firing of cannon. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, N.J., to Josephine Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 June 17 Brownson thanks Fifine for her very kind and affectionate letter. No daughter could write one more grateful to a father's heart. He did not dream that either the Major Henry or Fifine would miss him enough to feel lonely after his departure. He was so unwell and so fussy while with them, that he fancied they would feel relieved when he was gone. Saving that he was so unwell, he had a cost pleasant visit, and could hardly prevail on himself to cut it short when he did. He did not feel himself a visitor, he felt he was at home with his own children. He arrived home safely, stopping Wednesday night with Father Isaac T. Hecker in New York, but was very unwell for a couple of weeks or more, but is now as well as usual for him, and is hard at work. His journey did not do him any harm, but good in that he found his children well. He feels at case about them, and does not think that they need feel any great anxiety for themselves. He loves much his two grandchildren, and all of Fifine's family that he became acquainted with. Fifine is to tell Henry that he has pretty well made up his mind to revive his Review. There are so many questions he wants to discuss, which he cannot discuss except in a review under his own name. His only unwillingness to do it, is the injury Father Hecker may suffer by his withdrawal from the Catholic World. Brownson wishes to be remembered to Mary and Eliza, who were so kind to him, and to Fifine's excellent mother. If she visits New York, she must not fail to come and see the Brownsons. He gives his special love to Philip and Sally and Henry. Brownson is very busy just now. Sarah Brownson has been a good deal unwell, but is getting better. Mrs. Brownson is nearly worn out. She dismissed while Brownson was gone, one girl, another soon after his return, and has tried to break in another girl just from England, but will send her away next week. He does not know what she will do. She sends Fifine a mother's love. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A., Elizabeth, N. J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 July 14 Brownson has only caught up with his work so as to find time to write Henry without feeling himself hurried. To write for the Tablet once a week, for the Ave Maria once in two weeks, and the Catholic World once a month keeps him somewhat busy. He has concluded not to revive the Review, but if able he will prepare some volumes of essays from what he has already written. Brownson's health since his return has been pretty much as it was in Detroit. He feels pretty well most of the time, if he keeps quiet, but the least physical exertion overcomes him. He is very weak, and has not been to New York or to church since he came home. He is not certain that he has gotten over the loss of blood when his teeth were pulled. He has written three articles for Father Isaac T. Hecker since his return and has two others on the Stocks. Brownson is a good deal uneasy about Nelly, his niece. He left her very sick and has written to her since but received no answer. He wants Henry to make inquiries and let him know whether she is ill or well, alive or dead. The address is 308 N. Congress St. What Henry told Brownson of the Baron comports much better with the impression he made on him both at Fordham and at Detroit than with the character Henry gave him. To Brownson he appears an able young man, and he augurs well of his future. Henry tells Brownson nothing of Mrs. Philip Van Dyke when both for her own sake and her husband's he hopes she will have a safe time, yet he is not without some apprehensions, for if he recalls aright, she is not formed to be a mother without some trouble. Philip is to be told that if his grandpa does come back, he will send him some present on Christmas. He is glad to hear Sally sleeps better, for her mother's sake. She is a superior child, and will, if she grows up, resemble her grandmere Van Dyke. Philip may grow up a Brownson. Brownson learned while at Henry's to reverence the mother of Henry's children who are blessed in their mother not less than Brownson's own children were in theirs. There was a bit of a riot on the twelfth in N.Y. It was all due to the Republicans wishing to make capital against the Democrats, and the fears of the Democrats that they would. Mary Smith Kimball has lost both her children, the boy sickened and died while Brownson was in Detroit and the girl fell over the bannisters down three flights at the St. James Hotel. The physicians have recommended Mary to travel and she goes to England on the Samaria tomorrow. Anna Brownson, Henry's sister-in-law, goes with her. Mrs. Smith pays her expenses. Brownson hopes Henry will get his case not withstanding Judge P's decision. Henry's mother is feeling the effects of age more than Brownson could wish. She has had too much to do, but has a pretty good girl now, as she gets more rest. He hopes she will grow stronger. Brownson is very grateful to Henry and Fifine for their kind care of him while at their house. He wishes to be remembered to Mrs. Van Dyke. P.S. Henry's mother sends her love to all. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Aug. 7 Brownson congratulates Henry on his birthday. To Henry, life still has promises, the prospect of much useful work; to an old man like Brownson life has given its best, and he asks its prolongation only that he may have time to "make his soul" which he fears every day more and more he shall die without doing. Brownson wants to know Fifine's birthday. Henry's mother knows that of the grandchildren. Brownson thinks more and more of Philip and loves him as well as any of his own children. He is glad to learn both are well. As Brownson thinks of it, he is not satisfied with the visit he paid Henry and if he lives and possesses the health, he may visit Henry again, after Henry's mother has made hers. Brownson went to Church yesterday and heard mass for the first time since he heard it with Henry and Fifine at St. Anne's church. He has had no gout since he returned but has had a return of the chronic diarrhea with which he was troubled before he had the gout. But his head is very clear, and he has been in a better mood for work than he has been in for any summer for years. He can write five or six hours a day without feeling it even in the sultry dog days. He thinks upon the whole his journey did him good. Henry's mother has been feeble this summer, and evidently feels her age more than Brownson does his. Sarah Brownson has been suffering nearly all summer from the intermittent fever. Brownson was very glad to hear from Nelly as he was really uneasy about her. Love to all. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Aug. 24 Brownson is very glad to hear that all are well and that Philip remembers grandpa. His eyes are bad and he can use them only to write a line. Brownson wishes to know when Fifine will come to New York and if Henry accompanies her. Henry's mother and Sarah Brownson expect to start next week for the Pennsylvania Mountains. Brownson does not like it much but the Queen commands. They expect to be absent till the first of October or at least four weeks. Will Fifine come before October? If she does, Brownson must be notified in time to have Henry's mother return. Love to Fifine and all the children. He is glad to hear the news of Willie and Eliza and offers his congratulations. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H. Loretto, Cambria Co., Pa., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Sept. 12 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 finished in such elegant style. It was for this same church that a Mrs. Lynn Boyde, who was at the Brownsons about 2 years ago, was begging with the approbation of the pastor or Bishop here. Last Thursday they went to Carrolltown, 9 miles from here and visited Father Henry's Monastery which is in a ruined condition. His altar and confessional are still standing. She has not heard from Brownson since the 4th. He will have 2 articles in the next number of the Catholic World —one on the late riot. He is writing another book which will be on philosophy. He had begun it before he left. She is very anxious to learn when Fifine will be in Elizabeth and if Henry will come with her. She begins to realize that Henry is married and it makes her feel sad that Henry has another home, although she knows it is for the best. She was in the benedictin Convent on Sally's birthday, the 7th, which is also the anniversary of Jose's ? death. She had not heard from Orestes for some time before she left. She wonders if Brownson told Henry that Anna Brownson had gone to Europe. A few months ago Mary Smith Kemble's little boy died and about two or three months later her daughter died in an accident. Her grief was so great that her physician recommended going abroad. Mrs. Smith offered to pay Anna all her expenses if she would accompany her and Anna's love of travelling prevailed and they were in London the last heard from. P.S. Love to Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, N. J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Oct. 23 Brownson has not written Henry because he expected Mrs. Brownson to answer his last letter. Also because his right hand is rapidly becoming partially disabled and he has avoided writing any more than he can help. His general health is pretty good excepting for the forefinger of his right hand. Henry's mother is better for her trip. She was absent nearly six weeks. Sarah Brownson is nearly recovered. Brownson is sorry Henry has been ill but is glad he is getting better. Oatmeal is excellent for breakfast and with milk and sugar Henry should not dislike it, but Brownson gets tired of it after a while. Henry must either go to bed earlier, or take breakfast later. If he eats it as soon as he gets up, then it will require time to harden himself to close and continued applications, a thing somewhat new to Henry. Brownson is much obliged to Father John De Blieck for his photograph, and that has not forgotten that he owes him his own which he will send at the first opportunity. He is very sorry to hear that Mr. Cosgrave ? lost heavily by the Chicago fire. Brownson took a great liking to him. He inquires about the forest fires in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota and wonders if they are the work of the Internationals. If Henry has received the Catholic World for November he will see the printers have annexed part of the Lawyer's note to Father Isaac Hecker's, which makes confusion, yet he thinks Henry will recognize his father in the first article. He has just read the proof of two articles for the Catholic World, one on events in France, another on the cosmic philosophy, a review of Herbert Spencer's First Principles. In the first article is Brownson's view of the significance, causes and remedy of the present state of things in the old Catholic nations of Europe. The restoration of the Pope to his temporal possessions will remedy nothing. The Catholics of Europe must learn that while the Church does not need the state, the state needs her and cannot subsist without her. They must learn that Christendom is gone, and from the Pope, downwards, not to put their trust in princes. The Church is now, if Catholics could see it, a missionary church in an infidel world, and is now compelled to begin anew and reconvert the people, for the princes can do nothing without them. Brownson is getting along as well as he can with his book "The Refutation of Atheism and False Theism," But he may not get it out before spring. Henry's mother and Brownson both send their love to all. P.S. Brownson wants to know when the Baron and Baroness may be expected. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, N. J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Dec. 7 Brownson was much pleased to receive a letter from Fifine. He has suffered a good deal from his eyes and from the rheumatic gout enlarging and stiffening the joints of the fingers of his right hand, mainly due to writing too much. But a little rest will make them to recover. He is to continue his connection with the Tablet and to be paid $20, an income of $5 a week, still too little. Father Isaac T. Hecker and he have come to a good understanding, though he is inclined to think Hecker has already forgotten it. The thought of reviving the Review is wholly abandoned, and he was revived his original purpose of putting the substance of what he has published into a series of four or five volume, "The American Republic" making the concluding volume. The first is "A Refutation of Atheism and Palse Theism," about one third written. He hopes to have it completed by the spring. The subjects of the others Brownson had told Henry. They will be the Mysteries, the Church, and Ethics, natural and revealed. The materials are in what he has already published, but they have to be moulded into shape and rewritten. Together, they will be a Summa Theologica. Brownson has sent to the Catholic World an article on ontologosm and ontology or true and pseudo-ontology which, if Father Augustine Hewit does not have the migraine and suffers to be published, Henry will read with interest satisfaction, as it shous the agreement of Brownson's philosophy with that of St. Thomas, and the exact point of divergence of Liberatore and Tongiorgi and the Jesuits generally from St. Thomas, whom they profess to follow, but do not. He has also sent to the C. W., and it is in type and the proof read. A revied of the Cosmic Philososphy, or Herbert Spencer's "First Principles of a New System of Philosophy" which Brownson commends to Henry's notice. He is not quite intellectually superannuated, if old and infirm, still determined to do his best to finish the work which was given him to do, and which he ought to have completed years ago. Brownson does not like the political outlook at all. Grant will be renominated and reelected and the protection policy will be continued, the old Whig policy, "Take care of the rich, and the rich will take care of the poor", heavy taxation, large and extravagant expenditures, and consequent public and private corruption. No statesman seems to be aware that all taxes for the benefit of capital are necessarily borne, not by capital, but by labor, in the shape of increased cost of living. The true policy of the country is light taxation and free trade. The great fault of our statesmen has been to make what should be a great agricultural and commercial people prematurely a great manufacturing people. This was a necessary policy for England, with a dense population and a limited territory. It was a blunder for us, with a sparse population and a territory embraoing a continent. But the great industrial corporations have got the control, and the government is simply their factor. The outlook in Europe is gloomy. The French Republic is a farce. Thiers is no statesman, and the old Catholic populations are afraid to say their souls are their own, and meekly suffer themselves to be governed by the enemies of God and man—sheep who submit to be devoured by wolves. The Holy Father holds on to the civil powers for protection, when they spurn him and seek only to enslave the Church, and secures for religion all the odium in the minds of the people attached to the governments they detest and seek to overthrow. He hopes still to see his temporal sovereignty reestablished, apparently not seeing that the restoration of the status quo would settle nothing, and that the events we deplore would in a brief period occur anew. Christendom will be reestablished on a republican, not a feudal or a monarchical basis. The Church should let go the arm of flesh, and trust to her resources as the spiritual kingdom of God on earth. There is a rumor that Fordham is to be given up and that the Jesuits are forbidden by the General to found any more pensionnates. Can anything so good be true! Love to all. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Emory, C. D., Philadelphia, Pa., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1871 Dec. 7 Philadelphia has been excited over the visit of Grand Duke Alexis. The Duke is interesting on the ground of being a novelty, is quite attractive. He was accompanied by 8 or 10 fleet captains with whom our officers compare favorably. A citizen's committee, of which Gen. Meade was in charge as a citizen of Philadelphia, entertained him. Very many tried to be presented to him. Gen. Gorloff believes Russian an easy language to acquire and proved it with an illustration. He is surprised that a Board of officers of our army has recommended the Remington over the Springfield B. L. Emory has always thought the Springfield B. L. superior. The Russians inspected the Baldwin locomotives, 100 of which are going to Russia. Gen. Barston has been sick for about two weeks. No one has seen Wildrick. When Emory left Detroit he stayed two days at Capt. E.P. Doar's The Emorys are living in a quiet and genteel suburb of Philadelphia, but are having an awful time with costs, and especially with servants. The old feeling of mutual dependence between employers and employees is gone and its place is the philosophy of "get all you can" on both sides. Emory cites a humorous incident in dismissing his cook who then abused his house generally. Mrs. Emory sends her love to Mrs. Brownson and wishes to know all about her children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Emory are gratified at the generous reception Emory received from Henry. Emory was taken ill in Buffalo and grew well only through abstaining from food and drinks. He sends his congratulations to Henry's sister upon her marriage and asks to be remembered to Mr. Philip Van Dyke and his brother. He asks Henry to call on him for a visit and to write soon. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 7pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 Jan. 17 Brownson has been prevented from writing sooner by bad eyes, a lame hand, and an unusual press of writing. He finds he has undertaken more than he can accomplish. He could not write for the Catholic World and the Tablet and have any time left to prepare the series of works he has in contemplation. Consequently he has broken off with the Catholic World. The immediate occasion of his doing it was the rejection of his article on Ontologism and Ontology, and another on Reason and Revelation. Both his theology and philosophy being under the bann of the C. W., he thought it best to have nothing more to do with it, and leave the Paulists to themselves. He shall hereafter devote his time to the Tablet and the preparation of his contemplated works. The Refutation of Atheism he has more than half done. These works will all be written anew and nothing will be copied from his previous writings, except thoughts and ideas, as in the case of the American Republic. The essays in the Review and the Catholic World he shall leave as they are. He is really writing new works. The first will refute Atheism and demonstrate Theism; the second will prove the supernatural and the Christian Revelation against Deism, Materialism, Nationalism, etc. The third will treat the Mysteries, the Trinity, Incarnation, Redemption, etc. The fourth, the Church; the fifth, Ethics; the American Republic concluding the series. This is his design, and if he should not live to complete it Henry will be able to complete it substantially from what Brownson has already written and published. This sketch will tell Henry under what heads to arrange them, and guide him in his selection. This matter will be left to Henry's filial affection. Brownson's health is only so so, and he feels old age creeping on. This is Mrs. Brownson's birthday and she is in very passable ? health. Sarah Brownson is neither well nor ill. Orestes was well when last heard from and his family also, though Henry has another nephew or niece. Sadlier is to pay Brownson $20 a week, so his breaking from the C. W. will not straiten him much. He gives his love to Fifine and the children and the Van Dykes. Brownson hopes Henry's business increases, His firm ought to become one of the first in the west. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3 pp. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-a Marshall, T.W.M., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 Jan. 27 Marshall thanks Henry for the hospitality shown him in Detroit. He dined on Thursday with Father Hecker, but Henry's father was unable to be present. Brownson invited him but he is afraid he cannot avail himself of the offer since he has more than 30 invitations to lecture in all parts of the country, receives more every day. He would like to revisit Henry, but sees little chance. He will cut short his western tour, but he still has invitations from Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. He is becoming weary from his numerous lectures, dinner dates and traveling in Pullmans. He sends his respects to his Detroit friends and to Henry's wife and requests that she remember to send some promised photographs. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah H., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 Jan. 28 Henry never forgets his father's or mother's birthday. His letter found her ill and having to give up her work. She dismissed a German girl who could not speak English but has a good girl now. She is very glad to hear that Henry's wife's sight is improving. Henry's father Orestes A. Brownson has had some gout in his right hand which did not hinder his writing. He has several connections with the Catholic World. There were two telegraphic dispatches from the Paulists inviting him to dine with T.W.M. Marshall which were refused. He is inclined to believe that Father Isaac T. Hecker wanted to get rid of him. He is now receiving $20 per week from Sadlier. Mrs. Brownson has not heard from Orestes Jr. for some time. Father Michael Kane is leaving and Father Leo G. Thebaud is taking his place. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Marshall, T.W.M., Cincinnati, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 March 9 Marshall thanks Henry for his letter of Feb. 27 and is sorry he cannot revisit Detroit. He sets out for the east on Monday next, taking Wheeling and Buffalo on his way to New York. His engagements in New England will occupy him till about the 14th of April, after which he reserves ten days for work in Canada, amd that will finish his campaign. His only chance of being able to visit Detroit again would be by having an engagement there on the 16th or 17th of April, on his way to Toronto and Montreal, for his personal benefit. After lecturing for three months, he has found that he is making money for others rather than himself. He thanks Mrs. Brownson for her kind remembrance of him and requests the photograph to be sent to "60 Park Avenue, N.Y." where he shall spend Holy Week. He asks for Mrs. Van Dyke's promised photograph also. P.S. It would be best to address mail for Marshall to Sadlier Co., 31 Barclay Street, New York. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 March 25 Henry's mother and sister have been very ill for two months and over and Brownson has been engrossed with his book which is more labor than Brownson had bargained for. Sarah Brownson is very ill but Mrs. Brownson is getting better and Brownson has finished his book. Father Leo G. The baud is pastor now, a brother of Mrs. Grant ?. His health is not very firm, but bids fair to be a very worthy and efficient priest. Brownson is not well and is suffering from his eyes, for he abuses them too much—when not writing he is reading. Brownson's book may not and he thinks will not be popular. It is not made up from his former essays, but is really a new originally written work, in which he has brought out and more fully explained the synthetic philosophy, supplied gaps, and moulded it into shape. He has not modified any essential principle, but he considerably modified his manner of explaining and defending it. He begins by the analysis of thought, and shows that it is in fact composed of three inseparable elements, subject, object and their relation, simultaneously given. Then he proceeds to the analysis of the object, and it also is composed of three elements, simultaneously given, the ideal, the empirical and their relation. The ideal is given in intuition which must be distinguished from perception or distinct cognition. In ideal intuition the activity is in the object; in cognition or empirical intuition, cognition a posteriori of Kant, the subject as well as the object acts. The ideal intuition answers to the phantasmata or intelligible species of the Schoolmen. It presents, they say, represents, the object. In sensibles, the intelleotus agens, or reflection, takes the object presented immediately from the presentation, but the ideal, though presented, can only be taken as represented in language, the sensible representation of the ideal. He identifies the ideas with the categories, and reduces their number to three, being, existences, and their relation. The necessary and apodictio ideas he integrates in being, and their correlatives in existences. Then he shows that the relation is the creative act of being, whence he proves that being is God, personal because he has intelligence and will. He has after this, four chapters, one on existences; one on God as Final Cause, in which he arrives at the moral law which proceeds from God as final cause, in distinction from the physical laws which proceed from him as first cause; another showing that the moral law commands us to worship God in the way and manner he prescribes, whether naturally or supernaturally; and the last on the place and office of tradition. This brief outline tells very little of the character of the book, but gives some idea of the argument, which is almost exclusively analytical, and that it was not constructed without hard thinking. Brownson is sure that he has put forth no proposition that has as yet been unprobated by the Holy See, though he can expect Fathers Liberatore, Tongiorgi, Ramiere and Kleutgen not to approve his work; for though he can work now in harmony with St. Thomas as they can, yet as he does not happen to agree with their routine interpretation of St. Thomas, they will of course misrepresent and anathematize him. A friend of Brownson's, Father Koop ?, a Lazarist, is writing a text book of philosophy. He is able, a good writer, and is of Brownson's school. He hopes much from him. He is now in the Sisters' Hospital. Buffalo, but convalescent. Brownson has finally resolved to revive his Review. The first number to be out probably in November, payable in advance and discontinued at the end of the year, unless the subscription is renewed, $5 a year. There are forming any number of questions in which he wishes to have his say, and he counts on a thousand subscribers at least which he calculates will net him $3 each, at least $2500 a year. He wants to place himself rectus in curia before he dies for the sake of the cause, and for the sake of his children and grandchildren which he cannot do in the Catholic World or the Tablet. Henry is not do discourage him, but is to speak encouragingly. He asks if Henry received his mother's letter informing him of her illness. She feels hurt that Henry has not answered it. Brownson hopes Henry's business continues to prosper and is delighted to hear of Fifine's and the grandchildren's good health. He sends regards to Henry's mother-in-law, to George and Philip Van Dyke, as well as the Baron and Elsie, although they did not call to see him. He asks about Father Ernest Van Dyke's health. It must be a pleasure to have him at the Cathedral. Dr. Brann ? is in the seminary at Louisville Kentucky and is doing exceedingly well and seems at last to have found his place, according to Chandler Berrian who send his regards to Henry. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Marshall, T.W.M., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 Mar. 30 Marshall received Henry's letter of Mar. 21 only yesterday. Marshall is to lecture in Montreal on the April 24 and 26, and therefore proposes Friday, the 19th or Sunday the 21st as dates for the tentative lecture. The subject would be "Liberty in the Catholic Church." It will cost Marshall about $50 to make the Detroit trip so he hopes the financial returns are adequate. Marshall will be very happy to see Henry and Mrs. Brownson. P.S. He hopes the promised photographs will be ready and that they will include Father Van Dyke. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Hewit, Henry S., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 Apr. 3 He writes at the request of Orestes A. Brownson to inform Henry that his mother Sally Healy Brownson is seriously ill and in danger of her life. He saw her today for the first time and found her condition so serious that he considered it his duty to warn Orestes Brownson of the possible result. Her disease is pneumonia complicated by great debility. He will see her on the 5th and if she should be worse, he will telegraph Henry the same evening. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Marshall, T.W.M., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 April 14 Marshall will not be able to visit Detroit. He hopes some day Henry will be able to visit him in England. Marshall goes to Montreal on the 22nd, and when his engagements in that region are through, he will sail from Quebec for England. If Henry has any photographs to send, Marshall hopes he will do so soon. Best wishes to Mrs. Brownson. P.S. He thinks Henry's Bishop promised Marshall his photograph. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah M., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 April 18 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 Sarah an answer as they are pressed for room and Father Henry Lemcke has not been consulted. He is so angry at Sarah writing Gallitzin he may refuse. It would be unexampled ingratitude if he did, for Sarah did a great deal for those nuns when they had no other friend. Brownson wants Sarah to stay with the Sisters of Charity near Seton Hall but she prefers the Benedictines. Sarah has so much to do, she wonders if she can do it and live. Father Thebaud has been cheering up Brownson for several hours. They get along well together. Sarah persuaded Brownson to go into his better dressing-gown over his objections. Sarah knows nothing more demoralizing than rags and shabbiness. He is entirely satisfied with the arrangement proposed. She hopes Henry found Fifine and the babies well and gives them all her regards and promises to play "South American" forests with them. P.S. Brownson has changed his mind about going to Seton Hall and prefers Fordham now. He had believed the nuns at Seton would nurse him. Sarah half wishes he might toy them and wonders at what age sentimentality begins to decline in that sort of temperament. But Sarah confesses Brownson is very kind and accepts the poor fare her incompetent housekeeping sets before him without a murmur and keeps his spirits. He desires to have a director and devote himself to the care of his soul and this inclines him to Fordham. She asks Henry's prayers to guide them. Henry should not distress himself about them. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 April 26 Brownson is glad to hear the family is well but sorry that Henry is not. He misses more than he can tell Henry's mother, so long his devoted and self-sacrificing wife. But while he mourns for himself and his children he cannot mourn for her. If she was not prepared for heaven, Brownson does not know who can be. Dr. Augustine Hewit who says he is not much in the way of praying says he prayed to Mrs. Brownson not for her. Her worth was little known in this world, but God whom she loved and served in all the relations of daughter, sister, wife, mother and Catholic, knows it, and has rewarded her. He wonders that he was worthy to be with her. Brownson and Sarah Brownson are not breaking up housekeeping to his great joy and so will not be separated from his dear daughter, now doubly dear to him. Engel ? is building a house in East Jersey Street, close to the New German Church. They will remain in the old house until the new one is ready, three of four months hence. The new arrangement was proposed by Sarah. Anna Brownson came down Wednesday and has gone to N. Y. to buy Sarah's mourning dress. Sarah was delighted to have her come and finds her a great comfort. Sarah bears up bravely, as the noble principled girl, and the true Catholic she is. She is not well, but better than when Henry was here. It is a great consolation to Brownson that Henry and Sarah witnessed together the calm and peaceful exit of their dear mother and received her last look and last breath. God bless them both. Brownson's health is as it was when Henry was here and he has been able to resume ordinary activities. He feels a little lonely, but since Sarah has resolved of her own account to stay with him. He feels quite able by God's grace to bear quietly his great irreparable loss, and Henry knows Brownson is not one whom an inevitable affliction easily overcomes. His great struggle was before Henry's arrival. Love to Fifine and the children. Henry is not to grieve immoderately over dear mother. Their loss is her gain. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 April 26 Brownson is glad to hear the family is well but sorry that Henry is not. He misses more than he can tell Henry's mother, so long his devoted and self-sacrificing wife. But while he mourns for himself and his children he cannot mourn for her. If she was not prepared for heaven, Brownson does not know who can be. Dr. Augustine Hewit who says he is not much in the way of praying says he prayed to Mrs. Brownson not for her. Her worth was little known in this world, but God whom she loved and served in all the relations of daughter, sister, wife, mother and Catholic, knows it, and has rewarded her. He wonders that he was worthy to be with her. Brownson and Sarah Brownson are not breaking up housekeeping to his great joy and so will not be separated from his dear daughter, now doubly dear to him. Engel ? is building a house in East Jersey Street, close to the New German Church. They will remain in the old house until the new one is ready, three of four months hence. The new arrangement was proposed by Sarah. Anna Brownson came down Wednesday and has gone to N. Y. to buy Sarah's mourning dress. Sarah was delighted to have her come and finds her a great comfort. Sarah bears up bravely, as the noble principled girl, and the true Catholic she is. She is not well, but better than when Henry was here. It is a great consolation to Brownson that Henry and Sarah witnessed together the calm and peaceful exit of their dear mother and received her last look and last breath. God bless them both. Brownson's health is as it was when Henry was here and he has been able to resume ordinary activities. He feels a little lonely, but since Sarah has resolved of her own account to stay with him. He feels quite able by God's grace to bear quietly his great irreparable loss, and Henry knows Brownson is not one whom an inevitable affliction easily overcomes. His great struggle was before Henry's arrival. Love to Fifine and the children. Henry is not to grieve immoderately over dear mother. Their loss is her gain. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 May 23 Brownson has been very busy preparing a book on the Papal Supremacy, made up of articles in the Review, for the most part in 1853, with a preface and two fresh articles written expressly for the volume, and an elaborate preface. It is nearly ready for the press. The Refutation of Atheism is corrected and ready for the printer, but he has not decided which work he will publish first. Father Augustin Hewit in the last Catholic World has an article on philosophy, which has damaged him much in his estimation, by its dogmatic and arrogant tone, and utter unconsciousness, or apparently so, that he or the Catholic World has ever defended the philosophy he condemns. It is aimed principally at Brownson, though it does not name him. Hewit is no Philosopher, and an indifferent theologian. Sarah Brownson and Brownson have managed to get along so go. Theresa has been away three or four weeks and Sarah has been cook and maid of all work. He understands Sarah had sent Theresa off, but she had returned today to stay which is a great relief to Brownson, for he could not call upon Sarah, who is hardly able to be about the house to wait on him. Sarah will become a very able housekeeper but as imperious as any old maid in the land. Her great fault is that she will let no one into her confidence, or suffer Brownson to make a suggestion to her or ask her a question. As far as he can gather from her hints, she looks upon him as having made Mrs. Brownson live a life of martyrdom, crossing her in every possible way, and that Sarah must revenge her mother on him. She intimates that her mother made her the confident of her wrongs. While she keeps house for Brownson and secures a house for herself, he is to have no companionship with her, and to remain in his solitude. No young wife could be more jealous of her husband's speaking to a servant maid than she is of her old Father. Yet she is high principled and honest, but old maidish; she is uncommonly gifted and firmly attached to her religion, but with many impractical notions. With all her faults he loves her dearly, and though his life with her must be all but complete solitude, it would well nigh break his heart to be separated from her. Happily he has nearly finished his course, and it matters not much if for a few days he is victim to a daughter's tyranny. Perhaps it is only what he deserves. Anna Brownson is here yet, but she has grown so deaf that it is painful to talk with her; besides Sarah lets him see Anna only at meal times. Very Rev. Father Edward Sorin of Notre Dame has written Brownson a very kind sympathetic letter. He said mass for Mrs. Brownson. He kindly offers him a home at Notre Dame whenever he is disposed to seek the retirement of a religious house. It is very generous of him. Mrs. William J. Tenney , who has long been suffering from an incurable disease died last Sunday night May 19., and has been buried from St. Mary's today. Brownson's health is pretty good. He intends going to the City tomorrow for a few days to make arrangements for bringing out one or the other of his books. He is now receiving the Dublin Review, the London Tablet and the Paris Univers. Greely's nomination is very proper, but a disgrace. Grant backs down. Brownson can hardly say he is sorry. Judge Wilkins is called to his rest and reward, Brownson trusts. Love to Fifine, the children and Father Vandyke. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, N. J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 Aug. 9 This is the first day Brownson has been able to write since he wrote Henry last. His hand and wrist are not yet well, but are better. Brownson congratulates Henry and Fifine on the birth of another son and himself on the accession of another to his list of grandchildren. He hopes the mother has recovered, or is at least doing well. He thanks Henry for the name but he hopes Henry has given him another by which he will habitually call him. Brownson only wants the name kept up in the family. He is unable to write more until his hand and wrist are better. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah M., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 Aug. 11 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 be printed than to have it done here. She hopes it will be out before Christmas. She put in a letter from Brownson yesterday so she supposes he has told Henry all the news. He is quite well and amiable now, but for six weeks was so hard to get along with that she was almost desperate. She thinks Dr. Henry S. Hewit is to blame for letting him take so many medicines of all sorts and kinds one right after the other. Brownson has made an arrangement with the owner of this house, and has no further trouble. She did not know at one time but that he could station himself in one house and her in the other and keep up both establishments until April. She wonders if the baby Orestes Brownson has developed any ancestral traits yet, or if it is too soon. She does not know much about the infant idea. She gives her love to Fifine and tells her if the young Orestes grows to his grandfather's size. Sarah hopes she may be there to see Fifine rule him. Lily Pegram has gone to Europe under care of Dr. Chotwood. Sarah does not go anywhere nor feel much like talking when anyone comes here, —life seems very dreary and desolate nowadays. Her profound regards to Mr. Fippy and Sallie Brownson :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1872 Nov. 22 Brownson is sorry to hear by Father Ernest Van Dyke that Fifine Brownson's eyes are worse than ever He thinks it must be owing to her being kept awake and worn out with Orestes Brownson. Brownson saw Father Van Dyke but for a moment, as his visit was paid to Sarah Brownson . He seems to be in better health. He told Brownson nothing, since he knows nothing, how Henry's law business is prospering, but his manner left the impression that Henry is not doing very well. Brownson wishes to be told plainly whether Henry is meeting his expenses. Brownson has been intensely busy preparing the first number of the Review. It is now going through the press. It will be five dollars a year, payable in advance, and it will be worth 20 per cent more to him if subscriptions are sent direct to Fr. Pustet and Co., 52 Barclay Street, than if the numbers are taken through agents. Henry will receive his number by mail, free of charge, except for postage, four cents a number. He has it stereotyped, and prints only 500 copies to begin with. It will cost, composition, paper, press work, binding, about $260 a number per 1000 copies, which is very reasonable. A number of subscribers are already received. He has received many encouraging letters, and already $105 cash and thinks he shall get 1000 subscriptions in the course of the year. Brownson's health is possible; Sarah is improved wonderfully since Anna Brownson went home and he is beginning to feel that he has a home again. They are getting along pretty well,—only he has double rent to pay till the first of April. After that his rent will be $400 a year. He still writes for the Tablet and he has not much leisure for his fingers are stiffened. The elections have gone as Brownson ex-ected. He did not vote. He could not vote for Greeley, and would not vote for the Republican party. Greeley was a dead weight and injured the Democratic party more by being a candidate, his thirty years uninterrupted hostility to it. Coalitions are rarely successful on a large scale. France seems to Brownson to be on the declivity to the Republic. Auguste Theirs is a humbug, and Brownson expects to see very soon Leon Gambetta dictator. Bismarck is playing a very unwise game and is preparing to give Russia the sympathies of the whole Catholic world, when four or five years hence she disputes with Germany the hegemony of Europe. Love to Fifine, the children and all the relatives. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Newsey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 Jan. 7 Although it is too late to wish Henry a happy New Year, it is not too late to thank him for his New Years present. Sarah Brownson has had only one of the smaller birds cooked as yet. They had the wild turkey for dinner on Saturday and Dr. Henry S. Hewit and one of his young literary friends dined with them. Brownson should have written Henry sooner, but first he was ashamed to write without sending Henry a present, and he did not feel able to do it till he is able to determine whether his Review is to be a success or an expense; Secondly he has been excessively busy on the April no. of the Review; and thirdly it has been such poor weather. The first no. of the Review is out, and he ordered it sent to Henry but he has no confidence that it has been or will be for weeks to come. Herr Blumelein has no thought that a month or two is of any importance. Brownson cannot learn that anyone has yet received it by mail. If the German's dilatoriness has not ruined the Review, its prospect is very good. He has received already between $500 and $600, and letters from bishops and priests express the greatest pleasure in seeing Brownson again at his old post. The Judge William J. Tenney is enthusiastic and says Brownson is the greatest Catholic controversialist in the world, and Sarah says the number is "tremendous". Brownson has printed only five hundred copies, but it is stereotyped. He has not much power of locomotion and shrinks from the cold, but in all other respects, feels younger with more mental elasticity. He can now crow on his own dunghill. It is a luxury to feel he is once more his own master and a real autocrat. He gives all the compliments of the season to Henry and his family. He hopes Fifine's eyes are better and that Henry's business is sufficiently prosperous to equal his expenses. If the Review goes as well as it has promised, Brownson may be able to pay Henry for an article or so. But only a Brownson can write for the Review, while Brownson lives. P.S. Brownson has a copy of the Review for 1851 for Henry, but asks Henry to promise the one he has. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah M., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 Jan. 13 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 answer and receive the letters. The notices of The Life of Prince Gallitzin were from advance sheets. Unless Divine Providence to whom she begs all her friends to make perpetual intercession, overtakes Mr. Blumeling's slowness, she doesn't know the book will ever come out. He assured her when she gave up the sheets to be noticed, that it would be out by New Year's. When he comes here, the lion's Brownson's Review is the only subject of conversation, so poor little Sarah gets no satisfaction. All the comforts she has is in the orders for the book, and the letters which follow, abusing him like a pickpocket for not sending it. He let the printers drag and then waited for an engraving ordered from Germany. Sarah now insists upon sending the book without the engraving. It is woman against German. If Sarah were Annie Brownson, she would bet on the woman. Henry is to tell Fifine that she never knew relief for her sore throat until Dr. Gonley ? mixed her some tannin and glycerine and she has never had one since. Sara thinks an old aunt is needed with the mother and children sick. She has the children on her Crusader list, directed to Sallie Brownson. Of course they are not able to read it, but the tone is very Catholic and Fifine can tell them the stories. Sarah sends Henry the notices of Gallitzin, not that she expects Henry to care much himself, but he may find them handy. This edition is badly printed and they want to get it off as quickly as possible and have a new one stereotyped. Father Augustine T. Hewit gives it a good notice in the Catholic World. They are trying to persuade Brownson to become a priest. Sarah hopes never. Brownson is as amiable as a May morning nowadays. Sarah has an excellent cook now, been with her six months. Still it is a loneless life of constant work. Lily Pegram has gone to Europe, and her career is like that of Bonaparte in his palmy days. She hopes the ending will not be just the same, but beauties do get caught and banished to a St. Helena of married obscurity. Sarah has tried everything under the sun to get a picture for herself, for Henry she may be more successful. Mr. William Seton has got another novel written, and sent Sarah the manuscript. It is good and it is bad, and there's lots of it. It's caled the Pride of Lexington. McCrea is the heroine. Mr. Berrian was with the Setons a while ago and received the Last Sacraments there: then he went to Lourdes, did not get cured himself, but saw some one else completely cured. The next best thing. They say Dr. Brown "Shabby Brown", is doing splendidly at the seminary. Also that he took to drinking before he went and got completely broken down; the dear knows he was never very hard breaking, he was too soft for that. Alice Trith and Sarah have had some correspondence. Miss Dumazeaud went to see her for Sarah. Alice Trith has seven children and they look as pretty as a picture. Mrs. Trith is as stout as Brownson and can hardly waddle. Mrs. Glover is gone to Europe and Mrs. Mac Dowell is married and wears a thousand dollar diamond ring; he was a jew but privately conformed. The Archbishop John McCloskey married them and said, according to Dr. Hewit, "Fee, fie, fo fum, I've got a fee from Solomon." Fragment probably included with the above letter Sarah must tell Henry she looked blank when his box was opened. She went for all the cookery books in the house. They invited Dr. Hewit and another gentleman, a good eater, and had a princely dinner, with the wild turkey for the main performance. It was splendid. It was cooked on a theory of Sarah's, and the result was surpassingly fine, and between compliments on cooking and bookmaking, she felt like a turkey herself. They had the others yesterday, and delighted the heart of Brownson. It was a most welcome and admirable present. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah M., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 Feb. 28 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 for the Review. Sarah thinks Solomon was right and a smoky house less troublesome than a contentious woman. Mr. "Dan" Bryan was here and was enthusiastic about Fifine, whom some of his feminine acquaintances pronounce an angel. Sarah has always thought her a little saint, and was delighted to hear praises. Mr. Bryan was in a talkative humor the day he was here. He seemed to labor under the impression that the Brownsons were shut off from good conversation, and he would charitably give them a beautiful supply. He says he spent a delightful evening with Henry not long ago. Sarah hopes Henry keeps warm. It has been pretty hard work to do so here. It has been a fearful winter. Sarah's Gallitzin is out at last. The publisher beats his brows like a stage hero at the miserable appearance; all his own fault for trusting to the printer's promises. The edition is 2000. When that is sold, or partly sold, they will have a splendid edition, Sarah hopes. She was in no condition to read proof last summer, and the proof reader they had made the printer's mistakes still worse. Lily Pegram is still in Europe, or was the last Sarah heard, carrying everything before her. Sarah hears constantly from the Setons and Mr. William Seton sends her his writings for her opinion. His novel hasn't found a publisher yet. It is much better than the Charter Cak, though fully as long. The Setons like Munich ever so much and each drinks a pitcher of beer a day. The oldest is studying sculpture, and the younger sister, Nellie, who is very nice, keeps house. Things go on about as usual here. Sarah is praying, or would if she ever prayed for anything temporal, that they may be able, out of the Review and Gallitzin, to get a house of their own. Then if Brownson has to give up writing, as Sarah fears he will, he will still be comfortable. Sarah hopes the Henry Brownsons are all well. He is to tell Phippy that his cousin Jessie Tenney also sends her love and has made him some horselines. Sarah might have sent them by Mr. Bryan, but he talked her out of her wish. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah M., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 April 13 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 out, how much she had pressed between periods. Of course she is delighted with the success, but the pleasure is much marred by the scoldings that come from all directions about the paper and binding. She hopes Father Gallitzin will put it into people's heads to buy up the first edition right away, as they are anxious to get the third thousand out. Mr. Blumeling is a real little gentleman and Fr. ernest Van Dyke will find him a most agreeable man to buy of, attentive and most obliging. She hopes Henry has got The Review. They like it here better than the first number, though rather heavier. She has read only two articles, the first and the primeval man. Orestes A. Brownson wonders much why she has chosen to crack her brains over them in preference to the others. But she has an instinct that in the others she will hear more about their age and infirmities, and shivers at the idea of meeting those announcements. She had spoken to him about them, and without offending him, she had some hope he would give them up, until the Tribune come out with an article headed: "Dr. Brownson's Confessions", and gathered these personal allusions into one bunch, and without malice, but with respect, and made them appear very well. So she fears now they shall have more of them than ever. Probably they do not strike other people as they do her, and perhaps Henry. When Sarah sees Brownson eat three fearful meals, each enough for a large family, every day without flagġing, and that he lives through it, she rather laughs at the feeble tone he seems to delight in assuming. The last paragraph on the last page is enough to frighten anybody from subscribing, but she assures Henry it is all a pleasant fiction. Brownson is better, more active and looks younger than in years, and as long as he keeps within ten pounds of meat a day he is very well. The first number of the Review has reached up to about 1500 and it is expected they shall have to point more. Sarah identifies herself with the Review. It is the one subject of conversation. Sarah is glad Lent is over because of the rigorous law of abstinence. She is surprised but glad that Henry had Mass said on Wednesday last. Fr. Leo G. Thebaud put it off until Tuesday after Low Sunday. As a general thing, Sarah feels much happier and more contented than she used to. It was so hard to see her mother, Mrs. Sarah Brownson going through so much trouble. The cross is infinitely easier now that Sarah has it herself. She is very grateful to Henry and Fifine for their invitation. At present, she dares not look a day into the future. She scarcely ever goes out of the house for more than two hours at a time, as she feels uneasy until she comes back. Lily Pegram is expected home in May. Mrs. Fleming begins to show her age and is not as vivacious as she used to be. Sarah thinks Madame and Emilie Dumazeaud have seen hard times this winter, for Emilie lowered her pride to take the Elizabeth agency for Gallitzin. She sold twenty right off, and has orders for many more, as soon as she can get them; the binder is slow, a German of course, and the books are called for quicker than he can get them ready, which sounds more important than it is. They think everything of Father Leo G. Thebaud . He has done wonders among the Catholics here. He comes often to see the Brownsons. She cut out the extract from the Tablet a year ago and will mail it to Henry. She does not think much of it. She asks if Henry knows the editor of the Western Catholic. The Review and Gallitzin were sent to the paper but it does not come to the Brownsons. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 July 17 Orestes is happy to learn his third of the $2000 loan will be here this week. He trusts Henry will have like good fortune with other matters and speedily arrange all the rest. Sarah M. Brownson does not like Henry's proposition that Orestes receive $1000 first and then to divide the rest of the money between the three, but wrote Orestes a fearful letter. She says she wants a third of everything, and Orestes is satisfied if Henry is willing, or with Henry's plan, if she is willing. Orestes may need Henry's legal assistance. If a citizen of Missouri owes Orestes must he sue in a U.S. District Court, and if so where, in Iowa, or in Missouri? He asks if Henry knows if the mining laws of Iowa are the same as the mining laws of any other other state. P.S. Henry is to excuse the hasty scrawl, as Orestes is working very hard in the mines, with hammer, pickaxe, etc., and is lifting heavy rocks, until his hands are to stiff and swollen, that he can hardly use his fingers. They are now blasting through a heavy galena limestone. Henry sold his Chess Journal to some parties in Missouri; and they now owe $250, and do not comply with the agreement made. That is why Orestes asked in what kind of court to bring on a suit. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 July 28 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 strength and memory gradually fail, and he feels that he is really growing old. July 29. Sarah M. Brownson has taken another house and is about moving. Of course Brownson must decamp till she gets moved. He goes to Bridgeport for a couple of weeks. Their new house is more convenient, is in a healthier position, corner of 1st Avenue and 4th Street in St. Patrick's parish. He is very glad to get out of the mudhole and Dutch neighborhood where he no vegetates. He hopes Henry, Fifine and the grandchildren are well, but Father Ernest Vandyke told Brownson that his namesake is a very delicate child. He hopes Henry's business prospers and that he meets expenses. He dreads nothing so much as debt. Brownson loves them all and wants to see them very much. He is lonely since Henry's dear mother died. But it is only a just penalty. Sarah does as well as she can, but she is no companion for her father. Her health is really improved for she works and has her own way in everything. He is to be remembered to all his friends in Detroit. Fifine is to kiss all the children for their grandfather who dearly loves them. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 July 28 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 strength and memory gradually fail, and he feels that he is really growing old. July 29. Sarah M. Brownson has taken another house and is about moving. Of course Brownson must decamp till she gets moved. He goes to Bridgeport for a couple of weeks. Their new house is more convenient, is in a healthier position, corner of 1st Avenue and 4th Street in St. Patrick's parish. He is very glad to get out of the mudhole and Dutch neighborhood where he now vegetates. He hopes Henry, Fifine and the grandchildren are well, but Father Ernest Vandyke told Brownson that his namesake is a very delicate child. He hopes Henry's business prospers and that he meets expenses. He dreads nothing so much as debt. Brownson loves them all and wants to see them very much. He is lonely since Henry's dear mother died. But it is only a just penalty. Sarah does as well as she can, but she is no companion for her father. Her health is really improved for she works and has her own way in everything. He is to be remembered to all his friends in Detroit. Fifine is to kiss all the children for their grandfather who dearly loves them. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah M., Elizabeth, N.J., to Orestes A. Brownson, Elizabeth, N. J. 1873 after July 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 willing that he should take away everything in this house which has not been directly given her. At first she was not willing to separate from him, because she believed it would be for his good that she should remain, but as he has so often told her, that he is dissatisfied with her conduct and disposition, she would not think of forcing herself upon him. As she said before, if he wishes to leave, she will do anything he desires to assist him in making himself comfortable elsewhere. She wishes only the house, which belongs to the judge and for those things which have been given her for her own. She has not seen the judge since she received Brownson's letter, but she knows the judge would say even more emphatically than she does that they wish to retain nothing belonging to Brownson. The judge asks nothing but herself, and any different impression he might have given arose from his having believed Brownson's frequently expressed desire to add to her pleasure. The judge delights in doing everything in his power, and when he saw, or thought he saw, additional pleasure which Brownson could give her, the judge was very glad for her to have it. But since Brownson feels so differently from what he supposed, she hopes he will feel himself entirely released from any obligations to them. She is very grateful to him for all he has given for her trousseau, and for the refreshments. As the people are invited she cannot help taking that, but for the future she hopes to be no expense whatever to him. Even were the judge unable to refurnish the house, it would not give either of them, or Jessie, any uneasiness, they all three appreciate that better is a dry morsel where love is than a house full of victims with strife. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah M., Elizabeth, N. J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 after July? 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 beautiful this love has made her, and though Henry may think it a foolish speech, she obeys him. The more tenderness others show Sarah, the more cruel her father becomes and seems to consider every congratulation offered her as an affront to himself. The Brownsons live in one of the Judge's houses. Sarah had not the least dream of this engagement when they moved in. She thought him too grave, cold, and too much older than herself for such a thing to be thought of, or of course they would never have taken the place, but Sarah's father was away while the moving went on, and immediately after his return. Sarah has suffered so much that any one younger and less gentle and loving than the judge would not do. The crime in Brownson's eyes is that the Judge sustains Sarah in everything, and will not neglect her nor be prejudiced against her by anything he can say. Brownson changes his arrangements every day, and wears her all out with his caprices. She never knows from one hour to another what to depend upon. He has the whole second floor, a large study, a lovely bedroom and a bathroom. He is to keep these, of course, although it will terribly cramp the rest of the house. He complains all the time; he never meets Sarah without finding fault about something. Yet the house is kept in excellent order, and everything regular and systematic. He wants in reality to get Sarah out of the house, and to bring in a housekeeper; but the house belongs to the judge and exactly suits Sarah. She will not leave it. It is to be her home as long as she lives. People all say they have never seen Brownson so well. He is quite active. Now he says he will not go Church, because he will not be well enough. Sarah has no idea that he means it. He would not miss the show for the world, but there is so much to do, and she is so alone, going against the current. Brownson interferes with her in every way he can, that she can hardly keep calm and self-possessed. She foresees that he will grow worse as the time approaches. There will be nothing of the kind afterwards; he knows the judge will not allow it. The bishop is to marry them at ten o'clock, with a low Mass, and afterwards they are to have an informal reception here. Sarah will have everything for the table very nice, and plenty of help, but she dreads contesting everything with Brownson. Brownson himself proposed having the bishop, and was urgent they should be married before advent, and gave Sarah carte blanche for the lunch. But the least allusion to any of these matters raises a storm at once, showing that under all he is intensely bitter. There are no other objections than that it will interfere with his comfort for her to have anyone else considered, and that it will irritate him to have the judge spend his evenings with Sarah than with him. Still everything appears very pleasant and tranquil here. If Henry comes they will make him comfortable. They are going away about 3 o'clock on Wednesday, but Sarah leaves a good cook, and a second girl, so that everything will be the same as if she were here. She will begin to expect Henry on Monday. There is no time in a woman's life when she longs for her own people to sustain her as when she is entering her new world. A world of perfect love, peace and protection is sure to be hers. P.S. Friday morning there has been another revolution. Brownson has made so much fuss about his unwillingness to live with her, and still less with the judge, that the judge and Sarah have decided to give up the house, and go to the one where the judge lives now. Brownson is going for his housekeeper today. Sarah supposes he will end by marrying her or some servant. The rest of the house is $400. The housekeeper and servants wages will be about $300 more and if he should be unable to go on with his Review, he would have $300 left to live upon. Every arrangement has been tried but he wants nothing but to keep house for himself. It is a lovely house to give up, and the judge has been to great expense to arrange it as Sarah liked it. Henry must remember that Brownson solemnly promised to stay here and make no opposition. This was before Sarah and the judge made any arrangement, or told a single person of their engagement. There is no apparent trouble, for Brownson is too much under a fear of Sarah to say much in hil old angry way. Sarah thinks they are going to have a very pleasant reception and that Henry will meet many old friends. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 9pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 Nov. 7 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, Tenney, and his daughter Jessie to live with him or he with them. Brownson, of course, bears the chief expense of their support. The arrangement does not suit him at all, but she insists that she will never leave him, and that if he leave her, he shall leave the house furnished and take more of the furniture with him. Sarah shows a meanness and grasping disposition of which he never suspected her. Besides, since their engagement, the judge has not treated him with ordinary civilty. Brownson shall take another house with a part of his furniture. He shall get himself a housekeeper. This will be a terrible blow to Sarah, for her Position will be much affected by it, for she has alienated all her friends and is tolerated out of respect for him. He will not leave town. He has found a house near St. Mary's church and expects a very decent and kind-hearted person to take charge of the house who is sufficiently educated to act as his secretary and amanuensis. He does not wish Sarah to know anything of his arrangements till after she is married, which is expected on the 26th inst. If his Review goes well, he will get along, though Sarah's dress ? draws heavily on his bank balance. He was much delighted to see Mrs. Van Dyke, the Baron, his wife and sister. Brownson almost fell in love with the sister, and should quite had he been some thirty years younger. He very much wants to see Fifine and the children. He hopes Orestes is better and less troublesome of nights. He much wants to see them all for he is lonely and loves them all dearly. He will probably make himself a home before the first of January. It is hard to be turned out of house and home as an old man over seventy, but he has no alternative but to live in a state of constant irritation. He has lost between thirty and forty pounds of flesh since Henry saw him, but his health is passable. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Sarah M., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 Nov. 7 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 could spend his Thanksgiving with Brownson. If any of the Van Dykes are in the vicinity, or others Henry and Fifine would like invited, Henry is to tell Sarah. She would like to have Father Ernest Van Dyke also, Since they like him so much. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1873 Dec. 7 Sarah was quite distressed when Minnie told her Henry's wedding cake had disappeared before Henry could get it. Sarah and the Judge William J. Tenney returned Tuesday afternoon and heard immediately that Brownson had not allowed George to take away the furniture. She and the judge went down that evening, and Brownson talked all ways until in despair she asked him what he wanted. He said: "I want my own way that the Judge and Sarah should live there and Brownson board with them, but that he would not have his own way forced upon him. He has Dolly, Minnie and Mina and keeps Minnie though Sarah has no girl and so much work to do. He has had a hundred plans but is now contented with Dolly, who is to have $15 a month, and a washerwoman once a week. He wanted Mrs. Smith and intended to give up his sleeping room to her and have his bed and library all in one. It made Sarah so angry that she told him he had put his only daughter and his last child out of her husband's house in order to have his own way and was now bringing a woman in his house to rule him with an iron rod. He has now given up the idea of having her and thinks Minnie will do. Sarah does not know what to make of Brownson. He tells all kind of contradictory stories and tries to make trouble between the judge and herself. He told the judge that Sarah remarked she would have no home to come to if she could not come back to Brownson. When Sarah denied this, Brownson affirmed it, but the judge knows better than to believe him. They are pleasantly situated here. As they expected to live at the other house the judge made no preparation for Sarah here, but took great pains with the other house, but they are quite settled now and for the first time in her life she is at peace and happy. She thanks Mr. and Mrs. Philip Van Dyke for their magnificent presence. They stayed all the time in New Haven. It was a splendid hotel. The judge graduated at Yale and knows the city perfectly. The judge sends Henry his regards and thanks him for coming on. Jessie Tenney also sends regards. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 Jan. 5 Sarah was shocked to hear of the death of Elise Van Dyke. She has acted on Mrs. Van Dyke's plan and has the judge's William J. Tenney children and grandchildren to dinner and finds it a most admirable arrangement. She sympathizes with Mrs. Van Dyke upon the loss of Elise. Brownson invited her and the judge to dinner several weeks ago. The dinner was such as Mrs. Sarah Healy Brownson would never have put on the table unless she were ill or sore pressed. He entertained them with praises of Dolly the cook and depreciation of Sarah until the judge, who is slow to wrath, got fired up and stopped that. Brownson has an Irish girl who had some slight education. She writes for him, mends his clothes and is his constant companion. He was in ectasies about her, and that Sarah told him he was pleased about those he had lost. Sarah related the sharp words that passed between herself and her father. She was so indignant she could not eat, and could scarcely stay through dinner. He had Agnes, the Irish girl at the table and waited upon her with utmost politeness, praising her in every way most extravagently and indirectly contrasting her with Mrs. Brownson and Sarah. On New Year's day he called to see her and had such a bored air about him, that she concluded his ardent admiration was exhausted. She called and stayed to lunch today. He said nothing in praise of Agnes and was mild in regard to Dolly. From the looks of the parlor which Sarah fixed with so much care Agnes receives her company there. At lunch she nearly monopolized the conversation and talked with a freedom which not one of the Brownsons ever used at his table. In fact she passed him over altogether. Sarah let her go on in order to see what she was. He remained quiet but seems in excellent health and very well contented. Still Sarah noticed the same air of listlessness that they all observed on New Year's day. He used to be alive to whatever was said. Sarah thinks it very likely he will marry this girl, though he says otherwise. If he does, she will not make his fire and be chambermaid any longer but such a tyrant as only a low born Irishman can be when set in a comfortable position. Brownson and Agnes are, or were, very pious, and all say the rosary together every night. The Review is out. Brownson is rather afraid of the hard times but so far has seen no falling off. Sarah requests Henry to extend her sympathies to the Van Dykes, but words are useless. They can have no comforts but God who always consoles in his own good time. The judge joins Sarah in deepest regret and sincerest regard. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 7pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 Feb. 6 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 happy. Brownson remains where he was when Henry was here. Dolly is his housekeeper and cook. He saw while here a pious girl from Ireland who serves Brownson as secretary, chamber-maid, nurse and seamstress. There is peace and quiet in the family for they are very obliging and he is master. The Review goes so so, pleases some and gives offense to others, especially to Baltimoreans with whom he has always quarreled. Brownson is quite well and hopes Henry is and that his business did not suffer during his absence. He is to be remembered to Fifine, the children and to Henry's brothers-in-law. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 March 31 Henry's telegram came yesterday before the judge William J. Tenney had got home from New York. He intended to congratulate Henry himself but finally let Sarah do it. She appreciates being godmother to a little Edward Brownson and when the combined influence of aunt and godmother would be of use he will be sure to have it. Sarah would like to know about Ned's Edward Patrick Brownson funeral. The Adjutant General of New Jersey is preparing memoirs of officers of New Jersey, and Sarah could not remember the names of the pall bearers, the priests who officiated nor hardly anything about it. The government Orestes Brownson has not been as well this winter as last. Nobody goes to see him and he goes nowhere. Sarah and the judge were willing to go there at any time, although it would be a most painful sacrifice to break up their present happy home, but Brownson, while pretending not to wish it, always take care to make such requirements that it would be impossible, Sarah believes he has had as much of his Irish girl as he could stand, that she is going. The judge and Sarah see Brownson as often as they can. Mrs. Fay was sorry not to have soon Henry. Mrs. Fleming speaks of Henry with the greatest interest. The judge and Sarah are slowly returning their wedding calls, but have no desire to go anywhere as it is so strange and new to them both to have a peace full home they like to make the best of it. So she has not much news. Anne Fleming is married. Lily Pegram has strained her foot and is in danger of life-long lame ness. Did Henry think she had grown very lonely? She did not look so well the day of the wedding as usual. What did Henry do to Mc Carty since he never calls on the Tenneys? Sarah wants to know the color of the baby's eyes and if he is likely to look like Ned. Love to Fifine and the children and Mrs. Van Dyke. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Livingston, L. L., Fort Wodsworth, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 June 29 Livingston was home ten days after leaving Henry and will always recollect his visit. Wildrick has paid Livingston a visit and was very glad to hear from Henry. Henry must let them know when he comes to New York. Henry must have by this time a new set of the military near Detroit. Livingston never enjoyed a ride more than he did the one with Henry and Mr. Van Dyke. There is no news to interest Henry, and the few army changes do not affect Livingston. Henry is to be congratulated for leaving the army. Boston seems to be a sort of General Judge advocate and is now for the second time at Madison Barracks, Sacket Harbor, trying a captain of the 5th Artillery. Wildrick is off on a court at Oswego, N.Y.. There will not be so much disposition to go on courts now as mileage is cut off and only actual expenses allowed. That being the case Livingston will hardly visit Henry again this summer. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 July 9 The Tenneys are livings again with Orestes A. Brownson . Brownson made the request about a month ago. Last winter he did the same as his expenses were so enormous. But then he insisted on keeping his chambermaid or "secretary" and since that would bring his expenses up close to $1200 a year he gave the matter up rather than part with the dear creature Agnes. Sarah heard no more until he made the last proposition letting both Dolly and Agnes go, Sarah to pay the servants rather than he. He keeps one especially for his own amusement. She found the butcher's bill for one month $41, others a little less. Sarah was not surprised because she had heard that in beer saloons and kindred places it was said "If you want a good square meal old Brownson's is the place to go for it". According to report whiskey flowed like water here. But every night at nine, Dolly, Agnes and Brownson said the rosary together and after that pious Agnes retired. The policeman on the beat told somebody that the Doctor kept good whiskey, and one night between twelve and one clock a young man said Agnes gave the policeman a glass of it. But Sarah said nothing; no one was allowed to doubt Agnes was an angel, or at least a saint. Brownson owns he missed his whiskey but blamed it on Dolly. He admits he rarely saw a piece of roast meat after the first time but that was Dolly's carelessness. There were some circumstances he knew were true, but he says if all Elizabeth swore to them he would not believe them. He went to see Agnes and was triumphant as she explained everything in advance. Sarah was foolish enough to tell Brownson what she believed Agnes to be, but kept her reasons to herself since people who could tell are not going to do so when it implicates themselves. Sarah is not going to say any more about it, because he is so simple he goes straight to Agnes and as woman as bad as she is, always has her explanation. It makes Sarah ashamed to have him running after Agnes as she knows well how to make others interpret his visits. Agnes is a good looking Irish girl of some education and extraordinarily pious. Brownson says Agnes would not have him if he were to ask her because she disapproves of disparity in years. Sarah does not know of any use in telling Henry all this for he cannot help it and it can only annoy him but she supposes Henry would like to know how things are going. In other respects Brownson is wonderfully toned down, keeps his temper and does not require nearly so much waiting on as he did. But there is no use trying to open his eyes when a woman is concerned. Sarah has two darkies, so he cannot flirt with them and she observes he seems cured of his old failing. She has been quite sick with intermittent fever since May but is much better now. Love to Fifine and the children. Sarah is only just getting able to go around the house. P.S. Brownson says Agnes spent almost all her time for six months in his room and was propriety itself. It did not occur to him that at seventy, half blind and very deaf, covered with tobacco, he might not be just the one to draw out a young woman's coquetry, especially when his whiskey and his kitchen were providing her with beaux her own age, as thick as flies about molasses. Day later. Sarah has just been told by Brownson that she has got to prove everything she said the other day. Sarah told him she would do nothing of the kind, that what she said was in answer to his inquirires. He wrote it all down and sent it to Agnes and she insists it shall be proved. This is to bully them. Sarah said that if Agnes chose to bring the matter up and have it taken into court, Sarah was willing as then the people would be obliged to tell the truth and Agnes' character would never be patched up together this side the grave. Of course Agnes has no idea of such a thing, or Brownson other. This shows what fools the Tenneys were to come here even on a written agreement. She supposes they will have to move away. These constant changes cost the judge so much. Brownson says the six months he had Agnes were the happiest of his life and Sarah said that was a beautiful tribute to his wife. Brownson said she was a good wife until she came under the influence of her daughter. Sarah tells Henry all this so he may be prepared for any catastrophe. She has tried to do her best, but has been a fool to say anything of his darling Agnes. If Agnes were to marry him, which she might now to save herself he could not bring her here, for he made the agreement in writing that the Tenneys were to take the house and furniture and board him. Henry is to say not one word to him. Brownson is perfectly infatuated and the best way is to let him alone or he will go still father. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 10pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 Aug. 18 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 has been very unsettled and unwell, with a severe attack of gout. He is confined to the house most of the time. His eyes are also getting very bad and even his hearing is beginning to fail him. He weighs now only 228 lbs. But these are infirmities he must expect for as young as he may feel, he is an old man. The Tenneys keep the house now and he boards with them. They returned the June 24. Sarah has been ill all summer but is getting better. She does admirably for her family of which Brownson is not a member. She means to treat her old father well and does so as far as it is in her nature. Yet he feels that he is a stranger without a familyl or home. Sarah never comes into his room; never speaks to him and is careful when at table to carry on a conversation with the others in so low a tone that he can neither take part in it nor catch a word that is said. But she was never remarkable for good hearing. Yet after all this is a small affair. The best of the trio is Jessie Tenney who is growing up a fine girl. Brownson's Review is not going as well this year as last. It has last year 1700 or more subscribers; this year only about 1200 and the leading Irish papers are beginning to snarl and snap at it. Yet he is so earnestly requested to continue it that he shall attempt it for another year, though with diminished courage and some disgust. The Review is too papal for the majority of our bishops and clergy. It goes against the public opinion of the Catholic population of the country and will meet with little success so long as Father Thomas Burke, O.P. furnishes their reading. Only a windbag that can be popular with Paddy. Henry must write something for Brownson. In his forthcoming number he says that he has in the future the promise of assistance. Perhaps Henry will find time to write an article now and then. Brownson will pay him well for it. Compliments to all inquiring friends and love to Fifine and the grandchildren. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 Sept. 25 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 constant decrease. the same may be said of several entire states of the Union. Every New Englander is weakly, dyspeptic and in some way ailing. He sometimes thinks God's curse is on the land and the people thereof. Orestes Brownson Jr. writes he has another son which makes Brownson's tenth grandchild. If Henry has the prescription the Atlanta doctor gave him Brownson would like to have it. His diarrhea is even worse than when at Henry's, yet he is free at present from the gout. Henry must learn to dismiss his law cases when he leaves the office, and take things easily. If well enough, Brownson goes to Washington to attend Minnie Sherman's wedding which is to come off on the 1st. He will stop a few days with his friend Mrs. Madelene Dahlgren and his two godchildren now eight years old. His remembrances to all the Vandykes and love to Fifine and the children. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 Oct. 1 Sarah detests those personal allusions and has exerted all possible influence to stop them but Brownson delights in them. She thought those collected in the Tribune would open his eyes, but to her surprise he was quite pleased with the way they were gathered together. The passage which Henry alludes to Sarah read and commented upon, but is did not arouse much feeling, for a year and a half alone with Brownson has accustomed her to his indifference to all their dear ones gone. He was never intended for home life, and in trying to suit home life to himself he has made it—purgatory to say the least. If at least God had not pity on Sarah she should have lost her senses literally before this. She has done all she could. He took everybody to his room, so that for months at a time, her only society was Jessie Tenney and the girl, and a few remarks in the hall or at the table when they had company. Brownson has been away visiting a great deal this summer, and everything has been done to make it delightful for him. Until very lately Sarah hardly left the house except to go to market, and yet he threatens "to seek a home among strangers" because she does not do more to entertain him. He is quite hard of hearing and to talk with him at every meal at the top of her voice is martyrdom. Sarah should not mention this only for the message Brownson sent by Mrs. Van Dyke. Sarah was determined their visit should be pleasant at any cost, and so she seemed to enter into his jokes about marrying again, although every word of his was a sword out. Sarah was perfectly charmed with Mrs. Van Dyke, who has great penetration. Mrs. Spooner who wrote the poem is a very old lady and it came one time las spring when Brownson was continually saying the work was too much, and Sarah was in fear that he could not go on. Everything looked so black, that she influenced him to accept it as a means of filling up. So Brownson promised and then could not go back. Sarah is perfectly certain now that Brownson puts on that infirm air to excite pity, for she has been told that as soon as he gets out of sight it is all dropped. People all say he looks younger and heartier now than in years before. She does not place the least reliance upon his promises. He breaks all one day that he made the day before. Henry is to consider this a little modified since it is a little too strong. Sarah is trying to get that book for Henry from the Hewits. Love to Mrs. Van Dyke, Mrs. Moran and her sister-in-law, Fifine and the children. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 Nov. 10 The judge William J. Tenney was not elected; but it does not make much difference. All he cared for was to make a stand as a Catholic, and see if a Catholic could be elected to any important office. He was beaten simply because he was a Catholic. The other side say that it was a dear victory for them. He could not have made so good a show if he had not the Germans, because the other man is a Sabbathian, anti-liquor prohibitionist and all that kind of thing. The Irish voted for the judge splendidly. Sarah would have liked the position only on account of the salary—it is no honor. The money would have come in well these days when the judge has a good deal of property to pay for. $1200 for a year or two without much extra labor would have been a help. Sarah presumes Orestes A. Brownson is writing Henry that he is having terribly hard times and is very infirm. All his visitors say they never saw him look half so well, or appear so vigorous and in such good spirits. The Tenneys thought they would have to give up here, for at first it almost killed her. After much servant trouble Brownson finally got a woman to do up his rooms every day. He makes great capital out of being obliged to pay for the work but it seems only just for what he pays, for his board only cares for the table expense. The Tenneys think Brownson has pretty good times. His fire is made at six, he comes down to a splendid breakfast, gives the judge various commissions to do for him, goes back and has a woman do all he can think of to make him comfortable, has his ice water excellent dinner, his lamps brought to him, and has not a care or a thought for any one but his own precious self. His visitors are always well-treated come when they will, and he can go where he pleases only it pleases him to go nowhere. At meals he does all the talking, never allowing a remark to be made between other persons at the table. As he is very deaf, this is very disagreeable. He has a good balance in the bank, abundance for all his wants and no one to claim any help from him. He never had a thought in his life except for his own comfort. But people tell her things he says about the treatment he receives which makes her furious, they are so outrageously false. He holds himself up to all as an object of sympathy. He pretends to the judge and herself that he is well satisfied. He little dreams how much she knows of what he says to outsiders. He seems to have taken Annie Brownson under his protection and she believes sends her money too. He has never given Sarah a penny since she was married, unless she counts a package of postal cards which he gave her when he hoped she would write his letters for him. She would be afraid to accept any present from him lest he say she had robbed him. He accuses her to outsiders now, because she uses the furniture in the house, which however was part of the bargain. He told a pathetic story to several ladies about his isolation and how Sarah prevented his marrying. They condoled with him while they nearly died laughing at his absurdity. Nothing would please her better than to have him married. He has stopped visiting his late chambermaid Agnes and as he has another young woman sewing for him Sarah presumes Agens' day is over. The other young woman he called on when out driving yesterday and she has been upstairs for over one hour already this afternoon. She comes for patterns Brownson tells her. Sarah tells Henry this that he may know the truth. She does not doubt that Brownson calls upon Henry for sympathy or perhaps he does not consider it as easy to humbug Henry. They have no difficulties, nor disturbances. She never has any conversation with him, and it is impossible for him to quarrel with the judge. Sarah does not talk to him because he is so deaf she cannot make him hear. He misrepresents what she does say and he repeated every word of her conversation to Agnes. The Tenneys live their life as independently of him as they can and it is wonderfully happy. She feels sometimes as if she could not endure to have the meals made a time of torture but they all resolve to make the best of it. The days go by so fast she feels sometimes her life will run away from her. She wants to linger over it. She hardly goes anywhere or sees anyone from Elizabeth. Lily Pegram has gone back to Europe. Orestes Brownson rejoices in his third son whose terrible name is Charles Augustus. The judge and she send their regards to all; Jessie would do the same only she is now at the bashful stage. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1874 Dec. 30 Orestes A. Brownson showed Sarah the photographs of Henry's children and said she would keep it down in her apartments. Judge William J. Tenney thinks they are very pretty children. The youngest Orestes Brownson is a perfect little darling, a jolly little angel, but Sarah pities him for the name he has to bear through life. If she thinks of him as Orestes she cannot look at him. Jessie Tenney says that about the eyes he looks like Dr. Brownson and like his grandfather fills up the entire armchair. They say Sallie Brownson looks like Sarah, and all have eyes like Mammy Sarah H. Brownson. The judge always gets the gout pills for Brownson and knows all about them. The price is a dollar and a half a box. Sarah was sorry afterwards she wrote Henry so much about Brownson but she felt so indignant at his injustice and misrepresentations, that she could not forbear. She never saw anything like the judge's patience with him. The judge comes home at six tired, cold and hungry. Before he can get a mouthful Brownson begins to question him, and he has to shout his answers again and again. all through dinner, so that when they are together at last, the Judge does not seem to have much voice left for Sarah. Still he is always pleasant, and ready to talk, though of the silent kind. The Review is out. The Judge wrote on Napoleon, Mr. Mc Carthy on Mary Queen of Scots and Dr. Smith on Gregory VII. The rest are Brownson's. He has the April number nearly written. Sarah understands how hard it is for Henry to write. The Judge had to write his bit by bit from eight o'clock to ten, and that is pretty hard after writing all day. Of course, like Fifine, Sarah had no idea of letting the Judge go off to write. But this is something Brownson cannot understand. He would be very glad for an article from Henry. Sarah hopes this will be the last of Mr. Carthy and Dr. Smith as contributors. Sarah has never seen Brownson in better health. He eats like a trooper three times a day, scarcely ever misses a full meal and always complains that he is losing his appetite. He has everybody running today, as he has a "touch of the gout" but by the way he is talking and laughing with the Irishwoman who cleans his rooms. She cannot think it very bad. She is very sorry for Henry if he has the faintest touch of it. P.S. Probably included here. The Judge found out that a box of Blaine's pills were $1.25 and contained about 25 or 30 in each box. He can secure them at a wholesale price if Henry wants them. Brownson has not got quite well yet. The Christmas turkeys laid him low. Sarah has a cold but otherwise was never so well in her life as she has been since she got over the intermittent fever last summer. Jessie sends her love to the children. She does not look much like the little girl Henry took to Church but is growing up a very pretty, stylish young lady, perfectly obedient and devoted to the performance of Sarah's slightest wish. No woman ever had more to be grateful for than Sarah does now. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 Jan. 9 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 her grandmother Sarah Healy Brownson. Orestes Brownson has the most striking head, and the most regular features. He is too light to be a full-blooded Healy or Brownson, but if he lives he will make the name of Brownson more distinguished than it is now. He bats on Orestes. Yet Brownson loves them all and is sorry that he can see so little of them. One day later. Brownson is obliged to Henry for a copy of Judge Cooly's Thomas M. Cooley? article on Constitutional Guarantees of Republican government. It is the only sensible document on the question Brownson has seen. It explodes the fallacies that played so prominent a part in the acts of reconstruction. It excuses some things which Brownson does not but it does not pretend to justify them by the constitution. Cooley's doctrine that it belongs to the president, not to Congress, to decide which is the legal government of a state is sound and just. The Rhode Island case in which Brownson had some share, is a case in point. Brownson has a thorough want of confidence in Ulysses S. Grant who is absolutely destitute of a moral sense, a low vulgar mind and at ease only when surrounded by blackguards, as Grant's friend Dr. Henry S. Hewit always insisted. Brownson does not believe there is a shadow of excuse for Grant's recent interference in the organization of the Louisiana legislature. The Southern States are states in the Union and can stand on a footing of equality with all the other states of the Union. Yet the Republicans in Congress will, and must, sustain Grant for he is their only hope. The Democrats have no leader and they have not recovered from their demoralization and have no policy. Brownson hopes Henry is prospering and is well. Sarah M. Brownson Tenney keeps a close watch over Brownson lest he marry again and disgrace the family. This is very kind of her. Henry is not to be uneasy should her vigilance relax for no woman will ever take the place of Henry's mother, although very day Brownson misses her more and more. Sarah will give him very soon a grandchild. She is very wild and eats enormously. Henry is to pray she may have a safe delivery. Of William J. Tenney Brownson has nothing to say but that Tenney is much spruced up. He is to Brownson, inscrutable. Love to Fifine. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, William J., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 Feb. 11 Sarah M. Brownson Tenney Presented Tenney with a fine daughter on Sunday night Feb. 7., weighing about 11 pounds. Sarah is now doing extremely well. Brownson put on his spectacles and inspected the baby and pronounced its head to be truly a Brownson one. Remembrances to Henry's family. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 May 25 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 ill, has had the gout in both hands and for a long time was unable to hold a pen or Henry would have heard from him before this. Brownson is now convalescent. Dr. Henry S. Hewit's last prescription is effectual though Brownson uses it only when driven to desperation. Sarah's baby, christened Mary Ruth Elizabeth, is a very fine and promising child and like Henry's Sally, a true Brownson. Poor Sarah finds her hands full in taking care of the baby. Brownson wants her to get a nurse and offers to pay the expense but Sarah is afraid a nurse will spoil the baby's temper. She is afraid to trust her with anyone but herself and is worn out. The nurse must come. Brownson's Review lives and he prints twelve hundred and fifty copies which considerably more than pay its expenses. He can afford to pay Henry for an article a number, say fifty dollars. Henry should give Brownson some articles. Gorini's Defense de l'Eglise, an article on Catholic Education, would not come amiss, relaxing the unexcused denunciation of the public schools without absolutely approving them. Brownson will send Henry General W. T. Sherman's memoirs. Brownson does not think Sherman a great general but thinks he has many of the elements of a great general. His chief defect, as General Ord said to him, is his despondency before battle. He never won a brilliant victory. Brownson hopes Henry's business prospers. If not he is to tell Brownson who cannot help him much but maybe a little in a strait. Brownson has been obliged to employ a woman to take care of his rooms, do his washing and mending and to take care of him in his illness. She is a married woman, an excellent nurse and has common sense. The Judge William J. Tenney and her majesty the Queen Sarah are grown quite complaisant since they find that Brownson is doing much more for them they are for him. He pays them $150 for his rooms, $8 a week for board and finds his own light and grog, hires in the season, a boy to bring up his wood and coal and make his fires. Neither of the Tenneys ever enter his room except the Judge when Brownson sends for him. Brownson pays the pew rent $42 a year and furnishes the family from May to November with 20 lbs of ice a day. Love to Fifine and the children, regrets to Mrs. Vandyke and Henry's brothers-in-law. P.S. Instead of sending bills, Brownson thinks it safer to send his check payable to Henry's order. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 July 9 Sarah sends Henry the present time table of the Long Branch road which is more convenient than the Central. Henry is to let Sarah know a day or two beforehand of his arrival. The Tenneys have had quite a seige of company. The baby has been sick since Sunday. The doctor says it is her teeth. It has thinned her down dreadfully. They say the baby is much prettier now than when she was so fat, but Sarah is grieved at the change. Sarah weighed 148 the other day, 22 more pounds than when she was married. She is pretty well used up, however, by the baby's sickness. She hopes they shall all be fat and jolly again by the time Henry gets here. P.S. Sarah does not ask after Fifine for she must know by this time how to take care of herself. Her love to the giant; big babies are always the best natured so Fifine's must be charming. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 Aug. 31 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 day. Brownson will be ready soon after his number Review is out, any time after the 25th. It will cost Henry nothing but the time. Brownson does not like to ask Judge William J. Tenney to do it. Brownson shall leave the furniture with Sarah M. Brownson Tenney except such portions as he may think desirable to take with him, although it is mostly all his. He proposes, if Fifine wishes, to bring a bed and bedding and purchase new carpets. The prospect of getting away from the Tenneys and finding a home or at least somebody to converse with has already put new life into him. His health seems much better than when Henry was here. Brownson's bank account is not as favorable as he expected, but he shall have no difficulties in meeting all engagements, paying all expenses of moving and furnishing the room or rooms alloted to him. The whole cost cannot exceed $1,000. So much at least he can spare without trenching on his annuity. Does Henry propose to give him one of the library rooms as his sitting room? He shall not be difficult if he has plenty of light and air. Love to Fifine and all the young Brownson. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 Sept. 9 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 the furniture he will give to Sarah M. Brownson Tenney, especially the kitchen, dining-room and parlor furniture. But he will not settle anything with Sarah until Henry comes and he knows Fifine's wishes. Yet Brownson wishes to leave Sarah all he can. He has the October number all written but a part of the literary notices and valedictory. His eyes trouble him very much and he can hardly see the writing on his paper. Love to Fifine and the Children. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R. Capt. 3d Artillery, Fort Warren, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 Oct. 11 The years have flown since they met, but Kelly remembers as well as yesterday the blood trickling down Henry's face at Malvern Hill and all those hard fought fights and weary marches and cold and rainy bivouacs. Yesterday he discharged a sergeant of his company for disability and was asked to give him a recommendation. As the sergeant is going to Detroit, Kelly remembered that Henry is settled there. Hence this letter. Kelly would like very much to see Henry and should he come to Boston he must not forget to come to Fort Warren to see Kelly and his wife and three fine children, half Yankee and half Irish, a very fine stock. Kelly knows Henry is married but does not remember hearing what family he has. Kelly was sent here because they had no place in New York Harbor. Kelly's service under Andrews has not been pleasant; Andrews is a disorganizer, a destroyer of discipline, personally a nice man. Kelly put Andrews' eldest son out of his company quarters and that brought the whole family down on him. Chester had told Kelly he had seen Henry not long ago. Kelly wants Henry to write. Henry's father still wields the pen and Kelly wishes he may long live to do so. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Lowd ?, W. D., Detroit, Michigan, to D. and J. Sadlier and Company, New York, New York 1875 Oct. 25 Lowd has just returned from an interview with Henry Brownson to whom Sadlier's has entrusted their case against Lowd, and as Henry Brownson leaves tonight for New York Lowd thinks it best to write a few lines regarding the claim against him and also the claims he has against Sadlier's for the parts sent to them to be bound and of which Lowd has never received a satisfactory explanation. The Bible marked in Sadlier's book as returned was one sent to them subsequently to the box of which Lowd has not got any account from Sadlier's. The Express company holds their receipt for this box and the weight will prove that it contained more than one bible. Sadlier's should try to get those books or compensate Lowd for the loss he has incurred both financially and in reputation. Whatever Sadlier's decides, Lowd hopes Sadlier's will trace this box of bindings and have them returned to him either bound or unbound. If bound, he will compensate Sadlier's. Lowd will soon pay the claim Sadlier's has against him if they return the bindings. If not, allowance should be made for them as well as for the injury he has sustained to his reputation. Lowd has not paid the notes when due because he had not the means to do so and also because he was awaiting either a satisfactory explanation for the loss of the books or else an allowance to be made for them on the bill. If the claim is pressed against Lowd, he will not be able to pay as soon as otherwise because of the cost of defending himself. In any case he can give nothing for the next thirty days. Lowd has struggled to keep up his business and intends to repay everything in spite of obstacles that may be placed in his way. He will be able to pay the interest on the notes in 30 days and next week when Henry Brownson returns will be able to state how soon some of the principal will be repaid. Lowd has not dealt with Sadlier's for some time because he can secure their books at greater discounts in Detroit. Found among the Henry Brownson letters. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Livingston, L. L., Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 Dec. 6 Mr. and Mrs. Livingston thank Henry for the box of game and invite him to visit them. Livingston is in Oswego for the usual court martial duty. It is possible Livingston's company will be sent to Buffalo. To operate in the South would be very unpleasant and he wonders if the country will ever return to first principles—constitutional government. His eldest child attends St. Agnes' school in Albany. He presents his regards to the brothers Van Dyke, to Henry and Fifine. He hopes to see Henry sometime in Henry's charming summer home. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R., Fort Warren, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 Dec. 8 Kelly is very glad to hear Henry is well to do, that Henry occupies a high position in the city where he resides, and is still more pleased to hear of the fine family Henry is getting to perpetuate the name and, he hopes, the brains of Henry and his honored father. Kelly has much to be thankful to God for. From an humble start he now occupies a high position, he thinks so at least. He married a Protestant girl seven years ago last month—Tim Sherman's niece—and now she is a devoted Catholic. They have three beautiful children and a fourth coming. Like the Brownsons, the Kellys do not follow the American fashion of being contented with one or two, but obey the orders of the Church. Kelly has one boy whom he intends to give to the service of the Church, and he hopes the coming one may be a boy that he may go there also. Indeed if he had a dozen he would send them all the same way. The Church needs native American ministers. Kelly is moving to Madison Barracks, Sackett's Harbor, New York, the last of this month. He will start when William M. Graham relieves him here. Kelly shall be glad to welcome Henry whenever he cares to come. He asks Henry to give Sergeant Boll his discharge when Henry sees him. Kelly saw Hayden a few days ago in Boston. He hears poor John Edwads is going to the dogs in Portland Oregon. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Livingston, L. L., Fort Wood, ? New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1875 Dec. 24 Livingston thanks Henry for the box of yams. Barston is invited at the Livingston's Christmas dinner as well as Col. Loesn ?, Livingston's brother-in-law, and his family. Florence Livingston? is home for the holidays. Barston is at last promoted through the death of Morgan, Major of the Artillery, in California. It takes Barston to "Hamilton". Henry is to be congratulated for leaving the Army. Livingston would like very much to see Henry now for life here in winter is horrible. There is no dependence on transportation to the city and sometimes two days go by without mail or newspapers. Mrs. Livingston and he send their kindest regards to Henry, his family and his brothers. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Chapman, William ? E., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Jan. 12 Henry will find enclosed tickets for Mr. Barry Sullivan's performance of Richard III at the Opera House on the 19th inst. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Jan. 30 Orestes A. Brownson used to take 20 drops of calcioum, but she never knew of his taking it himself. He cut up so just after Mammy Sarah H. Brownson died, from the effects of it, that Sarah told him she would never give it to him. The Judge William J. Tenney often dropped it for him, and he would be obstreperous for a few days, have one or two days of oatmeal and mutton broth, and then come out of it all right again, but this he must have taken a very big dose and given Henry a big fright. Sarah wishes he might once get such a fright that he would leave off doctoring himself, as Henry says. How can Henry let Brownson so demean himself as even to think of uniting for the Catholic World? Sarah would not mail the article for Brownson were he there. After all Father Isaac T. Hecker's insults to think Brownson should have so little self-respect as to receive such a proposition with anything but scorn. Besides it is hardly fair to the new Quarterly. Brownson promised them his support when they were planning it. He has not even the excuse of needing the pay, because he has money enough for all he wants without writing, especially as he left here, as he said, in order to lessen her expenses. Henry is not to let him do it. No number of the Record ever came for him. The Judge will attend to the matter of Pustet and Sadlier. Mrs. Fleming told Sarah Lily Pegram's engagement was broken off. Father Leo Thebaud is sick again and gone home to recruit. Father Patrick Hennessey is sorry to hear Henry had been sick. Sarah believes Mr. McCarthy starts as editor of the Catholic World tomorrow. He also comes here tomorrow, intending as he wrote Ruthy Tenney, in reply to her note of invitation to lay fame, fortune and future at her feet. Sarah has not yet read the new quarterly, she had not the courage to undertake such heavy thinking but the Judge read Henry's article and several others and thinks it a fine affair. The Judge saw Henry's article spoken very highly of in the N. Y. Independent. She sends an item about Patrick Donahue . Jessie Tenney will write during the week. Ruthy walks and very prettily too. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R. Madison Barracks, Sacket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Feb. 27 Kelly has been at his new post for nearly two months and likes it pretty well, but there is no Catholic Church nearer than Watertown New York ten miles off. Kelly wishes to get on the retired list to be able to live in some little town where he can educate his children and hear Mass on Sunday Kelly thought Fort Warren Massachusetts bad enough where they had a boot every other Sunday. There seems to be plenty of lukewarm Catholics here who might hire a hall where services could be held once or twice a month. Kelly wishes he were able to keep a horse. He would like to see Henry and would like to get a detail to go on a court martial to Detroit. He has never been there. He trusts Mr. Bannings' efforts at reorganization will not disturb him since this is the fourth move Kelly has made in three years. What does Henry think of the Corps Organization for the Artillery? There will be some pushing to see who will be Chief. General Ayres is commanding here, Captain Irvine is here with his company of the 22nd Infantry, as well as Turnbull and her company, and Kelly with his of the 3rd. Henry probable doesn't know Smith or any other officer of the 3rd. Mr. Humphreys is here. Kelly hopes the next time he writes he will tell Henry of the safe arrival of another Kelly and the good health of mother and child. Has sergeant Ball anything to do yet? Kelly is inclined to think the Army suits Ball best. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo CBRH III-3-a Van Gennip, Father John, Alpena, Michigan, to Mr. Ernest Van Dyke, Detroit, Michigan 1876 March 3 Van Gennip has received a letter from Mother Gertrude in reference to an offer he made to St. Anthony's Asylum. He will make the conditions clear to Van Dyke. If he collects the two notes he holds against Jeremiah O'Connor of Wayne, Michigan, he will make a donation of $1000 to the asylum provided the whole amount is collected, and that free of charge. Van Gennip will pay Van Dyke's travelling expenses. Henry will have to see Jerry and perhaps lay hold of his goods in the store. Van Gennip doesnot insist O'Connor should pay immediately provided he satisfies Henry with ample security. Henry is not to be deceived by Jerry's talk as he will promise a great deal but will fail to keep his word. Henry is to make certain of O'Connor if the orphans and Van Gennip are not to lose. The whole of the money belongs to the poor for whom Van Gennip held it in trust. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Donahue, Patrick, Boston, Massachusetts, to Frederick Pustet, New York, New York 1876 March 9 In relation to the account of Brownson, Donahue claims he is in bankruptcy and can make no preferences whatever. All must share alike. He is endeavoring to get his creditors to accept a composition of 20 per cent in settlement of their claims against him. Most of his creditors here have already signed to that effect. Donahue trusts his New York creditors will have no hesitation in signing also. It is the best he can do. If his assets were disposed of by forced sale his creditors would not realize 10 per cent of their claims. Donahue hopes Pustet will agree and that their future business relations will in a short time compensate for the loss sustained. Found among the Henry Brownson papers. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a New York Catholic Protectory, West Chester, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 April 5 Each edition of 100 copies or less of the same number of Brownson's Quarterly Review will cost $15. Ten different numbers will cost $150 with which they will be pleased to furnish Henry. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876? April 17.? Henry's telegram last evening of course fills the Tenneys with the greatest anxiety and perplexity. It is impossible for Sarah to leave. She hopes to hear something encouraging this morning, but is afraid Henry will think they are coming and will not send word. Sarah cannot conceive what could have occurred so suddenly. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Young, Alfred, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 April 17 Father Augustine F. Hewit absent. All the community sencs heartful sympathy and condolence, will celebrate Masses for Orestes A. Brownson. :: III-3-a telegram 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Mac Carthy, James, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 April 18 Mac Carthy heard this morning from Father Isaac T. Hecker of the death of Orestes A. Brownson . It was a great blow to him and to all Catholics in this country. He knows that there were those, even among Catholics, whose admiration of Brownson was not unmixed. But Mac Carthy always entertained not only admiration but sincere affection. If he is permitted, as he believes he shall be, he intends paying his poor tribute in one or more of the Catholic papers. By Father Hecker's express desire, there shall be an article in the coming June number of the Catholic World on Brownson prepared by a hand and mind more competent in every respect. They should be happy if Henry assisted them in supplying facts and reminiscences of Brownson's life. The N. Y. Times had an excellent obituary as newspaper obituaries go, the Herald a fair one. There is to be a solemn requiem mass for the repose of Brownson's soul at the Paulists' tomorrow. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah, M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 April 18 Sarah cannot realize Orestes A. Brownson's death or write more than a few lines this morning. The last letter said he was much better. Sarah hopes Henry will write her everything. Henry cannot imagine how strange and dreadful it seems, not having had any idea of Brownson's being seriously ill. The Tenneys hoped to have had him brought on here where he has many friends and his last letter told how well he was doing in money matters it could easily have been done. She is very sorry about it indeed. It will be a great disappointment to a great many here. His lifelong associations were in this part of the world and it would have given people one opportunity to do him some sort of justice. Sarah does not see what can be done now. Henry's telegram says the funeral is arranged for tomorrow. All that can be done is to render Brownson the honor which he deserved and which will be freely given him one of these days. Sarah does not think anything should have been done in haste. Sarah wants all the particulars and wonders what could have been the matter to pull him down so suddenly and unexpectedly. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Barstow, George F, Sackets Harbor, New York?, to Henry F.? Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876? Apr. 26 It will give Barstow great pleasure to accept Brownson's invitation and he will come to his house on his arrival in Detroit. Barstow has been at Sackets three or four weeks. Robertson is in command. Livingston has gone to Plattsburg; he told Barstow of Brownson's visit to Wood. Barstow was sorry to have missed Brownson. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 April 27 Sarah dismisses the idea of having a "Month's Mind" for Orestes A. Brownson but since there have been an immense number of requiem masses offered for him by the time the 17th May is here his friends will feel they have shown him all honor. Yesterday the Paulists honored Brownson in a style beyond any thing the other churches could attempt. Printed invitations, the church heavily draped; solemn high mass with innumerable ceremonies, priests beyond counting and a funeral sermon by Father Augustine F. Hewit. The Judge William J. Tenney and Jessie Tenney were there. Sarah has not been able to go out for some time. Father F. X. Weninger and other priests have written that they have sung masses for Brownson, and there were a great many said at the Redemptorists in New York at the first news. So Sarah has decided to give up any particular demonstration here on the 17th and she thinks the same reasons may apply for Detroit. Everybody has his own duties and his own life to lead, and it is hard to get them to make interruptions especially when they have already shown some respect to Brownson. In regard to the other matters Sarah would like to meet and discuss them and come to a settlement that would save all unpleasant feeling in the future as well as all expense and disturbance now. Sarah takes it for granted there is no will because Brownson could not bear the mention of such a thing. Brownson's promises were very clear and often repeated, and he meant to give to each that which would be of most advantage to each. He wrote Sarah in his last letter that he had $ 2000 out at 10 per cent and over $ 1200 in the bank. There should be two months pay on the annuity, there is a little money at Sadlier's O'Shea perhaps has something on the "American Republic" if anybody could get it, and Sadlier says he has commenced arrangements to republish the Convert. From what Sarah knows she should think there would be about 3000 left after all his funeral expenses are paid. There may be other things Henry knows of. The plates of the Review belonged to Brownson and are worth at least half of what they cost, his library has been valued at least at five or six thousand dollars, he always said that the copyright of his works which he promised Mammy Sarah H. Brownson to give to Sarah would bring her a handsome income as long as she lived. This still more now as Sarah has the Judge to help her with them, with the Judge's knowledge and position at Appleton's. Orestes Brownson would be very foolish to set up any claim for these or the library, because he could not make any use of either, but it would be just like him to think himself the very one to fall heir to the literary inheritance. He always considers that he should have the lion's share, and yet Sarah did not even send him a thing of Mammy's although Sarah wished to. Their mother told her to send all the clothes to the Little Sisters and so Sarah did; the other things remained here for the use of the house, and Agnes and Dolly made havoc among them. Orestes and Sarah are excellent friends. His admiration for her has increased wonderfully since he finds she has such a tearing little Brownson "buster" as Ruth. Sarah suggests that if Orestes is practicable that Henry give him the government's clothes. Orestes is too proud to allow them to be counted in his portion, but they would really be of far greater value to him than a lot of books would be. There were fourteen nice shirts which Sarah does not suppose Henry could wear and which would be a Godsend to him, whether they fitted or not. Orestes and May Brownson have always been so poor they could never get more than the scantiest furniture, and the sheets would be an immense lift. They would come good to any woman, Sarah would not mind a dozen or two extra herself, but she supposes Fifine would feel as she does, that she would rather they go where they are most needed. Sarah only mentions this, because she has lived there and knows how they are situated. Henry should not mention this to Orestes until everything is settled. She asks Henry to write her frankly just what his ideas and wishes are, and she will try to reconcile hers with them, and at the same time be perfectly fair and satisfactory to Orestes. If Henry does not wish to open the matter, Sarah will write Orestes when Henry wishes and if he claims too much she will tell him what she told Henry last summer of Brownson's promises to her as his housekeeper in the first place and for her services in regard to the Review up to the fall of 1873. Sarah has only written disconnected ideas and in a hurry. She wishes first to know what Henry would like best and what seems to him the fairest arrangement all around an hopes Henry will be as frank as she has been. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 7pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Eckles, J. W., Fort Windgate, New Mexico, to Capt. sic Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 May 1 Eckles has just noticed in the papers the death of Orestes A. Brownson . His respect for Brownson was so great that he feels it his duty to write. He has seen the most brilliant notices of Brownson's life in the ablest papers of the country. Henry's mother, Mrs. Sarah H. Brownson , Eckles believes passed away several years ago. He looked upon her as a saint - so good and patient. Henry's sister is married he has heard. Eckles often thinks of the pleasant days he passed at Henry's home in Elizabeth New Jersey. He can never forget Henry's and Sarah's kindness to him while on duty in New York. Their old friends are passing away one by one. He was sorry to hear of General ? Hay's death a year or more ago, as well as Morgan's who used to be Chief of Staff 2nd Corps. Eckles met Warren about a year ago. Eckles was married in 1868 to a daughter of General J.S. Mason who used to be Colonel of the 4 Ohio; he is now Lieutenant Colonel 4th Infantry. Eckles has two boys and two girls. He has had quite a busy tour of Texas and New Mexico. He has been in New Mexico for ten years. He supposes he should be looked on as just a curiosity in civilization again. He should be glad to hear from Henry. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a McCloskey, Father George M., Luisville, Kentucky, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 May 1 McCloskey finished yesterday a series of masses said through a week for the repose of the soul of Orestes A. Brownson . This was but a duty of friendship which he owed to one of the warmest friends he ever had. When Brownson discontinued his Review, McCloskey wanted to write but was unable to do it because he suffers from attacks of nervousness while writing. Father William Everett wrote that he said mass for Brownson and went on to recall the splendid talks of Brownson in their old home in Second Avenue. McCloskey does not doubt that every priest who knows of Brownson's worth will offer at least one mass for him. Henry should know how, as the representative of his father, some of his old friends revere his memory. These few lines have no other purpose and do not at all call for the trouble of a response. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 May 5 Henry's letter has been received and Orestes thanks him and Sarah M. Brownson Tenney for their kindness. Orestes will be very glad to have the clothes, watch, etc. that were once his dear father's. The watch will be a most precious memento. Henry's terrible telegram of the 16th came too late for Orestes to reach Detroit in time to see his beloved father yet alive. Perhaps that was for the best, for the shock has completely frustrated Orestes at this distance. Henry's kindness and care will never be forgotten by Orestes' family. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, William J., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 May 13 Another daughter Mary Brownson Tenney was born yesterday—a fine little fairy. Sarah is very comfortable and in excellent spirits. Love. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 May 18 Henry's letter proposing to send Orestes the clothes, watch, etc. of his dear father Orestes A. Brownson Sr. was received and answered, stating that Orestes should be glad to receive them. In case the answer was lost in the mails, Henry should know Orestes would like to have them and he requests him to send them at once. If Henry has sent them, Orestes should be notified that he may trace them if lost. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Corcoran, Father James A., Overbrook, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 May 24 Corcoran received a letter from Orestes A. Brownson last month in which there were several points which Corcoran would have answered had he not suffered a pulmonary attack. He sends condolences to Henry and his family on the loss of the great, good man. Corcoran was in doctor's hands when he heard the sad news and was grieved that he was deprived for ever of the opportunity, so kindly furnished by Brownson, of renewing their friendly intercourse that had been interrupted by the civil war, and the stranger, perhaps angry, feelings that grew out of it on both sides. In his letter, Brownson desired Corcoran to ask Henry to contribute to the American Catholic Quarterly Review, which Corcoran hereby does most cordially. It would not be fair to ask anything for the July number as the intervening time is so short, even had he not on hand too many articles. But Corcoran shall always feel greatly obliged if Henry can write at his leisure for future numbers. If Orestes A. Brownson's article which he expected to have ready for the July number be available, Gorecran shall be happy to insert it. Even in a fragmentary condition it is worth preserving in the Review. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 June - ? Sarah is just getting around, still quite weak but improving all the time. The baby Mary Brownson Tentey is very sweet, looks like mammy Sarah H. Brownson very fair with blue eyes turning black. She has the family appetite and Sarah nurses her entirely. Ruthy is overpowering and wears everyone out Jessie has had sole care of her since Sarah has been sick and is pretty much worn out. Sarah wrote Henry just before she was taken sick of the disposition of their father's property. She is anxious to have an answer and to know what woult suit Henry best. They shall all ful better when it is arranged. The baby was named "Mary" being born in May and "Brownson" for the family name. Father Augustine F Hewit was godfather and took everyone by storm. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 June 16 Henry's letter of the 11th. was received with great pleasure at the good news as well as for its kind tone. Orestes hopes that Henry or whoever has the money will send him his share as soon as possible for he is very poor, in fact some of the little girls have no shoes, etc. He has eight children now, the two oldest boys 19 and 13 years of age, work every day in the lead mines, but as yet have not "struck a lead"; the other boys is a baby and 5 girls are expensive. With a small part of the sum Henry mentions, Orestes could get a house and farm spot, where he could raise all his vegetables. Therefore, Henry is to excuse his anxiety for his portion of his father's estate as soon as possible. If the Catholics do not raise a monument to their champion Brownson, without his family mentioning it, Orestes will try to stir them up on the subject, but he does not think it his duty at present to contribute largely to the monument. Sarah M Brownson Tenney does not, he hopes, expect more than a third of the estate, unless Orestes A. Brownson made a will to that effect. Did he leave a will or testament? As to publishing and editing Brownson's books Henry is by all means the person to do that. Henry is eminently qualified and neither Sarah nor Orestes are. Besides they all prefer Brownson's works to be edited by one of his children. Orestes does not known what Brownson wish in this matter was. Therefore only, expresses his own pride that Brownson's son and his brother can and will carry out their father's views. Orestes desires to know however, how Henry's to be paid for this labor of editing and if it is at the price of Brownson's library as Orestes suspects. Orestes wants to know what has become of that library and the household furniture and goods, and if they were sold or were taken as claimed by Sarah when their mother died. When Ned Edward Patrick Brownson died, Orestes got a small box of clothes, but when mother died, he got nothing, not even a handkerchief that had been used by the best woman in the world. Orestes hopes Henry will explain everything in his spare time. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 June 28 The box Henry sent came all right and everything in it is not only of great use to Orestes, but is highly prized as belonging to his father. Henry is to thanks his wife Josephine Brownson for packing the box and trust she has fully recovered from her recent illness. Orestes could not have been more pleased unless the box had been larger. He asks now Henry to tell him all about Brownson's estate and what is to be done on Orestes' part if anything and to what he is entitled. He never dreamed of Henry's taking offense at some joking remarks Orestes wrote and hopes this infortunate misunderstanding will not prevent them from cordial and fraternal correspondence. He trusts they shall be just each to other. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 June 29 Orestes has received letter from both Henry and Sarah M. Brownson Tenney and although on the same subject, they do not coincide very remarkably. Orestes believes all three are agreed in claiming one third of Brownson's estate and are willing all to take one third of the money in hand. Orestes hopes Henry and Sarah will send him a third of that money belonging to the estate they have or that may come into their hands, as soon as possible as he is terribly cramped for means now. Orestes wishes to know all about the $2,000 investment and if he can realize on it now. He asks Henry if it were not better for them, or at least for Orestes, to sell his interests in the copyright. As to the library he cannot believe that Brownson died suddenly and left not a book of his once magnificent library that was his own. Henry and Sarah do not agree about the library, the copyrights and the house-hold goods, furniture, clothing etc. Orestes is inclined to think there is room for trouble and wishes all three of them could meet and settle everything peaceably, quietly and without scandal. Sarah speaks of what Orestes got since Brownson was in Detroit. This is a mystery to Orestes for he received nothing from Brownson while in Detroit. Orestes asks if Henry knows anything about this Orestes A. Brownson often made Orestes promises which those aquainted with his hasty disposition never expected him to keep, but he never gave Orestes one dollar with the permission to do what Orestes pleased with it. He always attached a condition that frequently cost Orestes much more than the value of the present. But Orestes has promised himself never more to quarrel with Henry or Sarah, and he trusts these things will be arranged in a just, honorable and legal manner, satisfactory to all. As to editing Brownson's works, Orestes would like to try some of them, as Sarah is unwilling Henry should edit them, and Orestes suggests dividing the works but he does not want the Catholic works. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp 8vo CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 July 3 Henry's explanation of everything is satisfactory to Orestes and more favorable than he expected. He has nothing more to say except that it way be satisfactory to Sarah M. Brownson Tenney also. He is surprised that Henry has four sons and asks their names. One of Orestes' pupils lived near Henry and often told Orestes of Henry's daughter. He asks the age of his daughters. Orestes eldest son is John Joseph Brownson, 19 years, next is William Henry Edward, 13 years old and Charles Augustus is 2. The girls are Mary 17, Sarah 11, Annie 9, Louise 7, Rosa4, and Sarah deceased who would have been 15. The war troubles killed her almost before birth. The two boys and Orestes are now engaged in mining, but they are not very successful as yet. They have a large mine which may yet turn out much lead, if they can find it. P.S. Orestes is very anxious to receive his share of the estate as soon as possible, as he is much cramped and has no home. Orestes sold his chess journal but will never get paid, be fears. He shall write to Sarah's Henry's statements and asks her to conform to them if she will. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney Sarah M. Brownson, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 July 7 Sarah congratulates Fifine. She has no doubt Fifine's baby will be a great comfort to her. Orestes A. Brownson Jr. writes that Henry has told him that Brownson left the library to Henry, and said that Orestes should receive $1000 before any division was made and that the rest should be equally divided among the three, exdept that Sarah was to have the proceeds of "Liberalism", unexampled munificence. Henry had told Sarah that Orestes A. Brownson had never made any will, nor even expressed any wish to Henry in regard to what should be done with his property after his death. Sarah is anxious to know where Henry has since found this will or to whom Brownson expressed these wishes. Henry wrote Sarah that he wished to give Orestes enough out of the money Brownson left to make up a thousand dollars with what he had already received. Orestes tells Sarah that Henry proposes to give Orestes a thousand dollars and then divide the rest. Sarah would like to know what that means. To the proposition to give Orestes enough to make up the thousand dollars, she wrote Henry she would not give her consent and Orestes says Henry has proposed to give Orestes more than that Henry should please remember that he is responsible for every dollar in his hands of their father's money and that no arrangements made without her concurrence can stand in law. It is now almost three months since Brownson's death and there has been no statement of either his debts or his property. It is a loss of time to make propositions of this kind, for she will not consent anything being given to one or another, until the whole matter is clearly and lawfully settled. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 July 23 Orestes thanks Henry for his check for $692.40. He hopes to make a payment with it toward a home of his own. He trusts Henry and Sarah will realize on the estate as fast as possible and will send Orestes his third as fast as convenient. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Harper S.B. A., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Aug. 12 Harper thanks Henry for his obliging offer. Harper has just received from his brother Father Thomas Morton Harper S. J. in England a request for the translation of Balmes' Fundamental Philosophy by "young Brownson". His brother claims there is not getting it in England. Sadleir published it. Harper asks Henry if he is the person alluded to and if so kindly to answer. Harper's brother is at present professor of philosophy at Stonyhearst College, Lancashire England P.S. Harper has appended Henry's name to the letter to the Tablet. If Henry does not wish this, he is to telegraph. :: III-3-a A. L.S. 2pp. 12mo CBRH III-3-a Van Gennip, Father John, Alpena, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Aug. 22 Henry no doubt forgot his promise made when at Alpena to send Van Gennip's an account of how he got along with Jerome O'Connor, of Wayne. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Aug. 28 Orestes has purchased a home and still $950. behind on its payment. Although he has some time yet, he is terribly cramped for money. He asks if possible to receive any more of Brownson's estate, even if the amount should be very small. Henry may be sure only pressing necessity would cause, Orestes to write this, after all Henry has already done. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, William J, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Sept. 4 Sarah M. Brownson Tenney was attached with a violent diarrhea and intense sickness of stomach and rejection of food more than two months ago. The doctor has been able to relieve only for short periods. This continued for more than four weeks resulting in extreme postration and evacuation. Is then occurred to them that the water closet was the cause of her disorder. She was kept from it and its connection with the house cutoff just in time to save her life. The disorder then gradually gave away but the stomach has not recovered its tone. She is slowly improving but is unable to leave her bed for any time. Her emacration is extreme. Her limbs are like sticks. The doctor allows no one to see her that she may be kept from all excitement and has ordered a change of air as soon as she can be moved. Throughout she has been steadily cheerful and hope-ful. Her entire recovery is now only a matter of time and care with the blessing of Providence. The youngest child Mary Brownson Tenney was quite ill in consequence of the change of food but is now recovering. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, William J., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Sept. 9 Sarah M. Brownson Tenney is slowly improving but very weak. The doctor allows no one to see her. Tenney should fear to have Henry see her until she had been previously notified of Henry's coming. Tenney will call at Sadlier's on Monday Sept. 11. at 1 p.m. and about 5 this afternoon. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, William J., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F . Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Oct. 28 Sarah M. Brownson Tenney alive but very low. :: III-3-a telegram 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Tenney, William J., Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Oct 30 Sarah M. Brownson Tenney died this morning. Funeral to suit. If Henry comes, answer. :: III-3-a telegram 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1876 Nov, 12 Orestes thanks Henry for sending him the $143 on account of Brownson's estate. It seems overpowering to think that Sarah M. Brownson Tenney is no more on earth. Now Orestes and Henry are all that are left of that once large and apparently lasting family of father, mother, seven sons and a daughter. What changes a few years have brought about, all sad. Henry's letter affords Orestes very great consolation in telling of the happy manner of dear sister's death; if well prepared and ready what matter a little sooner or later, except indeed to the orphan children. If there should even be anything Orestes could do for them, be may be counted upon. He has heard that Judge William J. Tenney is well off, tolerably rich so that temporarily the children will not suffer. Orestes' youngest child Charles Augustus Brownson is very sick of the measles; he is two years old and not much can be done for him. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 Jan. 24 Orestes thanks Henry for sending the Detroit Press and supposes it was sent on account of the chess column as Orestes notified Henry that he was to continue his chess journal. The editor of the column, T. P. Bull of 240 Howard St., is a good soul whom Orestes has known for some 12 years. The next Journal Chess will be out in a few days and Orestes hopes Henry will look over the copy. Orestes has had plenty of trouble with the purchasers of the Chess Journal, but he has avoided law suits because they are too expensive for his large family. The lead mine promises will but the boys are so anxious to go to school that they work only on Saturdays. One of the girls, Sarah Brownson, is very apt in learning. Orestes wants to know about Henry's family and should be delighted to make their acquaintance or even hear of them. One of Orestes' school girls formerly lived in Detroit near Henry and she often spoke about Brownson. :: III-3-a incomplete 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa To Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 March 05 Orestes thanks Henry for his letter as well for the weekly "Free Press". Henry's photographs came safe and has been very much admired. Orestes is now having his turn of sick children. His Louisa Brownson is very sick with measles. If Henry has time and feels disposed, an article from Der Lindes' chess book would be quite welcome. Orestes finds much trouble reading German and some of the other languages are a sealed book to him. He has commenced a couple of correspondece games with the good Father Henry J.H. Schutjes . The last game he had was with Andres of the New York chess club who called on Orestes last spring. The times are now very hard for Orestes, otherwise all is well. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Hudson C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 April 9 Father Hudson asks Henry how the numbers of Brownson's Review, vol 2 last series may be procured. Hudson has the others and 2 duplicate numbers. Mr. Pustet referred Hudson to Henry. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Hudson C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 April 17 Father Hudson thanks Henry for the numbers of the Review which were received last week and wants to know the price. :: III-3-a Postcard signed 1p. 16mo. CBRH III-3-a Warner, E.P., Fort Hamilton, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 April 20 On the 15th of May, 6 officers of the 3rd Artillery- De Russy, Scott, Warner, Kelly, Barstow and O'Hara- are to assemble in Detroit for the trial of Captain C.A. Webb 2nd. Infantry. Henry will certainly be besieged by some of them and forewarned so that he may be forewarned. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R., Sockets Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson 1877 April 26 Kelly thanks Henry for the invitation to visit him while in Detroit. Henry will hardly recognize Kelly for his white hair. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Van Gennys,Father John, Cheboygansic, Wisconsin, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 April 27 Van Gennys has donated to the Holy Childhood the amount which Jerry O'Connor owes him, of which society Rev. Edward D. Joos is the director for his diocese. Henry is to send the mortgage to Father Joos who feels to delicate to asks Henry for it. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Gonley, Dr. J.W. S., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 April 30 Dr. Gonley concludes Henry's boy is better since he has not heard from Henry. If, so, he shall not stop at Detroit on or about June 1st on his way to Chicago unless otherwise informed by Henry. :: III-3-a A. L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R., Sacket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 May 22 Kelly arrived home safely with his wife. He thanks Henry for the three pleasant days in Detroit and is happy to have visited his relative in Lyons whom he had not seen in fifteen years. Kelly is grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Brownson and Van Dykes. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 May 30 Orestes hopes Henry will not be offended at this letter since what he says is not particularly pleasing. So far Orestes has been paying fifty dollars a month but this summer wants to move out onto the farm and build a house since material and labor are very low now. He has pinched for this, but times have been hard for him so he asks Henry to lend him $100 or $200 for a year with interest. Henry will be of the utmost assistance if he can help Orestes by getting him started on a farm where his large family can help themselves earn a living. Orestes thinks his salary as school-teacher will enable him to pay it back. Moving out on the farm will save fuel expenses which amounted to over $100 for Food last year as well as rent money. Besides the opportunity to raise a crop will get Orestes out of poverty so hard to bear. He has delayed writing in the hopes that there nights be some more of their father's estate available but supposes there is no use expecting help in that direction. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Mc Clelland, R, Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 June 15 Mc Clelland thanks Henry for the book. McClelland's respect for Orestes A. Brownson and his distinguished abilities, and McClelland's regard for Henry will induce him to peruse the book soon with pleasure and instruction. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo CBRH III-3-a Kelly James R., Sacket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 June 15 Kelly sends Henry an Army register for this year. He likes the Van Dyke brothers very much, the Padre Father Ernest Van Dyke is such a dear good little man. As Kelly gets old be gets tired of the Army. What an evidence of a free government with equal religion rights when there are nearly 40 chaplains in the Army and only one Catholic priest among them. Barston is in Boston on a Court of Inquiry. Mrs. Kelly joins in regards. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A. Jr., Rockdale, Dubuque County, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 July 22 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. Orestes has been reappointed to the school for next year and by that means hopes to pay off the balances due on the farm and the house, about $700, and if none of the others sue will get through all right and get the land into condition. As yet it is in a state of nature. Orestes even dares invite Henry when he feels like getting away from the city. Orestes is four miles from town and in summer the surroundings are delightful. Orestes thanks Henry for pushing matters as fast as possible in regard to Brownson's estate. It is too bad that Sadlier who has made so much already on Brownson's books should be so slow about the "Convert". Orestes hopes Henry will realize from the estate soon for they both need all they can get now. Orestes has pushed his credit to the utmost to build a house, and yet the house must be plastered before winter sets in. The summer is so delightful here that it is hard to imagine the freezing winter that will set in in a few months Still Orestes will go patiently to work in his school hoping to be able to get the farm opened after one more year. With normal labor at home Orestes may make a living and be happy with no cause for the religious difficulties experienced by an opposer of the Bishop's schools, no temporal clashings with the spiritual authorities. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Wolff, George Dening, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 Oct. 19 In Father ames A. Corcoran who is ill and overburdened behalf's Wolff solicits Henry for an article in the January issue of the American Catholic Quarterly Review. Wolff is aware Henry's time is occupied with professional engagements and with those connected with his duties as literary executor of Brownson but hopes Henry will accede and speedily answer in the affirmative. :: III-3-a. A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R., Sacket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 Nov. 25 Kelly will forward Henry's missing register as soon as he hears from the clerk in Washington. He arrived at his post next day at noon after he left Henry. He entertains Mrs. Kelly with stories of Mrs. Brownson's six children when Mrs. Kelly thinks she has done wonders with the four. Kelly is glad Lt. Ladley is not under arrest. He has heard nothing Wildrick's or Bush's case yet, but from the President's order about such cases Kelly thinks they will be pardoned but will be the last to receive mercy. Kelly will send Henry a copy of wildrick's case. He supposes Henry told Father Ernest Van Dyke how hard poor Father R.W Haire to get the crosses up, and after all would not give him a cent. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R., Sacket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 Dec. 14 Kelly forwards to Henry the Army Register and would like to know if he receives them. Kelly sends season's greetings to all. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly James R., Sacket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1877 Dec. 31 Kelly wishes all a happy New Year. No copy of the order in Wildrick's case yet come. Abram was sentenced to be dismissed from the service but the President was pleased at Abram's "very creditable account and let him off with 4 months suspension from rank and command, on $50 a month Bush off the 22nd. whom they tried at Detroit, received the same sentence but his conmuted to 8 months suspension and $50 dollars per month. Bush may thank Kelly that Bush is still in the service for if Kelly had not sollicited those signatures nobody else would have bothered. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 Jan. 18 Orestes' family is well except Charles Augustus Brownson, 3 years old, who has the chicken pox. Bart. E. Linehan of Dubuque wishes to purchase a set of "Brownson's Review" for 1844 to 1864 inclusive. Orestes asks Henry where it may be had. Orestes is glad the "Convert" is selling so well and the information that Sadlier's will soon furnish a semi-annual statement comes like a shower to a man on the Sahara. His son John Brownson who will be of age next tuesday is teaching school about six miles from here. The Sisters' School St. Joseph's has an exhibition this evening is which Marie, Annie, Louisa and William Henry Edward Brownson appear in sixteen different parts, rather more than half the entire performance. All of Orestes" children sing, John plays the flute and Mary and Sarah the piano. Sarah goes to school in the city, the others here- Key West School. Orestes wants to hear all about Henry's children. He does not even know how many Henry has. He invites Henry to visit him next summer and to take one or two of his children along who would mostly benefit from country life. P.S. Orestes exchanges regularly with the Detroit Free Press. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 Feb. 25 Orestes thinks the price of $175 for the sets of "Brownson's Review" must have scared Mr. Linehan as nothing has since been heared from him. Orestes does not think it would do any good to write to Mr. Lawrence Kehoe as he will do more for Henry than for Orestes who is a stranger to him. Orestes asks if Sadlier made his January returns of which Henry spoke in Dec. Orestes supposes there is no use looking for dividends. Orestes is plodding along, still keeping from debt and that is all. This month's salary will enable Orestes to finich paying for the house and there remains $400 with interest to pay on the land, the only bad, dangerous debt he has on hand. Still the fencing and breaking of the first field has to be done this season to get a start towards making the farm pay taxes and self supporting. All are well. P. S. Orestes has changed his P.O box to "Drawer 220." :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Livingstone, L.L., Fort Wadsworth, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 April 17 Last night the postal card arrived. Livingstone placed Henry in imagination at the hotels, seeing the sights. Henry will have a nice time to travel home, Livingstone have tried the effects of blue pill today and believes in it. Henry's collar turned up behind where trunks had stood. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 May 8 Henry's letter of the 4th gave Orestes great pleasure. Orestes pitched headlong down the stairs from the very top and is now uneasy about his head which may perhaps give way any day and leave him insane. He sympathizes with Henry who is suffering from the gout at an early age. Orestes asks that Fifine give a full account of all her children. John Brownson was married Easter tuesday April 23. by Father James WArd, who boasts that he has sat at the table of the great Dr. Orestes A. Brownson . John's wife is Mary Glass, second daughter of an Irish Jeweler of Fort Benton, Montana, whose family are living near Orestes in key West, four miles from Dubuque. John and Mary are to be back this week and go to the housekeeping in Rockdale, about 3 miles from Dubuque and one mile from Orestes. John will probably mine this summer with Ned Brownson until fall and then teach a school again 7 or 8 months. Orestes father-in-law, 71 years old, mother-in-law- 68 years old and their deaf daughter 47 years old, live with Orestes on the farm. Mary Brownson 19, Sarah Brownson 13, Annie Brownson 11, and Louisa Brownson 9 go to the school five miles from home. Mary is dull in everything but music. Sarah is in a higher class than Mary and a Brownson to learn, Annie sings best, tenor to easy times and soprano to anything excepts operate music. Louisa has only robust health and large soft black eyes to boast of. At home Rosa Brownson 7 and Charles 3 are the rest of the live. Of course Charles is the favorite. John and his wife are devout Catholics. Orestes hopes Henry can get Sadlier to make a statement soon. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. 12 CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry. F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 May 12 Orestes has not heard from Henry for some time. Orestes had a close call last week in March when he fell downstairs one night. He had his right foot broken, left knee and shoulder bruised, right hand and wrist sprained and stiff for life. He can write only with the fore arm and shoulder mouvement in excruciating pain. The two middle fingers of left hand broken. His son John Brownson was married the April 23 to a very exemplary young lady. Of course Orestes cannot thrash any school-boys, hereafter and must now depend on moral suasion, a doubtful expedient. How does he live? How has be lived through it all, how shall be live on? He asks Henry to write a long letter for he is lonesome and chess he can no longer play, last he lose what little brains he has left uninjuried. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo CBRH III-3-a Gonley, J.W., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 May 30 Gonley sends the certificate Henry requires and though he recollects he saw Henry's wound of the temple, he may have made a mistake about the fingers which may have been the third and fourth. If so Henry is to return the certificate corrected and Gonley will write another. He is glad to learn Henry's boy is better. If Henry knows the precise date of the operation, he is to give it also. The certificate dated May 30, 1878 Gonley certifies that in 1862, at the battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, he examined Lieutenant Henry F. Brownson, U.S. Army, who was disabled by a gunshot wound just received in the temporal region, and that in 1863, on account of a gunshot wound of his right hand, Gonley performed resection of a portion of the second and third metacarpal bones, in consequence of which loss of substance, the functions of the hands are impaired. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Mc Keown, H.C., St. Catherine, Ontario, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 July 23 As a great admirer of Orestes A. Brownson and a subscriber to his Review for over twenty years, Mc Keown wants to know where he can obtain a good photograph of Brownson. The Catholics World in an article of June, 1876, mentioned a profile picture taken by a young artist named Wallace, and which the writer of the article considered the best likeness of Brownson extisting. He wonders if this may be secured. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 July 26 Mary Brownson, Orestes' eldest daughter was married yesterday to A. B. Worthington, a music teacher, and Orestes has lost the school which has been under his charge for the last 14 years. He has at home Ned, 15 years old, Sally, 13, Annie 11, Louisa 9, Rosa 7 and Charley 3 years. Orestes owes $300 on the farm, which debt harrasses him. It would do no good to tell why another was preferred to him in his school in which he has uniformly done well. It was to gain votes for political office and he belongs to no ring or society. To serve the public well is not all that is required. If his land were paid for he should rejoice at the chance to live at home and earn his bread by the sweat of a farmer's brow. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Kelley James R., Sacket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 Sep. 25 Kelly is disappointed that Henry did not visit him after his sojourn in New York with Barstow, Turnbull and the rest. He suspects L.L. Livingston monopolized all of Henry's time and childes Henry for disappointing him, especially since he will probably more before Henry gets his vacation next fall. A postal card for Henry which Kelly believes came from Fifine Brownson has been sent on to Detroit. Kelly has now two boys and two girls. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 3pp. 12mo CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 Nov. 3 Orestes thanks Henry for the $50 check and can not find words to express his gratitude. Henry urges Orestes in his letter no to despair, but it seemed so hard to be stopped just when he was coming out of hard times. It was very mean to be thrown out of a 14 years position without warning to accomidate a saloon politician. As Henry says, it may be for the best. It brings Orestes away from the denunciations of the Church against the partisans of Public Schools and it relieves Orestes of the charge of 600 children. $200 will finish paying for his homestead, 43 acres on which he can make a living. He has a field fenced and a small crop raised, so that he has plenty of corn bread now, and vegetables. Money is so scarce and times so hard that to pay a part satisfied creditors for a long time. The $50 has relieved Orestes more than Henry can imagine. There is plenty of farm produce this season and corn is ¢20 per bushel, oats ¢15, less than half the usual prices. Lead is only $14 per thousand pounds, formerly from $40 to $100. This has stopped mining on his place. Mr. Bart. E. Linehan says nothing about purchasing the sets of the Review. Orestes Hopes Henry will escape the $820 yearly rent, which is more than any house in Dubuque rents for. Orestes congratulated Henry upon moving into his own home as nothing is more pleasant to the women folks. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 1mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Jr. Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1878 Nov. 23 It was the Hon, John Lawler of La Crosse, Wisconsin who wanted the "Review". He is the patron and friend of St. John College at La Crosse, and is very wealthy. Orestes encloses Lawler's letter declaring that be has found a set. There is nothing new for Orestes to mention. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Sadlier James A., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 Jan. 31 The bearer is J.J. Kirwin visiting the principal western cities in the interests of the "Excelsior" publications. Sadlier forwards to Henry one of each set of William H Sadlier's Excelsior School Books with the compliments of Mrs. William H. Sadlier and himself. The books are the latest editions on which the Paris Exposition conferred a medal and are the first American Catholic School Books to receive such honor, and, for the first time in the history of Catholic Schools books are published in America. Sadlier asks Henry to examine the books because of his interest in Catholic education and to forward his criticism. Sadlier would appreciate Henry's recommendation for their use in Detroit Catholic Schools. Sadlier was in Montreal when Henry last visited New York. He will forward the "Complete Speller" and Sayer's "History of the U.S." to Henry within a month. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Severance, George, Tunbridge, Vermont To Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 Feb. 25 Severance inquieres if some one will edit and publish Orestes A. Brownson's writings or if they will be untouched in the condition they were left. In the latter case, he would like to receive the numbers of the Review containing the Refutation of Atheism, save the first published in October 1873. Severance is a University clergyman, and had, been a subscriber to Brownson's Review for years. As an author he is very much interested in Brownson and lives near Brownson's boyhood home in Royalton, Vermont. The house is still standing. Severance is conversant with Brownson's writings in connection with his different phases of unbelief and belief and he considers Brownson preeminently qualified to write a refutation of atheism. Severance believes the ranks of Brownson's family are very much thinned by death yet thinks Sarah M. Brownson Tenney is living. In former tears he was acquainted with the Healys sic of Washington, New Hampshire on Henry's mother's side, including Joseph Healy, Henry's uncle who has been dead some years. Severance visited Brownson several times in Chelsea, Mssachusetts thirty years ago. He wonders if there is any album photograph of Brownson available. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Dickinson, Don M., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 March 1 Dickinson asks Henry to meet a few friends of J, Logan Chipman at Dickinson's office tonight at 7 to 8 o'clock, to discuss Chipman's candidacy for the Superior Court Judgeship Mr. Chipman will be there. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Hamon S. J. Father Edward, Quebec, Canada, to enry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 March 14 Father Hamon was very happy to be able to accept Henry's invitation to conduct a retreat in Detroit. He will be free at the beginning of May and very probably can go after Easter. He can postpone a mission he is to have preached at Beanport near. Quebec the April 20 or 30 if the priest at Detroit is determined to have the retreat at this time. Hamon will await a letter about the time. He shall be very happy to renew his old acquaitance with Henry and to recall with him their memories of France and old friends. He is also delighted at the opportunity to meet Henry's children of whom Henry spoke to him at Montreal when they met so unexpectly. Hamon is therefore greatly pleased to accept the invitation. He would like to have Father J Raynel come with him but if not he could take a priest from here to accompany him. All is arranged for the best. He would have been on the islands of St. Viene Miquelon near Newfoundland Canada this lent. Fortunately the St. Viene appointment has been postponed for the following lent. Hamon will expect a letter from Detroit for a final settlement. :: III-3-a A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Conrardy, Lambert L Umatillo Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 April 26 Conrardy makes Henry's acquaintance through Miss Ruth ? Elbers ? . He would have been happy to have known Henry's illustrious father, Orestes A. Brownson . Conrardy had heard of Brownson before he had come to this country and had known that he was a convert. Conrardy had read the "Convert" and the "American Republic" but has been unable to procure the Review. He will ask Archbishop Francis N. Blanchet of Oregon but if Henry has some numbers he can spare, Conrardy would greatly appreciate them, and would return them. He thanks Henry for the Rambler. A good book is nearly the only consolation for a missionary living among Indians and whites who are no better than the redskins. He would prefer any book on a religion topic especially one on Apologetics. The priests here are laboring among a populations of white people very indifferent to religion, although many ask only to see the truth to adhere to it. The Methodist and Baptist preachers take advantage of this fact by going to camp meetings. Catholics priests are also welcome by many. Any books can do as much good as a flying visit. Any books of Brownson would be most welcome. Conrardy does not understand Italian but father likes English publications. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Hull, Theodore P., Vienna, Australia, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 May 17 Hull has arrived thus far after having inspected Paris from the Tuilleries to the Mobille, hob-nobbed with the swells at Nice, steered clear of Monte Carlo, shaken hands with Colombo at Geneva, toiled up the leaning tower at Pisa, interviewed the Pope, saw the beautiful bay of Naples and viewed the burning crater of Vesuvius, descended into the depths of Herculaneum and Pompeli, traversed the galleries of the Pitti Palace in Florence, eaten in the Arcade at Milan, visited the "Isola Bella" and the Borromeo Palace and saw the body of old St. Borromeo himself, ascended the Alps on a mulem wandered through any number of Palaces about the Lakes, did not see Romeo and Juliet at Verona and whipped an Italian who wanted to shut him up in the garden of Theodoric the Great. After all this Germany and it seems like coming from a grave yard into the land of the living where an honest intelligent people are living in the future rather than the past. Dr. John Joseph Ignaz von Dollinger who is unreconciled to the Vatican and is pretty old and will not accompliar much. Dollinger inquiered after Henry and seemed pleased when Hull told him what Henry has done for human progress in the way of children. Munich is a dear old city and the people all happy and prosperous. In fact Hull has seen no imperished, impoverished and descontented people since he left his own country; where people think others miserable because so many of them are in that condition. The modern paintings of Munich he considers the best in Europe. In Venice they have the largest pictures of the muster; in Florence the most and in Rome the best. Hull is surprised to find here more enterprise more building than any other city and the finest built city, except perhaps Paris. People rather better dressed than in Paris. From here he goes to Desden and Berlin and then homeward via Paris, England, Scotland and Ireland. This way he of little interest to Henry who has been over this ground, except to know that all are well. In Rome, all spoke very highly of Father Ernest Van Dyke. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-e Livingstone, L.L, Fort Wadsworth, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 Sept. 19 Henry is thanked for his invitation to Livingstone which would have been accepted if he had not concluded to take the sea voyage. He is now in the Caribbean, little more than a day's sail from Aspingwall. He hopes to reach San Francisco by the 5th. Henry should write him there. :: III-3-e postcard initialed 1p. 16mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R., Sockett Harbof, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 Nov. 14 Kelly encloses this year's army Register. Kelly had hoped Henry might have visited him this summer, since last year he had passed through Platesburgh, New York. Kelly expects to remain where is now Major of the 4th. Artillery. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 Nov. 29 Orestes is sorry to hear of Henry's accident to his shoulder and hopes it did not occur through somnambulism, as Orestes' wife still thinks he got his fall down stairs in that state. He asks Henry if he has any photos to gave of his family. He is glad to hear Philip Brownson is better. He does not know what any of them look like except that father Gara said that Mrs. Fifine Brownson is short and someone else that she wears gold spectacles. Orestes agrees that Henry's is right in not sending his children too young to school for the confinement is bad for them. Orestes' Rosa Brownson is seven years old, began school last september and now reads the First Reader well and leads her class. Orestes asks about "Orestes" Brownson his namesake. Orestes is surprised that Henry has six children already. Verily the Brownsons are not to fail with the death of the great Review. Orestes' Sally Brownson 14 years old is second in the 5th. grade. She is tall and looks like Sarah M. Brownson Tenney about the nose, mouth and chin, with eyes and forehead like Sally H. Brownson's. She is the most promising of Orestes' children, except for the youngest Charles Augustus Brownson, 5 years old, who is a "terror on wheels." He can tell anything about the farm and the stocks. The others have some peculiarities, but in his present circumstances he can not educate them much. Anna Brownson 12, Luisa Brownson 10, and Rosa Brownson go to the school to himself about four miles from home. Anna and Rosa are near-sighted, Charley is a little cross-eyed, but all of them are healthy and can eat all they can get. The fifty dollars Henry sent is a very great help for Orestes is poor almost to distraction and his family has suffered much for want of good clothing. Ned Brownson 16 years has been working on a farm for some clothes and Orestes can not do much on the farm and teach a school 4 miles away, for he must start at 7:15 every morning and gets home at 5:15. The only bad luck he has had lately is the loss of one horse valued at $75. Orestes has 2 cows 4 calves, 10 pigs, 43 hens, 4 geese and 2 turkeys. He raised about 200 bushels of corn, 10 bushels of buckwheat, a lot of garden stuff. He made 30 gallons of sorgum molasses. Ned and he worked in the lead mine Thursday and got 40 lbs. of mineral worth $1.20. He will send Henry the receipts he wishes. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo 11 CBRH III-3-a Severance, George, Tumbridge, Vermont, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1879 Dec. 15 Severance has always been interested in Orestes A. Brownson literary labors. As a liberalist Brownson stood second to no man in the country. When a preacher of Liberal Christianity so called he fully comprehended its views. He had the ability to define and defend atheism better than any of its American advocates at the present time and as a metaphysician he was without a poor on the Western Continent. Great and varied as are the talents and learning in the Catholic Church he was not outranked by any bishop or prelate. He throughly understood the American mind and in his stalwart blows at what he deemed religious error, he made no mistake. His training fitted him far better to deal intellectualy and religiously with his countrymen than the training of foreign prelates. It was a remarkable event in American national history for a man of his experience and attainments to find himself at last in the full fellowship of the Catholic communion. And the Church should see to it that his Catholic writings in particular are published in a uniform set of volumes. Severance has read most of Brownson's published writings from New Views of Chirstianity to the last volumes of Brownson's Quarterly Review excepting the last. Charles Elwood he would not part with for fifty times its books store value. Severance wants especially to see published his "Essays in Refutation of Atheism". During his boyhood, Severance knew well the Jesiah Sweet s family. Dr. John Sweet was Severance's school teacher and was a doctor in the Episcopal church. Severance is very well acquainted with the family of Joseph Healy, Washington New Hampshire who was Henry's maternal uncle, and Severance chanced to learn of Henry's residence by John P. Healy OF Boston. Severance frequently passes by the old residence of Suther Hunting where Brownson lived in his teens. The house is still standing and is rather a big and romantic place. The old Lady, Mrs. Benoni ? Wight is whose family Henry's uncle Orin Brownson was brought up, died but a few years ago. Not long since Severance met with and old playmate of Brownson's when he lived in South Royalton Vermont who said that Brownson had worked for his father, and was quite muscular at the age of 14 could esasily shoulder two bushels of corn. Severance was at Brownson's house once at Chelsea, Massachusetts but he saw none of the family. He should be very glad to get a photograph of Brownson and he wants the Essay on Atheism should it be published. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 4pp. 12mo CBRH III-3-a Joos, Father Edward, Monroe, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Jan. 12 Father Joos has been notified by Rev. John Van Gennip that he wants the debt of Jeremiah O'Connor to be paid by all means. Henry's firm agreed with Van Gennys to have the money collected for the consideration of $1000 to be paid to St. Anthony Asylum . Will the return of the papers to Henry be sufficient or will be want any formal instructions from Van Gennip ? :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Joos, Father Edward, Monroe, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Jan. 13 The mortgage and bond of Jeremish O'Connor to Rev. John Van Genny is enclosed. As to the money paid, Joos can only say that he has received lost of promises but no cash. P.S. A little more of that passion or temper might perhaps have made him more succesful in getting the money. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque. Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Feb. 8 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 of the family. The winter is quite severe and the dayly trip to the school - 7 miles- has almost finished him. He hopes next year to live off his farm and if his son Ned Brownson helps him they can get in a good harvest. He had 18 pigs born in Christmas week which ought to give him a start in pork, that great help to an Iowa farmer. He cautions Henry not to work too hard, sends regards to Mrs. Brownson whom he feels he knows through the photograph and invites "little Orestes" to visit "big Orestes". :: III-3-a A. L. S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Joos, Father Edward, Monroe, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 April 16 Joos acknowledges receipt of check for $450 from Jeremiah O'Connor in partial payment of Rev. John Van Gennip's mortgage. He hopes to see the balance come in proper time. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R., Socket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 July 11 Kelly will probably be anchored here until October or November. He should be most happy to see Henry and son but asks him to delay until Mrs. Kelly and two daughters return from Newport Rhode Island about Aug. 1 as Kelly would be a poor housekeeper. He hopes this delay does not inconvenience Henry. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes, A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 July 18 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. NedBrownson , John Brownson and Orestes are mining in a big cave here the vacation and yesterday found their "boss chink" about 25 pounds. Hancock stands a good chance of being the next president. Was not Edward Brownson Hancock's aide de camp when he fell? :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly James R. Madison Barracks, Socket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Jul. 27 Mrs. Kelly will be home next week and Henry can now come whenever he is ready. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2p. 12mo CBRH III-3-a Van Gennip, Father John, Cheboygan, Michigan, to Philip Van Dyke, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Aug. 23 There is some misunderstanding in their agreement of 1876 to collect Jeremiah O'Connor's debt. Van Gennip had absolutely no other idea than that Philip should collect the whole amount due to the poor, without regard how it was to be done, under the condition that Van Gennip should pay $1000 to St. Anthony Asylum after the amount due was collected. From this it is clear that getting a mortgage was not satisfying the agreement. When he said in 1876 that Philip will know best how to act and that he did not press immediate pay, it was to give Philip time to choose the most convenient opportunity for collecting the debt, nothing else. Henry F. Brownson says he might have sold the mortgage but that is about of the question as Philip was to collect the dues. Philip is not to think Van Gennip is in the least dissatisfied but Van Gennip wanted to correct these misapprehensions. Van Gennip did not know that Philip had commenced foreclosure and therefore he asks Philip not to delay the work. Van Gennip is so anxious because the whole amount belongs to the pagans in China, to buy from them their children who are otherwise thrown into the rivers or to the dogs. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Hall, Charles S., Binghampton, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Oct. 14 Hall returns herewith the discharge. The loss of Indiana is a set back. It does not determine the result as it would have determined for the Republicans had they succeded in Ohio and Illinois? It means hard work. An inmense sum must have been spent by the Republicans in Indiana. The hope is that their money will hold out. Hall thinks they stand a fair chance in this although they shall have to work hard for it. He is afriad they intend to get the Presidency by purchase this time, as there will be no chance to steal it Hall sends Henry all Cliff? papers he has. There is no abstract of title here. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 2pp 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr, Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Oct. 18 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 just gone to town to learn the baker business as he does not like farming. Orestes has only his wife and little girls to help. Charley Augustus Brownson the youngest 6 years old, can harness the old horse by getting up on the manger in the stable and work a little. It seems strange to think of Henry wearing glasses and weighing 200 pounds. Henry is far-sighted and Orestes the opposite. Age corrects Orestes eyes and he does not often use spectacles while Henry will have to use them to read as long as he lives. Orestes does not envy Henry his 200 1bs. for he had enough of that 10 years ago. He is now below 180. Physical labor makes a world of difference to a man. Are any of Henry's children near sighted? Nearly all of Orestes' have a tendency to that misfortune. Orestes invites Henry to come to see him. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Joos, Father Edward, Monroe, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Oct. 19 Father Joos received the draft of $200 from Jeremiah O'Connon on the debt he owes Father John Van Gennip . Father Van Gennip misunderstood Father Joos when the former thought Henry have charged him $50. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R., Sacket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Oct 25 Kelly hopes Henry's non appearance is not due to Kelly's request that Henry postpone his visit until Mrs Kelly come back home. Mrs Kelly says he should have been telegraphed to return earlier. He asks if she sent Henry this year's "Army Register". :: III-3-a A. L. S. 3pp 12mo CBRH III-3-a Kelly, James R., Sacket's Harbor, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Nov. 4 Kelly is suffering from rheumatism for a long time now. Last Sunday he could hardly walk up stairs. He asks what Henry thinks of the country again going Republican? Hundreds are on the Army retired list with much less claim than Henry. He hopes Henry succeeds this winter in being placed on the list. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Joos, Father Edward, Monroe, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Nov. 5 Father Joos acknowledges the receipt of $200 from Jeremiah O'Connor through Henry in payment on the mortgage of Father John Van Gennip. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes, A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Nov. 19 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' shiftlessness that lately makes him the sport of adversity? He no longer complains. He thinks it has been his fault that he did not better provide for his old age and yet nothing succeeds with him. Everything fails with him so that he gives up all hopes and quietly submits to any sufferings, misery and disappointment thankful for the few blessings of life and occasional happinesses. His son John Brownson seems to be more fortunate. He has already purchased a small farm near Orestes and with his frugal wife seems bound to acquire a competence early in life. He asks of a new edition of Brownson's Review to be issued. Orestes takes no papers and seldom sees anybody except some neighboring farmer so that he knows not what the world is doing. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Hudson C.S.C, Father Daniel, Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Dec. 3 Hudson thanks Henry for the proofs and for his kind suggestions. An elaborate index such as Henry mentions was out of the question for Hudson. He hasn't Callier's address here but has written for it and will send it as soon as received. Title proofs also received. There have been many applications for the Index. He asks what Henry thinks of announcing the publication of the complete works on the last page. It may serve as a food advertisement. Many want the Index who have not the Review at all or incomplete only. :: III-3-a A. L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Jannes, Claudio, Paris, France, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1880 Dec. 3 A socially and intellectually distinguished lady to whom Jannes mentioned Orestes A. Brownson's admirable book, The Convert, suggested that a French translation preceeded by a biography of the author would be beneficial to the Church's cause. She requested Jannes to sollicit Henry's permission for, although there are no copyright laws in force between the United States and France, courtesy demands them to seek his permission. If Henry is pleased with this undertaking he may send the biographical notices published in the U.S. when Brownson died. It would be quite useful to present a sketch of such an important figure to preface the translation. Jannes had written to the United States to procure the two volumes of articles which Henry had published and which bad originally appeared in the Quarterly Review. Jannes has the "Church and Liberalism". He has searched in vain all the Catholics Libraries in New York for the "Spirit Rapper". Jannes had been recently in the United States and had a letter of recommendation from Father E. Hamon, S.J., whose acquaintance Jannes made at Quebec. Unfortunately he had to abandon the trip to Detroit since his fellow traveler had contrary obligations to which Jannes had to submit. His regrets are increased since he could have verified for himself the remarkable influence which Henry's noted father, exerted on the intellectual and religious life of the United States. Jannes signs as Professor of Political Economics at the Catholic University of Paris. :: III-3-a A.L.S. French 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1881 May 1 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 review should not be a standard work. He sends his best regards to Henry's wife and children. His own family is striving hard to make a living and improving the farm. He has lost one horse, one calf and several hogs; the season for planting is very backward though they intend to work very long and hard. The family is in good health. His eldest son John Brownson has bought 5 ¼ more acres of land, for a total of 12¼ and has had one field fenced; he hopes to be able to build a small house in the Springs, and Orestes believes that they, being thrifty can do so. They have one child less than a year old. Orestes second son Edward Brownson 18, is large and stout and too wild and unsettled to be very useful. He has already been around on the river and railroads, but is just now home, doing some fencing for his father and brother. He is a natural musician and mimic but unwilling to study to perfect himself in that line. Orestes finds it difficult to keep him from such thing and to curb his strong nature. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Nelson Horatio P. St. Francis College, Quincy, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1881 June 1 Nelson acknowledges the ms. copy of St. Bonaventure's dissertation and the receipt of Brownson's letter of April 3. He has not received the parts omitted and does not hope for them before August or September. He is glad to hear that he is republishing the philosophical works of Orestes Brownson with notes and hopes that its success will be such as to enable him to republish his other works. He is pleased to be in agreement with Brownson that his father's philosophical doctrine is essentially the same as that of St. Bonaventure. He believes that an identification of the two will disarm the most hostile critics. Unless St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure expressly differ, it is to be presumed that they agree with each other and with the other Saints and Doctors. The job of proving the disagreement rests on Father Mings school, who Nelson thinks will have to struggle against the traditional Catholic Philosophy. He thanks Brownson for his reply to his note of last February. P. S. He notes some differences given by Fr. Fidelis between the manuscript and the published text of St. Bonaventure. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 32mo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1881 Aug. 7 Orestes's son Edward Brownson has married Katie Glass, a sister of the wife of his son John Brownson . He has decided not to send his son Charles to school but to try to educate himself, the moral condition of the schools being low. He asks whether the Sadliers' failure will affect Henry or the estate of their father Orestes A. Brownson. He would like to have Henry send him a spare prayer book in Latin or French and a copy of Thomas a Kempis, on anything suitable for Sunday reading. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1881 Aug. 25 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 study and asks what course of methaphysics to read with his son. Perhaps Henry can lend something from his library on these subjects. He hopes Henry and his family are in the best of health. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1881 Oct. 2 Henry's favor of the 21st was duly received. Orestes is sorry to hear of Henry's trouble with the gout, for he has been afflicted himself and describes his own remedies. Once when their father Orestes A. Brownson came to see him, he shared Orestes Jr. 's corn bread diet and the long walk to town, but finally went to a restaurant, remarking that he preferred his corpulence and gout to his son's diet and exercise. Winter is coming on, and Orestes is very tired of teaching his school. He thanks Henry for his intention of sending books and awaits them anxiously. As for metaphysics, Orestes finds he lacks the previous training necessary to understand his father's system and Wayland's Philosophy is too elementary. He hopes Henry will not cease work on account of his illness: he is already the intellectual heir of their father, and his translation of Balmes has given him a universal reputation. His son John Brownson is studying medicine, and his son Edward Brownson preparing to teach school. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Van Gennip Father John F., Cheboygan, Wisconsin, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1881 Oct. 20 Van Gennip learns with deep sorrow of the death of Philip Van Dyke and sympathizes with his relatives. He expressed, in his last letter, patient with Jeremiah O'Connor because he thought he was doing his best to pay his debts to the poor but now he fears that he was mistaken and urges Brownson to do all he can to make him pay, for the money is badly needed for the care of souls. He wishes Brownson and all of his relations God's choicest blessings. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Villalard, Eugene, Bordeaux, France, to 1881 Nov. 26 Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Villalard request the addresees presence at the marriage of their daughter Berthe Villalard to Ferdinand Bouffard . In the Henry F. Brownson papers. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Van Gennip, Father John F., Cheboygan, Wisconsin, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1881 Dec. 5 Having received Henry's letter, Van Gennip asks that Henry deal with Jeremiah O'Connor as he judges proper, provided that he is sure that the debt will be paid as O'Connor promised and as Henry atated to Van Gennip in his letter of Nov. 30. 1881. He relies upon Henry's judgement in the matter, though the work in China the money is to do will be delayed. His opinion is that O'Connor owes $5727.28 and not $4,500, however; and he encloses $10 to pay for postage etc. He will say on, his first free day, a mass for Henry's intentions that God may grant his choicest blessing for his temporal and spiritual welfare. He wishes Henry and his family a Holy Christmas and a happy New Year. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1881 Dec. 8 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 the second time the father of a girl, and his son Ned is teaching a school about 9 miles away. Their mother-in-law Mrs. Glass died a short time ago at the age of 41. His family is rejoicing today at having just finished their jubilee. He wishes the same blessing to Henry and his family. P. S. Orestes has been trying to find Henry's letters to ascertain how much money Henry has sent him, but has only the letters of October 1878 and November, 1879, both of which contained $50. He believes that Henry sent him in July, 1876, nearly $100 $666.67, if he is correct and $143 in June, 1877, but the dates and amounts are from memory and entries in his bank book. Henry has sent him of his father's estate, his one third, or $910. If Henry has preserved the checks he sent to Orestes or has his acknowledging letters for the money as sent on four occasions, he can tell the exact amount. Orestes will try again to find out the exact amount, and hopes that this causes Henry no embarassment. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F., Detroit, Michigan 1882 Mar. 14 Brownson is duly admitted and qualified, on a motion of Alfred Russell, as an Attorney and Counsellor of the Supreme Court of the United States. Signed by James H. McKenney. :: III-3-h Printed D.S. 1p. folio CBRH III-3-a Vives, Louis, Paris, France, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 May 23 On May 4, 1880, Vives had offered Henry a copy of St. Athanasius at 50 francs which Henry had requested of Vives representative, Leon Guillaume, in 1878, and which Vives had not been able to supply from his stock at the time. Today Vives found a copy of this work in good condition; and give Henry first choice. The work is in good condition two volumes in folio for $10. If Henry wants the book, he is to inform Vives inmediatly in order that he may ship it along with an assignment which he is sending to New York. :: III-3-a A. L. S. French 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Kirnan ? Francis, Utica, New York, to F. M. Cockrell, Washington D. C. 1882 May 29 The bearer of this letter, Henry F. Brownson wishes to see Cockrell in reference to a matter pending in the senate which concerns him personally. Kirnan knew Brownson's father Orestes A. Brownson and takes an interest in the son. Kirnan is pleased to introduce Henry to Cockrell and to request Cockrell to give Henry a hearing on the matter. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 2pp.,2mo. CBRH III-3-a Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, Washington County, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 May 31 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 pity not to give to the world the writings of Henry's gifted father Orestes A. Brownson :: III-3-a A. L. S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 July 3 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 whether either of them will be appointed to a school for the coming year is doubtful. Orestes is too old, John too young. He encloses a photograph of John. Orestes second son Edward Brownson is managing one of Bishop John Hennessy's farms near here. Though Edward is but 18 year old he is very large and smart. He does not like to work for Orestes so that it will be a blessing if he can please the Bishop in running the Epworth farm. Sarah Brownson's is in delicate health but is the housekeeper. Annie Brownson and Louisa Brownson work on the farm with him. His corn, the best in the vicinity, is nearly ploughed and the gardens are in good order, but the farm is not yet sufficiently developed to support the family. Orestes killed his first ratlesnake yesterday. Orestes wishes he could visit Henry. Nothing pleases him more than hearing of Henry and his family. P. S. He asks if he told Henry that he was thrown out of a wagon by the spring breaking from which he keeps his right thumb so twisted that he can hardly write legibly? :: III-3-a A. L. S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Aug. 19 Onahan believes the publication of a new edition of the works of Orestes A. Brownson deserves prompt and generous encouragement from the Catholic publics, although the number of volumes and the cost of the series will limit the number of subscriptions. In Onahan's opinion a collection of the more permanent of his writings in 5 to 10 volumes would bring Henry a greater and more satisfactory return. However Onahan enters his subscription for the entire work and wants to know at what reduced price he can obtain ten sets. He will try to get that number of suscribers. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes A. Jr, Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Aug. 20 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 are many persons who can not make up their minds to take a book until they see it. P. S. Henry is to send a few circulars for use here. All are well here, except Edward Brownson's wife, who is expected to die, and her baby. This is the second day of her labor and the doctor nearly gives them up. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Callicot, Theophilus C., Albany, New York, to Thorndike Nourse, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Aug. 22 If Norse will send Callicot the prospectus and the volumes of Orestes A. Brownson as they successively appear for editorial notice in the Albany Times, Callicot will do his best to promote the success of the venture. He has long admired Brownson's writings and will be glad to see a complete edition. In the Henry F. Brownson papaers :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Hendricken, Thomas F. Bishop of Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Aug. 25 Henricken wishes to subscribe to the works of Orestes A. Brownson. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Hudson C.S.C. Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Aug. 25 Hudson sends to Henry a copy of this week's "Ave Maria", in which there is a notice of Henry's undertaking. Henry's circular is what Hudson was thinking of when he wrote to Henry, but Hudson regrets that Henry did not announce the portrait for the first volume. The circular ought to be sent to priest and the heads of libraries everywhere in this country and to every Catholic publication, also to such periodicals as the Atheneum, Critic, Dial etc. Hudson wants two sets of the work which should be sent to the Lemonnier Library here. Hudson hopes to see as full and prominent a notice of the project in all the Catholic papers as he gave in the "Ave Maria". The Scholastic, the little college paper published here will also contain an announcement. This, with the circular is the best sort of advertising. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Maes, Father Camillus P., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Aug. 31 Maes subscribers to two copies of the new edition of the works of Orestes A. Brownson. He wishes Henry pecuniary success. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Mc. Donald, Father John L., Campbellton, New Brunswick Canada, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Sept. 4 McDonald subscribers to the works of Orestes A. Brownson and congratulates Henry upon undertaking to publish them. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo CBRH III-3-a Byrne, Father P.V., Germantown, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Sept. 15 If Henry sends to Byrne a bill for the 17 volumes of Orestes A. Brownson's works, along with the first volume, Byrne will forward a check inmediatly. P.S. May God bless Henry for his noble undertaking. Byrne knew and loved Brownson. In magnificence of intellect Brownson stands with the great genuines of Christian times—St. Augustine, St. Thomas and the First Napoleon. Henry should not forget some literary notices and the prize essay on the Blessed Virgin which appeared in Ave Maria. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Ryan, Father Abram J., Biloxi, Mississippi, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Sept. 18 Henry is to send inmediatly Orestes A. Brownson's Essay in Refutation of Atheism. Ryan learned more principles from Brownson than from any other teacher, even though Ryan is a priest. In particular Ryan has said many masses for the rest of his soul. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson C.S.C. Father Daniel, Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Nov. 7 Hudson thanks Brownson for a book recently received and reminds him of copies, which were to be sent to the Lemonnier Library. He informs Brownson of the New Orleans address of Father Peter Paul Cooney, reminding him to send a bill. He asks Brownson to read the proofs of an article written by himself to promote the sale of Brownson's father's writings. He approves a sketch written by John Mac Carthy but feels, that it does not sufficiently direct attention to the work of Brownson the younger. Hudson hopes to be in Detroit on the following Saturday and Sunday, but is not certain. He asks whether Mr. Nourse can let him have a few copies of the portrait on large paper. Hudson will notice the work in the Ave Maria and asks forgiveness for his haste and crawl. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson Orestes, A. Jr., Rockdale, Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Nov. 12 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 regrets that he knew so little of him in later years blaming only himself, however, for doing only as he pleased. He finds much that he does not understand but that is not the fault of his father whose writing he calls clear and choice and exact. He fears that Henry may make too many omissions in the work and urges him not to give up the project and that eventually it will pay largely. The first volume may not please Catholics as much as the later ones but finds true progress of his father's reasoning and convictions most valuable. Theology can be found elsewhere but not his father philosophy. He finds, in spite of hours of metaphysical speculation, many unsolved problems, and recalls his father's saying: "Well, grant what you say, what then? Are you any better off? "Only faith and practice of religion will give the finive mind a glimpse on the infinite. Bronson Alcott attempted to convince him of his permanent existence and failing, pronounced Orestes a great philosopher, though he felt himself a great fool, and Alcott a greater one, since he was without faith. Orestes hopes to hear that the publication is becoming a financial success and regrets that since seven at home must live on $1.50 a day he can do nothing financially hopes to be able to in the future. He hopes that his brother and family are well and thanks him again for the book. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Van Gennip, Father John J., Ecorse, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson 1882 Nov. 13 Van Gennip has received Brownson's letter and last January a letter in behalf of Mrs. Jeremiah O'Connor to have the interest put at a lower figure. He informed her that he would remit the interest until he should inform her to pay it again. He intended to let Brownson know immediately, but forgot until the interested parties came to see him about the matter. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Rockdale, Dubuque Co, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Nov. 14 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 on the back of the following. A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a John J. Fitzgibbon, Chicago Illinois, to Orestes A. Brownson, Dubuque, Iowa 1882 Nov. 10 Mr. Fitzgibbon rejoices in the publishing of the works of Orestes A. Brownson whom he terms the great American philosopher, and hopes that the labors of Henry Brownson, in translating and making available the works will be fully appreciated since he is already grateful to him for his translation of "Balmes Fundamental Philosophy". He believes that people of culture will liberally subscribe for the work and that the fame of the philosopher will spread as the taste for solid learning increases among the educated classes. Fitzgibbon offers to subscribe and to attempt to place the work in the Chicago Public Library. He promises to try to get the book received by the press and to say something himself in the Chicago Citizen, and asks for information on the life and writings of Orestes Brownson to use in the Citizen of the following week. Fitzgibbon hopes to see Brownson soon and to hear from him as soon as possible. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. CBRH III-3-b Maes, Father Camillus P., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Nov. 14 Father Maes congratulates Brownson on the beginning of his publication of his father's works and calls the project particularly welcome in these days of materialism to further the cause of religion. He will read the volumes with great interest. He likes Henry's introductory remarks, and the plan laid down for the book shows Maes that his former impression that Orestes A Brownson did not fully elucidate his views on important questions is incorrect.. He wishes Henry God speed in an undertaking which he hopes the learned public of America will appreciate in a substantial manner. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Walker, Father G., Rollo Bay, P. Edward Island Canada, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Nov. 16 Father Walker encloses a portal order for $3 for vol 1 of Brownson's works, of which he acknowledges receipt. He congratulates Brownson on his undertaking and on the excellent printing of the book. The letter contains a notice: "Paid B. $3.00." :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hyde, John, Bay City, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Nov. 17 Noticing in the Catholic Exchange that the first volume of Brownson's Works is published, Hyde offers to review the volume if it is sent to him. He has already considered in his paper The Catholic Chronicle, Henry's plan of publication and has been a reader of Brownson since 1854. He has the last series of his Review and some other works and admires him very much. He promises to give an appreciative notice of the new book. The letter contains an addition: "Sent copy vol 1 to Cath. Chronicle." :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hill, S.J. Father Walter H., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Nov. 22 Father Hill has read Brownson's remarks on the notes sent to him for the forthcoming volume of his father's writings and has conveyed Brownson's comments to the writer of them. The writer has no objection to Brownson's appending his own views to the writer's notes. Rather Hill feel there is nothing else he can say on the subject and leaves the decision to Brownson. He is confident of the good results to come from the entire undertaking and sends Brownson his best wishes. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-a Doize A. Jr, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Nov. 25 Doize has received Brownson's letter of Oct. 31 in reply to a letter of his own under the pseudonym Peregrinus . He subscribes for the works of Brownson and suggests as an agent for the South his friend Charles D. Elder, a Catholic blood agent and shopkeeper of New Orleans, the brother of Archbishop William Henry Elder, Coadjutor to Archbishop Purcell. Elder is willing to undertake the work for Brownson. Doize wishes Brownson success in his undertaking. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-h Donahue, Patrick, Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Dec. 2 Donahue wishes to send a copy of Brownson's father's works to William Francis Dennahy Dublin for review. The price is to be as low as possible, the bill to be mailed to Donahue, and the book mailed to Dennahy. Donahue has seen the book in Noonan's bookstore and finds that it looks well and massive. :: III-3-h A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Doize, A. J., New Orleans, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Dec. 5 Doise has received Brownson's letter of the 28th. and orders the cloth edition of Brownson's works His friend Charles D. Elder will accept. The agency for the South west, and Doize is confident that he will obtain many subscribers. Elder wishes, Brownson to send him the circulars and he will set to work at once. He and Brownson will have to agree between themselves as to terms. He wishes Brownson all success. P.S. Elder's address is 143 St. Charles St. :: III-3-b A. L. S. 2pp 12mo CBRH III-3-b O'Connell, Bishop Eugene, Marysville, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Dec. 8 Bishop O'Connell appreciates Brownson's generosity in offering to send his father's works for 3 years without advance payment, agrees to subscribe for that period, and offers to pay in advance if any other prelate does so. He thinks that Brownson's father's Reviews must be republished and that Dr. England's worked also should see the light. :: III-3-b A. L. S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Flood, Michael, San Francisco, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Dec. 27 Flood has received Brownson's circular and is pleased with the project. He acted as agent for the Review and regrets that Brownson was insuficiently appreciated by the Catholics community. He hopes the enterprise will be successful and that enough subscriptions are received. He sends an order for three copies to be mailed to him, payment to be made on receipt, and expects other orders after the book appeared. A friend has asked him to inquire how many subscriptors he would have to obtain to receive a free copy. He wishes Brownson every encouragement and success. A note in pencil states: 20% Amt. Chg. postage. Sent Jan. 3. :: III-3-d A. L. S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Doize, A. J., New Orleans, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1882 Dec. 28 Doize informs Brownson that Charles D. Elder has received some circulars from him but no word concerning the conditions of his commission as agent for Brownson, and assumes that a letter of Brownson has miscarried. He asks that Brownson inform Elder at once, and acknowledge the receipt of the first volume of Brownson's works, which pleased him very much. He wishes Brownson success and sends him the compliments of the season. :: III-3-b A. L. S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Severance, George, Enfield, New Hampshire, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Jan.21 Severance has learned that Brownson is editing his father's works for publication, and since he has most of the Review and the Boston Quarterly is anxious to obtain only the Essay in Refutation of Atheism, which he hopes can be bound separately. He asks for a reply and to know the price and postage. He would purchase the entire set, but he is forced to be economical. P. S. Brownson will remember Severance's having addressed him once before. :: III-3-b A. L. S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Smith, Elizabeth Oakes, Blue Point, Long Island, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Feb. 2 Smith has often thought of Brownson and his father and sister since the Civil War but has just now learned his address. She notes the passing of the years since they have last met. Only Appleton and Alvin are left to her, just as Henry has only one brother left. She is not prosperous and cannot purchase the 15 volumes of his father's works. She appreciates Brownson's domestic life and recalls the simplicity of his father's household in New Jersey. She laments the ostentation of the present day, especially since labor is so poorly paid. She has sent a manuscript to a man named Ellsworth in Detroit of a book concerned with abuses of the working man. She has heard nothing satisfactory from Ellsworth and asks Brownson to look into the matter, if it is not too much trouble. She asks if Brownson ever knew Father O'Reiley, and sends her best wishes to Brownson and his family. Enclosure: clipping of a one inch, one column advertisement of E. Ellsworth, Detroit, Michigan. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Severance George, West Radolph, Vermont, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Feb. 4 Severance has received the Essay in Refutation of Atheism and hopes to read it soon. He has always respected Brownson's father as an intellectual athlete and has been of assistance in his own reasoning. He has been interested in Brownson's views for many years, an admirer of the Review and of Charles Elwood, but more in harmony with Brownson's views at this period, than at a later time. He calls Brownson the leading contemporary American writer, one who was well aware of the intellectual tendencies of his countrymen, influential in liberating the public mind from the control of Locke. He learned of Henry Brownson from John P. Healy and is anxious to become better acquainted with him and his family. He has often passed the place where Dr. Brownson spent his boyhood in Vermont. He encloses $1 for the book and sends his respects. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Montgomery, Father George, San Francisco, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Feb. 16 Father Montgomery subscribes to the edition of Brownson's Works and asks for the discount granted for paying in advance, the total cost, and the time when the entire work will be out. He thanks Brownson for his last letter and sents his best wishes. :: III-3-b A. L. S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hill, S.J., Father Walter H., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Mar. 1 Father Hill asks Brownson to return to him the notes of a writer who has observed that Brownson has not used them. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Ward, Father Julius H., Boston Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Mar. 6 Father Hill informs Brownson that reviews have now appeared in the advertiser and the Herald of Boston and in the Times of New York and that delay was necessary because of the need to asimilate the material and prepare the reviews. He calls the review in the Times the best and hopes that Brownson will like them all that they advance the sale of the book. He promises to continue the reviewing in the same three papers and will appreciate any suggestions Brownson may make. He wishes Brownson to continue sending the New York Times to him in Boston, care of A. Williams and Co. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Blume, Father Englebert, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Mar. 8 Father Blume, pleased with the news of Brownson's publishing project, subscribes to the entire work and offers to pay in advance, with proper discount for so doing. He hopes the columes will be a substantially bound. He is able to purchase the volume by means of a legacy left him by a parishioner. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Murray, Thomas Hamilton, Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Mar. 9 Murray is compiling a list for publication of prominent American Catholic Converts and, wishing to give special attention to Brownson's father, asks whether he ever received the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy and, if so, how he wrote it. He asks whether Henry's brothers and sisters also were converts and asks for names and particulars and also what military position Henry held. :: III-3-b A.L.S/. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Montgomery, Father George, San Francisco, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Mar. 12 Father Montgomery has received the first two volumes of Brownson's works and asks the favor of an autograph of Henry's father. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Smith, Elizabeth Oakes, Blue Point, Long Island, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Apr. 10 Smith asks Brownson to obtain her manuscript, the Queen of Tramps, from Ellsworth, a literary agent of Detroit, who is doing nothing toward publishing it, and to return it to her. She has proof that he is in possession of the manuscript. She is glad that Brownson agrees with her on the injustice being done to the working man. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Donahoe, Patrick, Boston, Massachusetts, to horndike Nourse, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Apr. 22 Donahoe asks that a free copy of Brownson's works be given to the editor of Donahoe's Magazine, if other publications are receiving free copies, since the paper is giving much attention to the work. In the Henry F. Brownson Collection :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo CBRH III-3-b Murray, Thomas Hamilton, Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Apr. 23 Murray thanks Brownson for his approval of the "American Converts" project and for the names Brownson has sent him. He asks for information about a Judge William Tenney of New Jersey, whom he thinks may have been a relative of Brownson, and about a General Foster who may have been a convert. He asks for names of Army and navy officers who are converts and whether Mrs. Madeleine V. Dahlgren, the authoress, is also. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr. Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 May 6 Orestes has received Henry's letter of March 7 and sympathizes with him in his heavy labors and offers encouragement. His first grandson was born to his son John and his wife last Monday. John Brownson is studiyng medicine and teaching school making $65 a month to Orestes $60. Orestes lists his work program for the day, his work on the farm consisting chiefly of heavy work which the girls cannot to. They are very helpful on the farm, as is his youngest son Charles, now 8. He asks Henry how he weathers his increasing years and admits that he at 55, is going downhill. He has too much to do with 5 children at home to support and a farm to get in shape for the time when is small school 20 pupils will he taken away from him. He still needs a hog pen, a cistern at the cow barn, and a mower for grass land, all at cost of about. $300. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 June 3 Taher Hudson thanks Brownson for the photograph and assures him that Professor James Edwards will take the best of care of it. He hopes that Brownson is now fully recovered. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo, CBRH III-3-b Hecker, Father Isaac T., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 June 15 Father Hecker thanks Brownson for the engraving of his father Orestes A. Brownson and remembers its being published in the Dem. Review under O'Sullivan. The photograph by Wallace hangs on the wall of Hecker's room and pleases him. He is uncertain about the bust of Brownson's father and asks whether he has a bust by Wallace. He approves of anything Brownson may do in the publishing line, but is too feeble to do anything himself. He has written a few words on the third volume of Brownson's Works in the Catholic World for July to encourage the success of the undertaking and out of gratitude to the memory of the great philosopher. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp/ 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Richards, William, Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 June 17 Richards asks Brownson to quote the discount on the series set of his father's works to John Galvin, care of U.S. Senator James F. Wilson, Fairfield Iowa. Wilson is the patron of the local library and Galvin, a law student in his office, has been raising money among the Catholics of the town to pay for the set. Rachards thinks the third volume of the set not quite up to the first two, the workmanship not first-rate, the paper too heavy, the press work uneven. He suggests that Brownson pass the hint along to Nourse. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Tisdall, S.J., Father A. F., Frederick, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 June 25 Father Tisdall thanks Brownson for the great favor of presenting the first four volumes of his father's works to the Novitiate. Father A.F. Ciampi has recalled the days which Brownson spent at the Novitiate and sends his best wishes. Father John Bapst, the friend of Brownson's father, is having mental difficulties, brought on, it is thought, by the persecution which he once suffered for the Faith. Tisdall will have a special memorandum made, so that it shall not be forgotten at the Novitiate both the gift and the giver and also his great father. He sends his best wishes and promises to offer Mass for Henry on July 2. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Doize, A.D., New Orleans, Luisiana, to Nourse, Thorndike, Detroit, Michigan 1883 June 27 Doize encloses $3 for the fourth volumes of Brownson's works and complains that the second and third volumes are smaller in height than the first and forth, and asks whether they cannot all be got in uniform size. In the Henry F. Brownson Collection. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Winchester, B.F., Morgan City, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Sep. 5 Winchester asks for a prospectus of the works of Brownson's father, whom he knew well and who once spent a few days at Winchester's home. He has the "American Republic" and many numbers of the Review before the War and would like to know what the volumes now out contain. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Winchester, B.F., Morgan City, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Sep. 14 Winchester, having received Brownson's letter of the 8th, encloses a money order for $3.25 and requests Brownson to send him volume 4 of his father's works, he hopes to send for the entire edition later. Added in pencil to the letter: Paid B. $3.25. Send vol. IV 9/21/83 :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Tourdelot, S.J., Father Frederick E., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Sept. 25 In looking over the Loyola College library, Father Tourdelot finds a number of duplicate copies of the Review, extending from 1844 to 1863, and wonders whether Brownson can help him dispose of them at a just price. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Oct. 15 Father Hudson sends two copies of the Month and one of the Ave Maria for Brownson to see. The review published in the New York Times may have been reprinted in the Catholic and was reprinted in the Universe of Cleveland, probably not in the Michigan Catholic. He cannot find a copy of the Universe to send. Hudson was mistaken about General John A. Logan : it was his brother who was minister to Chile and had a son at Notre Dame. However, Colonel William Hoynes knows the general and will give Brownson a letter to him, and can also give him a letter to Augustus H. Pettibone, member of Congress from the 1st district of Tennessee. Perhaps Finnerty also can be of service. Hudson asks information for the letter to General Logan about Brownson's army service. He sends his regards to Mrs. Brownson and hopes Brownson is well. P.S. Father Thomas Walsh and the Father General Edward Sorin wish to be remembered to Brownson and his household. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Oct. 18 Father Hudson thanks Brownson for the Edinburgh Review which he now returns. It confirms his opinion that Father Curci is a "crank", his knowledge imperfect, and his information drawn from one side. However the article was worth reading. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Gillespie, C.S.C. Mother, Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Oct. 20 Mother Angela subscribes for a full set of Brownson's works. She sends her regards to Mrs. Brownson, who she hopes some day to meet. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Winchester, B.F., Morgan City, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Oct. 24 Winchester has received the 4th volume of Brownson's works and encloses $3.15 for the 1st. He had never seen the article of Leroux on Humanity in the Review of July, 1842, though he and Brownson's father talked about the article of april, 1855. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Oechtering, Father John B., Mishawaka, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Oct. 25 Father Oechtering has meant for some time to subscribe for the works of Brownson, and just now having been reminded by his friend Father Daniel E. Hudson asks Henry to send him the set, one each month. For many years, serving in poor parishes, he was unable to read Brownson, whom he greatly admires. In the next conference meeting he will bring the matter of subscriptions to the series before the reverend fathers. He congratulates Henry in his undertaking. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Oct. 27 Orestes has not heard from Henry for some time and fears that he may be ill or overworked. He regrets that more people do not subscribe for Brownson's works. His family is well, Mary in Denver, Sarah teaching school a few miles away, John still studying medicine, Edward with his wife and child living at home and working on the farm, Charley beginning to read, Rosie, now 11, promising to become a good scholar, May and Orestes himself getting old. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Jannes, Claudio, Paris, France, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1883 Nov. 16 After many interruptions caused by bad health, Madame la Marquise de Forbin has finished the translation of the Convert, which certainly will encourage the defense of the True Faith. But it is necessary that the translation have a prefatory biographical note on the author, which Brownson, who has experience of this kind and is well informed about his father, is asked to supply. :: III-3-b A.L.S. in French 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Tisdall, S.J., Father A. J., Frederick, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Jan. 16 Father Tisdall has received at the Novitiate the fifth volume of Brownson's works and expresses his appreciation. Father J.P. Frieden, from Detroit, is at the Novitiate in his third probation year, and speaks of Brownson and sends his best wishes. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Ward, Father Julius H., Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Jan. 24 Father Ward thanks Brownson for sending volumes 4 and 5 of his father's works to the Boston Herald, through Mr. Noonan. The copy for the New York Times should come to Father Ward at the Boston Herald office and he will also write the review for the Boston Daily Advertiser. He encloses notices from the New York Times and the Boston Herald, but has mislaid the other notices. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Seton, William, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Feb. 5 Seton is not now able to send Brownson the letter of Brownson's father which he had promised; it is probably in a box in storage. When it is sent, however, he will appreciate its being returned, for he values anything connected with Orestes A. Brownson, Sr., whose loss he calls a great loss to American Catholics, attacked as he was by the Catholic press, an action Seton calls inevitable and an honor. Berrian has loaned him a couple of pamphlets on biology by Father Thomas Hughes, S.J., which he says are clearly not the work of a scientist; Father Hughes has opposed himself to such a men as Wallace, Mivart, Cope Leedy, Heilprin, Marsh, Newberry, and Asa Gray; and Seton thinks the student of nature should follow these men rather than the theologian in matters of this sort. He appreciates the liberating influence of natural science. Seton hopes the winter has been mild in Detroit and hopes to hear from Brownson soon. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Gillespie, C.S.C., Mother Mary of St. Angela, Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Feb. 9 Mother Angela regrets that she has not been able to send for at least a dozen of Brownson's father's works, but informs him that Mother Lucretia has sent him a check for it and asks if it was received. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Maes, Father Camillus P., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Feb. 23 Maes has read Orestes A. Brownson' s "Protestantism in a Nutshell" as a glass reflecting his own convictions and was pleased to find so experienced a man assuring him that he had not uncharitably misjudged the Protestant Public. However, his object is principally to call Henry's attention to the fact that page 535 of Vol. VI of Brownson's Works is an exact reproduction of page 335. Gift of Mrs. Alexis Coquillard and Mrs. Nancy Van Dyke Schumaker. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 4to. CBRH III-3-b Ward, Father Julius H., Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Feb. 27 Father Ward encloses two notices of fifth volume of Brownson's works, one from the New York Times the other from the Boston Herald. He has won the sixth volume but wonders where The Times' copies of volumes 4, 5, and 6 are, which should have been sent in care of the Boston Herald. The Boston papers' copies have arrived. The review for the Times he hopes Brownson will find satisfactory. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Murray, Thomas Hamilton, Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Feb. 13 Murray recalls Brownson's kindness and promtness in the past in furnishing him names for his "List of American converts to Catholicity" and now asks the use of his name in an invitation to be sent to prominent Catholic writers of the nation to take steps towards forming a national association for prompting Catholic literature. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Ward, Father Julius H., Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Apr. 4 Father Ward finds that he lacks only volume 5 of Brownson's works and will appreciate its being sent to him through Thomas B. Noonan and Co., Boston, with volume 7. The Times copies should be sent to him personally at the Boston Herald Office. P.S. He has found the latest printed notices and has written critical notices of the 6th volume for The Times and Herald. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Westerman, Father B.H. Webster Post Office,, Kentucky, to Theophilus Nourse, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Apr. 15 After receiving volume 6 of Brownson's works, Father Westerman sent by registered letter $6 for volumes 5 and 6. This money was stolen by the carrier and Father Westerman now sends the money again. In the Henry F. Brownson Collection. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Tisdall, S. J., Father A. J., Frederick, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Apr. 19 Father Tisdall acknowledges with thanks the receipt of volume 7 of Brownson's works. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Bunce, Father Michael H., Mauch Clunk, Pennsylvania, to Thorndyke Nourse, Detroit, Michigan 1884 May 29 Father Bunce complains of the glossy paper used in Brownson's works and finds it injurious to the eyesight. He enclosed $3 in payment of the last volume. In the Henry F. Brownson Collection. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Amiaux, Father E., Louvain, Belgium, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 June 22 Amiaux writes from Nodelais and describes it as a beautiful village 1½ miles by rail from Louvain. He has had a pleasant crossing with 6 days in Holland. Professors Lefevre and Hagoit have been ill and he has had plenty of time for long walks and a healthy diet. He hopes that Brownson and his family are well, hopes to see them again soon, and sends his regards to Mrs. Brownson. P.S. Father Roles has read with pleasure The Convert and perhaps can obtain subscriptions for the book. Amiaux laments the debacle in the June elections. :: III-3-b A.L.S. in French 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 June 22 Orestes has not answered Henry's letter before because he has had nothing good to write. A local doctor will take a subscription to their father's works; and the local priests praise him, but have other ways of spending their money. He hopes Henry is cured of his gout and that he and his family are in good health. His own family is well, his wife and he are older and not so able to work, his son John Brownson expecting to go to medical college, Mary in Denver, Edward a fireman on a train in Wisconsin, Sarah, Anna, Louisa, Rosa and Charles at home. School is over for the year, and Orestes doubts whether he will be reappointed because of his age. He has plenty of work to do during the summer on the farm. He hopes to hear from Henry soon and thanks him for the volumes of their father's works, complementing him on the style in which they are being issued. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hall, Charles S., Binghampton, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Jul. 1 Hall asks the favor of some blank deeds and mortgages to use in his law dealings with Sawyer and Knowlton of Ann Arbor and also some information on that firm. Also he would like to be referred to an attorney in Iowa to handle matters there. He believes Grover Cleveland more likely than any other man to carry New York State. Kelly, he says, would sell out anybody for the New York Mayoralty, and his critics will probably turn on this. The reform bills passed last winter give great power to the mayor and Kelly is out unless he can deceive him. That probably in his price; he will go for Blaine if it well help him, and they may as well have a Republican as a Democrat. They know they can make more out of a Republican. Kelly would sell Bayard as soon as Cleveland. As to Bayard and Cleveland, Cleveland is the stronger intellectually, but less cultured and experienced than Bayard; his firmness makes up for his lack of experience. Cleveland would run as well as Bayard in New York, and in any other Democratic state, and the independents will prefer him. The Irish will not get very far out of the traces and all of Tammany will not follow Kelly. Hall would prefer to give Kelly the mayoralty and trust to luck to clear things up after a Democratic president is elected. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr. Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Jul. 5 Orestes wishes that he could see Henry's family. Henry's letter describes them beautufully. His own son John Brownson has three children, Ned Brownson, two, the last born on June 11 in Wisconsin, Orestes is confident that John will make a good Doctor and begs Henry to send him whatever medical books he has. Orestes is trying to educate his son Charles away from the vulgarities of boys, and he is very good in mathematics. His daughter Sally has finished her first year teaching school, but her health is very delicate; the next two girls are very robust; his wife is in very good health. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hall, Charles S., Binghamton, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Jul. 14 Hall asks Brownson's advice on a Michigan mortgage question. Hall believes that Cleveland will run, and, though there is talk of Irish defection, he thinks it will not amount to much. Kelly will not fight but he would not hesitate to betray a man he had nominated himself if he could gain by it. Many Republicans will not support Blaine and Hall expects a Democratic majority in New York. He supposes Michigan will stick to its idols. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hendricken, Bishop Thomas F., Bishop of Providence,, Providence, Rhode Island, to Thorndike Nourse, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Jul. 16 Father Hendricken encloses a check for $40 for 13 volumes of Brownson's Works. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. In the Henry F. Brownson Collection CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr. Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Aug. 12 The books sent by Henry to John have arrived and Orestes sends his thanks. Only Orestes' wife and three youngest children are left at home. He would be glad to have any of Henry's children spend some time on the farm, if Henry is willing. P.S. Orestes is busy with farm work, but soon will have return to his school. He hopes Henry's gout is better. He is in very good health himself. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Tisdall, S.J., Father A.J., Frederick, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Sept. 23 Father Tisdall aknowledges the receipt of the last volume of Brownson's Works and expresses his thanks for works of such great interest and value. He sends his regards to Father Frieden. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Ward, Father Julius H., Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Oct. 3 Father Ward sends directions for the sending of review copies of Brownson's Works to New York and Boston papers. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Doize, A.D., New Orleans, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Oct. 4 Doize regrets his overdue account and promises to pay as soon as possible. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hall, Charles S., Binghamton, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Oct. 9 Hall informs Brownson of several matters concerning mortgages which he holds. He has spoken to the chairman of the City Library Committee about the purchase of Brownson's Works and now wants a prospectus. He compares Blaine to a roman candle, sparkling but not useful, and thinks that Cleveland's attention to business will weigh as much with the people. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hamon S. J. Father Edward W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Nov. 14 Father Hamon sends Brownson the two Jean D'Erbree for his consideration. Brownson's son Phillip is doing very well at St. Mary's and seems to be well acclimated. Hamon sends his greetings to Mrs. Brownson, the good father Anciaux and the redoubtable Miss Mary. :: III-3-b A.L.S. in French 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Ward, Father Julius H., Boston Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Dec. 6 Father Ward now has received all the books that he needs and encloses some recent reviews. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hall, Charles S., Binghamton, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1884 Dec. 15 Hall acknowledges the receipt of $35. He agrees with Brownson on Arthur's tariff policies which he thinks are in the right direction. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hamilton, Thomas H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885- 12 Hamilton asks whether Brownson has received the reviews from the Herald which he sent recently. The Herald's set of his father's works is complete to except for volumes 1 and 4. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Borra, Charles, Genoa, Italy, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Jan. 14 Borra asks Brownson's permission to translate the works of Orestes Brownson into Italian, beginning with "The Convert" of which he would appreciate a copy and also information on Orestes A. Brownson, whom he greatly admires. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Doyle, William, Thorne, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Mar. 2 Doyle finds several articles missing from the edition of Brownson's works and informs Brownson that in subscribing to this edition, he expected to find it complete and not made to please those who opposed Orestes Brownson during his lifetime. He favors an index in an additional volume and wonders when the "Logic" will be published. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Winchester, B. F., Morgan City, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Mar. 8 Winchester encloses a money order for $9 for volumes 2, 3, and 5 of Brownson's Works, which he wishes his young sons to know. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Winchester, B.F., Houma, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Mar. 9 Winchester requests vol. 6 of Brownson's works. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Moeller, Father Henry, Cincinnati, Ohio, to Thorndike Nourse, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Mar. 13 Father Moeller encloses a draft for $18 to cover the subscriptions of Archbishop William H Elder, Father Francis A. Wimsey, and his own. All favor the publication of an index. In the Henry F. Brownson collection. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Brady, S.J. Father R.W., Worcester, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Mar. 20 Father Brady is disappointed not to have seen Brownson when he was in Boston, but very few of the faces are left at the college. He regrets the inadvertant omission of Brownson's name from the list of graduates and promises that the mistake will be corrected. Father John Power, Brownson's classmate, is now Vicar General of the Diocese of Worcester; George Lloyd, who is now a successful merchant, has a son here at the College. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Montgomery, Father George, San Francisco, California, to Thorndike Nourse, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Mar. 20 Father Montgomery encloses $6 for volumes 16 and 17 of Brownson's Works, the second of which has not yet reached him; and asks that other volumes be sent as they come out. In the Henry F. Brownson Collection :: III-3-b A. L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Montgomery, Father George, San Francisco, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michgan 1885 Mar. 21 Father Montgomery has informed Nourse to continue sending him Brownson's Works as they come out. He urges Brownson to include an index to the works and also, as the one person best fitted for the job, to write the biography of his father. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Richards, William, Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michogan 1885 Mar. 28 Richards favors the publication of an index to Brownson's works, notes that the article on Civil and Religious Freedom is omitted, and wonders why. Also he has discovered and error in the printing of Volume 6. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hennessy, Father Patrick, Jersey City, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Apr. 1 Father Hennessy urges Brownson to write the life of his father Orestes A. Brownson and to produce a logic and philosophy based on his father's works. Father Hennessy has thus far received 17 volumes and hopes that none of Brownson's writings will be omitted. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Borra, Charles, Genoa, Italy, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michogan 1885 May 12 Borra has received Brownson's letter and books and sends in return the first two volumes of Professor Rossi's "Principii di Philosofia" a picture of Professor Rossi and some photographs and a medal blessed by the Pope. He is pleased that Brownson, like his father, admires Professor Rossi who is his professor of dogma at the Foreign Missions College. Borra is now completing his studies for the priesthood, after serving three years in the field artillery of Italian Army, in the hope of being sent to the missions in America. He would appreciate photographs for Professor Rossi and himself of Orestes A. Brownson. His translation of Brownsons Works WILL be slow, because he must devote a good deal of time to his seminary studies. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson Jr. Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 May 26 Orestes thanks Henry for the Greek books he sent, which will be useful if his friends can make him principal of the high school. He hopes that the sale of Brownson's Works is going well and believes that Henry was right in including the works that their father had produced before his conversion. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, Bronsboro' Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 June 30 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. CBRH III-3-b Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, Boonsboro, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 July 6 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 seen. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Henry F., Detroit, Michigan, to James F. Edwards, Notre Dame, Indiana 1885 July 14 Brownson asks Edwards the cost of 250 copies of a photograph of his father Orestes A. Brownson the negative of which Edwards has. Father Daniel B. Hudson has said that Brownson probably could get some copies from this negative. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Edwards, James F., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Jul. 17 Edwards has Brownson's letter of the 14th and has written to Father Hudson about the photographs; but there may be some delay, since the photographer is rebuilding and his negatives may be disarranged. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Murphy, John J., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Jul. 20 Murphy has paid the note and would hate to cause trouble for any descendent of Brownson's father Orestes A. Brownson, whom he remembers with pleasure. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Jul. 21 Father Hudson regrets the delay in sending the photographs and asks Brownson to wait until James F. Edwards returns in two weeks. He sends a copy of the Ave Maria containing the sketch of Orestes A. Brownson, which Brownson may change or amplify as he thinks best; when he returns the copy, he should send an advertisement of Brownson's works for the Ave Maria. He asks Henry to thank his brother Orestes A. Brownson Jr. for his letter, and he will be glad to hear his opinion of the books he sent him. It is hot at Notre Dame and the second week of abstinence. Father Hudson has warned Edwards not to make a tool of him in the future. P.S. : He thanks Brownson for his criticism of "Troubled Heart". :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Aug. 1 Father Hudson's letter of last week with the sketch for the Ave Maria apparently have gone astray. It is very hot at Notre Dame. Brother will sent the advertising rates for the Ave Maria. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hendricken, Bishop Thomas F., Providence, Rhode Island, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Aug. 4 Bishop Hendricken encloses $2.35 and asks whether to send his extra copies of volumes 18 19 of Brownson's Works to Thorndike Nourse or to Brownson. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Aug. 6 Father Hudson sends the proof for the Ave Maria advertisement of Brownson's works for Brownson to make any change he wishes. It is very cool at Notre Dame. There is no hurry about the sketch, which will have to be enlarged to be of pamphlet size. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Kramer, F. J., Ophir, Colorado, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Aug. 6 Kramer encloses $1 which completes payment for the 19 volumes of Brownson's Works, and asks whether volume 19 is to be the last, whether there will be an index, what has happened to the article "Labor Classes" whether Brownson will undertake a biography of his father Orestes A. Brownson, and whether he intends to produce a textbook of philosophy based on his father's works. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo, CBRH III-3-b Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, Boonsboro, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Aug. 27 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. CBRH III-3-b Hudson C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Sep. 2 Father Hudson asks Brownson's excuse for the delay: he has had neuralgia and much work on the Ave Maria. An extension to the Church is being built and Father General Edward Sorin is anxious to get the roof on. Father Hudson asks Brownson for the proofs of the Marian article to accompany the sketch and hopes he likes the Ave Maria advertisement. He asks whether volume 19 is the last volume of the Works. He remembers hearing the Father General onceallude to the Doctorate of Philosophy: "bosh had better be omitted. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Maes, Bishop Camillus Paul, Covington, Kentucky, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Sep. 3 Bishop Maes thanks Brownson for the portrait of his father Orestes A. Brownson whose accomplishments confirm his in his determination to push Catholic education as much as he can. If there are any other works of Brownson which have been published, Brownson is asked to send them to him. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Sep. 6 Father Hudson sends thanks for Brownson's letter and enclosure and encloses the proof of the Ave Maria article; the advertisement he thinks if just right. Edwards would have had the job done in Chicago if he had anticipated such delay for there is only the one good photographer in South Bend, Father Thomas Walsh was very grateful for the large photograph, and Hudson would be very happy to have one for himself and for the Father General Edward Sorin who is anxious to have the remains Of Orestes A. Brownson for the Church, which he hopes to have enclosed for winter. The can will be most acceptable and Hudson thanks Brownson for it. Notre Dame has a stick that belonged to Bishop Frederick Baraga and another that was used by Price Demetrius Gallitzin. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Montgomery, Father George, San Francisco, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Sep. 9 Father Montgomery thanks Brownson for the photograph of his father Orestes A. Brownson which, he is told, is a good likeness. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Adam, V.D., Father Joachim, Los Angeles, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Sep. 10 Father Adam thanks Brownson for the photograph of his father Orestes A. Brownson. :: III-3-b Postcard signed CBRH III-3-b Kiernan, Father James P., Rochester, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Sept. 11 Father Kiernan thanks Brownson for the photograph of Orestes A. Brownson :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Sep. 15 Onahan thanks Brownson for the photograph of his father Orestes A. Brownson, which he prizes very highly and has placed next to a photograph of Cardinal Newman. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Oechtering, Father A. B., Mishawaka, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Sep. 21 Father Oechtering thanks Brownson for the photograph of his father Orestes A. Brownson and regrets that American Catholics do not appreciate his greatness by subscribing to his works, but concern themselves only with trivial pleasure. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Druon, V.G., Father Z., St. Albans, Vermont, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Oct. 13 Father Druon inquires whether there is to be an index to Brownson's Works. He regards one as absolutely necessary. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Flood, Michael, San Francisco, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Oct. 19 Flood thanks Brownson for his favor and explained that the subscriptions to Brownson's works were cancelled because he has given up his Catholic book business, because of insufficient patronage. He has given his subscription lists to C.A. Waldteufel. He offers, out of his admiration for Orestes A. Brownson, what assistance he can to his son. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hennessy, Father Patrick, Jersey City, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson 1885 Oct. 22 Father Hennessy objects to the omission of several articles of Orestes A. Brownson from his works, and urges Henry Brownson to produce a textbook based on his father's writings and a biography of him. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Edwards, James F., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Nov. 9 Edwards has instructed the Treasurer to send the amount due on the two sets of Brownson's Works ordered for the library and would appreciate any manuscripts of his father Orestes A. Brownson that he could send, also any Bishops' letters he might be able to send. The chapel is now roofed but the windows are not yet in, and Father Alexis Granger fears that Brownson would not want his father's remains brought here until everything is complete. Brownson's son Philip Brownson is doing well. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Henry F., Detroit, Michigan, to James F. Edwards, Notre Dame, Indiana 1885 Nov. 21 Brownson has sent a box of books for the Notre Dame Library and enclosed with the books a coat and cap for his son Philip Brownson . He will send what manuscripts he can when he has time, but his father's letters he will need just now for the life of Orestes A. Brownson, he is preparing. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b McKenna, Father P.M., Fairfield, Vermont, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Nov. 26 Father Mc. Kenna has received Brownson's Works and will remit as soon as he hears from a friend whose intention it may be not to pay until all twenty volumes are issued. McKenna is much pleased with the books. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Edwards, James F., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Dec. 13 Edwards thanks Brownson for his gift of books for the Notre Dame Library, and for his promise of papers of his father Orestes A. Brownson . Philip Brownson is doing well, but of course occasionally forgets himself. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Gavin, Father Michael C., West Winfield, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Dec. 14 Father Gavin encloses $6 in full payment for Brownson's Works and urges that a comprehensive index be added. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Wermers, Mr. B.J., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Dec. 18 Enclosed is a check for $18.0 Wermers also wishes Brownson and his family a merry Christmas. :: III-3-b A.L.S. German 1p. CBRH III-3-b Gavin, Father Michael C., West Winfield, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1885 Dec. 21 Father Gavin thanks Brownson for the photograph of his father Orestes A. Brownson and wishes to have the Index to Brownson's Works as soon as it is available. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Jan. 4 Father Hudson thanks Brownson for his favor of the 31st. He intends to insert the advertisement now and again whenever there is room. The edition of the Ave Maria is now 18,000 copies. He would be very glad to have a copy of the index to Brownson Works. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Bar bas, F.S.C., Brother, St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Jan 13 Brother Bar bas suggests that Brownson publish all the book notices and criticisms from the original numbers of Brownson's Review, for the feels that no part of the writings of Orestes A. Brownson should be omitted. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Goddard, M. E., Norwich, Vermont., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Feb. 17 Hearing that Brownson is the son of the late Orestes. A. Brownson, Goddard addresses him through Thorndike Nourse to ask the full name of his grandfather Brownson, who he believes was a resident of Norwich some time before 1800. Elijah Brownson came to Norwich among the earliest settlers before 1780, and among his children were two sons, Samuel Brownson and Elihu Brownson, who seem to have left Norwich very early, perhaps for Stockbridge, Rochester, or one of the newer towns back from the Connecticut River. One of these may have been Brownson's grandfather. Goddard is preparing a brief history of Norwich and hopes to receive any information Brownson can give him. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr. Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Apr. 2 Orestes has not heard from his brother for a long time but has received volume 19 of Brownson's Works. He hopes the publishing project is doing well financially, and that Henry's health and that of his family is good. He is very anxious to hear from Henry. His son John Brownson is now a Doctor and living in town with his family of six. His daughter Mary Brownson is in Denver, SallyBrownson teaching school a few miles away, Ned Brownson in the Wisconsin pineries with his wife and two children, Annie, Louisa and Rosa Brownson running the farm here, Charles Brownson and Orestes at school, and Mrs. Brownson helping the girls. He has had the rheumatism during the winter but all are well now. Orestes has nothing to complain of but the ills of old age, and there is nothing to be done about that. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Edwards, James F., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Apr. 11 Work is beginning again on the Brownson Memorial Chapel, and Edwards has asked Father John O'Connell to write an article for the Scholastic on the subject and also to insist that the best possible monument to Orestes A. Brownson is the widespread dissemination of his works. Edwards also is anxious to have a statue of Brownson erected in Central Park. He is in the infirmary and has not seen Philip Brownson but has put him to work on Balmes' "Civilization", with the promise of a gold medal if he can stand a good examination on the work. He is anxious to have Orestes A. Brownson's manuscripts and any bishops' letters he can spare. Edwards will have them copies. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Edwards, James F., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 May 28 Father General Edwards F. Sorin, C.S.C. requests Edwards to ask Brownson to name the day for the transfer of the remains of Orestes A. Brownson to Notre Dame. The Brownson Chapel is not finished, but the remains can be placed in a side chapel of the new addition to the Church. It will be necessary to have some persons to escorts the remains to Notre Dame. The article about Brownson's Works is to be published in the Commencement number of The Scholastic. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Edwards, James F., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Jun. 9 Edwards sends Brownson the arrangements for the ceremony at Notre Dame. Father Thomas E. Walsh fears that Edwards has been an annoyance to Brownson and Father Ernest Van Dyke, who he hopes will say a few words at the ceremony. A more elaborate ceremony is planned on the completion of the Brownson Chapel. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Cantwell, Father John, Coalville, near Leicester, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Jun. 15 Father Cantwell, who is an admirer of Orestes A. Brownson and his Review, enquires whether Henry Brownson is continuing with it. He is anxious to obtain all the works of Dr. Brownson and would like to exchange his own translations of the Universal History of Cesar Cantu, which he regards highly, for works by Dr. Brownson. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Aldrich, Charles, Webster City, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Jun. 27 Aldrich asks Brownson for some specimens of his Father's Orestes A. Brownson writing for the Iowa State Library. He hopes that Brownson may issue a compendium of his father's works for those who cannot afford the entire series. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Edwards, James F., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 July 6 Edwards asks Brownson for copies of some of the best press notices of Brownson's works for an advertisement in an illustrated issue of the Scholastic, apace for which has been allotted by Father John O'Connell . Edwards sends his greetings to Father Ernest Van Dyke and Philip Brownson. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Aldrich, Charles, Webster City, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Jul. 12 Aldrich thanks Brownson for the gift of manuscripts of his father Orestes A. Brownson and hopes that Brownson can send him an autograph and engraved portrait of Dr. Brownson for the Iowa State Library. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Terry, G.W., Lima, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Jul. 17 Terry has learned from Father James H. Day that Brownson has concluded his edition of Brownson's Works without including his short reviews of many books. He believes that these are of great value and is anxious to publish them as a guide for book buyers. His plans have not taken shape as yet but he would like to have Brownson's approval and terms. Terry saw Brownson's father Orestes A. Brownson 16 years ago at Seton Hall and is himself a convert. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Aldrich, Charles, Webster City, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Jul. 19 Aldrich thanks Brownson for the autograph and portraits of his father Orestes A. Brownson for the Iowa State library. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Day, Father James H., Dansville, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Jul. 28 Father Day orders a complete set of Brownson's Works and inquires whether Brownson intends to publish a volume of the shorter notices, which he believes very valuable. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Aug. 4 Father Hudson thinks four or five pages long enough for the article, but if longer, it should run to eight or ten pages, so it could be cut. He urges Brownson not to forget about the article on the Blessed Virgin. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Aug. 22 Orestes congratulates Henry on his LL. D. from Notre Dame and Philip Brownson for his record in studies, as seen in the Notre Dame Catalogue. His own son John Brownson is doing very well as a doctor; his farm is not doing well because of drought and he will have to teach school another year, for times are very hard. His son Charley goes to school with him and is very good in mathematics, his daughters Sarah and Annie teaching, Lon and Rosa at home. Charley is as fiery as his grandfather Orestes A. Brownson . His wife is well and active. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Gavioli, C. fils, Paris, France, to Metayer de Guichainville, New York, New York 1886 Nov. 18 A friend of Gavioli has just inherited an autograph of Christopher Columbus, and would like to sell it. He wants someone to sell it for him. He asks if Metayer would not be interested since in America such treasures are sold at great prices. He describes the autograph and states that 10,000 francs had been offered in France and 50,000 by an Englishman. He would like to know how much he can expect for such a treasure. He also promises Metayer's daughters a book of women's fashions. :: III-3-b A.L.S. French 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Edwards, James F., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Nov. 19 Edwards some time ago ordered $100 to be sent in payment for Brownson's Woks and wonders whether Brownson received the money. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Dec. 7 Father Hudson would like to have an article on Dr.Orestes A. Brownson 's devotion to the Blessed Virgin for the first Ave Maria of the new year. He hopes Brownson is well and that he will pay Notre Dame a visit. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Baniel B., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1886 Dec. 28 Father Hudson is pleased with Brownson's recent article in the Ave Maria and proposes that improvement be made in the reading material for May devotions to the Blessed Virgin. He wishes that he could see Brownson and sends his regards to his family. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Feb. 2 Onahan notices that the Notre Dame Scholastic advertises 20 volumes of Brownson's Works and therefore asks that the Index, which he supposses is now published, be sent to him. He is interested in Brownson's concise and conclusive letter published in the Michigan Catholic on the George-Father Edward Mc Glynn theories, and also appreciates the work which Judge Hyde is doing steadily for the vindication of Catholic principles. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C. Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Feb. 3 Father Hudson thanks Brownson for his prompt return of proofs, and the article appears this week. He thanks Brownson for the invitation to visit Detroit; he has sent Father Ernest Van Dyke a letter. He likes Brownson's article on the case of Dr. McGlynn. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Henry F., Detroit, Michigan, to Bishop John Vertin, Marquette, Michigan 1887 Feb. 4 Father Thomas J. Atfield, a priest of the Diocese of Marquette, has subscribed to Brownson's Works but has not paid for the last eight volumes sent him. Therefore Brownson applies to his ecclesiastical superior for such action as he may judge proper. In the Henry F. Brownson papers. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Vertin,Bishop John, Marquette, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detoit, Michigan 1887 Febr. 8 Bishop Vertin has communicated with Father Thomas J. Atfield at Houghton, Michigan, and asks Brownson to inform him if he does not hear from Father Atfield soon. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Borgess, Bishop Caspar H. of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Feb. 9 Brownson will have heard of a bill proposed by Senator Garman in the Senate to oblige Catholic congregations and religious institutions to be incorporated and governed by a corporate body of three laymen, the pastor, and the bishop; and Bishop Borgess requests Brownson to call attention to the evils that this sort of law would entail, by means of an article for the press. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Borgess, Caspar H., Bishop of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Feb. 13 Bishop Borgess thanks Brownson for his illuminating article on the tenure of church property in the Free Press of this date. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Harson, M. J., Providence, Rhode Island 1887 Feb. 15 Address to the Catholics of America by the Brownson Memorial Committee concerning the erection of a monument to Orestes A. Brownson . Among the papers of Henry F. Brownson :: III-3-b Printed L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Rockdale, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Feb. 22 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. :: III-3-b A.L.unsigned 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Montgomery, Father George, San Francisco, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 April 26 Father Montgomery is anxious to have Brownson complete the valuable work he has done in collecting and publishing the works of his father Orestes A. Brownson by publishing an index to the series. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Hennessy, Father Patrick, Jersey City, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 April 18 Father W. Lockhart in his Life of Rosmini asserts in a note that Dr. Orestes A. Brownson towards the end of his life rejected the Philosophy of Gioberti and turned to that of Rosmini. Hennessy informed Father Lockhart of his error, but the latter replied that Dr. William Channing, son of the distinguished William Ellery Channing, had been told to study Rosmini, who, he said, had the true philosophy. Hennessy wrote again to Father Lockhart, quoting some of Dr. Brownson's refutations of Rosmini, and his reply was to ask to hear from someone who knew Dr. Brownson up to his last years and who would know whether he ever changed his attitude towards Rosmini. Therefore Brownson is asked to send Hennessy a few lines on the subject, which may be sent to Father Lookhart to be used in his next edition to correct his error. Hennessy is anxiously awaiting volume 20 of Brownson's Works, and asks when Brownson will begin to write his father's life. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Cesnola, L.P., New York, New York, to Metayer de Guichainville, New York, New York 1887 April 28 The director of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts was asked four questions from Italy concerning the Columbus autograph. These he refers to Metayer. The letter by Columbus written to the Doge of Genoa, April 2, 1502, is positively in the Archives of Genoa, and authenticity is firmly established. In the Henry F. Brownson papers. :: III-3-b A.L.S. French 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Lockhart, Father W., London, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Apr. 30 Father Lockhart encloses a letter of his own to Father Isaac T. Hecker, who has added a few lines on the back which will explain Father Lockhart's writing to Brownson. Enclosure: CBRH III-3-b Lockhart, Father W., London, England, to Father Isaac T. Hecker, New York, New York 1887 Apr. 8 Father Lockhart has stated in his Life of Rosmini that Dr. Orestes A. Brownson gave up the philosophy of Gioberti for that of Rosmini in the last years of his life, after giving up the Review. This was told Father Lockhart by Dr. William H. Channing, biographer of William Ellery Channing, the former having recommended Rosmini to his friend Brownson. The statement is now impugned and since Channing is now dead, Father Lockhart is anxious to learn the truth of the matter. There are reviews of his Life in the Catholic World and in the Tablet, the latter by Bishop Herbert Vaughn of Salford. He hopes Father Hecker is feeling better and will feel well enough to reply. The following is written on the back of this letter: CBRH III-3-b Hecker, Father Isaac T., New York, New York, to Father W. Lockhart, London, England 1887 May 18 Father Hecker is always glad to hear from one he loves as much as Father Lockhart, and advises him to write to Henry F. Brownson, cub of the "Old Bear" Orestes A. Brownson, who will have the information. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Meeker Co., Newark, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Apr. 30 Brownson is informed that he can obtain two of the Masonic works he asks about from Albert Pike at Washington, D.C., and the other two from the Masonic Publishing and Furnishing Co. of New York City. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Walker, Father Edward, Rollo Bay, Prince Edward Island, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Aug. 10 Father Walker encloses $3, the amount of the bill, and congratulates Brownson upon the 20 volumes of the works of Dr. Orestes A. Brownson, in many respects the most valuable books every issued from the American press. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Kain, Bishop John J., Wheeling, West Virginia, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Aug. 3 Father Thomas Quirk is not always very prompt, but Bishop Kain did not think he would allow a claim to go so long unpaid. However, his address for two years or more has been, not Huntington, but Beals' Mills, Lewis Co. If he does not settle in 30 days, Brownson has his consent to bring suit, and the Bishop will notify him. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Aug. 4 Orestes includes statistics of the age, height, weight and health of his family. He is unable to send his children to college but they read a great deal. He thinks Henry right about not grieving after wealth, for he seems to get along as well as formerly. The weather has destroyed their crops. He hopes Henry will be able to help his son John Brownson get charge of the medical department at Notre Dame, if one is established, for he is amply qualified and will not dishonor the name of Brownson there. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, Boonsboro, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Aug. 12 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. CBRH III-3-b Manogue, Patrick, Bishop of Sacrame, Virginia City, Nevada, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Aug. 16 Bishop Manogue encloses a postal order for $3 balance from Virginia City, Nevada, P.S.: His address is Sacramento, California. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Quirk, Father Thomas, Beals' Mills, West Virginia, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1887 Aug . 18 Father Quirk encloses a postal order for $23, balance in full, and adds that the correct address should have been used to have spared much trouble. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo CBRH III-3-b Garrigan, Father Philip J. 1888 News clipping concerning the possible appointment of Garrigan to the Catholic University and other news about the institution, from The Catholic Review. :: III-3-b News clipping 2 Columns plus CBRH III-3-b Fitzgibbon, John J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Jan. 7 Fitzgibbon will see Father T. O'Sullivan and urge him to accept Brownson's invitation to visit him. He has two friends who may buy Brownson's Works. The offer to buy the bank fell through. Kerwin wants to buy an encyclopaedia and would like to have Brownson's advice. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Fitzgibbon, John J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Jan. 14 Fitzgibbon will read Brownson's letter to Kerwin this evening. He went to Notre Dame with, an old friend and a professor there from 1857 to 1862, an able man who brought his son to be educated at Notre Dame. Nothing was left undone to make their visit comfortable and pleasant. They called on Father T. O'Sullivan, who is slowly gaining strength. Fitzgibbon sent his friend from the West who studied with Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan to see him in the interest of Father O'Sullivan, but the Archbishop was out. The bank deal has fallen trough. Cunnia has returned to Cleveland. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Byrne, C.M., Father P. V., Cape Girardean, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Jan. 24 When he received Brownson's card stating that he owed for another volume, Father Byrne should have told him that he left the set in Germantown for his successor, who should receive the bill. If Brownson can trust him until next summer he would be pleased to have him send a set of Brownson's Works now. In Germantown he had the photograph of Orestes A. Brownson framed and prized it very highly and hopes to receive another. His poverty interferes with any exhibition of enthusiasm for Dr. Brownson but he will never forget him. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Harson, M. J., Providence, Rhode Island, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Mar. 9 Harson is about to prepare a circular containing a short biographical notice of Orestes A. Brownson and other information, in the interest of the Brownson Memorial Fund, and would be glad to receive suggestions and information. The circular is intended to make Dr. Brownson better known to the generation which has come forward since he was before the public and who wish to be informed of his life and works and estimate in which he was held by those who knew him. In addition to anything of interest relating to Dr. Brownson, Harson would like to have information about his family: the war record of the sons, whether Henry's sister published several books, how many grandchildren there are at present are items of biographical interest. Harson hopes to hear from Brownson soon, as he hopes to give the matter to the printers within ten days. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Harson, M.J., Providence, Rhode Island, to Henry F. Brownson, Detoit, Michigan 1888 Mar. 20 Harson scarcely knows what particular facts to ask about, in references to Brownson's father's Orestes A. Brownson life, since the sketch he proposes to write must necessarily be short, but he wishes to use details which are not to be found in the usual sketches of his life, nearly all of which are made up bodily from The Convert. A comprehensive life is very much needed, and Father Isaac T. Hecker, to whom Herson had suggested the project, believes that the matter might be better treated by Brownson. He would like to have information about the brother and twin sister of Dr. Brownson and also when the degree of L.L.D. was conferred. Among the extracts from the press in Brownson's circular is one credited to the American Catholic News which Harson wrote and which originally appeared in the Providence Visitor. Has the Memorial Chapel at Notre Dame been completed, and what are its principle features? :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Cassilly, John P., Secretary, Louisville, Kentucky, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Nichigan 1888 Mar. 23 The Brownson Club, an organization composed of Catholic Men, young and old, of this city, wishes to get a portrait of Crestes A. Brownson for its clubrooms. Dr. J. B. Enright has placed in Cassilly's hands a letter received from Brownson, dated March 1, 1886, in which Brownson states that he has a photograph of his father, from which which an artist might paint a likeness, with a few hints as to color. The Club would like to borrow this photograph for copying or to buy a copy of it if copies are available. If not are available, the greatest care will be taken of the photograph, and the artist will write for suggestions as to color. Cassilly would like to know whether a Life of Dr. Brownson exists, whether it can be purchased, and at what price. The Club has an old edition of his Essays in ten or twelve volumes. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Robinson, R.S.C.J., Mother, Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 May 5 Mother Robinson expresses her gratitude for the gift to the convent library of Brownson's Works. As a benefactor to the Community Brownson will kindly accept its thanks and its prayers before the convent altar for his happiness and that of his family. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 May 24 Father Hudson is glad to hear that Brownson has brought out some separate volumes of Brownson's Works and has announced the fact to purchasers of premium books. Volume 19 should be very popular as a gift book for higher students in Catholic schools. Father Thomas E. Walsh will be back on Saturday. They will be glad to see Brownson at Notre Dame next month and he must try to prevail on Father Ernest Van Dyke, Mrs. Brownson, and the household. P. S.: He has given one of the circulars to Father John O'Connell for an announcement in the Scholastic. He hopes the new books are good looking and that the paging, etc., is appropriate. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Peacock, F.S.A., Edward, Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Jun. 13 Peacock asks how many volumes of Brownson's Works are now published; he has the first seven. As a Catholic and a literary man, he is much interested in Orestes A. Brownson's writings, used to read Brownson's Review regularly, and is delighted with the collected works so far as he has them. He would like to know whether any life of Brownson has ever been issued, as none is known in England. Since he is one of the greatest men of letters the new world has produced, Peacock hopes that a biography will be forthcoming. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Clarke, Richard H., Chairman, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Jun. 18 The New York Committee having in charge the movement for erecting a bronze statue to the late Dr. Oretes A. Brownson have requested Clarke to ask Brownson for a list of the subscribers to Brownson's Review an to his Works, with the view of sending to such subscribers the appeal in behalf of the Brownson Memorial Will Brownson kindly aid the Memorial with this assistance? :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Walsh, C.S.C., Father Thomas E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Jul. 10 Father Walsh encloses receipts for Brownson's remittance of yesterday for which he sends his thanks. He hopes to be able to accept Brownson's invitation on his way back from the gathering of the champions of the "cause" in Boston. They will probably "come out strong" for Fisher and Brooks. It appears that the redoubtable Father Stanislaus Fitte was not so badly used up as we supposed by the men who bludgeoned him with Rosmini and other heavy missiles during the whole night after Commencement, and the sympathy we all expressed for him on Thursday morning was wasted, for instead of being "laid up for repairs", he had taken the early train for Chicago. The difference between some men and steam engines is not great. Kindest regards to Mrs. Brownson and Philip. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Fanning, Father John A., London, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Jul. 29 Brownson will recall that Father Fanning called at his office and traded the Encyclopaedia Brittanica for Brownson's Works and Webster's latest Unabridged for Father B.J. Wermers. Having some books with him that were an encumbrance, he hired a typist named Bryan on the suggestion of Father O'Reilly, and left the books and another box which he had ordered to be sent in Bryan's care. After Father Fanning left Detroit, Bryan overcharged him for the typing, extorted money from his housekeeper for express charges, and then sent only the first box of books. Brownson is asked to take possession of the books if possible, and to let Father Fanning knows what happens. He will return to the United States after he has been to Rome and Palestine. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 5pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Fanning, Father John A., Southall, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Aug. 29 Father Fanning is grateful for the recovery of his books. As he is not aware of the contents of the box his housekeeper and cousin who packed the box will write Brownson. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Wallace, M. J., Clonleharde, Ballyhahill, Limerick, Ireland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Sep. 10 A young Irish lady, having read a review on "Irish Ecclesiastical Record" of the works of the late Dr. Orestes A. Brownson wishes to procure a few controversial or religiously interesting ones and applies to Brownson. Will he let her know the publisher's address and the cost of two volumes, including postage. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Spaunhorst, Henry J. 1888 Sep. 29 Clipping from the Church Progress giving the address of Spaunhorst before a "Catholic Day" assembly. :: III-3-b News Clipping 2 columns plus CBRH III-3-b Hamel, Jr., Thomas E., Librarian, Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Nov. 5 Hamel received on September 21 a postcard announcing the 20th volume of Brownson's Works by freight and on the 31st a monthly statement. He is very willing to pay according to terms agreed upon, but the volumes announced have not yet reached the University. Will Brownson inquire whether the books have been sent or whether they have gone astray. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Healy, James Augustine, Bishop of Portland, Portland, Maine, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Nov. 22 Although he was too busy to write, Bishop Healy was not too busy to pray for Brownson on their baptism day, and both he and Father Healy carried his name and interests before the Lord. He hopes Brownson and his family are well and that in his memory and prayers is mindful of those few who were born again with him and who are still struggling to gain the crown which they desire to share with him. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hamel, Jr., Thomas E., Librarian, Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Nov. 24 Hamel has just received Brownson's Works which had been detained at the Custom House because the Grand Trunk Railway could not find the invoice notice. Things are all right now, except that the customs duties of 15% amounted to $9.71. Accordingly, he sends a money order for $15.29, the balance of first payment as agreed on, leaving a balance of $35 to be paid in the next two years. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Gross, William Henry, Archbishop of Oregon, Portland, Oregon, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Nov. 28 The Archbishop has received the 15th volume of Brownson's Works, but the bill has gone astray. He encloses payment by money order and asks for a receipt by return mail. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Onahan, R.S.H., Madam A. M., Omaha, Nebraska, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Dec. 2 Although Brownson said that if she received Brownson's Works, no answer to his letter was necessary, Madam Onahan tells him what a treasure they have been to her and to her pupils of the past year. She left to her brother the duty of acknowledging the safe arrival of the books which she considers the most valuable part of the library. Volume 20 seldom leaves her desk and is her "vade mecum". She promises to do all in her power to "spread devotion" to Dr. Orestes A. Brownson. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Dec. 3 Father Hudson is glad to know that the work pleased Brownson and that he is translating it. He is welcome to the book as long as he has use for it. Father Hudson will try to visit Detroit before long to talk about Brownson's undertaking; and he has a plan for publication. He wishes to be remembered to Father Ernest Van Dyke; Philip is happy and getting on well. Regards to Brownson and the household. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b Walsh, C.S.C., Father Thomas E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry P. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Dec. 3 Father Walsh has received Brownson's letter of the 1st and has filed it in the office. When the time for choosing premiums comes "Modern Literature" et al. will not be overlooked. Kindest regards to Mrs. Brownson. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Schnuettgen, C.SS.R., Father Francis Xavier, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Dec. 5 Father Schnuettgen encloses a check in payment for Brownson's Works which arrived in good condition. The delay in payment was caused by a solemn Triduum in honor of the Blessed Clement Maria Hofbauer, C.SS.R. He hopes that Brownson will find many purchasers for his father's works, and he has done a good work in getting them up in so creditable a manner. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-b McMillan, C.S.P., Father Thomas, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1888 Dec. 10 Father McMillan encloses a check for $8.20 and suggests a volume of "Characteristics from Brownson" in attractive binding, selected in the plan adopted by Lilly for Cardinal Newman. To make it acceptable as a premium for colleges it would need a little more ornomental typography and binding than the Works. Some professor who knows the needs of young men intimately could make such a selection. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Wolff, George D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 He sends two copies with corrections and two insertions; one is for Hughes of the "Michigan Catholic" to be delivered when Brownson thinks proper, and one for the United or Associate Press. While Brownson's letter was intransit, Wolff published a letter in the "Catholic Standard", in violation of the general rule respecting the confidential character of private letters. He hopes Brownson will exculpate him; he believes no harm will be done. He speaks about the time limits of his speech; if he is there will he have to read it, or are there regularly appointed readers? Brownson should answer whether or not Wolff was hard enough on the Catholic Press. Attached is editorial quoting Brownson. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Apparently the official report of Henry F . Brownson, as Secretary of the Congress on all of the preliminary meetings held to organize its public session in Baltimore. Places and dates include: Detroit, Jun. 5, 1889, Sep. 4-5, 1889, Oct. 16, 1889; Baltimore, Nov. 9, 1889. Attached: rough notes obviously taken during the sessions. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 22pp. 4to CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress 1889 List of names in the handwriting of William J. Onahan evidently these were sent copies of the Proceedings of the Congress. Among the papers of Henry F. Brownson :: III-3-g A.D. unsigned 8pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Notes and papers which evidently were used to make up Proceedings of the Congress. Among the papers ofHenry F. Brownson. :: III-3-g T. A.D. unsigned 119pp 8vo CBRH III-3-c Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jan. 3 Father Hudson wishes Brownson and his household and all his friends in Detroit a happy new year. He intended to suggest that the appearance of Brownson's translation of Tarducci be delayed for the celebration in '92, that the book be published in the autumn of '91, and that meantime portions of the translation be given in the Ave Maria. His general health is fairly good, but his sight is failing. He was disappointed at not being able to go to Detroit at Christmas. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Richards, William, Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jan. 7 On reading the enclosed editorial from the Catholic American of Nov. 24, 1888, Richards wrote the enclosed article which appeared in the same paper, Dec, 29, 1888; they may be of interest to Brownson. The article is not all he could wish, but he wanted draw attention to the fact, apparently not known to Costelloe, Lilly and other able English and American Catholic writters, that Dr. Orestes A. Brownson worked out and presented most clear and satisfactory solutions of the great problems that are puzzling the 19th Century. Last year Lilly published a series of able and interesting articles in the London Tablet which just missed the important point Dr. Brownson clarified in his articles on the Incarnation. Scarcely a month passes that Richards does not see in some Catholic publication an article by some archbishop, bishop or learned theologian which assumes a natural end for man or fails to see the grand harmony between the natural and supernatural and speaks of the ancient gentile religions as originating in the natural reason, overlooking the fact that every truth in any of those religions was simply a survival from the primitive revelation. Richards was pleased to see for the first time the second edition of the Convert and Brownson's preface to it, the point of which was clearly stated for the first time Richards can recall; he wishes that Brownson had published it in the Works. It is strange that Catholic teachers should have distrusted Dr. Brownson for his denial of a natural beatitude for man; Richards wonders whether they now allow their scholastics to study him, for it is a pity if they don't. He would like to know whether Brownson's father ever entertained or expressed the idea which Richards first got from Father Faber's Creator and Creature and his Blessed Sacrament that the decree of the Incarnation in the Councils of Eternity, besides being the first act of the Trinity ad extra, which Brownson also taught, necessarily implied the existence in the Divine Mind of the Idea of man, so that when he was created, he was made after the Image of the God-Man. Richards has heard many sermons on the Incarnation but only one satisfactory one—by Bishop John J. Keane of Richmond—presented that idea. Perhaps Brownson will be interested to know that after Richards received his letter on the Rosmini matter, he wrote to his brother H. L. Richards in Boston. This letter was sent on to Father William Lockhart who wrote to Miss Charlotte Dana acknowledging his error and offering to correct his statement in some public manner, if desired. Richards asks whether Brownson's Works have been called for from abroad and whether there is any demand for copies of the old Review. He would like to have the enclosed articles returned. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Kramer, F. J., Telluride, Colorado, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jan. 19 Kramer encloses a copy of the Colorado Catholie containing the account of the conversion to Catholicism of a friend of his, which was the result of reading the works of Dr. Orestes A. Brownson. He thinks Brownson will be pleased to hear it. He asks whether the course of philosophy based on Brownson's writings has appeared and, if not, when it will appear, and also asks about the life of Dr. Brownson. If Brownson keeps the addresses of those who bought the works he should change Kramer's from Ophir, San Miguel Co, to Telluride, San Miguel Co. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jan. 22 Hudson incloses the proofs of their notice of the third volume. Brownson is to be congratulated; Hudson used to fear that the work would not be completed. Bishop John Lancaster Spalding asked Hudson to order a copy of the life for him. Hudson sends best regards. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 32mo. 2pp. CBRH III-3-c Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jan. 26 Hudson is keeping Brownson's interesting sketch for Lent. Brownson's name will secure more readers, he is sure. Perhaps Brownson will be willing to sign it when he sees the proofs. Brownson was remembered in Hudson's Christmas Masses which he always reserves for his own intentions. One Mass was for the dead; he thought of Philip Brownson? :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo. CBRH III-3-c Conley, J. W., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jan. 28 Gonley thanks Brownson for the two excellent lectures on anthropology by Father Thomas A. Hughes, S.J., which he sent him; he would like to see the lectures on biology. The lecturer has made good use of the doctrine of reversion of varieties to the original species. This doctrine is admitted by those who assert that man was evolved from the ape, but they have failed to give an example of man's reverting to the original apish type. It is more likely that the offspring of the original human parents have gradually varied and degenerated owing to the circumstances which Father Hughes has set forth, and that, in accordance with this same law of reversion, all varieties of mankind will eventually revert to the original perfect type of the primitive pair. Father Hughes has an analytic mind, is a master in synthesis and can adapt scientific language to the popular mind. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Hughes, S.J., Father Thomas A., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jan. 30 The appreciation of Doctor J. W. Gonley is very flattering and most encouraging. The next lectures will be for the first half directly on Darwinism and for the second half on the preliminaries to Evolution taken in the full, wide sense; the last will be on Evolution. He returns the enclosed with his thanks. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1 p. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-c Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jan. 31 Father Hudson is also of the opinion that Brownson's translation of Tarducci had better be entrusted to one of the leading Protestant publishers. No doubt there would be an objection to Father Hudson's first plan, but he suggests that Brownson give the Ave Maria one or more original articles using the Italian work as a source of information only—Columbus' devotion to the Blessed Virgin, an account of his chains, his inner spirit, his mission, etc. The work would be altogether too voluminous for the Ave Maria. Father Hudson gets the Colorado Catholic and has a faint recollection of seeing the article to which Brownson referred, but missed reading it. If he can recover the paper he will send it. He writes in great haste, with his table covered with unanswered letters, unread mss. and the like. His eyes are better again, and he hopes to see Brownson before Easter. Brownson's labor in editing his father's works has found great fruit already. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Menton, Richard T., Secretary, Wilmington, Delaware, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Feb. 25 The enclosed note from Messrs. Sadlier Co. explains why Menton addresses Brownson. The Brownson Library Library Ass'n is named after the late Orestes A. Brownson, and it wishes to procure a photograph of him in any size, since it will have suitable copies of it made. A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. Enclosure: CBRH III-3-c D. J. Sadlier Co., New York, New York, to Brownson Library Association, Wilmington, Delaware 1889 Feb. 21 Sadlier Co. have tried unsuccessfully to get a photograph of Dr. Orestes A. Brownson, and suggest that inquiries be made to his son, Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Mich. They have a woodcut portrait in Dr. Brownson's Essays, and if this should be of any use, will send a copy of it. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Mahoney, John A., Secretary, Wilmington, Delaware, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Mar. 8 The photograph of Dr. Orestes A. Brownson has been received and is highly appreciated. The Brownson Library Association has directed Mahoney to thank Brownson and has ordered a large copy of the photograph to be made, to be placed in the reading room of the Association. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-e Welch, S.J., Father Edward H., Georgetown, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Mar. 20 Father Welch asks for information on Brownson's classmate at Holy Cross College, James Clarence Bergen . After his graduation in 1852 he want to the Harvard Law school. Assuming that he is a graduate of Georgetown—at that time the graduates of Worcester received their degrees from Georgetown—the Librarian of the Harvard Law School writes to Father Welch to learn something about Bergen for their catalogue. As the Librarian of the Law School has always been very kind, Father Welch would like to give him all the information he can. If Bergen is living, he would like to know where he lives and what he is doing; if he is dead, when, where and how he died. He thinks Brownson will probably remember him too; they met at Georgetown several times during the first year of the War and before at Frederick and at Brownson's father's house in Chelsea. He hopes Brownson's health is good. :: III-3-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Brownson, Henry F., Detroit, Michigan, to William J. Onahan, Chicago, Illinois 1889 Mar. 22 He sends for Onahan's consideration a crude plan he thought of in connection with a congress. He would have a committee draw up an address to the Catholics of the U.S., get the approval of the Archbishops and prominent laymen throughout the country and arrange for a meeting and temporary organization of the congress. He prefers Washington, D.C. He can write to William Richards of Washington to get a good name from there for the committee. Peter L. Foy from St. Louis or perhaps Henry J. Spaunhorst and one of the O'Brien brothers from New York might complete the committee of arrangements. The address should state who are to come, or would Onahan have delegates? The object should be stated: the promotion of harmony of thought and action among Catholics of the U.S. Brownson thinks they should write to some of the archbishops and bishops now. He mentioned it already to ArchbishopWilliam H. Gross . If Onahan will write to Archbishops Patrick W. Riordan and John Ireland and Bishop John L. Spalding Brownson will write to his particular friends, Bishops James A. Healy and Camillus P. Maes, and a list of others. As soon as they are sure of the approval of Cardinal James Gibbons, Archbishop Ireland and a few more, they should go ahead unless unexpected opposition comes up. He supposes they must rely on voluntary contributions for expenses. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. 11 CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Mar. 23 Onahan has already written to Archbishop John Ireland and to Bishop John L. Spaulding requesting their views and counsel on the project of the propose Congress, and no doubt will hear from them soon. He will write to Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan without delay. Brownson's program is all right. He thinks that they can get Henry J. Spaunhorst of St. Louis interested. He is a capital organizer; Onahan knows him well and perhaps will see him in St. Louis next week. He knows Peter L. Foy also. Would not Edmond Mallet of Washington be a good man for the work? Onahan submits some names on a separate sheet that occur to him as the right sort for the meeting. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Lang, Father John F., Chancellor and Secretary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Mar. 26 Bishop Joseph Dwenger is very favorably impressed with the ideas suggested in Brownson's letter of the 25th. He would of course lend what aid he could and cheerfully so. He suggests that one of the questions to be discussed at the time, other things being arranged, might be the "educational or school question", another, "the enhancement of Catholic Society". By order of the Rt. Rev. Bishop. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Gibbons, James Cardinal, Archbishop of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Mar. 27 Cardinal Gibbons has received Brownson's letter of the 25th, in which he recommends the holding, in the near future, of a Catholic Congress in the United States. Such a convention if properly managed would not fail to foster a stronger spirit of brotherhood among the Catholic communities and give them a greater consciousness of their strength. But to insure its success all the preliminaries should be carefully considered and the subjects to be discussed maturely outlined. He does not think there is sufficient time between now and November to elicit the cooperation of the prelates and to formulate the program of the Congress. Besides, the Centennial celebration in Baltimore to be followed by the opening of the Catholic University will engross the attention of the visiting bishops and would divert their attention from the Congress. When the Bishops assemble in Washington at the University dedication ceremonies, that occasion might be opportune to elicit their views and invite their cooperation. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Gross, William H., Archbishop of Oregon City, Portland, Oregon, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Mar. 27 Brownson's letter of the 21st is at hand, and the Archbishop entirely endorses the proposed Catholic Congress. It has long seemed to him that the American laity have been little called on to interest themselves in promoting Catholic affairs, all being left to be done by the clergy, the laity sitting by as an uninterested spectator. This state of affairs may have been a result or reaction from the struggle on the question of trustees. At any rate, the condition is unfortunate, for the aid which could and should be given by the laity is missed. This do nothing condition in the laity causes them to lose all interest and zeal in Catholic matters. They should participate in such things, but under the leadership and guidance of the Hierarchy whom the Holy Ghost has appointed to rule over the Church of God. The Archbishop hopes and prays that the proposed Congress will be a success and that a great good will be done for the Holy Church in this country. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr. 5 Onahan is glad to see that Archbishop William H. Gross expresses himself so warmly in favor of the Congress and thinks his letter should be submitted to James Cardinal Gibbons. There is certainly time enough to work up the project, and Onahan trusts His Eminence will yet be persuaded to give his endorsement and approval to the meeting. No word so far from either Archbishops John Ireland or Patrick W. Riordan. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Maes, Camiillus P., Bishop of Covington, Covington, Kentucky, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr. 8 The Bishop wrote to Brownson last week and just now found the letter in his desk, but in answer to Brownson's letter of the 25th, he wishes to say that he fully agrees with him as to the desirability of a Catholic Congress. Let it be a thorough Catholic move, enlisting the good will and cooperation of all, representative of every nationality and thoroughly American. He calls Brownson's attention to nationality because of the ill advised movement of a very few German priests to keep German Catholics separate. No attention should be called to the matter either in the preliminary meeting or in the papers, but there should be some representatives of the German element, so that the movement not be considered distinct from and antagonistic to the German Catholics, but be looked upon in its true light, the combining of all Catholic elements for the common good of the one Catholic Church of America. In the interest of unity, he would make Henry J. Spaunhorst of St. Louis a member of the Central Committee; he is a through Catholic, and as president of the meritorious Central Verein shown the greatest love for the Church and devotion to the country, and has at heart the common good of both. There will be time later to decide what subjects to treat, and the only difficulty will be to make a wise selection among the most urgent topics. However, literature of rather "plain good reading and the means of avoiding bad reading" is a very important one. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Preston, V. G., Father Thomas S., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr. 8 Father Preston has consulted the Archbishop Michael A. Corrigan in regard to Brownson's letter of the 28th, and it seems to them that such a meeting as he proposes might be productive of good. There are, however, some serious dangers which must be considered. If the convention should be made up of loyal and conservative Catholics much good might be done, but if any or any considerable number of the delegates be disloyal or at all liberal in their tendencies, evil might result. If Brownson can mature a plan by which the election of such delegates as will properly represent Catholic interests at this time will be insured, Father Preston feels sure that his proposition will lead to happy results. It is well, however, to be sure of the great danger which in this country always attends any public meeting where freedom of speech is absolutely without control. He will be happy to hear from Brownson again on the subject. :: III-3-c Typed Letter Signed 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Gilmour, Richard, Bishop of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr. 9 In reply to Brownson's letter of the 25th, the Bishop heartily approves of the plan to hold a Catholic American Congress at Baltimore at or about the time of the Carroll Centenary. Anything he can do in aid of this very laudable project he will do most cheerfully. Success to Brownson's efforts. :: III-3-c A.L.S 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-e Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr.10 Onahan has taken leave to inclose Bishop Camil-lus P. Maes' letter to Archbishop John Ireland and has urged him to write to James Cardinal Gibbons to try to reconcile matters, so that the assent of his Eminence may be given to the project for the time proposed. Onahan sees no difficulty on the score of time and would much prefer to organize such an affair in a few months, rather than years. He has also writ-ten to Henry J. Spaunhorst, and heartily concurs in what Bishop Maes says of him. He regards his cooperation as of the Greatest importance. :: III-3-e A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr. 11 Onahan returns the letter of James Cardinal Gibbons, and is still of the opinion that there is plenty of time to organize such a meeting and that it would be a pity to let the opportunity pass. But if, after full consideration of all the conditions, his Eminence still considers the project inexpedient or immature, of course they can go no farther in the matter. He has not yet heard from Archbishops John Ireland or Patrick W. Riordan. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr. 13 Onahan learns that Bishop James A. Healy passed through Chicago yesterday on his way from the Pacific Coast, and this will explain his silence. He expects to hear from Henry J. Spaunhorst in a day or two and will send Brownson his letter. He suspects Archbishop John Ireland is in correspondence with James Cardinal Gibbons as to the meeting and is sure the former will be warmly in favor of the meeting, since he stands always for progress and freedom. After he has been heard from, then Brownson can determine whether a visit to Baltimore is necessary. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Brownson Orestes A. Jr., Rockdale, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr.18 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 one so fallible that he would rather endure the evils he has than fly to those he knows not of. He speaks of their mother and father, Orestes A. Brownson . Henry should bring some of his children with him if possible. Orestes speaks of his family; Charley Brownson is nearly fifteen and is the youngest, but as big as a man. Sarah Brownson and Rosa Brownson are still home, the rest are married and gone. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Brownson, Orestes A. Jr., Rockdale, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr. 28 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. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Apr. 28 The letters Onahan sent Brownson yesterday from James Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop John Ireland remove all difficulties. It now remains only to arrange the necessary preliminaries and to submit plans to His Eminence or to Archbishop Ireland. He expects to meet Bishop John L. Spaulding to talk with him on the subject, and he should be one of the active movers in the Congress. Archbishop Ireland will be here very soon and perhaps a conference could be arranged. Onahan's position engages all his time and for several weeks will not be free for outside work, but then may be counted on to do all he can. H.J. Spaunhorst's letter came this morning; he will be a useful factor in the movement. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c O'Rourke, Father William F. M., Cincinnati, Chio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 1 Father O'Rourke orders the 20 volumes of Brown son's Works in cloth and asks about freight and payment and whether these volumes contain all of Dr. Orestes A. Brownson's writings from the time he ceased his Review in 1864, until he resumed it in 1873, and from 1876 to his death, much of which he wrote for different publications and did not attach his name. Father O'Rourke has been a priest for nearly a quarter of a century and has spent most of his spare time in the study of philosophy and theology and even now knows nothing; but he thinks Dr. Brownson the greatest man that ever lived, at least for him personally. He longed to see him and to ask him about six questions which give him great difficulty. One pertains to the question of "thought" in his "Essay on Atheism", and he can find no answer, not even in Father DeConcilio's "Pantheism". He prays for Brownson and remembers him at Mass. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Janssens, Francis, Archbishop of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 5 The Archbishop thanks Brownson for his good wishes and is sorry that he cannot come and talk about old times. In regard to the proposed Congress the Archbishop suggests that a protest against spoilation of Rome would do little good for the Holly Father and would increase the Prejudice of the Protestant American people. This he knows to be the general feeling among the Bishops and of James Cardinal Gibbons. Also the suggests that since the Public school question is ill understood among non-Catholics and would arouse strong feelings, he believes it is the sentiment of the Bishops and Cardinal to leave this question to the quiet agitation in each diocese, since circumstances differ vastly and cannot be discussed and handled in the same manner in each diocese. What is good for one might be detrimental for another. However, he will speaks to the Cardinal, thought he is convinced that these are his sentiments. However, in his opinion, a Catholic Congress would be beneficial, provided a program be selected which in moderation and prudence would discuss these burning question. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 7 Archbishop John Ireland will be in Chicago the morning of the 14th and will give the entire day to a conference on the proposed Congress. If Brownson can attend, he should come to the Grand Pacific Hotel, where the Archbishop will stop. Onahan will invite Henry J. Spaunhorst and General Lawler, and asks Brownson to have the program outlined in advance, as he can little towards it. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Coppens, S.J., Father Charles, Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 9 Father Coppens should have returned the enclosed letter long ago but it disappeared under some papers. He hopes Brownson will have a successful meeting in Chicago, and that he will remember that on Sunday, May 12, his place at 7:00 A.M. and at 7:30 P.M. is among the members of the Men's sodality, of which he is now a member. After the mass all go for a very few minutes to the Sodality Chapel to record their presence and to hear announcements. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 10 Onahan mailed to Brownson yesterday Dr. Guerin's check for $60, and has invited General John Lawler of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Henry J. Spaunhorst, St. Louis, MissOuri, James H. Dorner, Buffalo, New York, and Maurice F. Egan, Notre Dame, Indiana to the meeting next Tuesday. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Van der Eerden, S.J., Father AloysiusG., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 10 In Father Van der Eerden's letter to Archbishop Francis Janssens of New Orleans, requesting him to write to James Cardinal Gibbons about the Catholic Congress, he suggested that the temporal power of the Pope and the education question might be good subjects. In reply the Archbishop opposes a protest against the spoliation of Rome and discussion of the public school question, but approves the idea of a Catholic Congress if a program is selected to discuss the burning questions with moderation and prudence. Father van der Eerden thinks this answer very encouraging, and will try to speak to William J. Onahan on the subject before he leaves Chicago. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Hewit, C.S.P., Father Augustine F., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 11 Father Hewit has received Brownson's letter with the consideration its importance deserves. A congress of all English-speaking parts of the Catholic World was announced some time ago under the auspices of Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, but it seems to be given up. Perhaps an American Congress would be a good thing if undertaken under the sanction and direction of the hierarchy, although priests and laymen might take the most active part in its management. He believes in an active participation but that independent action even of the clergy would be dangerous, especially in this country. Several bishops, especially Archbishop John Ireland and Bishops John L. Spaulding and John J. Kenae, would be likely to take an interest, and the approbation of James Cardinal Gibbons should be secured. A committee of preparation of a dozen or more distinguished clergy and laymen to arrange everything orderly beforehand would be necessary. He cannot engage in anything requiring exertion and there are none of his. Congregation to whom he would entrust the work of taking the initiative. They are entirely subject to their Archbishop and cannot act autonomously. Besides, no religious society should be given particular prominence, and the clergy who take part should do so simply as such, associated with lay-men an equal terms and numbers, as in European congresses. Two or three of his order might take part, but beyond that they cannot go; in fact a congress called and directed by Paulists woudl be just as obnoxious as one directed by Jesuits. Let all combine on common ground, if possible, and care be taken not to have a fiasco. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to 1889 May 20 Onahan calls attention to the project of a Congress or meeting of Catholic laymen of the United States to be held in Baltimore, November 4th and 5th, on the occasion of the centenary of the Catholic Hierchy. The latter event will be celebrated under the auspices of His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons and will undoubtedly be an occasion of special interest to Catholics of this country. It is believed that a meeting of Catholic laymen would be most opportune and fitting to demonstrate the cordial union and entire harmony subsisting between all orders in the Church and to unite more closely the laity and to stir into greater activity the Catholic laymen in works of Catholic interest, such as lay action in the Church, social questions, charities—private and state, religious Catholic literature, temperance work, Negroes and Indians, Catholic education, Catholic organization, immigration and colonization, etc. The approbation of the Cardinal has been given to the project and warm interest is expressed by many members of the Hierarchy. At a preliminary conference held a few days ago in Chicago, at which Archbishop John Ireland assisted, a program, date and place, and a committee of arrangements were agreed on. This committee, of some twenty gentlemen from different parts of the country, will meet in Detroit, Wednesday, June 5, to complete the preliminary arrangements and to issue the call for the Congress. has been name one of the committee and it is hoped can attend the Detroit meeting. The importance of the project and the desirability of carrying it to a successful result will carry weight and enlist cooperation. Please notify Henry F. Brownson, 25 Seitz Building, Detroit, Mich. In the Henry F. Brownson Collection. :: III-3-c Typed form-letter Signed 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Healy, James Augustine, Bishop of Portland, Portland, Maine, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 20 Brownson's letter of March 25th about the Carroll Centenary was forwarded to the Bishop in San Francisco, but he was there only two weeks and returned for Easter, since being very busy. He lives too far away from the civil and ecclesiastical center to know much about what is doing there, and Brownson's letter is the first and only intimation of such a Congress. He likes the idea very much. If some few will devote themselves to the fit preparation of men and matters, it will do great good, if they have a safe guide and one who desires to see the good done and not merely a volume made. He is a recluse, tilling his sparsely planted garden and shunning as much as he can all publicity. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Moore, J. C., President, Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 21 In reply to Brownson's letter of the 19th, the Committee of Arrangements of the Catholic Congress to be held in Baltimore next November may meet at the Catholic Club rooms, June 5. Furthermore, Moore will see that everything at the Club rooms is in readiness. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Ireland, John, Archbishop of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 22 Archbishop Ireland considers the enclosed circular all-sufficient. Among the gentlemen to be invited to the Detroit Conference, please number the Editor of the German Catholic paper there, who last year proposed a general congress of American Catholics as the proper thing instead of a sectional congress of German Catholics. He is told that there is also a German Catholic physician in Detroit who might be invited. It is most important to secure a strong German adherence. Please obtain for personal use the reports of the National Conference of Associated Charities, which is much the same as the plan needed. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Spalding, John L., Bishop of Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, to William J. Onahan, Chicago, Illinois 1889 May 22 Bishop Spalding sends his thanks for checks for stock and dividends. Onahan's circular, which he returns, embraces all that such a meeting could concern itself. It would be wise to take up two or three points rather than many and to present a practical and businesslike method of dealing with the interests implicated. Talk is cheap and nearly all our gatherings begin and end in words. Take lay cooperation and devise some means by which laymen may really take part in Church work. It is not necessary to say anything about Indians and niggers and colonization. Take a stand in favor of prohibition and let temperance societies gently slide down an indefinitely slopping plane. It was not his attention, however, to make any suggestions further than to say that phrases are no longer needed. Let us cease to pretend to wish to do what we really have no intention of doing. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-c Harson, M.J., Providence, Rhode Island, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 23 Harson is greatly pleased to learn that the initiative has been taken with the view of holding a Catholic Congress next November; it is a movement he has been hoping for some years to see undertaken. The conventions of the C.Y.M.N.U. have been an indifferent amateur attempt at something of this character. He has hoped to see new strength added to the National Union, from which might come the beginnings of a Catholic Congress, but this strength has not been acquired. Brownson's action makes it unnecessary for Harson to present the subject to that body when it meets in Providence August 15th and 16th. As to the utility of a Catholic Congress, there is no question in his mind as to the great amount of good it will accomplish. It will be impossible, because of engagements, for him to attend the meeting on June 5; and his services can easily be dispensed with. The movement will be well directed in the hands of William J. Onahan, Henry J. Spaunhorst, Archbishop John Ireland, Brownson, and such others that are able to be present, and he does not doubt the excellence of their plan of arrangements. He has a business trip to Europe between June 26th and August 5th, but after that will be free to do anything that will contribute to the success of the Congress. As he is in New York and Boston every few weeks, he can confer with gentlemen there who are interested in the movement. Since November 4 falls on Monday, it would be better to arrange the dates for the 5th and 6th, thus giving all the delegates ample time to get to the opening of the Congress. Harson supposes the Congress will be shaped somewhat on the lines of the German and Belgian congresses, though he cannot recall their methods of representation, he suggests that the supreme officers of all Catholic organizations, German and French Catholics, representatives of each Catholic newspapers and periodicals, and the faculties of the colleges and an undergraduate from each be invited. He has ventured these remarks for the sake of having something to say. The plans which Brownson has in mind and which will be matured on June 5th will unquestionably meet all requirements. He expresses his deep sense of obligation for his appointment on the Committee. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 8pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Gonley, J. W., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 24 Gonley thanks Brownson for his kind letter of the 19th, and while he thinks well of the objects of the proposed Congress, his occupations will prevent him from taking part in it. Good working men are needed on the committee of organization and none on fancy duty. He regrets that he cannot come in aid, but thinks he can do more good in his field of work. He hopes the undertaking will be successful in every respect, and that it will be given the best ability. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Rudd, Daniel A., Cincinnati, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 24 In reply to Brownson's letter of May 19th, Rudd will be pleased to meet with the committee of gentlemen, as per Brownson's kind invitation, Wednesday, June 5, at 10:00 A.M., in Detroit. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Semmes, Thomas J., New Orleans, Louisiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 24 Semmes sees nothing to prevent his attendance at the meeting of the Committee on June 5, referred to in Brownson's letter. It will give him pleasure to unite in arranging the details for a meeting of a Catholic Congress in the United States. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 May 25 William J. Onnahan's List of Invitations to the Detroit Conference. Note at bottom: Henry J. Spaunhorst of St. Louis was requested to take charge of the invitations to representative German Catholics; Henry F. Brownson addressed letters to other gentlemen not included in this list. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 2pp. 4to. CBRH III-3-c Dormer, James H., Buffalo, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 25 As he has already advised William J. Onahan, if his health permits Dormer will meet Brownson and the other Catholic gentlemen on June 5, "to complete preliminary arrangements and issue call for the Congress", a project which has his very cordial approval. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Shea, John Gilmary, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 27 Shea cannot but feel flattered at the honor conferred by naming him one of the committee for the proposed Congress of Catholic Laymen, a project which has his heartiest concurrence. Unfortunately it will be impossible for him to meet the other gentlemen of the Committee on the day named, as he is still unable to walk, having fallen and sustained a severe injury in January. In subsequent meetings he hopes to be able to take an active part. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Fennessy, John, Bishop of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 29 Bishop Hennessy encloses a check for $60, the amount of bill for the book just received. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Deuster, P. V., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 30 Brownson's invitation to a meeting on June 5th in Detroit has been received, and believing that a Congress of Catholic laymen on the occasion of the Centenary in November is an excellent idea, Deuster will take great pleasure of meeting the Committee next Wednesday. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Dwight, Thomas, Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 30 Dwight regrets that it is impossible for him to attend the meeting of arrangements for the Congress of Catholic Laymen. He sympathizes entirely with the plan, but he has just returned from a European journey for his health and cannot do any work in the matter. Under the circumstances it will probably be best to resign from the Committee, but in this respect he is prepared to be guided by the wishes of those in charge. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Hoguet, Henry L., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 30 By circular letter from William J. Onahan of Chicago, Hoguet is informed of having been named one of a committee of arrangements for the Catholic Congress and regrets that his health will prevent his taking any share in the work of the committee. He asks that his name be replaced by that of some gentlemen better able than he to perform the duties of position. Be assured of his grateful appreciation of the extended honor. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Mueller, C. A., Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 30 Through Henry J. Spaunhorst, President of the D.R.C.C. Verein, Mueller received an invitation to attend a meeting in Detroit June 5th for the purpose of helping to complete arrangements to issue a call for a Catholic Congress of America. He esteems the request a great honor and takes great pleasure to be present at appointed time. He will do all he can to make this noble undertaking a great success. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1 p. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Hoguet, Henry L., New York, New York, to William J. Onanan, Chicago, Illinois 1889 May 30 Hoguet's present condition of health will not permit his going to Detriot on June 5th. He took cold at an open air address to the Protectory Boys, and must beg to be excused from taking part in the proposed Committee of Arrangements. He hopes he will be able to attend the Congress at Baltimore and give all the attention possible to the subject of Catholic Education with the view of profiting by the experience of such zealous workers on this interesting subject.In the Henry F. Brownson collection. :: III-3-c A.L.S 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Kehoe, Lawrence, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 May 31 William J. Onahan has sent Kehoe a circular about the proposed meeting of Catholic laymen, and tells him that he is chosen a member of the committee to meet in Detroit June 5th, and that he is to communicate with Brownson. He is sorry that it is not convenient for him, but he has had a bad attack of rheumatism—the first in his life—and cannot get around very well. He is heartily in unison and in spirit with the promoters of the meeting and will do all he can to help the cause. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Spaunhorst, Henry J., St. Louis, Missouri, to William J. Onahan, Chicago, Illinois 1889 May 31 Spaunhorst has sent invitations for Wednesday in Detroit to C. V. Deuster, Milwaukee, G. D. Deuser, Louisville, I. P. Fleitz, Detroit, J. A. Astendorf, Baltimore, George J. Schmidt, Chicago, Louis Ernst, Rochester, F. A. Grever, Cincinnati, Jacob Kirchem, Philadelphia, C. A. Mueller, Cleveland, William Casper, Milwaukee, Louis Benziger, New York, Louis Fusz, St. Louis, and Martin Neuhauser, Toledo. How many will attend he cannot say. P. L. Foy tells him he is going, and he will be on hand. Some of his German friends are asserting that the German Catholic Convention is thus interfered with. He supposes he can never please everybody. Like Dave Crockett, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead". Of course Onahan will be in Detroit Wednesday. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Benziger, Louis, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 1 In answer to Brownson's kind favor to meet him and a number of other Catholic gentlemen to complete the preliminary arrangements for a Congress of Catholic laymen in Baltimore in November, Benziger regrets to say that his health has been so poor of late that he could not well venture the trip at present. Also, his only partner is in Europe and he could hardly leave the business. He wishes every success and hopes to be present at the meeting in Baltimore. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Bonaparte, Charles J., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 1 Bonaparte regrets to find himself altogether unable to attend the proposed committee meeting on the 5th with many thanks for Brownson's favor of the 19th. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Donnelly, Charles F., Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 1 The circular letter sent by William J. Onahan has just reached Donnelly through Father Patrick A. Halpin, S.J. It will be impossible for him to arrange to attend the meeting of the committee at Detroit, June 5th. He is in favor of the proposed Congress of Catholic laymen and believes it will be an important step in the advancement of Catholicity in this country. The Church is composed of the body of the faithful, and laymen generally forget it is their duty to bear an important part in her work, as members of the Church of Christ, and not leave the burden of the labor on the priesthood, as it has been left up to the present time, in the United States. In naming delegates to the Congress from Massachusetts the Committee should not forget to designate Dr. Thomas Dwight of this city, a highly educated, straight-forward Catholic who has occupied for some years past the Chair of Anatomy, formerly held in Harvard University by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Fusz, Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 1 Fusz has just received Henry J. Spaunhorst's notification of his having been appointed one of a committee to meet in Detroit to prepare the work for the proposed Congress of Catholic laymen at Baltimore next fall. He is sorry to inform Brownson that he is not able to attend the meeting June 5, other engagements preventing. His best wishes are with the work. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Fusz, Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 1 Fusz has just received Henry J. Spaunhorst's notification of his having been appointed one of a committee to meet in Detroit to prepare the work for the proposed Congress of Catholic laymen at Baltimore next fall. He is sorry to inform Brownson that he is not able to attend the meeting June 5, other engagements preventing. His best wishes are with the work. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-e Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 1 Greatly as he desires to be present for the meeting of the committee of arrangements for the Congress of Catholic Laymen, Onahan may not be able to get away from his official duties and business. In the event of his absence, he informs Brownson of what steps he has taken in regard to it. He sent out some 25 invitations, Henry J. Spaunhorst took care of the German representatives, and Brownson on doubt attended to others; and Onahan trusts that there will be a fair representation from among those invited. The program is fairly outlined in the circular. The work for the committee then is to issue the call for the Congress, stating the conditions of representation and briefly outlining the objects; to select a committee of management and a local committee of active, energetic Baltimore and Washington men who will arrange for the hall, etc.; to chose a committee on the subjects to be considered, which shall be responsible for the papers to be read; to name a committee to select the temporary organization or affairs of the Congress; and to name a committee on correspondence. Onahan does not doubt that the meeting's action will be satisfactory and will open the way to a happy and harmonious gathering in Baltimore next November of representative American Catholic laymen, united with the Hierarchy and clergy on lines of Catholic thought and action in everything that concerns the welfare of the Church, the good of society and the permanent prosperity and and asks Brownson to offer his respects to all who shall attend. :: III-3-e A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 03 The success accomplished towards the erection of a statue to Orestes A. Brownson is such as to warrant the hope of seeing it standing in Central Park. Clarke has arranged for two lectures here in November by Eliza Allen Starr of Chicago, which with what is in the Treasury will complete New York's quota towards the fund. Clarke inquires whether Brownson or any of Dr. Brownson's family possesses a bust or statue of any kind, or cast of his face, or picture of any kind taken from life, which when needed, will serve the committee in arranging for the statue. Clarke has been requested to add to the committee John La Farge, the artist, who is in favor of a bust rather than a full length statue. Any suggestions Brownson may wish to make will be very acceptable to the committee. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Neuhausel, Martin, Toledo, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 3 In answer to the letter of Henry J. Spaunhorst Neuhausel will take great pleasure to be present in Detroit, Wednesday morning, June 5. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 4 Onahan finds it out of the question for him to attend the meeting tomorrow. Mayor Crezier, who returned yesterday from Springfield, must return this evening on important public business that cannot be delayed, and since Onahan is by office next in authority, he cannot in his absence absent himself even for a day. Also he has been named to act in forwarding donations for the sufferers of the Johnstown calamity and every available moment must be given to this work of duty and charity. He is confident that this is suficient explanation and reason for his unavoidable absence. He thinks he omitted the name of Daniel J. Foley of Baltimore, to whom he sent an invitation, from his list. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Gilmour, Richard, Bishop of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 4 Impossible for Bishop Gilmour to attend tomorrow's meeting but it has his cordial sympathy and is heartily in favor of proposed Congress. :: III-3-c Telegram 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 4 Utterly impossible for Onahan to leave—urgent work for Johnstown sufferers. :: III-3-c Telegram 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Schmidt, George J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 4 Schmidt received Henry J. Spaunhorst 's invitation to the meeting to be held in Detroit June 5, to complete arrangements for a call for the Catholic Congress. Because of business engagements made prior to the arrival of Mr. Spaunhorst's letter, he is unable to be present and asks to be excused. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Dormer, James H., Buffalo, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 5 Will arrive at one o'clock today Michigan Central. :: III-3-c Telegram 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Maes, Camillus P., Bishop of Covington, Covington, Kentucky, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 5 Just reached home. He is with conference heart and soul. :: III-3-c Telegram 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Van der Eerden, S.J., Father Aloysius G., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 5 When Father van der Eerden met Brownson in Chicago he asked him to find a genuine Dutchman to take part in the Catholic Congress and has at last found one who will be a credit to the Dutch and no discredit to the Congress, J.H.M. Wigman, an attorney of law of Green Bay, Wisconsin, president of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, commander of the order of St. Gregory, and stands high in the favor of Bishop Frederic Xavier Katzer of Green Bay. Father van der Eerden read a few days ago in a Catholic paper a suggestion to have a Catholic Congress, a new proof to him that the idea will find favor. He has spoken to Father James F. X. Hooffer, moderator of the Catholic Club of St. Louis, to write to William J. Onahan on the subject but he does not know whether he has as yet. All to whom he has spoken on the subject are very highly in favor of the proposed Congress. May God bless. Brownson's noble efforts in this good cause. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Hughes, William H., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 7 Hughes asks for a full report of the proceedings of the meeting held at the Catholic Club Rooms to arrange for the American Catholic Congress at Baltimore next November. If Brownson has not given Daniel A. Rudd the correspondence Hughes asked for Thursday morning, please allow the bearer to copy as much of it as Brownson thinks will be of interest to the Catholic public. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Derby, H., Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 8 In answer to the circular of May 20 inviting him to serve on the committee of the projected Congress of Catholic laymen, Derby is on the point of leaving for Europe and is therefore compelled to decline. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Rudd, Daniel A., Cincinnati, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 8 Brownson's favor of yesterday at hand and instructions will be followed. :: III-3-c Typed Letter Signed 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Chatard, Francis S., Bishop of, Vincennes, Indianapolis, Inddiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 9 Bishop Chatard acknowledges the receipt of Brownson's letter of June 3, which he found on his return to the city on June 6th. He hopes everything in connection with the subject matter of his communication may tend to the welfare of Religion. :: III-3-c A.L.S. lp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Binsse, Louis B., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 10 The first intimation Binsse has had of his appointment on the New York Committee of arrangements for the Catholic Congress reached him in the columns of the Catholic Review. He is now pretty well advanced in years, averse to leaving his home, and cannot see how he can be of any service on the committee. The Catholic World will publish soon an account of the preliminary preparations and opening of the Congress held in Madrid last April followed by an account of the proceedings and conclusions arrived at. Both are written by a gentleman in Madrid and contain much useful and interesting information. Binsse knew Brownson's father Orestes A. Brownson very well, and now one of his pleasing recollections is to have suggested to Father Isaac T. Hecker the idea of getting up a fund to purchase the annuity which he so richly deserved and to have contributed to it himself. Nor can he forget his first acquaintence with his writing in an article contributed by him before he became a Catholic to the Democratic Review. He was perfectly astounded at the vigour, logic and fearlesness of the article. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 11 In answer to Brownson's letter of the 8th Foy asks whether it would not be better to ask persons outside the committees to write the several papers, requiring that the papers be sent into the Committee at an early date, so that there would be full time to supplement them with essays by members of the committee. There is nothing in the action taken thus far to limit the number of papers, and even if a greater number should be contributed than could be conveniently read, they could all appear in the published proceedings. He has no objection to preparing a paper on charities, but wishes Brownson would ask somebody else to write one too. Should the writer not cover the ground, he will gladly take up the points omitted. He thinks it desirable to enlist as many able men as possible in this work. He will be glad to receive a copy of the minutes at Brownson's earliest convenience. The sooner Brownson issues the call for the Congress, the better, for very few so far seem to be aware that there is to be one. One word more: in the call Foy would name it a lay congress. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 13 Clarke thanks Brownson for the information and suggestions contained in his letter of the 11th and will try to fix Eliza Allen Starr's lectures either before or after the Carroll Centennial. Archbishop William H. Gross informed him that the Catholic Lay Congress would assemble the week before the ecclesiastical celebration, November 4th. He would like information as to dates, so that he can arrange the time of the lectures, and since Miss Starr will be his guest she may also wish to attend the Centennial and he must keep the two apart in time. His brother-in-law, Thomas J. Semmes, has written about the Congress. He asks whether Brownson has seen Sebbie Co.'s first sections of the Illustrated History of the Catholic Church, and asks to be remembered to Mr. and Mrs. Moran. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Mary of the Annunciation, O.S.U., Sister, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 13 Brownson's letter addressed to Mother M. Aloysius, O.S.U., Superior at Toledo, was forwarded to Sister Mary of the Annunciation, who is the sister-in-law of Judge Edmund F. Dunne, to furnish information about him. She encloses part of an envelope such as he generally uses and a sheet of "The Toy", a paper started Aug. 15, 1888, by Brian Dunne, the youngest child of the family. She asks Brownson to mention her communication to him when he writes to Judge Dunne. From his name, she is inclined to think Brownson to be connected with the celebrated Orestes A. Brownson. She has met several of the clergy of Detroit, among them Mgr. Edward Joos, Father Camillus P. Maes, now Bishop of Covington, and Father Ernest Van Dyke, a connection of the Brownson family. If convenient, the Ursulines of Toledo and Oakland would be pleased to have Brownson call. The address is Hon. E. F. Dunne, San Antonio, Florida. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 13 Patrick Farrelly of New York will be in Detroit tomorrow and Onahan requested him to call on Brownson. He is on of the most influential catholic laymen in the East, always active in every generous work, and Onahan regards his cooperation in the Congress as most important. He had opportunity for only a few moments conversation with him on the subject, and Brownson is asked to inform him fully. Onahan has just returned from Johnstown and has his hands full of work. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 13 In consequence of his absence from the city for several days at Pittsburgh and Johnstown, Onahan lost sight of the doings of the conference in Detroit, of which he has had only the most meagre accounts. From the brief press notices the representation from the East was nil, except as to James H. Dormer ; and from the West only Henry J. Spaunhorst and Peter L. Foy . This is too bad. Unless the interest of the Eastern Catholics can be stirred up the convention will be a fizzle. He has not heard from Spaunhorst or anybody of what was done or projected, except two brief notes and a letter from John J. Hyde. He trusts the affair can and will will be worked up. He is not free now, as formerly, to devote himself to it, but he will try to do all he can from his desk. The duties of his present position are extremely onerous and allow him little time for outside work, nor can he promise himself more freedom in the near future. But no will try to take care of any correspondence imposed on him. He has not heard from Archbishop John Ireland Lately, and has delayed writing to him until he could give him a resume of what exactly was done. The Johnstown business has engaged nearly all his time the past ten days. He has had charge of the subscriptions raised here and was entrusted with the duty of forwarding them to Pittsburgh. $150,000 was raised in Chicago. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Spaunhorst, Henry, St. Louis, Missouri, to 1889 Jun. 14 Spaunhorst encloses a circular and invitation proposed to be sent out for the Catholic Congress in the fall, drawn up by Henry F. Brownson . Except that he thinks the number twelve million should be ten million he is willing for it to go out. Views should be reported to Brownson in Detroit at the earliest convenience. He asks the manner of proceeding, William J. Onahan, chairman, Dan. A. Rudd, and Spaunhorst being the committee on organization. Should the number of the committee be increased and should a meeting be held or should the work be done by correspondence? He sends a copy to Onahan, Rudd, and Brownson. P. S.: He arrived home this morning and found the letter and will consider the matter allotted to him but fears he will not be able to comply. He wishes to be sent the points agreed upon for papers to be read. In the Henry F. Brownson Collection. :: III-3-b Typed Letter Signed Written Postcript Signed 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-b Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 15 Brownson's letter and clipping received, and Onahan supposes he must corresponds with Henry J. Spaunhorst and agree on the program. He thinks the committees should be enlarged to include representatives from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore or Washington; or the Congress will fail; the East must have an important, if not the leading, share in the work. Onahan would willingly give way as chairman of the original committee to an Eastern man, if one can be agreed on who will do the work. Onahan writes to Spaunhorst by this mail. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 17 Judge Edmund F. Dunne is not to be thought of in connection with the Congress. He is impossible. Father Hudson has taken time to make inquiries. However, the address is San Antonio, Fla. He would like some information about the Congress, and he will not forget about Columbus. :: III-3-c A.Card S. 1p. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 17 Onahan sent his copy of the call received from Henry J. Spaunhorst to Archbishop John Ireland and has no objection to signing it. He agrees with Brownson that the names of the entire committee should be attached. If he remembers the terms of the call, the date for the meeting has been changed. He does not like the omission of the temperance and saloon question and regards it as one of the most important in the list of subjects—and he is not a "temperance crank" either. He would like to see it restored. The exacting nature of his official duties are such that it is very doubtful if he will be able to attend the Congress. No doubt he could write a paper on Immigration and Colonization but it is not certain he can be there to read it in person. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Spaunhorst, Henry J., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 18 If it is not too much trouble, Spaunhorst would ask Brownson to mail him a copy of different items on which papers are to be presented and read before the Catholic Congress. The papers have it all garbled up. :: III-3-c Postcard Signed CBRH III-3-c Nally, E. J., President, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 19 Nally asks information where they can obtain a large photograph, engraving, crayon or some other good Portrait of the illustrious Orestes A. Brownson, after whom they have named their club which they hope to make a representative Catholic society here. They wish to frame it to hang in their rooms. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo CBRH III-3-a to Frederick R. Pustet, New York, New York Hudson wishes to complete his set of Brownson's Review for binding and lists the numbers he wishes filled. :: III-3-a Postcard Signed CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress 1889 Jun. 20 An imaginary report of the projected Catholic Congress. The place given is Washington, D.C. Among the papers of Henry F. Brownson. In the handwriting of Edmund F. Dunne. :: III-3-g A.D. unsigned 17pp. 4to. CBRH III-3-c Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 20 Having received information fixing the dates of the celebrations at Baltimore and Washington, Clarke postponed Eliza Allen Starr's lectures so as to follow those dates. He sends Brownson a copy of the Catholic News containing and article on the centenary and Congress, in which it is suggested that the Catholic societies in the U. S. send delegations to the Congress. There is great danger of the Congress becoming unwieldy if this is done, as Catholic societies are not counted by thousands, such as the Young Men's Societies, the Temperance Societies' Union, Catholic Knights, St. Vincent do Paul, etc. Clarke presumes the committees will regulate this with safety to the Congress, while the societies can all send delegates to the public celebrations. He hopes the Congress will not be simply a glorification over the past, in the nature of a mutual admiration society; but that its chief aim will be the attainment of great good for the future. He would like Brownson to send him the first article of the Detroit paper, giving the names of those who attended. He encloses a copy of the Brownson Memorial address and will send a copy of the New York Committee's Circular. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-e Dunne, Edmund F., San Antonio, Florida, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 20 Sister Mary of the Annunciation has sent from Pittsburgh Brownson's letter asking for Dunne's address in regard to the Catholic Congress. This is a little flattering to Dunne, showing that notwith-standing his having been hidden here in the woods for the last eight years he is not entirely forgotten. They did forget him in their invitations to the university last spring. Having had some experience in organizing conventions and feeling a great interest in the matter, he will make some suggestions and for-ward them to Brownson so that he can decide conveniently. It then occurred to him that he could best illustrate by sending an imaginery report of a session as it might be advantageously managed. Of course the resolutions are crude and merely suggestive, his idea being that they ought to be settled on as soon as possible and a committee set to work to select the men who would be best fitted to make the appropriate responses. The contributions should be worked up like an editor would work up a number of a magazine. By all means try to get John Lawler of Prairie du Chien. He is a whole battery of big guns, grand personal presence, big voice, powerful speaker and per-fectly sound for a response on colonization. Bishop John L. Spalding and Archbishop Patrick John Ryan are our best orators, the latter the much better of the two and has great power, the former sometimes nervous and strained but generally good and inspiring. Dunne is not at all satisfied with his resolution on capital and labor and hopes it may be bettered. All may be bettered, but he is particularly dissatisfied with that one because it does not seem to amount to anything practically. When he gets Brownson's letter he will write again. He hopes to see a great demonstration at the Congress, not as to numbers, but showy intellectually, for it will be judged critically. Catholics have set themselves against the spirit of the age, and rightly so, for it is a detestable spirit, and is sharpest men will "hawk and tear" at the Congress :: III-3-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 22 Some years ago Father Cantwell got a letter from Brownson with regard to his procuring for him all the works of his father Orestes A. Brownson from a second hand book store which would let him pay the money by installments at his convenience; and he would be glad to hear if Brownson can do so. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Dunne,Edmund F., San Antonio, Florida, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 June. 22 Dunne has received Brownson's letter of the 15th and will prepare a 30 minutes paper on Education for the Catholic Congress, as he suggests, and will if possible attend the Congress to read it. He will transmit the paper to Brownson before September 30. It seems to appear from Brownson's letter that the Congress is to have more of a lay character than Dunn supposed while writing the suggestions he forwarded yesterday. But Brownson says the project has been laid before James Cardinal Gibbons and has his approval. That will be suffecient to recommend it to Catholics, but he thinks that it would be well to in form persons preparing papers as to what is to be the exact status of the Congress, as such knowledge will help them in flaming their utterances. He enquires the meaning of Brownson's statement that "a paper drawn in a certain way will start the discussion of the subject on a true basis", and asks whether it means discussion at large throughout the country or only in the Congress after the reading of the papers. He would like to know because of its effect on shaping certain parts of the paper, but he is not seeking to shape the action of the Committee and will conform to it. He thanks the committee for the compliment of placing the paper on education in his hands and for the offer to waive his personal attendance provided he finishes the paper. P.S.June 25.: He assumes his paper meant to be confinedto elementary education, the Catholic attitude toward public schools, since Brownson refers to his Arizona address, and cannot mean for him to take in all education, at least in 30 minutees. The 30 minutes suit him but he wants to know what he is to do with the time. He does not see the newspapers much and has heard nothing about the Congress except a little uncomplimentary skit in the New York Freeman's Journal and asks Brownson to inform him, if Brownson wants to have oral discussion in the Congress on matters treated of in papers,he ought to settle on a program of subjects and send them around at least to all who furnish papers. All those questions are a little out of the daily mental beat of Catholic lay workers in this country. If they are expected to talk about them in the Congressthey ought to have some notice to furbish up a little, otherwise it will be a rusty sort of Congress comparing unfavourably to those in Europe. European co-religionists will scan the proceedings closely to see if the "dollar catchers" have "caught on" to anything else. The reputation of the lay Catholics of America is in Brownson's hands. Ought not this Catholic Congress give the new Catholic University some kind of a "send-off"? What would Brownson think of a paper on the convent education of Catholic girls, is it not a question of national importance? True, there is no particular grievance in that matter, except the cost. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 23 Onahan asks to be informed as to what line of duties the committee on organisation is expected to undertake, what understanding, if any, was had to place and time of meeting, and what is Daniel A. Rudd's full name and address. He wrote to Henry J. Spaunhorst more than a week ago and so far no answer. The more he looks into the program of the subjects, the less satisfied he becomes with the omissions. The really important questions have been left out. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Shea, John Gilmary, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 25 Shea would like to gratify the Committee and mankind generally by such a paper, but Orestes A. Brownson apart, what have American Catholics done in the domain of literature, science or art that can be paraded? None of the great poets, orators, historians, leaders in natural or medical science, in painting, sculpture, architecture, in great inventions have been Catholics. Will it not do more harm than good to get up and parade fifth rate people and extol them as paragons of excellence. If he could only see his way clear he would be happy to go at the paper, but it is like the chapter on the snakes in Ireland or Tagliaferri's chapter on what the Constitution says against the right of a state to secede. Some other topic ought to be selected; there are subjects more safe—Catholic educational work in the century, work of Catholic women during the century many Catholic writers have been women and can be named here, Catholic principles the soundest basis. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-a Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 25 Henry J. Spaunhorst has sent Onahan a copy of an address or call addressed to "fellow Catholics." Onahan asks whether it is to go out in the name of the gentlemen who composed the conference in Detroit or in the name of the committee on organization. If it is to be signed only by the members of the latter, he would prefer to rewrite it himself; if it has already been accepted and adopted, all right. He has written to Daniel A. Rudd and Spaunhorst again. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-e Byrne, Father James C., St. Paul, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 27 Father Byrne encloses the first installment for the payment of one set of Brownson's Works. He has just formed a Brownson club in St. Paul which will be devoted to literary pursuits, and he is down for a few biographical notes on the life of Orestes A. Brownson. He would like some sources of information. Has his life been written and where can it be found? :: III-3-e A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Nally, E. J., President, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 27 Nally acknowledges receipt of Brownson's favor in which he so promptly replied to his communication, and offers the thanks of the society for the very acceptable gift of a photograph of his father Orestes A. Brownson. It has been handsomely framed and all are very proud of it, especially at having received it from Brownson's hands. If he is ever up this way they will be glad to offer him the freedom of their rooms and will consider it an honor to be able to contribute to his enjoyment. P.S.: the very first thing they have mapped out to do, when they have secured a financial standing, is to purchase the finest edition of Brownson's Works; and they hope later on to do something handsome in the way of swelling the monument fund, which is not going along as rapidly as it deserves. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Dunne, Edmund F., San Antonio, Florida, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jun. 28 Dunne has just received the Catholic Review for June 29 which give him the first information he has received outside of Brownson's letters about the proposed Catholic Congress. By that he sees that Brownson does not have charge of the organization of the Congress directly, though indirectly, if he determines which papers are to be read, he will determine the business to come before the Congress. So the committee on organization is William J. Onahan, Henry J. Spaunhorst and Daniel A. Rudd. He supposses O. stands for Oireland, S. for Germany, R. for Africa, and does not know who stands for France, Spain, and the United States. Of course Brownson has nothing to do with that and neither has he. As to paper, he supposses he may continue to make suggestions. From the Review he sees that there is to be a paper on Societies. That is broad. He meant to suggest a paper on the Catholic Church and secret societies, because the attitude of the Church towards secret societies should be explained. Once he found in the far West an Irish Catholic lawyer, a U.S. district attorney, who was a Mason and assured Dunne that he had never heard that the Catholic Church was seriously opposed to the order. He is afraid there is going to be a little jealously in the East about the Congress' being so much a Western move. Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, and Cinoinatti! Can such things be started without New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. O., S. and R. may "call spirits from the vasty deep" of the Eastern coast "but will they come?" But they may be only a committee to draft a form of call for others to sign and get it signed generally in all parts. He hopes so, and wishes to hear as soon as anything is determined about order of business in the Congress. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 1 By impossible, Father Hudson meant not to be thought of, i. e., undesirable. Reputation of Judge Edmund F. Dunne not the best. Ask John Moore, Bishop of St. Augustine, Florida. :: III-3-c Autographed card Signed 1p. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 1 Daniel E. Rudd came from Cincinnati yesterday to confer with Onahan as to the work of their Committee, and they got on quite harmoniously; Onahan does not anticipate any disagreement. Rudd explained some things regarded the Detroit meeting that had not been clear and which Onahan had been disposed to find fault with—he alludes on the omissions. The call will be prepared and issued by September 1. Is that too late? He hopes to meet Henry J. Spaunhorst in a week or two and if necessary will go to St. Louis for the purpose. The "annexation" of the adjoining towns and villages which goes into effect at once will add immeasurably to his duties—so that he will have less time than ever, but he will answer for the preliminary work assigned to the committee. He expects to meet Archbishop John Ireland on his return from the East. No doubt he will have some suggestions to make on the general subject. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Tarducci, Francesco, Modena, Italy, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 1 He is sending Brownson a copy of his newly published short story. He inquires about the translation of "The Life of Christopher Columbus." He is now studying John and Sebastian Cabotto, and it is not improbable that he will decide to write their lives also. :: III-3-c A.L.S. Italian 2pp. 16mo. CBRH III-3-b Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 3 Foy has received Brownson's letters of the 1st and encloses John Gilmary Shea's letter, as he requested. There is a good deal in what he says, in fact it is strictly true; but if Catholics have nothing of note in the fine arts, neither have any other class or division of Americans. The native genius of the American people does not take that direction. If one comes to literature Catholics have not so much to boast of. Gosse, the critic, says we have produced no great poet, and such Foy believes to be the case, although Foe has produced some marvellous strains—most musical and melancholy. Hawthorne pere is undoubtedly a great novelist and Uncle Tom's cabin a great novel, but the rest of our fiction is of small account. Neither have we produced a first class historian, though we have, and have had, several historical writers of distinction. He questions whether America has produced any great orators but Patrick Henry and Webster, or any philosopher worthy of the name during the existence of the Government but Brownson's father Orestes A. Brownson. Of course he does not forget Franklin, who was a great natural philosopher in more senses than one. He and his famous contemporaries in public life were the greatest philosophical politicians and statesmen that have ever lived and he does not place him in the first class. In the Revolutionary constellation he was not a star of the first magnitude. In politics, statemanship, applied science, mechanical inventions, engineering, well excel all other nations, and considering all the circumstances may be well content with this, for the future will probably give Catholics everything they desire. From the tenor of Shea's letter, Foy infers that Brownson outlined the paper which he asked him to write. If so, he made a mistake and Shea looks at the matter from the wrong point. Not what Catholics have done in the fields of literature, art and science, but how they have grown and the providential courses of that growth are the theses to be handled in a historical paper. This was so evident to Foy that he has devoted a page to it in the article on the Congress for the July Quarterly, and he begs Brownson to read it attentively, as he cannot write it over again.He would ask Richard H. Clarke to write the paper but not until the Quarterly comes out. He has marked the two suggestions of Shea which he would convey to Clarke. Brownson might tell Shea to choose his own subject, if he is willing to cooperate, but Foy would not entrust the historical paper to him. A layman, Otten, here is capable of producing a masterly paper on Church music and Foy will speak to him at once if Brownson says so. He has broached the subject to him already, in the presence of Father J. J. Hughes, and if Brownson has written to no other person for a paper on the subject, Foy anticipates no difficulty in getting him to undertake the work. P.S.: He has not seen Henry J. Spaunhorst yet. :: III-3-b A.L.S. 8pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Reilly, L. W., Columbus, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 6 Will Brownson give The Columbian a list of the subjects of papers to be read at the Catholic Congress in Baltimore and the names of the writers? P.S. The Catholic Review complains that no mention has been made of the Catholic press in the subjects proposed for discussion; but, as Reilly understands it, the topic "Catholic literature" is intended to cover both books and newspapers. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 8 Foy returns M.J. Harson's letter. Some of his suggestions are good. If there is to be a paper from zach Montgomery on the public schools there should be a second one from a more moderate writer. An attack on the common schools, unless accompanied by an antidote, would do mischief. Foy attaches no value to Harson's suggestion about geographical considerations in the case of the writers of papers. It is proper enough in the appointment of officers and if the attendance justifies it, there can be a vice-president from every state of the Union. He saw Henry J. Spaunhorst Saturday and he was very reluctant to undertake the paper on organizations. Foy urged him very strongly not to back out, for two reasons: his mind seemed to be loaded with the idea in Detroit, and he is a German. With regard to Otten, Foy merely asked him to write because Brownson complained that he would have to ask a certain priest to write such an article, as he knew no layman capable of it. Otten was not at all desirous of taking up the task and mentioned a Milwaukee man, whose address Foy encloses as the fittest man for the work, and has not seen Otten since. William J. Onahan, Henry J. Spaunhorst and Foy are to meet here next Sunday and the call will be the chief subject. Spaunhorst told him about Onahan's coming but was not quite sure. It would be advisable to get a good many papers although the subjects need not been increased but might be sub-divided. If all the papers should not be read, they could at least be published in the volume of the proceedings. Foy would prefer not to read his. He dissents from the notion that ecclesiastics should be called on for papers. If the Congress is to be a lay Congress it ought to be so in fact as well as in name. Harson also takes it for granted that the subjects may be divided. With regard to Negroes and Indians, Brownson remembers how the farmer was disposed of at the Detroit conferences. The Negro representative did not want the subjecttouched. Try to get a paper on the Indian schools from a competent layman. If Brownson knows none, he may apply to Bishop Martin Marty. Foy does not doubt that most of the Government Indian schools are bitter opponents of the Catholic Church. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 8 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 9 Father Hudson thanks Brownson for his obliging letter and he will have an article on the subject next week. He send regards and best wishes to Brownson and his household. :: III-3-c Autographed Card Signed CBRH III-3-c Foy. Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 15 William J. Onahan and Henry J. Spaunhorst were with Foy yesterday. The former was loaded to the muzzle and the latter coincided with him, almost in everything. The result was a complete upsetting of what was done at Detroit. They have determined to appoint "a supervisory committee of bishops" to take charge of the papers and boss the proceedings. The committee on papers, of which Brownson is chairman and Foy a member, is practically wiped out. Brownson may solicity persons to write papers, but there his functions end. Onahan, speaking for Archbishop John Ireland, declared that the selection of the writer on the Independence of the Apostolic See must be left to James Cardinal Gibbons, the Committee to entreat him to name the writer. Foy kicked vigorously, but compromised, by agreeing to consult Brownson first. Onahan also proposed to leave the nomination of the vice presidents, one for each state, to the bishops, and this Foy opposed also, insisting that the laymen should name the vice presidents. The subject of temperance also came up, and as Spaunhorst yielded, Foy did, because his only object in voting for excluding it from the list in Detroit was to please the Germans. Brownson will therefore perceive that hardly anything of the work done at Detroit remains. In addition, there are to be papers on the labor question, on capital and labor. Foy does not know who is to write them, but Onahan, who assumed to be the mouth-piece of Archbishop Ireland and Cardinal Gibbons, laid out the whole program without reference to what had been done at Detroit. Father J. J. Hughes was present most of the time, for Foy sent over to the college inviting him. The committee on organization has now taken control of the whole affair and ousted the committee on papers. Why did not Archbishop Ireland attend at Detroit, to meet those who travelled hundreds of miles to get there? Foy thought it was to be a congress of Laymen, but now it seems that laymen cannot be trusted to utter their sentiments even on such a question as the independence of the Holy See. But Foy as an individual is not much hurt, for he has already expressed himself. And as he was merely called in to the movement by the originators. He hasno notion of doing or saying anything antagonistic to the hierarchy, though he holds that their strange action in forbidding any expression of opinion on the Roman question showed neither political sense nor Catholic spirit. This is entre nous. Brownson is therefore at liberty, as far as Foy is concerned, to write to the Cardinal in the name of the committee and ask him to name the gentleman who shall write the paper on the independence of the Holy Father. Foy will agree to anything but to write it himself. Neither will he write a paper of any kind because he is not en rapport with the Cardinal on social and industrial questions, and the supervisory committee would inevitably sit down on him. He is determined to take a back seat and let the prelates run the meeting to suit themselves. This is his ultimate resolve, and he hopes Brownson will not attempt to alter it. Of other matters that came up Governor John Lee Carroll of Maryland was agreed on for president. Charles J. Bonaparte was mentioned, but Onahan seems to hate the name. Foy proposed to establish the Catholic Union of America and hold a Congress every year in different cities, but Onahan did not seem to accept the idea. He was more occupied by the necessity of visiting the two convents of the Sacred Heart than anything else. He evidently stuffed Spaunhorst before Foy met them, and Foy doubts whether he would have made the flying visit which he did make if Archbishop Ireland had not sent him. There is no call drawn up yet and no sketch of it was submitted yesterday. Onahan promised to attend to it at once and returned to Chicago yesterday evening. Foy cannot say whom Brownson can get to write the paper on temperance. He asked Scaunhorst to write it, but he peremptorily refused. P.S.: The Milwaukee man is of the straightest sect of Gregerians; Otten is a little more liberal. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 12pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 19 Onahan took for granted when he wrote to Brownson advising him of the results of the conference in St. Louis last Sunday that he was in the fullest accord with Archbishop John Ireland, who had been with Brownson in Detroit the previous week. Of course Brownson must have been made aware that the Archbishop had just before that conferred with James Cardinal Gibbons and was therefore prepared to act and speak advisedly as to his views on the subjects in question. That there was a change of view on some points growing out of a fuller knowledge of the situation and that especially on the independence of the Holy See and Temperance it was now considered best there should be an expression in the form of written papers. These facts Onahan inferred had been made known to Brownson as well as the reasons on which the change was based. At any events he so understood the case. Naturally he would have warmly favored and strongly insisted at the outset on the retention of these subjects, and only the strong representations made as to the wishes of His Eminence could have influenced him to yield his own earnest conviction that a failure to present them would have been a blunder. He is not so wedded to his own opinions that he should obstinately refuse to yield when urged to do so by influences and considerations appealing so powerfully to his instinct of Catholic loyalty. As to the temperance question, Onahan found Henry J. Spaunhorst who had represented the adverse view, the first to yield, and he did so most cordially. Hence Onahan could only conclude there would be no disposition to resent the action or dissent from the agreement in any other quarter. As to the technical objection and the etiquette or jurisdiction, he certainly did not suppose there would be difficulty on that score, especially when there was question of giving greater force and added life to the Congress. However, if he was mistaken, Onahan can only say that he acted in good faith and according to what he was lead to believ would be fully understood and readily acquiesced in. The importance of having the advisory committee composed of bishops also seemed manifest. With these explanations he leaves the whole matter. The issueand determination of it will now rest with others. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 22 Brownson may be right in saying that Archbishop John Ireland was not the prompter to William J. Onahan in demanding a new program; but he used Ireland's name so much Foy assumed this to be so. Brownson should write to Ireland, and show him that an advisory committee of bishops would be unwise and impolitic. He is not well pleased with the conduct of their German friend Henry J. Spaunhorst, he declaimed temperance in Detroit, and in St. Louis he threw up the sponge without a struggle; he has been inconsistent before. He talked with Father J.J. Hughes who is of their mind on a supervisory body; Hughes said such a body should be severely limited to actions contrary to faith and morals. He further agreed with Brownson's stand and thought they should have a theologian on the committee. Foy is in favor of one committee and of forwarding the idea of a permanent organization and of holding annual or biennial meetings. He does not think Terence V. Powderly the man to write a paper on capital and labor because he is so completely identified with one side; he might do for the temperance paper, a subject on which the working classes cannot get too much wholesome counsel. Since the St. Louis Archbishop is to say the Mass at the Carroll centenary they will have a large contingent present. Instead of Brownson coming to St. Louis, the committee should go early to Baltimore before the congress. Onahan says he will not have time to write a paper; when the mayor is out of town, Onahan must be at his desk. Onahan objected strongly to Montgomery writing a paper. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 11pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 22 Onahan sends herewith the draft of the call for the congress. Does it meet with Brownson's approval? He wishes to be sent the full list of names to be attached. :: III-3-c A.L.S 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 23 Father Cantwell regrets that he did not accept Brownson's offer of a set of Brownson's Works when it was first made, but now wishes to have a set laid aside for him, to be paid for in installments, which he assures Brownson he can meet. Cesare Cantu and Orestes A. Brownson are his favorite writers and he is very anxious to obtain Brownson's Works. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-e Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 26 Onahan thinks he should apprise Brownson that in a letter he received today from James Cardinal Gibbons he says. "It is important, may indispensable, that a paper be prepared and read on the Holy See." Onahan did not intend to allude again to the project of the papers but he thinks Brownson ought to know this. :: III-3-e A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 27 Foy has received Brownson's letter of the 25th and also a draft of the call. His opinion of it is the same as Brownson's. To make it less verbose, he struck out several words, and to make the sense of one sentence more definite, added two words. This he did by way of suggestion, since Brownson knows they must work with men as they find them. One cannot by any process, whether it be consecration, ordination or the common proceeding of appointment, confer eloquence of tongue or pen upon the chosen one. Inspiration of the literary sort may be natural or supernatural, but it cannot be conferred by a majority vote or even by the laying of hands. Foy regrets now that Brownson asked Henry J. Spaunhorst for a paper and hopes he will definitely refuse, because he expresses his repugnance to the task and is painfully conscious that he has not the requisite literary equipment for writing a paper. Although Foy has promised to aid him, he cannot see his way to do him or his paper much good. He has no objection to a paper on the Catholic press—weekly, monthly and quarterly-—nor to the writer Brownson names. Foy hopes he will have the courage to point out the shortcomings of the weekly newspapers. Most of those that Foy is acquainted with are poorly edited, so badly edited that their claim to Catholic support is sheer impudence. There are however some weeklies published in New York and Philadelphia worthy of general support, and doubtless others published in other places equally meritorious. Ther is too much Irish politics in all of them. Foy encloses William J. Onahan 's letter. He does not like the idea of being bull-dozed into any course by outside authority. No one wishes more for harmony, but Foy insists that the lay congress be left mainly to laymen. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Spaunhorst, Henry J., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 27 Friends he has spoken to about the invitation so kindly tendered him unanimously urge Spaunhorst to accept and he has concluded to do so. He will perforce be short, as his time is very much taken up until he gets through his Society matters in Cleveland and Katholiken Tag in September. Some newspaper men are not well pleased because they were not put in the front, but since the Congress is to be one composed of laymen there will certainly be no objection to the newspaper men taking a hand. They certainly will have full recognition by resolutions. Such little pettyfogging differences will cut no figure. The object is too great, too important, to be hurt by any egotist, who ever he may be. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Chairman, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul 30 Clarke thanks the Committee on papers to be read at the Catholic Congress in November for the honor they have conferred on him in selecting him to read the historical paper on "What the Catholics have done in the last 100 years." The could have selected a more competent one for this task, but regarding it as a duty of the laity to cooperate in this good work, deferring to the judgment of those clothed with the selection and with a will to do his best, Clarke accepts the invitation and thanks Brownson personally for his kind and intelligent communication. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 30 Having taken up his residence for the summer at Long Branch, Brownson's letter as Chairman of Committee was a day or two late in reaching Clarke. He sends his answer herewith. He would like to know what subjects have been chosen for papers, who have been selected to prepare them, and whether any paper will relate to the colonial period or the work of Catholics prior to the 100 years. If Clarke understands Brownson's remarks, while the work of Catholics in literature, science and art is not excluded, it is not especially called for. He would be pleased to receive any suggestions from Brownson or any other member of the Committee. Was Mrs. Ellet, who wrote three volumes on The Women of the Revolution a convert? Does Brownson think that some preparatory remarks in relation to the time prior to the 100 years would be appropriate in case there is no paper relating especially to that period? :: III-3-c A.L.S. Enclosure 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Coudert, Frederic R., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 30 Coudert has Brownson's note of the 20th requesting him to write a paper to be read at the Catholic Congress in Baltimore next November on "the position of the Holy Father, the necessity of his independence in the exercise of his rights and duties." He regrets his inability to comply with this request, as he is about to leave for Europe with the expectation of being absent until the latter part of September, and will therefore be unable to devote the necessary time and thought to the preparation of such a paper. The subject is one bristling with difficulties, and he would not be willing to express himself upon the questions involved without full opportunity to mature and express his views. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Jul. 31. Copy marked: "The original Draft of the Call the last page missing." In the handwriting of William J. Onahan. Among the papers of Henry F. Brownson. :: III-3-g A.D. unsigned 3pp. 4to CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Jul. 31 Printed Call for the Congress to be held in November. :: III-3-g Printed D. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Jul. 31 Foy has hardly anything to say in answer to Brownson's letter of the 26th. Between an "advisory committee" and a "supervisory committee" there is simply the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee. But Foy does not blame Brownson for assenting whether tacitly or expressly to the creation of one or the other. Why should there be any secrecy about the matter of this committee or why should the existence of an episcopal committee to inspect the papers be clothed with the mystery of a semi-secrecy. The fact cannot long be disguised. Foy has no opinion to offer as to who should be put on that committee and can only dimly dwine the object of it all. Certainly it cannot be any apprehension on the part of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop John Ireland and Bishop John S. Foley that lay matters would express heretical ideas. That hypothesis is too absurd-if absurdity admits of qualification. Under the circumstances Brownson could hardly have done, otherwise. However he should notify his writers in a delicate manner that the papers will be subject to inspection by a committee of learned and pious bishops who will practically have a veto power over them. This power eliminates from the movement its vital and creative idea but nevertheless the writers should be informed of it. There can be no free spontaneous utterance of lay Catholic sentiment when the papers must be shaped to coincidence in line and identity in color with stereotyped patterns. But let that pass and make the best possible of the circumstances. Noone is more disposed than Foy to back up His Eminence, but the trouble is that he or at least those who speak in his name fear to give anything of a free rein to the laity. But as Foy has told Brownson before, he does not feel called upon to champion the original project of a lay Congress, when those who originated it have in a measure been coerced into accepting modifications incompatible with the original plan. What is to be done now is to aid in giving as creditable as possible an appearance to the Baltimore meeting and to lay the foundations of a permanent organization which shall be the organ of Catholic sentiment in this country. Foy does not know who Frederic R. Coudert is nor his vies on the Temporal Power - nor does Father J. J. Hughes. Brownson did well to write him - that is, had no alternative underthe circumstances. If he refuses, write to Charles J. Bonaparte. Brownson might ask Archbishop Ireland to name the writer of the paper on temperance. The Stronger it is the better, for in that case the advisory committee will probably quarrel over it. Let the bishops have full swing since they mistrust the laymen and insist on clipping their wings. Foy does not believe that story about Bishop Martin Marty. There was not a single dissenting voice in Detroit when the proposition to conduct the proceedings of the Congress in English was before the Conference. Foy spent a few days last week over in Saylor's Springs, Illinois, but did not like the place. He was trying to find out something about Coudert or would have written sooner, though have had hardly anything to say, not having heard from William J. Onahan or having seen Henry J. Spaunhorst. Father Hughes tells him that the Congress is a subject of growing interest in Catholic circles. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 8pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Allen, Heman, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 1 Allen sends Brownson his paper with some trepidation. First, because he doubts of its merits as a paper; second, because it is so long. He hopes, however, that it will do. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 1 Clarke was ready with his paper for the Catholic Congress at the appointed time, but the typewriter has delayed it a day. He encloses it herewith. He prepared it during a period of severe prostration and sickness and found it took a great deal of time because he had frequently to consume a considerable time in looking up a date or a correct name. While he does not feel well pleased with it-as he generally feels a little admiration for what he writes-still after so much time and labor he hopes it will not be unacceptable. How will Brownson return it to him, and when, The New York Catholic Club or other bodies will send delegations, he asks how they will procure tickets? He asks if the Catholics of Detroit can get up a lecture for Eliza Allen Starr? :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Hughes, S. J., Father Thomas A., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 1 Brownson has perhaps heard that Father Hughes is going to New York to take part in the editorship of a review. Would he find it convenient to call on him today between four and 10 minutes before five. He would like to learn some items regarding, Or-estes A. Brownson's management of his Review. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1 p. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-c Durin, M. S. H., Father J. H., West De Pere, Wisconsin, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 4 Perhaps Brownson has heard that the assistant of Father Anciaux after a journey to Australia and continual sickness in the islands of the Pacific has returned to America and is located at West De Pere. He is employed in propagating his favorite devotion to St. Joseph, Publishes the Annals of St. Joseph, and has the direction of an association for the propagation of the devotion. He urges Brownson, as one of the leaders of the Catholic Congress, to intorduce the devotion to St. Joseph to the list of matters to be considered. It is not simply a question of piety and devotion, but the Pope has spoken and decided that the intercession of St. Joseph is one of the providential means against the evils of the time. The problem of the day is how to conciliate capital and labor, wealth and poverty. The Holy Father points out the example given by St. Joseph. It should be indicated to the men of the Congress in order that talented men should meditate on it and clearly give the remedy to the people. He asks if it would not be good to offer the resolution that the Congress will by every means propagandize the Devotion to St. Joseph and that the third Sunday after Easter the Feast of the Patronage its members give the example of the devotion and zeal for his interests. Brownson will understand the spirit of this hasty letter and will contribute to this great good. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Wolff, George D., Norristown, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 4 He decided to have his paper set in regular type; he incloses proofs of the article. He has timed the address, which will take him 50 minutes to deliver. He could have cut the speech, but since the copy went to the printer in installments, he repeats himself several times. He hopes to have it back from the committee so that the type can be redistributed. The Baltimore Bureau of the United Press requested 300 copies; he leaves it to Brownson to decide about advance copies, and asks who would pay the expense of 300 copies. He sends triplicate proofs so the different members of the committee can use them. No enclosures. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 5 Clarke thanks Brownson for his kind letters on his paper for the Congress and on the lecture for Eliza Allen Starr. In regard to the letter a more direct and satisfactory arrangement could be arrived at by a personal correspondence between Brownson and her. The two lectures here will take place November 18 and 21 and she is paid a fixed price for them, and Brownson and she can make their own arrangements. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1 p. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-c Ireland, John, Archbishop of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 5 W. L. Kelley, of St. Paul, Judge of the District Court, is preparing a paper on education. He is an able scholar and a loyal Catholic and will produce a good paper. Manifestly the Congress will be a great success. Providence inspired Brownson when he first suggested the idea. William J. Onahan, speaking for himself and Henry J. Spaunhorst object to having the meeting of the 16th held in Detroit. They went East for the last meeting and think that others should now come West. The Archbishop joins with them hearily a meeting in Detroit means for him three days and three nights; a meeting in Chicago means one day and two nights. Brownson is asked to consult with Bishop John S. Foley and to do his best to have the meeting at the Grand Pacific in Chicago. It will be an easy matter to send out a second notice. The Eastern bishops, once on the t train, may as well come to Chicago as Detroit. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Wolff, George D., Norristown, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 5 Wolff sends in two separate envelopes full sets of proof-slips of his article complete. Proof-slips 4 and 5 of those sent yesterday should be thrown aside in as much as since sending he inserted new matter. The article requires 60 minutes to read as he would read it to a public assembly. He supposes it is entirely too long. The committee must decide that, if they should approve it generally. He has received another letter from the Baltimore Bureau of the United Press, stating that they have made arrangements with Brownson about the 300 copies. He suggests that since he has incurred the expense of having his paper put into type, which is still standing, additional expense would be saved-if it meets the committee's approval-by having the 300 copies struck off here. The type is now in galleys awaiting the proof-revision. The Norristown Herald printing house tells him that it will make very little difference as to cost whether they run it through the press in the form of book pages or as it now stands. In regard to actual cost he knows nothing except that the cost of type-setting with them is 30¢ per 1000 inches-in Philadelphia it is 40¢ and they intend to charge him little more than he actual cost of labor and material. He wishes to hear from Brownson as to the above and also whether a decision as to his paper can be reached before the regular meeting of the committee on the 15th. The type could not remain undistributed for so long a time. P.S.: he sees blunders in the proof affect the sense but has no time now to correct them. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Mallet, Major Edmond, Washington, D.C. 1889 Oct. 6 An editorial clipped from "The Catholic News" Probably written by John Gilmary Shea protests Mallet's dismissal from the Indian Bureau. :: III-3-c News clipping 1p. CBRH III-3-c Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 7 Foy is sorry that Brownson is to stand alone against the Bishop in the forth coming tournament; it is impossible for him to appear. Foy told him long ago that he would make no fight against them, but that he would not agree to any innovation they made on the program adopted in June, unless on the temporal power question, which innovation was simply their retreat from a false position, they had taken up. He cannot see of what use he could be at this next conference. If their committee has any independence of action. Brownson can conserve it simply by declaring "non Possumus." Brownson is authorized to speak for the whole committee and has M. J."Harson's proxy and Foy's. If everything is decided by a majority vote he has no chance. Foy's reason for bringing forward the idea of a reconsideration at Baltimore is the certainty that he and Brownson will be much stronger there than in Detroit, James Doyle of the United Press, Baltimore, proposed that Foy should furnish him with about 300 copies of his paper sometime in advance of the Congress. Foy fenced him off and is totally opposed to giving out the papers in advance. They ought to be read at the open meeting before publication and ought to be published in book form as a memorial volume. Daniel A. Rudd lectured here last night and made a good speech. He will attend the meeting of the 16th. Foy scolded him for giving his proxy to Onahan and urged him to stand by Brownson on every point. He said he would, but like many others, he is a weak reed when a bishop blows. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Gilmour, Richard, Bishop of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 7 Enclosed please find $5 for the Life of Dr. Gallitzen so kindly sent. The Bishop hopes to see Brownson next month. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1 p. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 7 Archbishop John Ireland informs Onahan that he wishes the meeting of the 16th to be held in Chicago and Onahan believes he has written to Brownson on the subject. Onahan would like exceedingly to have the meeting held here in the Grand Pacific Hotel. He is not certain he could go on to Detroit, However, in case the change is not made and he finds he cannot go on he will send a full report. He asks why the Railroad Association of Michigan declines to make a reduced rate for the Congress? :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1 p 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 10 Regarding rates from Michigan, arrangements have been made for the "fare and one third rate, certificate plan" with all the traffic associations of the country, except the New England association. Michigan is included in the territory of the Central Traffic Association which has already granted the rate for all its states, except Michigan. The Michigan Association by resolution recently decided that after October 1, 1889 they would not recognize any rate for a religious or delegate convention made by the Central Association. Hence they immediately addressed George H. King of this city, secretary of the Michigan Association, who refused to grant any rate at all. A personal call on him was made and he stated that he, as Secretary, could not grant the rate and must act only under instructions from his association. It was suggested that there were many people to go from Michigan, particularly from Detroit; and if they were discriminated against in this manner, there would be much disappointment, upon which King promised to bring the matter up at the next Association meeting and to do what he could. If Brownson can do anything to arrange a rate for Michigan prior to that time he should do so. A final effort was made to secure a lower rate than 1 1/3 fare and to make it "open", abolishing the certificate plan, but the Trunk Line Association, in whose territory Baltimore is and which makes the rate for all, after careful consideration, refused to make further concession. Per Duffy, Secretary :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Allen, Heman, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 11 Allen received Brownson's letter last night and likes the suggestions. He will merely say a word on each point. 1 He likes Brownson's emendations exceedingly and begs him to change as he suggests: Viz., in place of "for the words must be distinctly heard" say "in such manner that the words cannot be distinctly heard," if he thinks he will be better understood. It meant it is forbidden for two or more voices to be singing an entirely different set of words at the same time, as in Haydn's 7th and Mozart's 9th Masses—in the Credo and Gloria respectively-each voice takes up the piece at a different point, thus shortening it very much. And generally it is forbidden that the voices should be singing so that the words cannot be distinctly distinguished. Allen believes that Palestrina avoids this in spite of his fugato style; he is not very familiar with his works but his impression is that he did not write long fugues and indeed, strict fugues at all, but only fugatos. 2 When he says that music is an essential part of the Holy Sacrifice, "Allen means, of course, of High Mass. It cannot be High Mass unless it is sung. "Only guides" is in anti thesis to "it does not distract." 3 He does not think it is possible to lay too much stress on the importance of Church music. The usual Church music is a sign of the worldly spirit of the congregation, of the times, and of the cloven hoof, and it helps create that worldly spirit. Therefore, the matter must be most important. 4 Allen did not know that Millenuim was rejected by the Church. If so, he would wish to change what he says. 5 Hymn means the music and the music and the words, not the words without the music, If he remembers correctly "dicere" is used for both singing and saying. He believes that Our Lord—as in everything He did-merely complied with the custom of the Jews in singing at meals. Allen adopted this beautiful picture idea of Our Lord and His disciples singing-their hearts filled with adoration and reverance-as a kind of text for his paper: if he leaves that out, the paper would be like a watermelon squeezed dry. This picture appeals very strongly to the imagination. But he will study it up and write again tomorrow. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 6 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Dunne, Edmund F., San Antonio, Florida, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 11 Dunne thanks Brownson for the admission card to the Congress. If he has them to spare, he would be glad to have half a dozen in blank. He has some friends in Baltimore and Philadelphia to whom he would like to be able to offer seats. If Brownson hasn't got them, please answer, so that Dunne may apply elsewhere, for he must get at least four seats, if possible. He judges from Brownson's letter that Bishop Richard Gilmour made a personal objection to him, an objection personal, independent of the paper. He cannot understand that, but Brownson's letter reads that way. He is waiting to hear from Brownson by telegram after the meeting of the 16th. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1 p. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Rudd, Daniel A., Cincinnati, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 11 Rudd finds a letter from Brownson dated August 20, asking when he would return from Europe and requesting him to prepare a paper for the Catholic Congress. As the letter is not marked "answered," he writes to acknowledge his oversight. Although Charles-Marie Allemand Cardinal Lavigerie has delegated Rudd to represent him and his work at the Congress, it is now too late for him to write a paper in time to submit to the advisory committee next week. He was in St. Louis last Sunday and Monday and met Peter L. Foy and Henry J. Spaunhorst. He doubts if either of them will be able to meet with the several committees in Detroit, on the 16th. Rudd will be present if possible. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-c Wolff, George D., Norristown, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 11 Brownson's letter of the 5th went astray and has just arrived. Had it reached Wolff earlier, it would have saved him from troubling Brownson with several superflous letters. He thanks him for the card to the Congress. He entirely agrees with Brownson's idea of the desirability of having a really lay Congress and sympathizes with him in his disappointment, owing to the fact that bishops take in its preliminary arrangements and in the Congress will prevent its making the impression on the non-Catholics which otherwise it would. But while the Catholic laity as a body are worthy of being trusted by the ecclesiastical authorities, yet there are among them some very rash and restless spirits who force themselves to the front and care little whether their speeches and actions are prudent or imprudent, provided they can make themselves prominent. Wolff is inclined to think that the danger that this might occur, and the success of this first attempt to a Catholic Congress in this country might thus be wrecked, Justifies the precautions that have been taken. In a future Catholic Congress it will not be necessary to give such prominence to episcopal supervision and advice. Brownson will be able to congratulate himself on the results of this Congress for good and not the least of which will be its preparing the way for future Catholic Congresses. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Wolff, George D., Norristown, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 11 He agrees entirely with Brownson's idea of allowing writers the largest freedom consistent with prudence, but he was entirely ignorant of what the committee had to do to keep "furious Franks and fiery Huns" from not shouting or throwing dynamite promiscuously. He was personally prepared to submit to any restrictions. He is glad to learn Brownson thinks well of his paper; he discusses possible changes. He warns Brownson against news gatherers who might not be trusted as James Doyle of the United Press ; Brownson should also consider subordinates who may be cajoled, cheated, or bribed. P.S. Is Wolff a member of the congress? He has received no notice or invitation. It is possible that communications to his office have not come to his attention. He asks about readers of the papers. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Mallet, Edmond, Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 12 Brownson's letter of May 19th inviting Mallet to attend a meeting of the committee on organization of the Catholic Congress was not received until long after the date of the meeting, Mallet them being in the Indian country travelling from place to place on official business. He now writes, although tardily, to acknowledge the receipt of the letter and to beg Brownson to hold him excused from any suspicion of lack of interest in the project, since his return to his home in Washington he has learned that the Congress is an assured success, and he greatly rejoices at it. He has several letters from the Eastern States which indicate that great interest is being taken in the movement both by bishops and eminent laymen. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1 p. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Allen, Heman, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 14 Allen thanks Brownson for the interest he has taken in getting his paper in good shape. Mrs. Allen returned from the East yesterday and his plans for an afternoon's leisure broken up, they called on Father B. Baldi O.S., the new superior of the Servites, who confirmed Brownson's opinion of the Millenium unhesitatingly and said it was a heresy. So he has Brownson to thank for preserving him from having to read a public recantation of heretical tenets and of being perhaps considered as the promoter of a new heresy. From the first he did not like his allusion to the Millenium. He has changed it in a way which is sound in theology and better in every way. Regarding the "different words" point, he has it right now and merely changed it to read, "It is forbidden, where it is possible to avoid it, to sing different words at the same time". He has not heard as much Palestrina music as Brownson, but what he has looked at does not contain fugues but only imitations and fugato passages and the words as a rule come together. Certainly they always come so as not to disturb the sense of the text. In saying "at the same time", he means, of course, simultaneously. With reference to "Hymno dic to", Allen will let it all stand. For 1 the burden of proof would lie on any one objecting to the idea of our Lord joining in with His disciples. The text says, "Having sung a hymn, they went"; 2 we know that Jesus always complied, with perfect humility, with all the usual Jewish customs, such as circumcision, presentation in the temple, etc. Why should he not join His disciples in the usual Song of Praise at the Pasch? We really cannot imagine Him as sitting still while His disciples sung; 3 Father Alfred Young takes for granted in the Catholic World that He did sing. Allen has changed the "essential" point somewhat, but will work at it more. In his "picture" the lights, processional cross, procession, the singing of the Preface all show that he is speaking of the solemn form of High Mass. He gives the change he made and also gives the "Millenium" paragraph as he has changed it. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 7pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Ireland, John, Archbishop of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 14 Archbishop Ireland will not be able to attend the meeting at Detroit next Wednesday. As much business as possible will be disposed of. But, he believes Brownson's suggestions as to a third and last meeting in Baltimore to be deserving of consideration. Judge W. L. Kelley of St. Paul will be ready with a paper on education. It it not yet finished, but will be submitted to the committee in Baltimore. Ireland notices that at the Catholic Congress in Madrid all papers and resolutions, from whatever source emanating, were first submitted to a committee appointed by the presiding Cardinal. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c O'Brien, William J., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 15 In Conference with the members of the Press Committee and especially the agents of the Associated and United Press, they have definitely decided that it will be necessary for them to have copies of the papers to be read at the Catholic Congress by November 1, in order to have them printed a sufficient time in advance and sent out to the press associations' members. As they are not acquainted with the views of Brownson's committee and of the Advisory Committee on the subject of printing. They can only give their opinions and await their actions. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 8 vo. CBRH III-3-c Tello, Manly, Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detriot, Michigan 1889 Oct. 15 Tello is obliged for the contents of Brownson's note and had reason to believe the papers were to be submitted. He asks if it is permissable in case of the writer's absence for another to read his paper? :: III-3-c A.L.S 1 p. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-c Starr, Eliza Allen, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 17 Her friend Mr. Perkins of Detroit wrote her about his conversation with Brownson. She prefers to lecture in a parlor rather than a hall. If Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. O'Brien feel so inclined as to offer their parlors, she is sure they would want a dollar a ticket, since they can no doubt seat a hundred easily; the lecture should not fail to bring Starr $100. She will try to send Brownson some reports of her lectures this fall. The first was held in her new auditorium the 15th. She speaks of the clergy present, and describes her hall. In March at a testimonial to her, she lectured in Mr. Nathaniel Jones' new house; 678 one dollar tickets were sold. All of her friends and pupils were present, it was quite unique. She speaks of another occasion in St. Louis. The 25th of November would suit her best, since she has two lectures in New York the 18th and 20th. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Harson, M. J., Syracuse, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 18 Harson intends to write to a number of gentlemen next week about attending the Congress, and would be glad if Brownson would send him 25 or 30 sheets of the Official letter paper, if he can easily spare them. His train was three hours late in arriving in Buffalo this morning. He arrived at Rochester at noon and called at the residence of Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid, but he was out of town. Monsignor H. De Regge is in Europe, and Father James F. O'Hare has been pastor of Immaculate Conception Church for several years. Harson left Rochester to spend a few hours here and will leave at 10:30 direct for home. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2 pp. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-c Pallen, Conde B., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 18 Peter L. Foy tells Pallen that the papers for the coming Catholic Congress are to be forwarded to Brownson as the chairman of the Committee on Papers. Therefore he forwards, enclosed, his paper on Catholic American literature. He wishes to hear whether it arrives safely. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Wolff, George D., Norristown, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 18 Final copies of his paper have come to hand—one for W. H. Hughes, one for the United Press, if Brownson thinks that proper, and one for the committee. Wolff is not silly or unreasonable enough to expect that more time will be allowed for reading his paper than will be allotted to others. It will take 60 minutes; he will read it over and mark in red ink parts which may be omitted without destroying its unity and will send Brownson a marked copy, should the Committee have arranged for some one else to read the paper. But regarding its being published, he wishes it published as a whole. P.S.: He has struck out paragraphs where he had repeated himself, has added a new topic—advocating a great Catholic daily newspaper—and has rewritten the concluding paragraphs. He would be glad if Brownson would glance over it and send him his impressions. Instead of three, he sends only two and will send a third tomorrow, as only three have as yet been delivered. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Tello, Manly, Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 19 Tello thanks Brownson for his letter of the 18th. When he accepted the invitation to write a paper, he understood it to be for a lay Congress of Catholic Americans. He will not be at Baltimore, owing to his peculiar position here as editor, etc. He sends his sincerest good feeling to Brownson personally. Marked Private. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 20 The opinion Foy formed sometime ago is strengthened by Brownson's statements of what took place at the last meeting. James Cardinal Gibbons and his entourage are at least opposed to the Congress, and if it were not thought that the meeting of so many prominent laymen would add eclat to the centenary, they would experience open hostility from his Eminence. He does not know whether it has occurred to Brownson that all this intermeddling with the Committee on Papers is a flat usurpation. When the Committees on Papers and organization were constituted there was no thought of making one subordinate to the other in any way. Therefore, the appointment of the supervisory committee was without warrant of authority. It implied that the Committee on Papers could not be trusted and that the whole power was in the hands of the other committee. He asks about the meeting of the 16th. The solitary criticism offered was puerile in the extreme. Foy agrees that it was absurd and unpolitic to confine the vice presidents to one nationality. He does not know or care what Henry J. Spaunhorst or Daniel A. Rudd will say to it. Their acquiescence would not relieve the thing from the flagrant claims expressed of it. He suspects the Bishops are opposed to a permanent organization. W. H. Hughes of Detroit has written about a memorial work of the Catholic centenary and Congress he proposes to publish, and has asked for a photograph of Foy and an autobiographical sketch. He has not answered him yet because he thought it best to wait until he heard from Brownson. He is very much indisposed to write anything about himself and abhors self-advertising from the bottom of his soul. He asks further questions about the actions taken. Evidently Foy and Brownson will have to be in Baltimore several days before the 9th. The telegram from Detroit in the Globe Democrat said the adjourned meeting would be held on November 2d. Foy intents to leave on the 3rd or 4th for Baltimore, because it is highly desirable that Brownson and he be there in good time. He hopes Brownson will find it convenient to be there by Tuesday or Wednesday morning because one will be able to do little or nothing without the other. If Brownson is in favor of an earlier date, Foy will not object, for he remembers that William J. Onahan will be on the ground from the first of November. P.S.: If the Congress publishes the addresses and proceedings in book form, will there be room for Hughes' volume? :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Mullany, Brother Azarias, F.S.C., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 20 Brother Azarias is glad Brownson is pleased with the brochure. He cannot yet say if he will be at the Congress. He has so far received no invitation from any responsible quarter. He presumes his superiors would permit him to attend if invited. But in any case it would give him great pleasure to have Brownson call on him on his way to or from Baltimore. Brother Justin will be at the celebration with a contingent of students from Manhattan College. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1 p. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-c Shea, John Gilmary, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry J. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 20 Shea wishes to have the draft of his paper, as he wishes to correct, amend and enlarge it. If any suggestions have been made, he will be only too happy to hear what they are. He sees that William J. Onahan has attacked the Railroads. He does not know whether he has converted running between New York and Washington. Several persons have applied to Shea for cards, but he tells them he has received none and refers each applicant to his bishop. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Gilmour, Richard, Bishop of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 21 Bishop Gilmour informs Brownson that T. J. McDonnell, an attorney of Toledo, has been appointed a vice president to represent the Diocese of Cleveland at the Catholic American Congress, Baltimore. He wishes about 20 cards of admission; these sent have been distributed. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Smith, Mrs. Milton E., Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 21 Mrs. Smith asks Brownson for an authentic list of the gentlemen selected to prepare papers for the Catholic Congress, the program of the order in which subjects will be discussed, and other items of importance which would assit him in preparing a magazine article on the subject, in advance. Mrs. Smith gives her unmarried name as Agnes Hampton :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c McMillan, C.S.P., Father Thomas, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 22 No doubt the Catholic Congress will have something to say in expressing the convictions of the laity concerning the spread of good literature; and it might not be out of place to mention the utility of preparing suitable lists of the best books, to be circulated through some central organization. When a publisher displays enterprise in getting out a fine book or when an author displays genius in writing one, Catholic reading should make a prompt response and show that such efforts are fully appreciated. This is one of the most obvious results which will be produced by an organization such as the Columbian Reading Mission. A bond of contact may thus be established among reading circles, libraries and individual scholars, and demands may be formulated to increase the supply of good books by Catholic writers. Father McMillan hopes this matter will not be overlooked, feeling as he does very keenly that there is a need for a movement of this kind. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Allen, Heman, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 23 Allen meant to have accompanied his manuscript with a line. He has made the necessary alterations and hopes it is ship-shape now. He thanks Brownson for pointing out to him those weak spots, especially the Millenium heresy. He is delighted that the paper was accepted by the Detroit committee. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Allen, Heman, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 23 There are still two errors to correct in Allen's paper. He asks if Brownson will make the corrections. :: III-3-c Postcard Signed 1p. CBRH III-3-c Starr, Eliza Allen, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 23 She is more than gratified by the cordial manner in which Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. O'Brien have responded to the call for a lecture in Detroit. She is quite certain that everything will be arranged to her taste and that the result will be satisfactory. She has chosen "Three Rivals in the Year 1400" for her subject, the same that she gave in New York. The whole tone of Brownson's letter was delightful, but she had not heard directly from the O'Briens yet. She shall write to Mr. Perkins also; he is confident the lecture will be successful. The Catholic Congress will engross Brownson's thoughts until it is over. She sends regards to Mrs. Brownson and Mrs. Barnard. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Dunne, Edmund F., San Antonio, Florida, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 24 Dunne sends thanks for the tickets and congratulations on the papers escaping censure. He has been in bed for a week with a congestive chill and is very weak; but he is recovering and will be able to appear in Baltimore, November 11. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Tello, Manly, Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 24 Tello thanks Brownson for his official suggestion. He has today asked Father John Bannister Tabb, of St. Charles, Howard Country, Maryland, to read his paper. He is a convert and an American. The day will come when the Church will need her active and independent laymen. Will there be many zealous ones left at that juncture? He will notify Brownson of conclusion. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, WIlliam J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 24 As Onahan has numerous calls for the subjects and authors of the papers to be read before the Congress, will Brownson send him an authentic list of the same at his earliest convenience, giving the exact title of the papers and each author's full name. :: III-3-c 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Allen, Heman, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 25 Brownson's note just received; he is asked to excuse this card, written on the train. Allen would be glad to let W. H. Hughes have the paper and would be much obliged if Brownson will let him have it. :: III-3-c Post card lp. CBRH III-3-c Johnston, R.M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 25 Johnston asks if Brownson will be his guest during his approaching sojourn in Baltimore. James Cardinal Gibbons said he thought Brownson would, if Johnston would bespeak at once. He asks Brownson to let him hear that he will and to notify him on what day and hour he may meet him at the railroad station. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 26 Henry's kindness in sending the account of the flag raising at the Brownson school is duly appreciated. Orestes has been on the point of writing several times since Henry left; but as he takes up his pen, he sees Henry before him again, and no pen scratching can compensate for the pleasure of his visit, and he can only ask when will he come again. He supposes Henry will soon be off for the Catholic Congress, as he sees notices of him in its connection from time to time. Orestes trusts all Henry's family are well. Sarah Brownson lives in town now and is Mrs. Sarah Ziegler. Only Rosa and Charley Brownson to comfort Maggie and Orestes in their old days. Rosa says she will not marry and Charley is now too busy growing to do much else. He is the tallest of his children now. Henry must not forget to send an account of the proceedings of the great lay Congress, as Orestes will enjoy everything connected with it hugely. If he did not thank Henry for the portrait of their father Orestes A. Brownson and the Latin and Greek Testament he so kindly sent and of which Orestes is most fond, he does so now. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 26 The letters of the bishops are enclosed. One of Foy's reasons for putting in an early appearance in Baltimore is to read the papers; another is to work in favor of having the next congress meet in St. Louis—Detroit is his second choice. He is utterly opposed to Chicago and would rather see it go to New York than to Chicago. He wishes Brownson would tell him on what day he will be in Baltimore, as he does not care to arrive there before him. He will stay at the Renner, which is near the Cathedral and central. Is not Brownson making a mistake in trying to bring out the memorial volume in such hot haste? To be well done, the work must be done with care. Foy sends a photograph, but that is all. His paper is not yet finished, and even if it were, he is too lazy to make a copy of it. He intends to finish it next week. P.S.: Why not a "memorial" instead of a "souvenir" volume? Why introduce a French word when a better English word is available? :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Richards, William, Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 26 Richards is giving all his spare time to the preparation of that essay on labor and capital and thinks he can have a fair copy ready by the 31st.Will that be too late and if not where should he send it in order to reach Brownson promptly? :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Hentry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 27 The question of printing a card or program of the papers to be read at the Congress has doubtless occurred to Brownson—a program for distribution among the delegates. It would be too late to print this after they get to Baltimore. Onahan understands they are to meet there Saturday morning, November 9. He hopes to get there a day or two beforehand, although he is sadly hampered by public business. There will be a very large attendance. Chicago sends ICO, St. Louis 75, St. Paul 30 to 50. The East of course will be represented by big delegations. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Smith, Milton E., Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 28 Smith asks whether it will be possible for Brownson to furnish him a copy of the paper he is to read at the Catholic Congress. As they desire to publish several of the more important papers in their issue of November 17, they will be compelled to have the manuscript by next Friday, November 1. He trusts Brownson will be able to comply. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Wolff, George D., Norristown, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 28 Brownson's reply relieved him greatly; he might have been guilty of want of good judgment. What he wrote was not deduced from Brownson's letter, but was suggested by some of the invidious and exceedingly ill-judged quibbling in some of the Catholic papers. The letter from Baltimore to the New York Times, evidently written by a crafty dissatisfied Catholic, served as his text. He does not like to take extracts from other papers because he does not wish to engage in controversy. He agrees with Brownson about the committee of bishops; they should be simply advisory and not undertake to direct or manage. If this seems inconsistent with remarks in other letters, it is because he had in mind men on the Atlantic coast whose prominence is equalled by their rudeness and recklessness and who seem to think that skill in raising a row and flinging mud demonstrates their intellectual ability. His paper could be cut in half, but he had it printed up as he composed it. His two great faults are diffusiveness and discursiveness. He will read his own paper if he is able. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 5pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-c Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 29 Clarke would like to be informed of the order of proceedings at the Congress, when his paper will be reached, how those having papers will report, and to whom, at the Hall, whether they will have seats on the platform, and such information as Brownson may possess; also how seats at the Sunday celebration at the Cathedral can be procured. He has almost lost his voice from illness. What shall be do in case his voice fails—get some one to read the paper for him? He finds the delegates here, who had a meeting last Sunday, are seeking information as to the details. He thanks Brownson for helping Eliza Allen Starr. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Allen, Heman, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Oct. 31 The correction about Mercadante was for page 12, "I have it. La Hache's is the thing." Allen had forgotten to write before. :: III-3-c Postcard Signed 1p. CBRH III-3-d Allen, Heman, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889Nov. 1 Allen has mislaid H. W. Hughes' address. If it is not too much trouble, will Brownson explain to him those corrections, which he will probably have made before sending the paper to him? :: III-3-d Postcard Signed 1p. CBRH III-3-d Richards, S.J., Father Joseph Havens, Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 1 If there is in existence a program of the work of the Catholic Congress or any other publication intended to explain its character, purpose and methods, will Brownson forward it as soon as possible to the following gentlemen, delegates of Georgetown College to that body: Francis kernan, Utica, New York; John Brisbae Walker, editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York City; Thomas J. Semmes, New Oreleans, Louisiana; Martin F. Morris, Washington, D. C.; Richard H. Clarke; New York City; Tallmadge A. Lambert, Washington, D.C.; George E. Hamilton, Washington, D.C.; Francis X. Ward, Baltimore, Maryland; Eugene D. F. Brady, Washington, D.C.; Henry C. Walsh, editor of Lippincott's Magazine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. royal 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Breen, William P., Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 4 Breen has been presented to Brownson at Notre Dame but begs leave to enclose a letter from Professor Maurice Francis Egan. Breen is vice presidential delegate to the Catholic Congress from this diocese and desires to obtain a seat or place in the Baltimore Cathedral for the morning services on next Sunday, and would appreciate any information or suggestion Brownson can offer. He will be in Baltimore at the Carrolton on Saturday evening, leaving here on Friday evening. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 4 Brownson's Congress paper is welcomely received. It will appear in the Ave Maria of the 16th, which, however, will be mailed on the 12th. His manuscript is very good. Father Hudson gives him his best thanks for this favor to the Ave Maria. At least he will be among the first to publish Brownson's excellent and timely essay. His pious intention is noted. Possibly Hudson may see him in Washington next week. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 32mo. CBRH III-3-d Tello, Manly, Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 4 Father William McMahon, pastor of St. Bridget's, Cleveland, goes to Washington in connection with the Father Mathew University Choir. He is President of the C.T.A. Union of Ohio and an officer of the National Board. So he will take in the Baltimore proceedings and will read Tello's paper on Sunday observation. Tello has handed over to him his Congress card, which he supposes will admit him as his proxy for the reading. At all events, he will call upon Brownson at Baltimore. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Maugham, Charles B., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 6 Maugham, as an agent of the Associated Press, asks if it would be possible to permit him to have an advance copy of Brownson's paper entitled Lay Action in the Church, to be read in Baltimore next week. It will of course be treated confidentially and held back until actually read. He would like to have an answer by bearer. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Tello, Manly, Cleveland, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 6 Tello hopes the privilege of meeting Brownson is only deferred. He has reason to believe that his being at Baltimore would cause an awkward complication—not in connection with his paper. Father William McMahon is one of their best priests. He will be pleased to call on Brownson at Baltimore. Brownson is welcome to the Universe columns. The temperance question is a burning one, and he is asked to give his views some leisure hour. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Richards, William, Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 7 It was fortunate that Brownson gave him another week; his nephew, Father Joseph H. Richards, S.J. the president of Georgetown encouraged him to complete the paper. He saw the Pope's address only last Sunday and had to change some of his paper. He arranges to send Brownson the paper so that he can have it for practicing his delivery. Brownson is to come to his home from Baltimore; if necessary; he will wait until Brownson has finished his business there. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Richards, William, Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 8 Richards was glad to get Brownson's note of the 6th and mails his manuscript to his address. Last Sunday night he saw the Pope's address to 300 French workingmen on Sunday, October 20; and he has used all his spare time since in making a new introduction and conclusion, revising, cutting down, amending. He can read it in 38 minutes and could cut it down to 30. If the paper is accepted will Brownson tell him what day he can read it. As it is no. 6 on the list, he presumes it will not be reached in its order on the first day, which would suit him, because it would be difficult for him to get away on Monday on account of his official position, though he could attend the afternoon session. He could get there on Tuesday by 12 noon. Mrs. Richards and his daughter join with him in inviting Brownson to come directly to his house when he comes to Washington and to be their guest while here. If Richards is in Baltimore on Tuesday, he asks if Brownson could not come home with him. He Could wait, if necessary, until a late hour. He asks Brownson if he can return the manuscript by mail Saturday afternoon. Richards wants to keep reading it, so as to be so familiar with it that his eyes will not be confined to the paper. He encloses stamps for the postage and asks to be excused for the trouble he has given Brownson. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Dunne, Edmund F., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 10 Dunne is the guest of his old friend Dr. M. Brewer. His fever catches him yet a little every day from one to five P.M., so he asks Brownson to try to have him called for sometime Tuesday forenoon. He wants only 30 minutes—1 or 2 more or less. As soon as he hears where Brownson is, he will try to get around to see him. If he sees W. H. Hughes of the Michigan Catholic and memorial volume business, he is asked to tell him that Dunne called at the Hotel Rennert last night for proof of his paper for the memorial volume but found none. This is only to show that he did not neglect it; he does not need the proof. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Onahan, William J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 10 Onahan suggests that when the papers to be read have been agreed upon, Brownson then print the list of subjects and authors on cards or slips, these to be sent to parties who would be likely to engage in the discussions. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-g Crafts, Wilbur F., Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11 Crafts has been traveling through the country in the interest of Sunday Observance. He inserts a printed letter of James Cardinal Gibbons approving the movement, and quotes a talk of Archbishop John Ireland to the same effect. He cites a resolution adopted by many bodies of workingmen to do away with Sunday work in government and railway service. He quotes Father McDevitt of Denver who led a successful drive against saloons open on Sunday. Therefore he recommends the resolution on this subject to the American Catholic Congress :: III-3-g A.D.S. 6pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Harson, M. J. 1889 Nov. 11 Receipt for a five dollar contribution to the Brownson Memorial Fund by Peter L. Foy . Among the papers of Henry F. Brownson :: III-3-d A.D.S. 1p. 16mo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 The Catholic Educational Union submits a resolution to the Congress to receive its endorsement. Attached is a printed statement of the object and methods of the Union, and an endorsement by James Cardinal Gibbons, also printed, addressed to Warren E. Mosher. :: III-3-g A.D.unsigned 1p. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 Copies of speeches given at the Congress: "Sunday Observance" by Manly Tello, 2 copies; "The Catholic Periodical Press" by George D. Wolff; "The Rights of the State in Education" by Edmund F. Dunne; "Lay Action in the Church" by Henry F. Brownson. :: III-3-g Printed, T. A. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 Daniel A. Rudd submits a resolution in the words of Cardinal James Gibbons that the Church knows no North, no South, no East, no West, no race, no color. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 Dr. C. H. Wilkinson of Galveston, Texas offers a resolution suggesting the establishment of vestries in every parish in the United States for the purpose of cooperating with the clergy in emergencies and particularly to see to proper decoration of churches and chapels. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 Group of unsigned resolutions on various subjects, in various handwritings, evidently submitted to the committee on resolutions. Among the papers of Henry F. Brownson. :: III-3-g A.D. unsigned 74pp. Various sizes CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 List of committee on resolutions. Added in pencil note: resolution by Merwin-Marie Snell that resolutions be confined to matters which concern the members of the Congress as Catholics, or as Americans; it carried. Moved that Henry F. Brownson and the chairman form a sub-committee of two to draft resolutions in the form of a letter to be submitted to the Congress; it carried. Adjourned to 2 p.m. the following day. :: III-3-g A.D. unsigned 1p. 4to. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 A resolution expressing the desire to see the Cross and the American Flag erected over every Catholic parochial school in the Union is signed by delegations from Minnesota, Chicago, Nebraska, and Iowa and by Chief White Bird of the Sioux Nation. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 Resolution introduced by Merwin-Marie Snell of Washington, D. C. wishing well the Latin American countries, and proposing to join with them in a great Pan-American Catholic Congress to be held in Baltimore in 1892. He mentions proselyting of Protestants in Catholic South America and recommends to United States Catholics the work of Father B ? Fidelis and priests of the Congregation of the Passion? who are evangelizing Argentina and Chile. :: III-3-g A.D. unsigned 4pp. 4to. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 Resolution passed at a meeting of the Catholics of Pensacola, Florida on Oct. 13, 1889 instructing the Baltimore Congress to address the devotion of American Catholics to the Pope. Signed by Father J. B. Baasen, rector of St. Michael's Church, and M. F. Gonzales, "Secretary". :: III-3-g A.D.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 Resolution presented by Patrick J. McCarthy of Providence, Rhode Island recommending the organization of Christian Doctrine Societies for the teaching of Sunday schools. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Marryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 A resolution submitted to the Congress to have it petition the United States Congress to declare Good Friday a legal holiday, signed by T.J. Larkin of New York and James Murphy of Arkansas. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 11-12 A special commitee composed of Henry L. Hoguet, Henry Amy, George B. Robinson, Patrick O'Shea and Brother Justin offers a resolution in the name of the Catholic laity for the restoration of the pope to his temporal sovereignty. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 2pp. 4to. CBRH III-3-g Frischbier, C.SS.R., Father Peter F., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 11-12 He sends two emendations to his latin Carmen which was obviously prepared for the souvenir of the American Catholic Congress, or for the use of the Congress in session. Attached: The carmen to Archbishop John Carroll. Carmen 8vo. 7pp. :: III-3-g A.L.S. 1p. 16mo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 12 Resolution offered by Francis A. Drew of St. Louis that Catholic Colleges add Spanish language and literature to their curriculum in view of the contemplated development of trade relations between the United States and South American Republics. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-g American Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 12 William Fitzgerald of Memphis, Tennessee offers a resolution of fidelity to the Pope and in favor of the restoration of his temporal sover-eignty. :: III-3-g A.D.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Ryan,Archbishop Patrick J., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to The Michigan Catholic, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 18 The Catholic Papers will oblige Archbishop Ryan by publishing the enclosed version of his speech at the University Banquet, and the letter of Archbishop Walsh: CBRH III-3-d Walsh, Archbishop William, Dublin, Ireland, to Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan, Baltimore, Maryland 1889 Nov. 10 Walsh would glady be with them at the American Catholic Congress but it is not a time to be away from Ireland. He sends his heartiest Congratulations to the Cardinals, Bishops and all assembled. :: III-3-d Printed 2pp. 8vo. Enclosed is a galley proof of Ryan's Speech. CBRH III-3-d Campbell, John H., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to William H. Hughes, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 19 He owes an apology for not answering Hughes' letter about his paper on temperance. Because he was so overwhelmed with business he could not write the paper before November 10, and he had it set up in type and did not get a copy until November 12; he tried to find Hughes but failed. His law business takes so much time, that he has to literally steal time to edit the C.T.A. News or do any temperance work. He refuses to furnish his picture—he has never furnished it for publication. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Dissez, Father P. F., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 19 In fulfillment of his promise, Father Dissez suggested to Father A. L. Magnien, his superior, to get a copy of Brownson's edition of his father's works for their library at St. Mary's. He observed that although they do not have this edition, they have a double set of the works. Anyhow, Brownson may be sure that since they will give premiums every year, Father Dissez will suggest that they get his edition for one of them, if not every time, at least now and them. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Pohl, O.S.B., Father Julius, Belmont, North Carolina, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 20 The recent grand event proved to the world the growth of Catholicity in America. This union must have struck particularly the disunited Protestants. Catholicity has taken a deep root in this country. Father Julius regrets that North Carolina is in the Catholic sense a dreary desert. Of a population of more than 1,500,000 the number of Catholics does not exceed 2,500 and they have little to expect from the people here. The Benedictine Fathers came from the North to work here, realizing the absolute necessity of educating the youth, for which purpose they opened a college, built in part only. This necessitates a monastery for the housing of the priests, a church, etc. They have no income save from the college, and on account of the poverty of their people the terms are low. In many instances, in order not to lose sight of the object in view, they have to content themselves with half pay and in not a few instances with no pay. Having no endowment and desiring to serve God's interests in this state, Father Julius is compelled to solicit the assistance of Catholics. Their Cathedral, which also serves as Abbatical Church, cost not above $750. From this Brownson will perceive their poverty. He wishes to keep apace with the times and not to have non-Catholic institutions offer better facilities. Pope Leo XIII has repeatedly urged the necessity of teaching the sciences in all Catholic seminaries but the indispensable apparatus would be expensive. Father Julius therefore asks Brownson to aid them by a contribution to prosper, as do the other religious institutions in other parts of America. They have nothing to offer in recompense but their prayers. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Sharon, Fred B., Davenport, Iowa, to William J. Onahan, Chicago, Illinois 1889 Nov. 21 He asks for the address of Judge Edmund F. Dunne on the "State and Education" Note on letter: Referred to Henry F. Brownson for reply, signed by John M. Dupoy. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Richards, William, Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Nov. 22 Richards was pleased to get Brownson's note of the 20th. It is an unsafe rule to publish any papers in the proceedings of the Congress except those ordered to be published by the Congress itself. However, he will not stand on that and has written to W.H. Hughes that he will send him a copy of his paper as soon as he can copy it. At the close of the Congress he was tired out and considerably disgusted when President John Lee Carroll announced at the close of John H. Campbell's reading that there was one more paper, by Richard H. Clarke of New York, but that he had consented to submit it for publication without reading; and that they were now ready to adjourn. Richards had seen the President at 1:45, announced to him his presence, and he showed Richards the program, which put Campbell as No. 11, Richards 12, Clarke 13, and Heman Allen 14. It seemed strange to Richards that the President named only Clarke but there was no help for it; and Richards cannot explain now the reasons for the peculiar chagrin which the total omission of his name and topic occasioned him. He swallowed the chagrin and looked all around the Hall for Brownson but did not go to the Rennert Hotel where he was; and reluctantly came home alone. Their arrangements were all made to receive Brownson, and they had invited several friends to meet him. If he were an old Greek he would say that a singular fatality beset his movements that day; but if they live till 1892, perhaps it will be better. He believes their Congress has done the Catholic cause more good than all the 15 annual Conventions of the Catholic Union put together. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Johnston, R.M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Dec. 1 Johnston is glad Brownson has arrived home safely after the visit which he and his family enjoyed so much. He speaks of coming to Detroit for a reading or two and thanks Brownson for the pictures of himself and of his father Orestes A. Brownson. :: III-3-d A.L.S 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Dec. 2 Father Cantwell sends two pounds as an installment on Brownson's Works. Brownson has made him the happiest man on earth, a better man and priest than he ever was, and he sends his thanks and gratitude. He has preached several sermons from the Heterodox writings, correcting when necessary, and they have made a sensation among the congregation of the Cathedral. He hopes that Brownson will give him time to pay by installments; he has said several Masses for Orestes A. Brownson, who, he is sure, is in heaven. He has Brownson's Works and the works of Cesare Cantu carefully locked up as his dearest treasures on earth. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Elder, Archbishop William Henry, Cincinnati, Ohio, to William J. Onahan, Chicago, Illinois 1889 Dec. 2 He does not know whether the Memorial of the Congress will print his answer to the address of welcome. If it should, Onahan must notify him if his manuscript is needed. None of the Baltimore papers printed it in full. He would like to alter some places, if it is to be published. In the papers of Henry F. Brownson. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Johnston, R. M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Dec. 4 Johnston sends his article on the legal profession which Brownson desired to see, promising to send Johnston some criticisms upon it. He would like it returned, as it is the only copy he has. He has some twenty other articles printed, which his executor may think it worth while to publish, along with other remains. This paper was published in Dr. Bledsoe's Southern Review. Johnston had some others therein—The Schoolmaster, Belisarius, King Henry VIII, and D'Israeli the Jew. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Starr, Eliza Allen, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Illinois 1889 Dec. 8 Brownson is not to skip off to Detroit, forgetting his engagement to supper on Wednesday the 11th at six o'clock. The guests will be General and Mrs. George W. Smith and Dr. Butler, all of whom anticipate a great deal of pleasure in meeting him. Miss Starr sends this note to jog his memory as "that choice little Mrs. Brownson" is not here. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Elder, Archbishop William Henry, Cincinnati, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Chicago, Illinois 1889 Dec. 9 He asks if Brownson can send him a proof sheet. :: III-3-d Telegram CBRH III-3-d Durward, B. I., Alloa, Colony County, Wisconsin, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Dec. 12 Durward has just read Brownson's Lay Action in the Church and had the honor of knowing his father Orestes A. Brownson and brothers when he was a very young Catholic convert. He would like to have Brownson's name on his list of subscribers for a copy of this poem. Brownson is not to send money: Durward is old and does not wish to be in debt when he dies. Printed on the other side of the letter: The Christian epic poem, "Christofero Colombo", revised, enlarged, with a portrait of Columbus, will be published in 1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Price $1, and for subscribers only. Also—laterߞin Edinburgh, Scotland, and in Genoa, Italy, nella lingua italiana. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Elder, Archbishop William Henry, Cincinnati, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1889 Dec. 15 He telegraphed to inquire if they would need his manuscript, but received no answer. He now encloses his manuscript in typewriting. He would like to have it returned to be preserved. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-h Brownson, Henry F. 1890 Autograph title page for "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry" by Brownson. :: III-3-h A.D. 1p. 4to. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. - Cantwell thanks Brownson for permitting him to pay for Brownson's Works. With love and admiration for Orestes A. Brownson he sends one pound. Brownson will be glad to hear that his sermon from Dr. Brownson's "The Mediatorial Life of Jesus" filled the Cathedral; Bishop E. G. Bagshawe was present; the Congregation, who are pious, enlightened, elite, wept; he is told it was the greatest sermon preached here, and it has done good. Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman preached here but never took so well. He prays for Dr. Brownson and offers many masses for him and hopes Brownson and he will meet him in Heaven. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Harson, M. J., Providence, Rhode Island, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 1 Harson wishes Brownson a happy new year and asks how he recovered from the fatigues of the Congress. Harson had hoped to hear that Brownson would soon pay that proposed visit East. The memorial volume is slow in getting out. He expected to see it two weeks ago. He asks Brownson to send him a copy of the Michigan Catholic containing the account of the Symposium at the Catholic Club. He intended to ask Brownson when in Detroit if their conversation on a Catholic Congress while in New York last winter had anything to do with suggesting the Baltimore Congress. Harson suggests regarding the writings of Orestes A. Brownson that the public who have heard of him want to know about the man and his life and desire a fair account and estimate of his writings. When Brownson makes his eastern visit, Harson wishes him to deliver two lectures or talks on this subject at the Brownson Lyceum and the Catholic Union of Boston. Invitations from other societies would follow and satisfactory arrangements made as to expenses. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Johnston, R. M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 1 Johnston has consented to give on behalf of the International Copyright League readings in Chicago on the 13th and 14th of this month and it has occurred to him that, if suits Brownson, this would be his chance to make him a brief visit on his return. As they are not paid for this work—being members of the League—he would be willing, the more so because of Brownson's friendly suggestion, to give a reading in Detroit, on the 16th. Perhaps one of the Catholic guilds might let Johnston have their lecture room and divide their benefits with him. He hopes by this means to pay expenses, not counting the free things he would get at Brownson's house, including a night cap of gin with a little sugar and water. He wishes Brownson to tell him if it will entirely suit his convenience; if not, he is not to say a word or crook a finger—or more than it has already been crooked by a Confederate bullet—in the matter of the reading. Their girls went on a visit to friends in New York and New Jersey, and their absence has given him some respite from hearing comparisons between the great Major Brownson and his poor self. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Daly, Joseph F., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 6 The members of the Catholic Club of New York request the pleasure of Brownson's company at their nineteenth annual dinner to be given at Delmonico's, New York City, Tuesday, February 4th, 1890, at 6:30 p.m. The Club will feel honored if he will speak on that occasion upon any subject of interest to Catholics. No responses to formal toasts will be expected and the choice of subject will be left wholly to him. A copy of the last annual report of the Club has been forwarded to Brownson's address. Daly hopes for a favorable response. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Johnston, R. M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 6 Johnston thanks Brownson for his letter of the 4th, and agrees that it will be best for the Catholic Club to take him in hand. The influenza seems to be raging so that he will write to the secretary of the International Copyright League, asking him to write or telegraph towards the middle of the week if enough auditors can be got to make the readings in Chicago on the 13th and 14th a success. It is important that they should be. The tickets, as in New York and Boston, will doubtless be high. Johnston will write or telegraph more definitely in the middle of the week. He would hope, not so much for profits as other reasons, that the tickets in Detroit, if it is found convenient and proper for him to read there, will not be put down as low as twenty five cents, but those who are there will know best. His wife cannot go with him. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Johnston, R. M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 8 Johnston has just received a letter from the secretary of the Copyright League, saying that the scheme for giving readings in Chicago has been dropped for the present. He writes at once so that Brownson may know that he cannot be in Detroit next week, but hopes to make him a visit some time or other. If at any time during the winter or early spring the Catholic Club there might think it worth while, he will go. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Johnston, R. M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 11 Doubtless Brownson has received Johnston's letter of the 8th, in which he wrote that for the present the authors' readings in Chicago are given up. It was not possible to get enough to make it sensible to go so far. He has not given up all hope of seeing Brownson sometime. Whenever the Catholic Club in Detroit can see the way clear to invite him, he will go. He thanks Brownson for the interest he has taken in him. He forwarded Brownson's letter to his daughter Ruth. She received an offer from John Brisbane Walker, publisher of The Cosmopolitan, to teach his younger children, and accepted it. The family live at Orange, New Jersey. She did not know it, but it almost broke his heart when she went away. Both he and Mrs. Johnston have suffered from the grippe. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Ward, Rev. Julius H., Brookline, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 12 Ward is glad to be in touch with Brownson again. He does not now write literary notices in the Times or Advertiser, though he writes frequent editorials in the Times. The papers Brownson should send his report to in Boston are the Herald, the Post and the Transcript. Ward is on the active staff of the Herald and the copy for it should be addressed to him, the Transcript and Post copies sent direct to them. Perhaps the Boston Globe should also be included, as it reaches a large Roman and Irish constituency, while the Herald reaches the best elements in both connections. Ward will give Brownson a column and perhaps an editorial. He should not overlook the New York Evening Post. But outside the papers he mentions in Boston, except for the regular Roman Catholic papers, copies would be thrown away. Ward is deeply interested in the tendency of the Roman Catholic Church to take American positions and is eager to see Brownson's introduction and to read his larger paper. If the bishops and clergy would take more clearly the American position and keep the Church in good accord with American sentiment, a great future is before it and it will have a helpful influence on the country. If Brownson would look into a recent book of his, "The Church in Modern Society", he will see why he says this. His Church and the American Anglican Church are the only religious bodies that have an institutional character. Ward is glad that Brownson is engaged on a memoir of his father Orestes A. Brownson. He has always felt that it was needed, and when it is out he will be glad to keep in its appreciation by the public. The Rev. Dr. C. H. Leonard, professor in Tufts College, a Universalist knew Dr. Brownson intimately and could give some important reminiscences. His address is College Hill, Mass. Ward will be very glad of confidential, inside points, and if Brownson will send them, he can probably use them in editorials in the Boston Herald, the New York Times, and the Christian Union. Brownson's Church showed up better in the recent Congress than at any time in its previous American history, and Ward said that much in the Herald at the time. When Brownson comes to Boston, Ward wishes he would come directly to his house and stay until he leaves. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4 pp. 12 mo CBRH III-3-d Dougherty, Daniel, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 14 A valued friend of his has asked Dougherty to obtain for him the full text of a paper read on education at the Baltimore Congress. He thinks there was more than one paper on the subject, and will esteem it a favor if Brownson can send him copies of these papers to send to his friend. :: III-3-d Typewritten L. S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Johnston, R. M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 16 Johnston feels much relieved at the receipt of Brownson's letter. As the Chicago readings had been postponed, he could not conveniently have gone to Detroit, but he would have gone if an appointment had definitely been made. He would not care to go— except to see Brownson—unless the Club could ask him with certain cordiality and he could expect to make around $100. He wants Brownson to concern himself no further with the matter and thanks him for his interest. He sends the note of introduction to Olden, a fine fellow. While in New York Brownson might make acquaintance with John Brisbane Walker, publisher and editor of The Cosmopolitan, a Catholic and excellent gentleman, with whose family his daughter Ruth lives. Johnston is now reconciled to her leaving home, and is almost convinced that it is best for him, if not for all old men, to continue poor and to need to work hard for a living. Mrs. Johnston and Effie have had the grippe; and all remember Brownson cordially. P.S.: Olden lives at Wetucken, New Jersey; if Brownson would like a letter to Walker, Johnston will send one. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 21 Orestes is very grateful for the Souvenir Volume of the Catholic Congress and is delighted with it. He is pleased to see that Henry has done more than his share of the work and has upheld the Brownson name. Their father Orestes A. Brownson would be pleased with the work of the Congress. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Johnston, R. M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 22 Johnston is grateful for Brownson's words about his stories. Sometimes he feels like a sad old clown, unable to stop his clowning, but it may be best for an old man to have to keep at work to the last. It has been fortunate that since he has been a Catholic he has never had the blues though he has had some griefs, for cause. He is glad to send Brownson the letter to John Brisbane Walker and hopes he will be able to get out to see Ruth. Effie has no message for him except her love. He sees that the grippe has carried off Brownson's old friend Dr. Johann Joseph Doellinger and that he kept his word about non-reconciliation. Johnston was sorry for it, but supposes he believed himself in the right. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Leonard, C. H., College Hill, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jan. 30 Leonard wishes he could help, but his acquaintance with Orestes A. Brownson was very slight. Leonard was very young when he lived in Chelsea, too young to come into the range of such a man. Dr. Langworthy and Rev. Samuel Robins knew him well. Both of these men are dead. Leonard can only tell Brownson how awed he used to be by the "man of power" as some used to call him, and how he longed to know him. One thing shows his faith in things: Brownson was the center of little gatherings on the ferry boats, in the early days when they were the only means of conveyance to and from Boston. He was full of the motive of the Catholic faith and loved to talk of it to twenty or more persons who were to gather about him. Leonard heard him on one such occasion when his subject was the work of Missions by the Church among the Indians. He knew the facts, told the sacrifices, the denials taken up on the part of the missionaries. He pleaded for the naturalness of the instruments which the Church uses in such missions, the way she approaches the ignorant through the sensuous imagination, the care she takes of her children, the ample provision for all their needs, and her persistence in progressive Christian education. Leonard remembers the array—for he had no data—the results of all the grand work. He remembers too the logic of his talk for he never lost sight of the consecutive sequence of things, nor the cause when he had faithfully presented the effects, as he did in this case. They were made to see and feel that such great and good results came from what is great and good in itself. Leonard recalls a short talk to a few persons in one of the shops of Chelsea on the mental rest which the Roman Church promises and actually gives. Matthew Hale Smith was then preaching in Chelsea for Dr. Langworthy, who was in Europe. Smith had said some things in his superficial way about the Catholic Church and some words about this by the shopman to Dr. Brownson was the occasion for the little talk. Smith had travelled in a circle—if indeed he could be said to have done anything from the point of view of thought. Dr. Brownson took the little man up and snapped him from his thumbs; then he quietly talked of the real rest to mind and heart which the Church gives—not the rest of passivity but of activity. "She does not stultify minds," he roared out, as he peered from the shop to speak to a friend and neighbor. Brownson sees that Leonard has to speak of simple things. He wishes he could have got at and into the great man. He was always stimulating to him even when he could not believe. His style was so strong—grand, idiomatic English—as pure as John Henry Cardinal Newman's, with more imagination, perhaps. Leonard respects the loving offices of a son who wants to set in order the events in the life of such a father and sincerely regrets that he is so poor a helper. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 15pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Ward, Rev. Julius H., Brookline, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Feb. 5 Ward thanks Brownson for his note of explanation and for the Souvenir of the Catholic Congress. He has written a short editorial on the Roman laity in the United States, which is principally based on Brownson's statement, and hopes he can send it to him in proof in the morning. He will write a book notice in the Herald and try to put a leader into the New York Times on some point connected with the Congress. If Brownson cannot stay at his house while in Boston, Ward urges him at least to dine with him. He wishes very much to talk with him, especially now that he knows what he is doing in his own Church. He can be reached at the Herald office or by mail. Brownson is a long way off in Detroit and Ward has wished to see him ever since they became acquainted. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Rodrigue, John J., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, New York, New York 1890 Feb. 10 The pleasure of Brownson's company is requested at the Protectory, West Chester, on the occasion of a visit to be made there on Thursday, February 13th. John Burke and other members of the visiting committee will call at his hotel to accompany him to the train, which will leave Harlem River at 10:00 A.M. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Wildrick, A. C., Fort Schuyler, New York, to Henry F. Brownson 1890 Feb. 11 Wildrick just got Brownson's letter and cannot come to him on account of rheumatism in the feet. He asks if Brownson can come to Schuyler with the orderly who will show the way. He will wait to suit Browson's convenience. Mrs. Wildrick sends regards and wants to see him. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Harson, M. J., Providence, Rhode Island, to Henry F. Brownson, New York, New York 1890 Feb. 12 Since the receipt of Brownson's letter of January 3rd, Harson has been expecting from week to week to see him and to hear when he expected to visit the East. He would have written before but did not expect to reach him in Detroit. He learns from this Week's Review and Freeman's that he is in New York. They would like to have sufficient time to announce his coming so that a satisfactory audience would be assured. Harson expects to be in New York next Tuesday and would like to meet Brownson, if he is there. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Proulx, Father M. G., Nicolet, P. Q., Canada, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Feb. 15 Father Proulx asks Brownson's assistance to procure the missing numbers in his collection of Brownson's Review. In 1858, when a young priest, he became acquainted with Orestes A. Brownson and stood by him in this part of Canada until he died, greatly taken up with the Review. He has tried Boston and New York without success for the missing numbers, and being buried up in this college for nearly 40 years, he did not know what had become of the Doctor's son until he saw his name and address at the Baltimore Congress in the New York Freeman's Journal. He was greatly pleased with both. He excuses himself for the trouble, as his only aim is to have all the volumes bound for his own personal pleasure. A list of the missing numbers is enclosed on a separate sheet :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Proulx, Father M. G., Nicolet, P. Q., Canada, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Feb. 20 Father Proulx thanks Brownson for his attention to his letter and hopes he will not forget to avail himself of any chance to fill up the numbers missing of Brownson's Review. He may remind him of the matter later. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Maes, Camillus P., Bishop of Covington, Covington, Kentucky, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Feb. 21 It may interest Brownson to read and preserve the following extract from a letter of Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick of Baltimore to Bishop George A. Carrell of Covington which Bishop Maes found in the Archives of this See: "Baltimore, Feb. 3d, 1857舰 I am sorry to learn that Orestes A. Brownson's Review is in danger of being discontinued for want of support. Some effort should be made to sustain it, as it is valuable, notwithstanding some peculiarities". :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Brownson, Henry F., Detroit, Michigan, to Michael P. Dowling, S.J., Detroit, Michigan 1890 Mar. 7 On his return from the East Brownson finds a copy of the Michigan Catholic containing a report of his lecture at the Church of which he is pastor, on February 2, 1890. He is reported as saying, "I say this with due deference to the writer of the preface to the Souvenir Volume of the Catholic Congress, whose unproved statements are worthy only of such consideration as the authority of the writer as a man of observation and culture can give them." The statements are undoubtedly those made by Brownson, that Catholics are less educated than non-Catholics in English-speaking countries; that the mass of Catholics are comparatively uneducated; and that the graduates of Catholic institutions of learning are inferior in literary and scientific scholarship to those trained in other schools. That these statements are not proved in the Introduction is unquestioned, but the expression 'unproved statements' would seem susceptible of another meaning: namely, statements that cannot be proved or false statements. Brownson therefore inquires of Dowling how he is to understand these words. Objection has been made elsewhere to the same passage in his Introduction, but he did not regard a discussion of the comparative merits of Catholic and non-Catholic education in this country as likely to be beneficial. But when the objection is made in the pulpit of the parish church to which Brownson belongs and by the pastor of that church, who demands proof of the statements made, he feels bound to attempt such proof, even at the risk of saying much he would otherwise leave unsaid. A first draft of this letter in Brownson's handwriting is included. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Dowling, S.J., Father Michael P., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Mar. 8 The accompaning letter will put the matter properly before the public and give Brownson an opportunity for such reply as he may think due to his honor and integrity. If he chooses to avoid giving proofs, he can readily do so without compromising himself in any way. Should he conclude not to give the letter to the press, he is asked to return it in exchange for his own. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Dowling, S.J., Father Michael P., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Mar. 8 Dowling has Brownson's letter, in which he takes exception to some expressions found in the published report of a lecture Dowling delivered in the Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Detroit. In that lecture he found fault with the disposition sometimes evinced by Catholics to contend with one another, instead of directing their united energies against the common enemy and with that class of newspaper writers who seem to take special pleasure in attacking Catholic colleges and academies. Many of his hearers, being personally acquainted with Brownson and his work would naturally ask about him in this connection. Dowling's answer to this tacit objection, without taking direct issue with Brownson was to intimate that since his statements were not proved, it did not devolve on him to take them up; that they only had such value as they derived from Brownson's reputation as an observer, a scholar, and a writer. What qualification this implied some of his hearers no doubt were quite as competent to determine as himself. His words are not to be construed as a challenge for Brownson to prove what he said, and he disapproves of some of his statements and doubts very much whether they can be proved. But he could not challenge Brownson to prove them without entering into and encouraging domestic warfare among Catholics. Besides their relations are such that few would be edified by a public controversy carried on by a pastor of a church and a member of his congregation. The result would be equally disastrous no matter which of them might carry his point. If, however, Brownson thinks that honor demands that he undertake to prove every statement of his which may be criticized, he is not without grounds, since a professor at Mount St. Mary's Seminary has already sufficiently opened up the subject in the Catholic Review. Dowling wishes nevertheless that Brownson would consider him outside the field of any possible controversy. In return for Brownson's frankness, Father Dowling states precisely what he objected to in Brownson's Introduction to the Souvenir Volume and gives his reasons for the objections; and trusts Brownson's discretion on the matter. This letter is evidently a copy of Dowling's original, in the handwriting of Brownson. :: III-3-d Autograph Letter 9pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Dowling, S.J., Father Michael P., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Mar. 11 Dowling encloses the letter which Brownson sent him a few days ago and which he engaged conditionally to return. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Walker, John Brisbane, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Mar. 11 Walker has been in Colorado for some time, and returning, finds the volumes which Brownson has forwarded. He sends his check for the amount of bill, $60. He regrets that he did not see more of Brownson while he was in New York. When Brownson comes again, he hopes he will give him the opportunity. :: III-3-d Typewritten Letter Signed 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Justin, F.S.C., Brother, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Mar. 12 Brownson's letter was just received, and Brother Justin sends his thanks. He is very glad that the Fathers have determined on the course; it is a good move. They all enjoyed Brownson's visit and hope for its repetition soon. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1 p. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Mar. 24 Cantwell encloses a one pound installment on Brownson's Works, and will pay off the debt as soon as he can. He showed Brownson's letter to his bishop Edward G. Bagshawe and his secretary and told them he hoped to introduce him to the Bishop, who replied that he would be glad to see him. The secretary declared Brownson's Works were useful and valuable. If Brownson comes to Nottingham next summer, Cantwell, if still here, will entertain him; and if he has a mission of his own, may arrange for Brownson to speak. The discourses which he gave from Brownson's Works were highly praised. Cesar Cantu has suffered greatly from influenza, the journals report. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Elliot, C.S.P., Father Walter, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Apr. 1 Father Elliot wishes to know whether Brownson's father Orestes A. Brownson was ever a resident member of the Brook Farm Community. In writing the life of Father Isaac T. Hecker that question comes up and Dr. Brownson is mentioned as one of its founders. He does not himself refer to it in The Convert, nor does Father Elliot know where else to look in his writings. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d \tBrownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Apr. 6 The magnitude of the undertaking has deterred Orestes from writing down some reminders of their father Orestes A. Brownson, as Henry requested him to do. He remembers their father's telling how when he preached his first sermon, although he wore a thick woolen suit, his exertion and excitement were so great that it was as wet as if he had fallen into the river. Henry will know how he got over all that. Before he was acquainted with their mother and married, his prodigious memory had been noticed by a school trustee, who in Grandfather arranged a match between his Sally Healy Brownson and the young teacher, in which 20 verses of one of the Psalms were to be learned as a test. Both reported ready at once—in 20 minutes. Their father also gave their mother credit for the most tenacious memory as to dates, and Orestes remembers his asking her when such an event took place; and she gave the day as being so many days after the meeting of the ministers. In arithmetic also, he always said, "Ask your mother"; and when at the Hospital she added up the long columns of figures with unfailing accuracy. Somehow he did not like mathematical calculations. One day when money was scarce, he came from the city with an armful of books. Never had Orestes seen him so pleased and proud. He showed them to their mother, Greek and Latin, and said, "Only think, I got them for $125". But this was at a time Henry well remembers. In earlier days, when he was a Minister and in a great loose dress used to preach with all the serious earnestness of life and death, he impressed Orestes with an idea of fear that he can never overcome. His whole soul was in his metaphysical, philosophical and theological studies and did not see that what interested him could not interest his son Orestes. Henry knows better the wonderful scope and power of his giant mind. He told Orestes once, "If I am a success in life. I owe it to my knowledge and use of my mother tongue of English— Anglo-Saxon English." Orestes finds it so; there seems such a command of language, such felicity of expression, always the best word in every case and withal such an enthusiasm. Although Orestes never could and cannot yet agree with all his conclusions, he is lost in admiration at his language and infallible logic. His example does more to prove a divine essence in faith than all else he has witnessed. But it saddens Orestes to write of him. He feels himself approaching the end of his life and the problem of life is insoluable to him as ever. He would like to live his life over again or do something towards making it a success. But he sees nothing—he thinks much but cannot think or agree entirely with anyone. He cannot publish his thoughts, for his life would be taken before he could begin to explain. While he has reason to fear being as wrong in matters of social, political, economic or religious questions, as he always has been in the business of life, there seems no way to test his ideas or to show their fallacies. He read the papers of the Catholic Congress and would like to discuss portions he disagrees with; but as his son Charley says, it does not pay to fight the Church; and the moment any discussion begins, it is understood as contra fidem. Therefore he buries himself in chess: for there no one objects to one's moving any way one pleases, or thinks it strange to reason for or against any kind of play. He asks how the lecture succeeded, how Henry and his family are. He and his wife are the same, though his sight is failing. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 17pp. 32mo. CBRH III-3-d Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Apr. 18 Henry's kind letter made Orestes' birthday very happy. They are all delighted at the prospect of a visit from Henry and Cousin Sarah. It will be in no way inconvenient. They have the Jesuits here now, and they all were at Holy Communion this morning. Everyone is well; Orestes' Chess Journal prospers a little; and things go well on the farm. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 6pp. 32mo. CBRH III-3-d Fitzgibbon, John J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 May 5 Fitzgibbon encloses $60 for the set of Brownson's Works sent to P. Cavanaugh. Brownson's bill sent to Father Timothy O'Sullivan was mislaid. Real estate has advanced fully, 100% in this part of the city in the last year; the deposits in their bank have more than doubled. Father O'Sullivan bought six acres of University of Notre Dame, and will clear $6.000 on it; but if that great corporation can back out of the contract, it will readily do so. He hopes Brownson and Mrs. Brownson will pay them a visit this summer. He was in Washington the other day and went out to the Catholic University; He was charmed with the wooded hills and delightful scenery surrounding that superb structure. They have three boys and a girl thus far, all well and strong. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Fitzgibbon, John J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 May 15 Fitzgibbon's wife and children are in Morris, Illinois, for the past week or so, and he spent last Sunday with Father Timothy D. O'Sullivan, who has grown quite stout and is looking very well. Both regret that they were not aware of Brownson's being in Chicago last December. Fitzgibbon lives at 7720 Bond Avenue, Cheltenham and describes its rail connections. When Brownson comes, if he will notify him, Fitzgibbon will meet him at the station. The journey Brownson has mapped out for himself and his daughter will be a great treat, but he must not cheat them out of a visit; perhaps the young lady might be left in their care for a while. Father O'Sullivan got the best of the University of Notre Dame: he put his contract on record and they had to come to him. Fitzgibbon has read Father Joseph Rickaby's Ethics and has begun the third volume by Father John Rickaby. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 May 22 Hudson rejoices to hear that the Life is ready. It will be valuable and timely and he congratulates Brownson. Father Thomas E. Walsh tells him he engaged a man to photograph the Columbus pictures only a week or so ago but cannot say when the work is to be done. Hudson will announce the book in the Ave Maria soon. He asks what of the contribution Brownson was to make and whether he could furnish something of the work. Hudson had hoped to be in Detroit tomorrow and Sunday to talk over the matter, but will have to telegraph Father Ernest Van Dyke that he cannot go. He will never see Detroit again; his work and worry increases and his strength does not. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2 pp. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jun. 4 Hudson thanks Brownson for his letter of the 29th and hopes he will let his name appear with the book, for it will need just that support and prestige. The pamphlet is anxiously expected. If Brownson is to furnish the Ave Maria with anything from Tarducci's work, it should appear before the book comes out. The series of articles will be reserved for the year of the celebration. He asks if Tarducci's work had a portrait of Columbus. He hopes to see Brownson during the summer if he can arrange to spend some Sunday with Father Ernest Van Dyke. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jun. 6 Cantwell sends his installment on Brownson's Works, of which he makes great use although he has been unable to find an article called "A Cure for the Bite of the Black Serpent". He hopes Brownson will come to Nottingham. He read and admired his discourse at the Baltimore Congress. He thinks college books of theology and philosophy should be remodelled and popularized by the laity. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-c Foy, Peter L., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jun. 19 Foy received Brownson's letter of the 13th but he has been too busy with an article for the July Quarterly that he has had no time to answer. This will be little more than an acknowledgement. He has not seen Henry J. Spaunhorst since Detroit nor heard from William J. Onahan and is ignorant of whether the call has been issued. As to the papers, he has concluded that he will not press his own views, even when he has clear views, which he has not at present. The movement originated with Brownson and the chief labor will fall on him; He is prepared to accept Brownson's program without dissent. It was not to save himself labor and trouble that he suggested that Brownson ask some one else to prepare a paper on Catholic Charities, but that it would be politic to enlist as much outside ability as possible. But the committee may have to trust to itself and in any case only a few papers will be required. At subsequent meetings more ground can be covered and more contributors can be had. Since Foy's declining to write on charities would cause Brownson to decline writing on lay activities in the Church, a subject which he is so capable of handling and which demands bold treatment, he retracts the condition refusal in his last letter. He hopes Brownson will get a history paper from John Gilmary Shea. When Foy gets the Quarterly article off his hands he will be able to give more time to Congress matters. P.S.: He read the article on Sullivan with deep interest. He did not think his antecedents were of such a character. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Van der Eerden, S.J., Father Aloysius G. St. Ignatius College,, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jun. 24 Van der Eerden received Brownson's letter this afternoon, on his arrival from Dwight, Illinois, and received the pamphlet at Dwight. The other copies are yet at St. Louis and are to be forwarded to be circulated around as soon as they reach him. The pamphlet makes a very strong case against the masons. The question will be how to get it sufficiently critiized. He intends to send his copies to friends and to scatter them at the missions. He questions whether the pamphlet will take with the masses but surely it will strike the educated as a fearful unmasking of the masonic idol. He will be in Michigan in July to talk with Brownson. He encloses a check. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jun. 29 Hudson wishes Brownson would send him another copy of his pamphlet. His has disappeared, and he has been very busy. Bishop John L. Spaulding had a room near his and he felt obliged to attend to his needs a little; and it is very hot. Possibly Luigi Gregori did copy the portrait in the first volume of Tarducci's work. Hudson asks when the book will be published and would like to have some advance sheets in the meantime—the most interesting chapters—which might be called "Scenes or Leaves from the Life of Columbus", and in a footnote explain matters. He would like to have the first at once and intends to announce Brownson's work, explaining that it really ought to supplant Irving's Life with Catholic readers. He asks whether Father Ernest Van Dyke is going away this summer. He would like to assist him at the Feast of the Assumption. He doesn't know how happy it makes Hudson to be at St. Aloysius'. The Irish make promises so heartily and with such cordial spontaneity that they rarely think of fulfillment: they fancy that all is done when they say "I will" and they always mean well. Book premiums are not given at Notre Dame except to the minims. Before using the advance sheets of Brownson's translation, Hudson wants to arrange for remuneration. If Brownson thinks it would not favor the sale of the book to have it in the Ave Maria, he should not hesitate to say so. Hudson would prefer to have the Columbus articles in '92, and he is on the track of some that will be of exceptional interest. He asks Brownson to skim the work of Tarducci and connect the extracts as he did those on the Blessed Virgin from the writings of his father. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jun. 30 Cantwell acknowledges the receipt of Brownson's letter and his pamphlet on freemasonry and describes his daily schedule and his love for Dr. Orestes A. Brownson, who consoles him since he is alone in the world. Some years ago the Jesuits in the Civilta attacked Cesare Cantu, who asked the Archbishop of Milan to point out anything wrong, and was vindicated. Cantwell reflects on the natural human weaknesses of bishops and his own faith. He is sure Brownson has genius and talent to do much good and assures him of his best wishes. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Whalen, J. B., Leadville, Colorado, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jul. 2 Whalen asks for three copies of Brownson's book, "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry". He does not know the cost but will remit by return mail. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Durward, B. I., Alloa Colony County, Wisconsin, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jul. 4 If Brownson received his copy of "Cristoforo Colombo" he will held Durward—as his printers are not yet paid—by sending him $l. He would much rather present a copy to the son of Dr. Orestes A. Brownson whom he had the honor of bringing to Milwaukee to lecture long ago, but he does not like to die in debt. He is receiving letters of praise and blame in about equal quantities, and he may, if allowed time—he is in his 74th year—print the strongest remarks for and against, along with a new list of subscribers added to these here. The letter is written on a printed list of subscribers, to which other names are added in handwriting. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Jul. 5 Hudson will be happy to announce the work more than once and thanks Brownson for the information. He wants to accentuate the value of this life on account of being recent, scholarly and Catholic. If he had not been so busy this week preparing the contents of the volume of the Ave Maria, he would have written an announcement of the book. He will jog Father Thomas E. Walsh's memory about the photographs, although he hates to nag persons like him—there is so little satisfaction in it. Books as a rule are too dear. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Byrne, C.M., Father P. J., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Aug. 1 Byrne thanks Brownson for his pamphlet "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry", which he will read on his way to California, and gives his schedule for the next year. He suggests, on his authorization, that Brownson send 100 copies of the pamphlet to a San Francisco bookseller and arrange for others as needed. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Jannes, Claudio, Paris, France, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Aug. 2 Jannes introduces two young friends, le Vicomte des Cassyres de Richemont and M. Jean de Ravignon. They are anxious to see the worthy son of a man who was not only a great American but a world-renowned Catholic honored by the Church. :: III-3-d A.L.S. inFrench 2pp. 32mo. CBRH III-3-d Zorn, Father P. S., Big Rapids, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Aug. 6 He is just an Indian missionary, persecuted for the last seven years, but he still follows closely the work of the Church, and especially all useful and needed publications. He read the review of Brownson's "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry" by J. B. Mueller of the German "Voice of Truth". He can only afford to send $1. for distribution of the pamphlet, but will say Masses for more copies of the pamphlet. He praises Orestes A. Brownson who so heroically distinguished himself laboring for the propagation of true doctrines. Between 1870-77 he used most of his $300 to $400 yearly salary helping poor people and buying Catholic papers, pamphlets and books to help in the conversion of the world. But he was merely persecuted, as is seen in Mystics. He labored in the Ottawa Indian language until he had composed words to translate any verse of the New Testament into Indian. He wanted to correct editions of the so-called Catholic Indian books which contain horrible, bad and very innocent expressions. Bishop Frederick Baraga furnished most of the epistles and gospels, some meditations, prayers and hymns in Indian, but he missed many words needed to express abstract ideas, and some un-Catholic Expressions as found in Protestant Indian testaments crept in. He explained this to Father CamiliusP. Maes but received severe blows, quasi per Ecclesiam. If only the now Bishop Maes would take his case to Rome, justice would be done. He is persecuted and a horrible expression against the Immaculate Virgin remains in the so-called Catholic Indian books. Indians say he alone knows enough about the language to correct the books. The word speaks of the Virgin as "double-faced." Wily Satan has blinded Catholics and driven them to rash acts against Father Zorn, thus the error remains. The Rev. N. L. Sifferath knows too little theology and Indian to correct the blunders. Repeatedly in 1883 he told Rev. G Graf that the Church does not need crooked ways, when his treatment appeared very crooked to him. As Rev. Ernest Van Dyke is a near relative of Brownson, he presumes Brownson knows about priests, and what it means to be singled out and run down as not one in 2000 experiences. May God direct Brownson to convince the Americans, and convert them. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Aug. 13 Hudson delayed his answer to Brownson's last letter, hoping to be able to go to Detroit this week, but because of a shortage of priests at Notre Dame he cannot. Tarducci's work ought to be the more acceptable for not being in the florid style; if it was, discriminating readers would be apt to think him a rhetorician rather than a historian and question the truth of his statements. James F. Edwards is back and was speaking of the photographs last night. Hudson would be glad to print as corners now and then extracts from Brownson's father's Orestes A. Brownson writings, the shorter the better. Three to eight corners are needed constantly. He writes in haste, with 3 or 4 hours of confessions to hear and asks to have his regrets expressed to Father Ernest Van Dyke. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Armstrong, Rev. David, Moore, Ontario, Canada, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Aug. 16 In the Living Church of this week Armstrong notices an acknowledgement of "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry" and would like to know how—and at what price—it can be obtained. During the last masonic year he lectured 33 times on the moral aspects of freemasonry and found a strong feeling among the brethern on the question. He now hopes to get some pointers from Brownson's pamphlet. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Auten, H. F., Trenton, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Aug. 18 Auten notices in the Living Church of Chicago the receipt of Brownson's pamphlet, "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry" and asks him to send or sell him a copy. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Kellog, Henry L., Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Aug. 20 Kellog wishes Brownson to fill the enclosed order. He wants to hand out the pamphlets to the W.C.T.U., White League Workers, etc. It is an awful document, of the utmost importance to this nation. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1 p. 12 mo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C. Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Aug. 27 He had just finished writing Brownson when the extracts arrived. Before Brownson goes to any further trouble, Hudson wishes to explain his plan to give appetizing extracts from the work under some such general title as "Episodes in the Life of Columbus" or "Leaves from a New Life". If the extractions are not interesting and fresh and served up in a way to attract readers, they would not serve Hudson's purposes and would defeat Brownson's. They must give the best wine first. Brownson's idea about binding is capital. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Aug. 27 Hudson received the extracts last week and some of them are already in type for immediate use. He suggests that they run the extracts through the four weeks of October, allow three pages of the Ave Maria to them each week, and perhaps use another batch later. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Edwards, James F., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Sep. Edwards sent twelve negatives of Gregori's series of paintings representing the life of Columbus; they cost him $19. If Brownson has engravings made he is to state under each picture the name of the painter and the University of Notre Dame. They have changed the Seniors' Dormitory to Brownson Hall in honor of Orestes A. Brownson; for the future the Seniors will be called "Brownsons". :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Sep. 5 Cantwell encloses two pounds in payment for Brownson's Works, of which he has made much use, which he describes, and of which he is very fond. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Sep. 10 Hudson could not read the last installments of proofs Brownson sent until Sunday and was hoping to hear from him about the plan proposed. October would be the month and the extracts might be run till the end of November. In the proofs received from Brownson there is nothing quotable that has not already been given in Father Knight's Life of Columbus. He has a batch of the corners in type, and the first is used this week. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Brownson, Henry F., Detroit, Michigan, to James F. Edwards, Notre Dame, Indiana 1890 Sep. 20 The engraver works from prints with negatives, so Brownson had the prints made. On examination, he finds they are nearly all poor photographs, some sharp enough about the head but indistinct in parts, so that he cannot make good pictures of them. The frame is omitted on one side of some, which would make it necessary to cut off the other sides. They also are bad in size. Brownson asks if the photographers guarantee satisfaction; if so, they might do better. He regrets making so much trouble but believes whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Zorn, Father P. S., Big Rapids, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Sep. 20 Zorn thanks Brownson for the pamphlets about the Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry and congratulates him for pointing out that the temporal advantages offered by secret societies amount to very little in the end. He does not want his name used in print, as he is too much run down, quasi officially in the Church. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Sep. 21 Hudson thanks Brownson for his letter of the 12th. Illness has prevented an earlier acknowledgement. His regret regarding the extracts is on account of causing Brownson so much trouble. The extract he sent last is used for the "Readings" this week; it suits its double purposes well. Tarducci is accurate and thoroughly versed in his subject, and the Life light go well. He hopes Brownson is feeling very much letter than he is. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d McHugh, Father Bernard J., Brooklyn, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Nov. 9 McHugh subscribes for one copy of Brownson's translation of Tarducci's Life of Columbus and sends $2.50. He has long been anxious for the work and for one that treats fully and satisfactorily the question of Joan d'Arc and would like Brownson to recommend one. He writes as a close student of the writings of Orestes A. Brownson. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d McHugh, Father Bernard J., Brooklyn, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Nov. 13 He thanks Brownson for his letter. He shall look forward to the appearance of Leo Taxil's Gabriel Jogand "Life of Joan D'Arc". It seems to him that at no time since the Reformation has the world been more open to conviction. The fact of a dominant belief in the supernatural in such characters as Columbus and Joan D'Arc must carry a great influence in turning men's minds to the true Faith. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Brearley, W. H., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Nov. 14 Brearley notices Brownson's interview with astonishment, for if he was sincere, he has been shamefully imposed on by some one. Brearley has taken these higher degrees, is a 32nd degree mason and a Knight Templar, and he assures Brownson that he is not only in the wrong but that masonry emphatically and repeatedly affirms instead of denies the existence of God and its teachings are essentially Christian. In France there has been a slight departure from this rule, and the masonry of the rest of the world has therefore withdrawn from that of France on that account Brownson's own good reputation is such that Brearley thinks he would want to correct his error. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Montgomery, Father George, San Francisco, California, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Nov. 19 Montgomery wishes two copies of Tarducci's Life of Columbus. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Starr, Eliza Allen, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Dec. 3 Starr orders a copy of Tarducci's Life of Columbus, which she likes to have—like all her books and friends—at their best. She sends regards to Mrs. Brownson and is anticipating the book with pleasure. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Tarducci, Francesco, Modena, Italy, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Dec. 4 He received Brownson's letter of Nov. 21 with the announcement of the coming publication of the translation. The blame for the misunderstanding about his published works should rest with both of them, not just Brownson. He thanks Brownson for the flattering judgment of his works. :: III-3-d A.L.S. Italian 3pp. 16mo. CBRH III-3-d Ward, Rev. Julius H., Brookline, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Dec. 5 Brownson's note got mislaid in the rush of things. Ward will be glad to give his best attention in the Herald to the Life of Columbus when it reaches him. The Transcript and the Literary World, both of Boston, should have copies of the book, which would be likely to receive appreciative notices. Ward agrees about the necessity of religious instruction in the public schools, but it is hard to bring about. Boston is in the hotbed of the discussion, and Ward is not allowed to write on the subject in the Herald. The policy is that the public schools are state schools and that the state is not appointed to teach religion. Many Catholics, as well as Protestants, are not satisfied—and Ward is not, but he does not see the way out. The several religious parties show no disposition to come to agreement, and here the Roman Church stands as a menace on the one hand and the Protestants of the extreme sort are constantly spoiling for a fight on the other. Ward hopes Brownson is making headway with the Life of his father Orestes A. Brownson. Father Walter Elliot, C.S.P. is doing well in writing the Life of Father Isaao T. Hecker and Brownson's father frequently crosses his path. Ward's wife and daughter wish to be remembered to Brownson, and his daughter Mary is now his emanuensis. He met Archbishop John Ireland recently in Boston and was much pleased with him. He also had a long talk with James Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore last spring on soon church matters. He hopes he will soon have the pleasure of entertaining Brownson. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Dec. 8 Cantwell sends Ł2 to reduce the balance he owes on Brownson's Works. He read Brownson's last letter after dinner to the Bishop and the other priests and is looking forward to his translation of the Life of Columbus. He has recently converted a lady and her daughter by reading from the works of Dr. Orestes A. Brownson. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hechinger, A., Lockport, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Dec. 22 Hechinger is just reading "Harmony between Science and Revelation" and finds Dr. Orestes A. Brownson mentioned, though he has none of his books in his library. Years ago he was glad to hear he had joined the Church and was grieved to hear from Father John Madden, pastor of St. Mary's Church, Rondont, N. Y., in 1858 or 1859, that he disregarded the abstinence on Fridays publicly, accompanied occasionally with remarks. A few years later when there was a plan to make up a subscription or donation for him and Dr. Edward McGlynn was at the head of the committee or one of the directors, it was brought up that Brownson in his Review denied or questioned the eternity of hell or the pains of hell. When asked, some would avoid the question, to save him; others would get excited; but no one would say in plain, direct, unmistakable words that he retracted. About the year 1872 Hechinger was in Elizabeth and Father Michael E. Kane, then pastor of the Church where James Corrigan lately died, proposed to introduce him to Dr. Brownson, who was then blind and residing there but afterwards neglected to do so until too late. Several years ago, Hechinger was unable to get "The Convert". He has heard much criticism about Dr. Brownson and he would like to have Brownson clear his father of these charges. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Schulte, Father B. A., Templeton, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1890 Dec. 30 Schulte congratulates Brownson on the courage and manliness manifested by him in compiling and publishing "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry". He has read the works of Leo Taxil and asks if Brownson has read "Satan Compagnie, Association universelle pour la destruction de l'ordre social", written by Paul Rosen, a high French Mason, and dedicated to Pope Leo XIII. It seems mysterious how priests and even bishops can entertain such mild opinions of masonry in the face of all the documentary proofs to the contrary. In Minnesota a Catholic priest invited his parishoners to become odd Fellows, for it would greatly serve to enlighten their minds and cultivate their manners. Odd Fellowism is the ante-chamber of masonry and Schulte suggests a similar pamphlet on it. He proposes an international anti-masonic League to be formed at the Catholic Congress of 1893 and has already a beautiful badge in petto. He wishes to correspond with Brownson until they can agree on a plan to be approved by the bishops and Pope Leo XIII and is willing to give his life to his project. P.S.: He asks Brownson for the present to be somewhat discreet concerning this matter. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Tarducci, Francesco, Modena, Italy, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 2 He received the two copies of the translation, but hopes in Brownson's kindness for more copies to pass around to his friends. His small knowledge of the English language does not permit him to judge the worth of the translation, but it seems very good. His Caboto is going along rather fast and he hopes to publish it by the feast of Columbus. :: III-3-d A.L.S. Italian 2pp. 16mo. CBRH III-3-d Johnston, R. M., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 8 Johnston thanks Brownson for the Life of Columbus he sent and will send in return a small volume of some of his essays on literary and social subjects, which will be published in March by Bowen-Merrill of Indianapolis. Knowing Brownson's indifference to fiction, he will not send a copy of his new novel, "Widow Guthrie", or a collection of some of his stories which Appleton 's will bring out in a few weeks. His wife has already read parts of the Life and pronounced the work well done. Johnston cannot read it until he has less work to do. He is convinced that it is a blessing to have work to do when one is old. He did not see Brownson's name among the officials of the next Congress and asks whether he is suspected of not being Irish enough. He hopes there is not to be politics in the business, but if there is, he wants Brownson there. He urges him to visit him in Baltimore and laments that he came to know him so late, love him so well, and have so little of his company. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Van der Eerden, S.J., Father Aloysius G., Sioux City, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 9 Van der Eerden encloses a check to pay his little debt. He has learned that the books arrived safely in St. Louis and hopes Brownson has a good sale. If he can do anything to induce any one to buy a few copies, he will do so. He asks Brownson to give his regards to Father Martin M. Harts, S.J. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Richemont, Vicomte de, Paris, France, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 13 Richemont thanks Brownson for his kind letter, which he was unable to answer during his travels in the East. He received a copy of Richard Elliott's sketch of Father Gabriel Richard, is very much interested in the subject, and will return the sketch as soon as he has finished with it. He will be very happy to pay his tribute to the memory of the pioneer of religion and education in the West, and would appreciate Brownson's thanking Elliott for asking him to do so. He thanks Brownson for the very complete bibliography he sent, and was very glad to see John Gilmary Shea and Richard H. Clarke in New York. In Paris he gave the news of Brownson to Claudio Jannes, who introduced the two, and talked with him about several questions on which Brownson gave him useful information. As he knew something more about statistics on religious matters, Richemont incloses his questions and inquires for himself about the real causes of the failure of the Church to take root in the proper American soil. Brownson has told him that conversions in the United States have not been in proportion to what they should have been and that Catholics have kept only about one-third of the immigrants and their descendants from apostatizing. He asks Brownson's opinion of whether the causes are moral or social and whether Masonry has something to do with this. A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. The letter contains the following enclosure: CBRH III-3-d Richemont, Comte de, Paris, France, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan Comte de Richemont has been told by many persons, either American or familiar with American questions, that the number of citizens held to belong to not definite religious confession was very large. One said the most probable figure was 22 millions; another — an American — said 40 millions. Many different ideas seem to predominate about the mental situation of these millions: some believe them to remain faithful to the principal spiritual doctrines, even to the salvation by Christ; others are inclined to think that a very large number is already immersed in the deep sea of infidelity or agnosticism. Richemont takes great interest in the religious fluctuations in the States and would like to have Brownson's opinions on the question. He was a subscriber to Dr. Orestes A. Brownson's valuable and regretted periodical and would be happy to make his son's acquaintance if he ever comes to France. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Harts, S.J., Father Martin M., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 17 Father Henry J. Votel, S.J., president of St. Mary's College, St. Mary's, Kansas, requests Harts to order for him ten sets of the two volumes edition and two copies of the one volume edition of Tarducci's Columbus. They would be better sent by freight than by express. Fathers Meyer, S.J., and Henry A. Schapmann, S.J., inform Harts that they intend to purchase several copies. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hennessy, Father Patrick, Jersey City, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 17 On receipt of Brownson's last letter Hennessy wrote to Archbishop Patrick John Ryan in reference to the article which Brownson prepared for the Review on the rights of property, and encloses his reply, which he asks Brownson to return. Anything Brownson may write for the Review and send to the Archbishop will be readily published. Hennessy told him it was a shame to have a man of Brownson's ability remaining unemployed. If the article on the rights of property has been mislaid, it should be rewritten and sent to the Archbishop. It is an article which could not fail to do great good. Hennessy is glad Brownson is to publish a volume of criticisms, which he had wished him to do. He is also looking forward to the work on philosophy. How scanty Catholic philosophy has been since the death of Orestes A. Brownson, and how wordy and obscure the work of the English Jesuits, and need reviewing! Brownson will be glad to learn that Hennessy is really well from his late nasal hemorrhage. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Weyenberg, O.S., Father Alexis, Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 17 Weyenberg thanks Brownson for his present Life of Columbus and will not forget him in the Sacrifice of the Mass. He hopes to see him when he again comes to Chicago. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Harts, S.J., Martin M., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 18 Harts was working in the Sociality library and was sorry not to see Brownson when he called last Monday, and that they will not be able to take their trip to Monroe. He was told yesterday that they would have school on Tuesday. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Donahoe, Patrick, Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 19 Someone has made off with the seventh volume of Brownson's Works and Brownson is asked whether he can furnish another copy. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Weldon, C.M., Father Thomas J., Perryville, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 20 The box of books Brownson refers to are here, awaiting some information from the sender. Weldon has no knowledge of any order being sent for them and has no authority, as yet, to purchase them, though the works of Orestes A. Brownson are invaluable. Weldon is temporarily taking the place of Father Daniel Mc Carthy, who died October 10, 1890. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 27 The two volumes of the Life of Columbus have reached Cantwell. The translation, in method and manner, is such as he expected from Brownson. He asks that it be put to his account. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Fitzgibbon, John J., South Chicago, Illinois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Feb. 27 Fitzgibbon encloses $2.50 for the Life of Columbus, which he hopes will have a large sale. It is a most valuable contribution to American literature. Fitzgibbon will do all he can to make the work known and to increase its sale. Brownson is welcome to visit him anytime he is in Chicago. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Cramer, Rev. M. J., Associate Editor, East Orange, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Mar. 2 A review of Brownson's Life of Columbus would induce many of the readers of Cramer's Journal to purchase it. The leading publishers of the country—Harpers, Scribners, Houghton-Mifflin, Griggs, Crowell, Randolph, etc.—have favored Cramer with press copies of their historical and theological publications in his Quarterly. The letter appears on a form letter and advertisement for Cramer's publication, the "Vierteljahrschrift fur das Gesammte Gebiet der Theologie". :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Mar. 4 Cantwell regrets that his present installment can be only £1, which nevertheless leaves only £1 due on Brownson's Works plus the price of the Life of Columbus. He is very grateful to Brownson for his favor. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Mar. 9 Clarke asks for copies, and the bill, for Brownson's translation of the "Life of Columbus" and his pamphlet on Masonry. He notices that Brownson is his own publisher—a good thing to keep clear of publishers— and would like to know how he has succeeded in publishing and selling the works himself. There will be organized here, March 16, the Society of American Authors, embracing the best authors in American literature. Brownson is invited to attend. Clarke is going to take an active part in it and proposes to organize for the protection of literary property. What Brownson said in his letter of July 23 about the Brownson Monument Clarke will remember. When he last saw James Cardinal Gibbons, he urged him to advocate a professorship in the American Catholic University, rather than a statue. The one costs $50,000, the other $10,000 or less. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Tarducci, Francesco, Modena, Italy, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Mar. 10 He thanks Brownson for the copies of the translation. The translation is good and has been received favorably by the American newspapers; he congratulates Brownson. Since he is not able to meet Brownson face to face, he asks for a photograph. His work on the Cabotos progresses but slowly — school takes his time and his eyes are weak. He thanks Brownson for the reviews — praises please him, but criticism helps to improve one's work. P.S. A Genovan committee formed to celebrate the centennial in honor of Columbus has nominated him an honorary member. :: III-3-d A.L.S. Italian 4pp. 32mo. CBRH III-3-d Clarke, Richard H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Mar. 13 Clarke received the two volumes of the Life of Columbus and the pamphlet; and sent his check for them He saw a notice of Brownson's translation. He had nearly completed a paper on the subject of Columbus, condensed, and suitable for general and popular use, and will mention Brownson's translation as one of the works consulted. It does not read like a translation, but has the ease and fluency of an original work. He will be pleased to see Brownson when he comes to New York. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Guichainville, Metayer de, Professeur, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Mar. 13 Metayer de Guichainville wishes to be excused for writing in French, but he is not yet familiar with English and believes that Brownson can translath easily. The library of the Catholic Club of New York has just purchased Brownson's interesting book, "The Life of Christopher Columbus, translated from the Italian after Tarducci." He has already recommended it to several of his friends and acquaintances, who certainly will wish to buy it. In this connection, he wishes to say that he possesses one of the original copies of the hand of Columbus, of which Tarducci speaks on pages 223-6. He has had photographs made of this precious autograph, several years ago, and has also taken out a copyright of the translation into English and French. As Brownson remarks, it is a matter of considerable interest, which the author and translator ignore, that there exists in New York one of the copies made by the great navigator, other than that actually at Genoa. He has had made only 100 copies of this illuminating and interesting autograph, but has always proposed to publish something on the subject of this precious manuscript document of Columbus. P.S.: He means the letter dated at Seville, April 2, 1502. :: III-3-d A.L.S. in French 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Fitzgerald, Father C., Evanston, Wyoming, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Mar. 14 Fitzgerald would like to know what edition of Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma Brownson used in The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry, some copies of which he received some time ago, and whether it would be possible to obtain a copy of the former. There is a work called Maconnerie Pratique, printed in Paris and sold by Cadrieux Derouie in Montreal, which he would like Brownson to examine, with a view to publishing an English translation of it. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Guichainville, le Metayer de, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Mar. 17 He thanks Brownson for his letter and will be happy to meet him in New York; he asks him to name the day and hour. He sends at the same time a journal in which Brownson may read one of his literary caprices, somewhat humorous, but true in all its details. His son recently advertised in the Herald for a stock of precious documents in Spanish and has so far received some and is cutting the seals of the albums and perceives the value of the language and the papers. Because he translates Spanish with difficulty, he does not have the time or the means to make extracts which would exhaust the value of such archives. His family — son and four daughters — are all scientists or collectors, using every moment philatelic, geologic, etc. movements. He hopes to continue his correspondence with Brownson. :: III-3-d A.L.S. in French 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Jones, Harry C., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Apr. 2 Jones has been informed that Tarducci's Life of Christopher Columbus has been published since March 1, 1981, and intends to give either a notice or review of it, in accordance with its literary quality. He requests a copy and assures Brownson that the Photo American Review will be one of the most expensively gotten up monthlies and that its great circulation will be an advantage to him to have the book reviewed in it. :: III-3-d Typewritten Letter Signed 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Alden, H. M., Metucken, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Apr. 5 Alden thanks Brownson for sending him Tarducci's Life of Columbus. In translating this work Brownson has made a valuable contribution to literature, and Alden congratulates him upon the ease and naturalness characterising the style— so that no one would suspect that it is a translation. He is much impressed with Tarducci's work: he gives a reality to Columbus which cannot be found in any other life. One cannot take it up anywhere without being irresistably impelled to read on and on. The charm of the narrative, apart from the, other elements of value which are hidden beneath it, will give the book the success it so well deserves. Alden has often wished to write to Brownson in reply to his kind letter about his "Interpretation", but the theme of Brownson's thoughtful criticism is so broad, deep, and many-sided that he cannot find time to do it justice. It would be more satisfactory to talk with him. He remembers their brief interview with much pleasure. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Ruggles, Edward D., Governor's Island, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, New York, New York 1891 Apr. 6 Ruggles asks Brownson to dine with him at Governor's Island at 6:30 on the day that best suits him. Their quarters are No. 17, but he can be found at the Headquarters building, not at the fort, during the daytime. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Harts, S.J., Father Martin M., Detroit, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Apr. 8 Harts asks the price of Tarducci's Columbus, in both the one and two volume editions, for booksellers and colleges if they order a good number of copies. He spoke of the book in Cincinnati last month, but will remind them of it again and will write also to St. Louis, Chicago, and St. Mary's, Kansas. They usually make their purchases of premiums in May. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Church, Alonzo, Princeton, New Jersey, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Apr. 15 Church asks for a copy of the Life of Columbus for review in The Princetonian, which has a large circulation among an educated reading public and which might be of assistance to the sale of the book. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d McIntyre, J. W., Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Apr. 21 Regarding the matter they had recent conversation with Brownson, Little, Brown Co. wish to state that they have considered the idea of publishing a translation of the work, but their present plans will not permit their undertaking it. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Guichainville, le Metayer de, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Apr. 23 He remembers Brownson's visit to the Catholic Club library with pleasure. He received today from Paris from his old colleague Leopold Delisle, Administrateur-General de la Bibliotheque de France, the reply to a letter which he wrote before Brownson came to New York, and sends a copy to Brownson, who may communicate with Tarducci, whose surprise will equal his. He has never heard Henry Harisse speak of the work of Columbus. He has written, concerning the ancient title to Spanish America, to Father Ignatius F. Horstmann of Philadelphia, who informs him that his Board will have to make the decision. He hopes Brownson arrived safely home from his trip to New York and that he is well. A.L.S. in French 3pp. 8vo. In this letter is enclosed: CBRH III-3-d Delisle, Leopold, Paris, France, to Guichainville, le Metayer de, New York, New York 1891 Apr. 11 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. CBRH III-3-d Flick, Lawrence F., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Apr. 27 Flick feels Brownson to be sufficiently interested in the work of the American Catholic Historical Society to warrant him to ask his cooperation in the practical work of the Society. Flick is chairman of the Committee on Publications, which is in charge of the publication of volume 3 of the Records. As they have yet no publication fund, they are compelled to bring out their volumes by the aid of advertisements. He asks Brownson to get him a reliable young man or woman to solicit for him in Detroit and surrounding country. He is willing to pay 30% commission, 15% when the contract is forwarded and 15% when the money is forwarded, and will furnish the dummy and blank contracts. They will get out and edition of 6000, 5000 of which will be circulated at once among Catholic educational institutions and prominent Catholics throughout America, and so feel that they can offer a good medium of advertising. Any assistance Brownson can give will be properly accredited to him. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2p.. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Harper Brothers, per C. B. H., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 6 They regret to say that in view of the number and pressure of their engagements, they cannot undertake the publication of the translation of La Republique Americaine, as Brownson proposed in his letter of May 4. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Guichainville, Metayer de, Metayer de Guichainville, Professeur le, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 10 Except for a serious illness of his son, he would have written sooner and thanks Brownson for his reply to his letter enclosing the one from Leopold Delisle. The club library has Harisse's work on Columbus, published in Paris in 1884, and he has gone through the two volumes about the question of the letter of April 2, 1502, on which question Metayer de Guichainville gives his own conclusions. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hartwell, Sister Joseph, Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 12 Sister Joseph encloses a card showing one branch of the work being done for the colored people, under the direction of Father John R. Slattery. They are very anxious to pay a few debts and to furnish a chapel. Any kind of assistance will be remembered in their prayers. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d de Burgh, H., Dublin, Ireland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 13 The late Thomas McNevin was a gifted Irishman, the bosom friend and fellow laborer of Daniel O'Connell, and the author of "Confiscation of Ulster", "IrishVolunteers 1782", "Sheil's Speeches, with Life". He was the originator of the "Library of Ireland" series, which has done so much for Irish Catholic History. Some time ago his only daughter, with a young family, was reduced to want, owing to the loss from ill health of her husband's position. De Burgh has been trying to make up something to rescue her from poverty, and besides what he got in Ireland, he received the following from America: James Cardinal Gibbons, £5; Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan, £5; Eugene Kelly, £5; J. A. Donohoe, £5; Bishop John J. Keane, £3; Bishop Stephen V. Ryan, £5; Bishop Patrick T. O'Reilly, £3; Bishop Patrick Manchue, £3; Bishop Matthew Harkins, £3; Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan, £3. He encloses one of the last letters John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote; as it is a very precious relic, he would like it returned. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Jannes, Claudio, Paris, France, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 15 Jannes has just received Brownson's translation of Tarducci's Life of Columbus and is much indebted to him for the present. Whatever Brownson says of the style of the author, Jannes much prefers to read the work in his English than in the best Italian. He congratulates Brownson upon having offered to the American public so useful a work, just at the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. It is a new service to the Catholic cause. Jannes was asked by some Italian friends to be present at a Catholic Congress of social science, which will meet at Genoa in October, 1892, precisely in order to celebrate the memory of Columbus and he would like to have Brownson come to Europe for this occasion. This summer he will go to Texas, where his eldest son last year bought a farm near Abilene, and in September will make a trip through Mexico. He would like to pay Brownson a visit in Detroit if he has the time. Baron de Ravignan and Viscount des Bassyres de Richemont told him how kind Brownson's reception was. They were very favorably impressed that the son was so worthy of the name of his illustrious father. Brownson's pamphlet on the irreligion of the Craft of Masonry is excellent. Jannes was much interested in that subject some years ago, and it has lost nothing of its actuality in Europe or America. But if Jannes passes through Charleston, he would not pay a visit to Albert Pike. He sends Brownson a discourse on the social question. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Mary Gertrude, R.S.M., Sister, Galway, Ireland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 15 They are in great distress here—families without food or raiment—a little work commenced, then stopped—the people are flying from the country and no wonder. The sisters are trying to collect for the winter some nightcovering and fuel. Brownson is asked to come to the assistance of their poor, in these days so laden trials of every kind. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Meyer, S.J., Father Rudolph J., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Father Martin M. Harts, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 22 Harts is asked to inform Henry F. Brownson that Meyer will take 8 copies of the two volume edition and 4 copies of the one volume, of his translation of the Life of Columbus, the sooner sent the better. In the Henry F. Brownson Collection :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Flick, Lawrence F., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 23 Flick thanks Brownson for his efforts and sends a scale of prices. When they first tried to secure advertisements, the price was $25 a page; but the agents would not take the work at less than $50 a page, and so they went up to that figure. So far they have got about $700 worth of ads. Some of the firms in Detroit that advertise in similar publications are Peter Dedricks, Jr., Van Leyen Co., L. F. Kilroy Co., Anthony Gsebold, John Finn, Academy of the Sacred Heart, Detroit College. They offer an exceptionally good medium, with a circulation of 6000, every copy of which will be well placed. Flick is preparing a list of Catholic names which will probably contain all the most influential Catholics of the United States; and to those people the Records will be sent gratuitously, with a view of interesting them in the work of the Society. As the list of names is carefully prepared through the assistance of members and others in different parts of the country, it will be the best list of Catholic names in existence. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Heydenfelt, Jr., S., Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 24 William Richards of this city, who met Brownson at the Catholic Congress several years ago, gave Heydenfelt access to his library and called his attention to "Spirit Rapper, An Authobiography", in connection with a subject the latter has been investigating— electro-magnetizing the use of the galvanic battery, through distributing subjects and others; the system so largely practiced in India and among the Druids and other secret orders of the United, who have what is termed spiritual governments, like the one among the Mormons, a system by which citizens not belonging to any secret orders are magnetized, connected with members of these orders, and whose minds can be read and thoughts transferred. Heydenfelt has explained the subject in a pamphlet treating the methods of electro-magnetizing and hypnotism, entitled "The Unison of the Conscious Force", a copy of which he sent to the Secretary of State of Michigan. His object in visiting Washington is to examine the books in the office of the Surgeon General and in the Congressional and other libraries on these subjects and kindred ones. So few know the extent to which electro-magnetizing is carried on in the U. S. that his object is to explore it, make known its dangers, and to move the attention of the people so that they will demand legislation in the states and in Congress. He would like to have placed at his disposal any memoranda of Orestes A. Brownson on the subject. He has heard that magnetism or hypnotism was practiced on a large scale during the late war between France and Germany. He asks for aid in verifying what he has heard and read of its use in France in 1848. He will remain here several weeks, then visit the South before returning to his law practice in San Francisco. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Robertson, Mother M. Aimee, Mt. de Chantal, West Virginia, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 27 The Mother thanks Brownson for the picture of his father Orestes A. Brownson. which will hang next to that of John Henry Newman in their reading room. She orders a set Brownson's Works to present to their bishop on his silver jubilee and thanks Brownson for his sympathy in the loss of Sister Eulalia. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Heydenfelt, Jr., S., Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 30 Heydenfelt thanks Brownson for the information of his letter of the 28th and is now reading volume 16 of Brownson's Works. As suggested by William Richards, he asks what priest gave Orestes A. Brownson instructions in the Catholic belief, the man he associated with in the latter part of his life and who Richards thinks now lives in New Jersey. He is particularly anxious to verify the localities where those "mesmeric circles" were formed during the revolutions of 1848, just before they broke out, and the names of the magnetizers—French, Italian, Swiss and American—who took part in the "peaceful agitation". Perhaps some of Brownson's correspondence may throw some light on the subject. If there is much detail and reference to that history in any of his letters, he will visit Detroit, if the letters are made available to him. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Tarducci, Francesco, Modena, Italy, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 30 He is sorry not to have answered Brownson sooner. Brownson's portrait is splendid, and he hopes Brownson received his. The Italian government has nominated a committee to collect and study all the documents regarding Columbus. His work on the Cabotos is fairly well ahead. He asks about the sale of the translation in America. :: III-3-d A.L.S. Italian 4pp. 16mo. CBRH III-3-d Heydenfelt, Jr., S., Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 May 31 Heydenfelt forgot to ask Brownson to examine Orestes A. Brownson's correspondence, if possible, to see whether the names of Hagenow and Handford the Dane are mentioned, and if so, in connection with the German Protestant Alliance. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Ward, Rev. Julius H., Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 8 Ward has been slow in getting to Brownson's book, but was finally able to give him a good and long notice, which will help a very interesting a timely work into circulation. He hopes Brownson is well and happy; he has been a little overworked and under the weather since Dr. Brooks was elected Bishop, but is gradually getting better. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, Boonsboro, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 2 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 England— Essex Country, Massachusetts—stock. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hild, C.SS.R., Father Joseph C., Baltimore, Maryland, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 3 Hild asks the price for a set of Brownson's works for their library. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Nilan, Father James, Youghkeepsie, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 3 Nilan asks for a circular on Brownson's Works, which he hopes to procure, along with Brownson's translation of Farducci's Life of Columbus, for the city Library. The latter will not receive much praise from Catholic critics, as it shows clearly the cruel character of the Spanish explorers, as well as their rapacity and general ill-treatment of the natives. Even Columbus evinced some of the same traits and deserves reprobation for his unjust initiation of slavery, although his motives may so far to exteruate his guilt. Catholic critics don't like to have their idols' undeserved honor lessened. Their love of truth is not their chiel characteristic. But Brownson has done a good work, and Nilan hopes the book will be extensively read. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Zorn, Father P. S., Manistee, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 8 Zorn needs more copies of "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry" at Manistee, where he is now, and will get The Life of Columbus when he can afford it, when his persecutions may be over. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Zorn, Father P. S., Manistee, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 8 Zorn needs more copies of "The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry" at Manistee, where he is now, and will get The Life of Columbus when he can afford it, when his persecutions may be over. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Vignaud, Henry, Paris, France, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 10 Vignaud has received Brownson's Columbus promptly and sends a money order for $2.50. The translation is very well done. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 12 Cantwell sends 10 shillings in part payment of his debt, which except for unforeseen circumstances would not be paid off. Monsignor Nicholas Cantwell of Philadelphia is his uncle. He often thinks of Brownson when he reads Brownson's Works, of which he never tires. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Guichainville, Metayer de, New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 12 Metayer agrees with Brownson in regard to their Columbus letter. He is going to write to Mr. Curtis. He thanks Brownson for the information concerning deposits in this country. He is enclosing a letter of a former depositor. He mentions a package which has disappeared and about which there seems to be considerable mystery. Sam Barlow and Mr. Gunther had addresses of his former depositors and through them they have secure copies of the famous letter which Barlow sold very easily. Barlow had written that Rockwood had asked to make a negative which was to be immediately destroyed. Harisse was well aware of what was going on. Metayer found a lithograph print of his autograph in a book in a book store. Thus far this document has been for him a source of trouble. There seems to be a conspiracy against it. Why all the fuss about a piece of parchment which they repeat has no value and is only a modern copy although a chemist has declared just the opposite? In Paris and New York there are some who wish to get clear of a compromising investigation. In New York there is fear of an investigation about the origin of the famous copies in Barlow's boxes. He has long been convinced as Brown is that they have the seal of the autographed manuscript of Columbus and that Tarducci wrote the truth about the second package sent to France. Someone has made off with it. When and where? But they will know in time in spite of the bravado of Harisse whom Guichainville has told off. He has perhaps made an enemy but he will not stop his investigations. He keeps sending out Brownson's prospectus and recommends his book in his letters. :: III-3-d A.L.S. French 6pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Field, Phil V., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 13 Field proposes a new, enlarged World's Fair edition of Brownson's translation of Tarducci's Life of Columbus, and assures Brownson of his business qualifications and the opportunities to sell a huge number of copies of the proposed work. He furnishes details for the proposed publication. :: III-3-d Typewritten Letter Signed 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Field, Phil V., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 18 Field is pleased that Brownson agrees to many of his proposals and suggests, with details, several methods of selling the proposed edition, including the use of agents. He is anxious to get started. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Curtis, William E., Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 21 Curtis' collection of portraits of Columbus for the World's Fair consists of bromide copies of photographs, engravings, paintings, etc., and he is anxious to include the collection at the University of Notre Dame. Brownson can save him the expense of sending a photographer there if he will loan or sell his own negatives that he used in his Life of Columbus. He asks if Brownson saw the very elaborate review of his book in the New York Sun of yesterday. :: III-3-d Typewritten Letter Signed 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Jannet, Claudio, Paris, France, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 21 Jannes thanks Brownson for planning his route from New York to Abilene and will be pleased to visit him in Detroit. He sails from Liverpool on the 23rd, arrives in New York on the 2nd, stays there two days, stops for a few hours at Niagara Falls before arriving in Detroit, only a few days after the arrival of this letter. He will send a telegram from New York, for which a reply should be sents to the Metropolitan Hotel, with information about a hotel in Detroit near Brownson's office. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Field, Phil V., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 23 Field has submitted Brownson's last letter to two firms representing a capital of at least $200,000, both of which look with favor on the matter; and it is now only a question of days and figures. A firm in this city has an author grinding out a life of Columbus, but if they can secure Brownson's plates and run in the World's Fair features in a publishers' introductory, they can beat out the other firm and can sell 200,000 copies the first two months, and Brownson can not object to that. With the addition of about 100 pages of World's Fair cuts and colored plates, the sales may reach half a million copies. They are anxious to publish the work and want to know Brownson's royalty charges and when they can expect to receive the plates. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Curtis, William E., Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 27 Curtis would be glad to have Brownson send the clearest prints he has of the pictures, and they may be able to make them do, although the negatives would be a great deal better. He would be glad to hear from Brownson's friend who has the Columbus letter. :: III-3-d Typewritten Letter Signed 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Cooke, George W., Boston, Massachusetts, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Jul. 28 Cooke is preparing a class outline on Columbus and the discovery of America in preparation for the World's Fair and for use in reading circles, etc., and would appreciate Brownson's sending him his translation of Tarducci's Columbus, which he could thus advertise. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Guichainville, le Metayer de, New York, N.Y., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Sept. 5 Guichainville informs Brownson that a M. Ponce de Leon has shown him a lithographic facsimile of the autograph. He mentions that this signature was found under a work having for title: "Codice Diplomatico Columbo Americano" Second Edition, published in January 1857. Another one was published in 1867 in Havana illustrated on page 291. Also, that a Samuel Barlow informed Guichainville that these two facsimiles were executed by a man named La Croix, sometimes called "Enrico Croce". Guichainville does not know whether facsimiles of Columbus' letters were made but he can not reconcile the fact that no authorization was given for their production. He is not satisfied with the person recommended by W. E. Curtis. However, Guichainville promises him to write to Curtis asking him what day he will arrive in New York. In reference to the "History of Columbus" Guichainville suggests that it may be a continuation of the work of Samuel Barlow. Nevertheless, he counsels Brownson to wait and see. He closes assuring Brownson of his most devoted sentiments. :: III-3-d A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Guichainville, le Metayer de, New York, N. Y., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Sept. 9 Guichainville informs Brownson of a letter he received from W. E. Curtis. He remarks that it was a singular coincidence that the person whom Curtis mentioned was the same one who four years ago read him an incomplete text. He mentions that the text was translated from the Italian and that he understood it is completely this time in Brownson's work "Life of Columbus". This same person has informed Guichainville that the signature was made by a forger. He points out that the would-be expert intentionally forgot that Columbus wrote two similar letters. Also, that this selfstyled expert was waiting for the document to fall in his hands without any sacrifices or expense on his part. Curtis is going to have a hard time disentangling himself when he Curtis finds out that Guichainville knows of his hypocrisy. He ends the letter with the hope of good news and sincere attachement. P.S. Jealousy and her companion Envy are to be found everywhere. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Cooley, T. M., per F. C. C. A., Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Sep. 10 Cooley would be pleased to meet Brownson's friend Samuel, if he was to be in Washington at the time of his visit, but his ill health, which compelled him to give up his official position and which confines him to his home, will make it impossible. He asks Brownson to convey his compliments and regrets. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Guichainville, le Metayer de, New York, N. Y., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Sept. 11 Guichainville encloses a copy of William E. Curtis' letter to Brownson. Guichainville is not convinced about Curtis as yet. He does not accept the authority of Ponce de Leon. He tells Brownson to read attentively the article that he attached on Brownson's work by Tarducci. He suggests waiting for another life of Columbus, perhaps by a Cuban. P.S. He has obtained the copyright under his own name and in three languages and that it cannot be reproduced without his authorization. Also, that due to an excellent contract made with his partner, the autograph is Guichainville's individual property. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Lyons, Daniel, Denver, Colorado, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Sep. 14 In Lyons' volume now in press entitled "Christianity and Infallibility—Both or Neither" the third part where he deals with the relations between reason and faith he quotes largely from the works of Orestes A. Brownson. He asks the permission of Brownson to use those extracts, which fall under twelve pages. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Lyons, Daniel, Denver, Colorado, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Sep. 21 Lyons thanks Brownson for his kindness and is glad he likes his title, which he has tried to make as striking and original as possible. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Gonley, J. W., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Sep. 22 Gonley thanks Brownson for his excellent translation of Tarducci's "Columbus". He has read the first volume and part of the second and is much pleased with the clear statement of a most interesting story and with its accurate rendering into English by the translator. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Quigley, Father Patrick F., Toledo, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Sep. 22 Quigley thanks Brownson for his kind and good words about Judge Edmund F. Dunne's argument of last May on his school case. Today he sends his argument on the same case in the circuit court and hopes Brownson will have time to read it. This is really a great contest, yet they have few to consult with. Quigley asks Brownson to come over to Toledo to discuss the case with them soon, and to let him know before coming. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Dunne, Edmund F., Toledo, Ohio, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Oct. 3 Dunne thanks Brownson's for Claudio Jannet's address. It seems now that the decision in Dr. Patrick F. Quigley's case will not be given until next Saturday. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Richards, William, Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Oct. 13 Richards is glad Brownson thought to write him about Claudio Jannet. He has written to Father John Hogan, who is a friend, to let him know of Jannet's coming, and he hopes to have them, with Bishop John J. Keane, at his home. He expects to see Major Edmund Mallet in time. He was about to ask Brownson to refer him to the volume and page where Dr. Orestes A. Brownson spoke of John Henry Cardinal Newman's "Grammar of Assent", which he has been unable to find. He asks if Brownson read Leslie Stephen on Newman's scepticism. He was struck with the similarity of his criticism's with Dr. Brownson's, though Stephen is harsh, unsympathetic if not malicious, and in these respects different from Dr. Brownson. He asks Brownson to come to Washington before he leaves it forever; he is 72, but his brother is 5 years older, and he may live as long—his health is splendid. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Field, Phil V., St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Oct. 15 Field has written to F. B. Dickerson Co. a strong letter to prove his faith in Brownson's book and hopes they will take hold of the enterprise. He would like to interview Brownson and the company personally, but cannot spare the money for the trip to Detroit. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Richards, William, Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Oct. 15 Richards apologizes for his oversight in not seeing "Essay at a Grammar of Assent" in the index of Brownson's Works, but he is glad it gave him a chance to hear from Brownson. He had come to accept Brownson's view on John Henry Cardinal Newman some years ago and cannot think Brownson malicious toward him. Leslie Stephen, with all his "cold, clear-headed, hard-headed"—Newman's words—legal astuteness, is an irreverent sceptic and seems to delight in ignoring Newman's profound reverence, and in showing how the various lines of his argument from probability result logically in the baldest scepticism. He manifests a very different spirit from the Rev. Mr. William Salter, who gave "Another View of Newman" in the Arena, for September, 1891, and was kindly and sympathetic. Years ago he thought some of Newman's views were unsatisfactory and different from Brownson and F. W. Faber. He furnishes no means of certitude except by way of probability or inference from one's own assent or conscience; while they point out the impossibility of knowing God without first having had His revelation from Himself. In saying this Richards does not forget the many beautiful passages in Newman. But he has often lamented that scarcely any Catholic writers show an appreciation of or an acquaintance with the unanswerable arguments of Orestes A. Brownson, since his death. William Lily, William Barry, even James Cardinal Gibbons have betrayed their ignorance of them and have left open very weak spots in their writings, which would not have happened if they had read and comprehended his articles on "The Problem of Causality", "The Ideal Formula", "Science and the Sciences", "Tradition", and the like. If they had apprehended what Brownson or Faber had written on nature and grace they never would have been guilty of the weakness of trying to reach the supernatural exclusively through the natural. Richards has often wished that current publications could get before the world Brownson's clear and tremendous arguments. Even Faber is superior to Newman. Yet Richards has never met a Catholic priest, and hardly ever a Catholic layman, who had ever read Faber's "Creator and the Creature" and "The Blessed Sacrament"; and very few read Brownson. Perhaps the Jesuits don't encourage anyone to read him. He asks how it is with Father Augustine F. Hewitt and the Paulists. Years ago Father—now Bishop—John J. Keane was enthusiastic over Brownson but his views have changed. Richards urges Brownson to come to Washington for a talk on these subjects. He has not yet heard of Claudio Jannet's arrival, but Father John Hogan will let him know. He will also have Major Edmund Mallet and Bishop Keane. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Cantwell, Father John, Nottingham, England, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. Cantwell's health and constitution are thoroughly broken down as a result of the death of some friends and being done out of some property intended for him. His hand is severely wounded from a razor cut, and he will therefore need a little more time to repay the balance due on Brownson's Works. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Dunne, Edmund F., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 4 Dunne is in New York for help on the QuigleyOhio school case. On the morning of October 29 he received a telegram from Father Patrick L. Quigley informing him that he had just received from William J. Onahan a letter about the meeting of the committee of the Catholic Congress called for that day in New York. Dunne hurried up there and found only Judge M. W. O'Brien and M. J. Harson, who informed him that the meeting had been called by O'Brien at Onahan's urgent request since Archbishop John Ireland had informed him that there would be a meeting of bishops and archbishops in Laltimore about that time for the consecration of the new coadjutor archbishop of Santa Fe; that an informal meeting of the same committee had been held the night before; that Major John D. Kieley, Jr., and Onahan appointed a committee to go to Baltimore and see how many of them they could get to come here for the meeting; and that meantime the meeting here had been postponed to Friday, the 30th. At 11:00 on the 30th they met at the Catholic Club, and Kieley and Onahan reported that there were no bishops at Baltimore, except the resident one, who did not come. Since John Lee Carroll had not put in an appearance and was in Europe there was a movement for some organization of the committee by which they could get a president, Onahan maintaining that Carroll was chairman, elected by the last Congress and could not be deposed. Dunne had Harson bring in the report of the proceedings of the last Congress, which read simply that on motion of Onahan the name of Carroll had been put at the head of the list. Harson maintained that that did not necessarily make him chairman and the committee agreed. Onahan moved that O'Brien be made permanent chairman, but he declined; Harson moved that Kieley be chairman, which was unanimously adopted and Harson was made secretary. Onahan then made a long report from the Committee on Organization of a complete scheme for the next Congress the system for delegates Dunne describes and which also provides that the 13 archbishops of the country be made members of the committee, that the Congress be a social one limited to the discussion of the labor question, including women and child labor, and cognate subjects as called for in the last Encyclical, but carefully worded so as to exclude all discussion on the Temporal power, education, or the school question in the U.S. Dunne was unable to be present at the afternoon session but asked leave to have it recorded in the minutes that he was opposed to the adoption of any report which would shut out discussion of the Temporal power or the school question. This was accepted after he remarked that he would publish his protest otherwise, and make it an energetic one. Returning at 6:00 he found the committee ready to close, having amended the report so as to recommend a social congress or one on the lines of the last, with the Temporal power and the school question to be discussed, and not having adopted the report but referring it to the archbishops when assembled at St. Louis November 30, for their consideration, so as to put the onus on the archbishops of excluding the paper on the temporal power and education, if they choose to do so. After the action by the archbishops the report will then come up for action by the lay members. Harson will try to find out when the archbishops can meet the laymen at St. Louis and the committee is adjourned until then. None of the hierarchy were present at any of the meetings, nor any reporters, but some of the results were given to the press. Dunne gives Brownson this report, not for publication, but for his own personal knowledge and such private use as he may think proper. He is to remain here a month on the Quigley case, conferring with John Holland. The Catholic Club gave a formal reception to the members of the committee, at which Archbishop M.A. Corrigan was present and at which Dunne spoke and acted as toastmaster. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Guichainville, le Metayer de, New York, N.Y., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 5 Guichainville again criticizes W. E. Curtis. Curtis has gone to see the autograph and has reiterated that Guichainville's autograph is a forgery—detached from a book. He asks Brownson what he thinks of it and says that he himself would like to see such a forgery on a parchment. The learned Ponce de Leon has been more exact: the two letters which are in Tarducci should be in Genes. Could there be the possibility of a third letter? That would make three, one in the U.S. and two in Genes. He criticizes the Americans for their attitude and action toward this work. He plans to send the autograph to his native country where it will receive its due respect. He also has little hope for his work in the Catholic Missions to Central America under the protection of the United States. He mentions the work of his son in this connection and despairingly says that it is very discouraging to bring things of great value into the United States. The Club is increasing. He assures Brownson of his kind regards and desire to see him. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Heth, General H., Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 5 A board appointed by the Secretary of War has been directed to mark with suitable tablets the positions occupied by the 43 regular organizations of the Regular Army at the battle of Antietam. The positions occupied are to be marked whether the organizations participated actively or not in the battle. Lt. Col. Hayes in the Records Vol. 19 mentions Brownson as Acting Assistant Adjutant General to the Artillery Reserve. Heth asks him to inform him where batteries L and M, 3rd Artillery were located during the day and if located in more than one place, he is asked to suggest where he thinks the tablets marking the positions of these batteries should be placed, directing same as accurately as possible. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 9 Brownson will see Hudson never lets a good thing go to waste; he is asked to correct and return. He asks Brownson to furnish a three page article for the Ave Maria on Columbus' devotion to the Blessed Virgin, which he would run towards the end of next month. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Dunne, Edmund F., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 11 Dunne received Brownson's letter of the 8th and is staying in New York, trying to get up something for the Supreme Court on Dr. Patrick F. Quigley's school case, and will be here until after December 1. He did not see Claudio Jannet and undestood that he sailed for Europe some ten days ago. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Shimer, F. A. W., Principal, Mt. Carroll, Ill inois, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 17 They will be pleased to receive a press copy of Brownson's "Life of Columbus", which they would place in their students' reading room, where it will successfully advertise the work among the best families —their patrons. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Heth, General H., Washington, D. C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 20 Brownson is asked to state whether his Battery L and M, 3rd Artillery, fired any shots on September 17, 1862, and whether his Batteries remained in the same positions during the entire day. Sergeant O'Brien, now in the Soldiers' Home in this city, says he was a member of the L and M 3rd Artillery September 17, and thinks in the evening L and M took positions near the bridge and about 150 to 200 yards below the bridge, on a level with the bridge. Brownson is asked if this corresponds with his recollections. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Brunson, Ella C., Lincoln, Nebraska, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 21 Brownson is asked to excuse Brunson's curiosity and to answer a few questions concerning his name. Her grandfather was Ira Brownson of Danbury, Conn. In 1805 he was accidentally drowned in the Hudson River. Her father, the oldest of a family of twelve, after the death of his mother, which occurred a few years later, changed the name to Brunson. In 1835 her father came west and settled at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he died in 1882 at the age of 90 years. His name was Alfred, and he had three brothers. Hiram and a pair of twins, Benjamin and Ira. Ira came west with him and Benjamin settled in Kenton, Ohio, where he had a son, Henry. The similarity of names attracted her attention when the circular concerning the "Life of Columbus" came into the State Library. She would be pleased to hear whether they are of the same family. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 22 Orestes is always happy to hear from Henry and gives him news of his children—Charley, John, Sarah, Lou, Ann, and Ned—and their children. His son John has, after a struggle, achieved a successful practice in Dubuque. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Stetson, H. L., President Des Moines College, Des Moines, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Nov. 26 Stetson would be pleased to receive, for editorial notice in their paper, a copy of Brownson's translation of Tarducci's "Life of Columbus". :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Richards, William, Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Dec. 1 Richards met Claudio Jannet at Major Edmund Mallet 's but could not understand his French or English fully. He was here about three days, then left for New York and sailed at once for France. He invites Brownson to visit him in Washington. He would have written sooner but he has been occupied since reading Leslie Stephen on Cardinal Newman and Salter's "Another View of Newman" in writing an essay —12 pages of which he sends Brownson. He wants to know whether, after the Vatican Council, Orestes A. Brownson modified his mode of expression as to how man got the idea of God. He quotes from the Review of 1852 and also from his "Refutation of Atheism", which says "we think we have shown, it—reason—did not, and perhaps could not, have originated the Idea of God, and asks whether he put in the 'perhaps' because of the Vatican decree and if there are other passages which might illustrate the same thing. He also wishes to know if any quotations from Dr. Brownson conflict with the Vatican decree; his nephew Father J. Havens Richards, president of Georgetown College and a thorough Jesuit in philosophy, says the Brownson quotations are wholly indefensible, and argues from the assumption that God might have left man in a state of nature and might have attained to an idea of God from nature. Richards asks Brownson for advice on the whole matter. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Dunne, Edmeund F., New York, New York, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Dec. 3 Dunne has written Bangs and Co. to send Brownson a catalogue of book sales and notes some Brownson might like to have, which he will pick up for him. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Richards, William, Washington, D.C., to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Dec. 13 Richards was glad to get Brownson's letter which answered every point and asks if the 'perhaps' that he quoted from Orestes A. Brownson was written in view of the Vatican decree why it was not mentioned in some of his articles. The index does not show that he ever alluded to a decree on that point, and Richards thinks he used the word in consequence of the Papal requirement made on the Traditionalists. Probably his nephew J. Havens Richards, S.J. confused the latter with a decree of the Vatican Council. Anyhow, Brownson's confirmation of Richards' view that he will not change his language. He has sent the essay to his brother in Boston with some hope of getting it in the Arena, in which Father Salter's article on Newman appeared. He wants it published, in addition to its main purpose, because it calls attention to a number of Brownson's and F. W. Faber's articles. If Catholic writers would study and inwardly digest Brownson's theology, philosophy and logic, their ability to present the questions of the day in a masterly and convincing manner would greatly increase; and if agnostics could be induced to read him, they would get new ideas and might adopt his fundamental principles to give us the true science. Faber is entirely safe and immeasurably superior to Newman in philosophy and theology, and Richards has derived more benefit and satisfaction from his "The Creator and the Creature" and "The Blessed Sacrament" than from any other writer except Brownson. He gives the correct quotation of Faber's remark about the tree, and urges Brownson to visit him in Washington. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Dec. 15 Brownson's manuscript is at hand, prompt and welcome. That statement has been repeated many times but Hudson cannot say by whom it was originally made—shocking figures truly, but he does not question their correctness. He hopes to send proofs of Brownson's article. P.S.: He may see him at Christmas. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Hudson, C.S.C., Father Daniel E., Notre Dame, Indiana, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Dec. 21 Hudson encloses proofs of Brownson's article, in which he will notice a change in the first sentence made in order to work in the initial, since Hudson has no fair 'I'. He hopes to be in Detroit Friday and asks Brownson to return the proofs as soon as it is convenient. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 1p. 32mo. CBRH III-3-d Tarducci, Francesco, Rome, Italy, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Dec. 26 He is visiting the various shrines in Rome, and is also working on Caboto. He is sorry to hear of the slight sale of the "Life of Columbus" but hopes the centenary will give new impetus to the work. He has learned the translation is a fine work. Benedict of New York questioned him about a point in the biography. He sends New Year's greetings. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo. CBRH III-3-d Brownson, Jr., Orestes A., Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Dec. 27 Christmas is past and although Orestes is unable to show his love and remembrance of Henry and his family, he is not to doubt them. One of the great wonders of the past and present Orestes finds in the views of Archbishop John Ireland upon the non-sectarian education of children, in which he takes almost exactly the same stand as Orestes took in his controversy with Bishop John Hennessy here 20 or more years ago. The Faribault school arrangements are exactly what Orestes made at Iowa City, Iowa under Bishop Clement Smyth, but condemned and opposed by Bishop Hennessy, his successor. And in consequence, in temporal matters, Orestes' hard earned position as head of the Dubuque school was taken from him, for years he has with utmost difficulty been able to make a living, his children and granchildren suffer in poverty, he could not educate them and put them in their due social position, $25,000 is a low estimate of the absolute pecuniary loss. All this because he lead a movement 30 years ago in Iowa City such is now in successful operation in Faribault and approved and endorsed by the Minnesota Archbishop and clergy. Even Father Thomas Bouquillon of the Catholic University proclaims the underlying principles of this action. It is no wonder that Orestes doubts the infallibility of the temporal power of the Church. It has ground him to the dust, for what is now about to be proclaimed infallible truth. He asks Henry's pardon for exposing to him his bleeding heart. There is no help; the years gone can never return and soon all will be for Orestes no more. There is nothing new here, all well as usual. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. CBRH III-3-d Flick, Lawrence F., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Henry F. Brownson, Detroit, Michigan 1891 Dec. 30 The American Catholic Historical Society, through its committee on Hall, is at present trying to raise a Hall Fund, and proposes to employ a competent person as solicitor. It also contemplates publishing its "Records" in the form of a quarterly, and the committee on Publications is also looking for a solicitor. The committee on Library and Cabinet is looking about for a librarian, to whom they propose to pay a small salary at first. It has occurred to some that one person might combine the several positions, devote all his time and energy to the Society, make a very good living out of it, and as the emoluments grow be able to allot something for assistants. At present the emoluments for the position might be as follows: as solicitor for the Hall Fund, if $10,000 a year were solicited, $1,000; as solicitor for advertisements, if $10,000 a year were solicited, $3,000; and as librarian for the present about $300. It would not be difficult, judging from the past, to secure $10,000 for either the Hall or the Advertising Fund. Without methodical effort there is at present nearly $6,000 subscribed to the Hall Fund, and for Volume III there was $2,500 in advertisements. Other sources of revenue could be created for a competent person, such as a life interest on bequests obtained for the Society. As qualifications for the position, the man must be highly educated, fitted for the very best society, have practical experience in publishing, energy and business tact. The position could be made both pleasant and profitable. The rapidly increasing influence which the Society now exercises in the Catholic world would make the work comparatively easy. Flick has thought of Brownson in connection with the position. He does not know how much he is tied to Detroit but is led to believe that his business is mainly that of publisher, one which could be carried on in Philadelphia as well as Detroit. If Brownson should consider the matter worth being considered, Flick will be pleased to be permitted to lay the matter before the various committees interested. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. |