I am deeply grateful to you for your compliance with my request. I know that your prayers were of value in keeping her alive. Apologies for the brusqueness of my letter asking your aid, are, I think, not necessary--you were the only man to whom I could appeal for the special help needed, and I was in bitter grief and anxiety. My wife asks me to express her sincere gratitude to you. Now that the crisis is past, we have a strange tranquillity. And we have acquired a humility that is, I think, good for us. Well, these are things not readily expressed--accept our heart-felt thanks. Yours sincerely, JOYCE KILMER. * * * * * New York. Oct. 6, 1913. Dear Father Daly: This is to express our gratitude for your prayers. They have helped us in our trial--they are helping--and I know that in part to your efforts Rose owes her life and we our peace of mind. For fifteen or sixteen years she will, the doctors say, remain paralysed, unable to move her arms or legs. But her mind is active and we will keep her happy. I think that there are compensations, spiritual and mental, for the loss of physical power. My wife and I are studying Catholic doctrine and we hope to be received this Autumn. Yours sincerely, JOYCE KILMER. * * * * * New York. Dec. 5, 1913. Dear Father Daly: You may be amused by the circular which I enclose. You know, we have been having a plague of white-slave plays in New York this season--“The Lure,” “The Fight” and the rest; and now they are giving white-slave moving pictures--“The Traffic in Souls” they are called. I think that “The Drama as a Factor in Sex Education” is ridiculous--and I’m going to say so. Most of the other people who are to speak at the Academy of Medicine are very serious-minded settlement workers, ready to save the world by means of eugenics and inexpensive divorce. So I don’t think I’ll make myself very popular. But I hope to have a lot of fun. My wife and I are very comfortable now that we are Catholics. I think we rather disappointed Father Cronyn (the Paulist who received us) by not showing any emotion during the ceremony. But our chief sensation is simply comfort--we feel that we’re where we belong, and it’s a very pleasant feeling.