The Prairie du Chien correspondent of the Police Gazette has cabled that you are to read a paper at the St. Paul Educational Conference. Congratulations! And I’ll try to help you to the extent of my power--but you don’t need help as I do. Yours affectionately, JOYCE. * * * * * Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, N. Y. August 2, 1916. Dear Father James: I am sorry that you received exaggerated reports of my accident. All that happened to me was the fracture of a couple of ribs, and I have been very comfortable in a delightful hospital. My secretary comes out several times a week, so I am keeping up with my work. Remember me, if you please, to Mother Mercedes and Father O’Reilly. Yours affectionately, JOYCE. * * * * * Mahesh, N. J. Aug. 10, 1916. Dear Father James: This is to say that I am rapidly recovering my health, and hope to be in my office in a week. I had a fine time in the hospital, a comfortable place run by particularly amiable Sisters of Charity. It may interest you to know that I had received the Blessed Sacrament half an hour before the train struck me, and that to this fact I attribute my escape from death--since at the place where I was struck several men have been killed, being thrown forward and under the wheels, instead of, (as I was), to one side. Affectionately, JOYCE. * * * * * (Aug 8, 1917). Monday. Dear Father James: Your letter was opened and read by one Private Kilmer, a hardened military cuss, unused to literary activities. This is the first literary labor he has essayed for a month, aside from studying Moss’s Manual of Military Training and the art of shooting craps. We’re still in New York--at the Armory from 9 A. M. to 4.30 P. M., but we usually get home at night. Young Louis is in the same company as myself. We probably will go to Spartansberg, North Carolina, about Aug. 17, but we may be here till October, or we may go to France to-morrow. Nobody knows. I find that there are many Catholics in the Seventh. It’s amusing that our training camp is in North Carolina--nothing to drink and no Jesuits! Bishop is a Benedictine mitred abbott--it’s in Belmont Abbey.