As this sketch goes to press, the rehearsing of the second year of the
production of "Fray Junipero" begins with great improvement in the
staging, and a greater promise of success as it is now much more widely
known.
May an ancient Spanish Nativity Play for Christmastide, which Reverend
Raymond Mestres intends to translate into English, and which contains
glorious music, and a history of mission times, which this scholarly
pastor of San Carlos Church has in store, soon delight Californians and
California's yearly tide of tens of thousand visitors.
Appendix
Letter of Junipero Serra[7].
"Long live Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
"R. P. Fr. Miguel de Petra.
"My dearest nephew, brother and Sir.
"It was not for want of love that I did not answer some of your letters.
For it was not merely bodily that I left my beloved country. I could
have been communicating with many persons by letters and friends, both
in and outside our order, but, if our minds were constantly intent upon
what we once left, what would be the use of leaving it?
"I wrote a long letter to your reverence after your religious
profession.
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