Scope and Contents ContentsThese records contain approximately thirty-seven linear feet and one reel of microfilm of letters received by Notre Dame Presidents Sorin, Dillon, Corby, Lemonnier, Colovin, T. Walsh, Morrissey, and J. W. Cavanaugh during the years 1856-1906. A few additional Morrissey letters for the years 1904-1905 may be found in the J. W. Cavanaugh Presidential Records. Unfortunately, no letters survive for the years before 1856, and very few survive for the period prior to 1870. A...

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Correspondence, 1862-1897; sermons, 1887-1897; clippings on the Corby family; records of financial services rendered Civil War soldiers, 1862-1865; a manuscript in which an unnamed regular army officer writes about chaplains he knew in the Army of the Potomac, 1864; and printed material concerning Corby, his death, and the monuments erected in his honor at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and at the University of Notre Dame.