Scope and Content Correspondence addressed to Benedict Joseph Spalding (1811-1868) by bishops Guy Ignatius Chabrat, Benedict Joseph Flaget, Francis X. Gartland, Peter R. Kenrick, Richard P. Miles, Martin John Spalding and Peter J. Lavialle; by priests including Francis Chambige, William E. Clark, Joseph Haseltine, and James M. Lancaster; by religious including Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Sisters of Loretto, Jesuits, a Trappist, and a Dominican; and by lay people including L.W. Powell (Governor of Kentucky)...

Scope and Content Letters sent by the American hierarchy and various missionaries to correspondents in Europe (primarily England) concerning the activities, suppression, and restoration of the Jesuits; including letters from Jesuit Archbishops John Carroll (1735-1815) and Leonard Neale (1746-1817); with a printed copy of a Maryland bill entitled "An Act for Securing Certain Estates and Property for the Support and Uses of the Ministers of the Roman Catholic Religion" (no date) and a pamphlet entitled "A Short...

Scope and Content Pamphlets, leaflets, circulars, biographies, historical sketches, vocation booklets, newsletters, and books from religious orders and congregations throughout the United States, with information on their history, spirit, tradition, and way of life; including Benedictines, Cistercians, Franciscans, Dominicans, Trinitarians, Passionists, Carmelites, Norbertines, Jesuits, Augustinians, Sulpicians, Basilians, Vincentians, Marianists, Poor Clares, Felicians, Trappistines, Ursulines, Sisters of...