Scope and Content Correspondence consisting chiefly of letters received by Bishops Edward Dominic Fenwick, O.P., and John Baptist Purcell, and representing also the first two years of the episcopacy of Archbishop William Henry Elder. Correspondents include Sylvester H. Rosecrans, who served as auxiliary bishop from 1862 to 1868; priests of the diocese; Fathers Stephen T. Badin and Edward Sorin, C.S.C.; and many members of the American hierarchy. Also miscellaneous related material, 1815-1885, including two...

Scope and Content Occasional correspondence of the prelates of the Diocese of New York; letters (1875-1876) received by John O'Kane Murray of New York; commemorative material having to do with the diocese; letters received by John Talbot Smith (1849-1934); a minute book of the New York Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society (1842-1847); and a book of handwritten notes (1836) by James Roosevelt Bayley (later Bishop of Newark and Archbishop of Baltimore) before he converted to Catholicism.Correspondents...

Scope and Content Proceedings, statutes, acts, decrees, and constitutions of diocesan and provincial synods of Little Rock, Denver, Wilmington, Savannah, Alton, Chicago, Springfield, Fort Wayne, Vincennes, Kansas City, Leavenworth, Louisville, Baltimore, Boston, Fall River, Crookston, Duluth, Natchez, Kansas City, St. Joseph, St. Louis, Omaha, Newark, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Fargo, Cincinnati, Oklahoma, Oregon City, Altoona, Erie, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Richmond, Nesqually, and Superior. ...

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Papers from his education at St. Gregory Seminary (1948-1961), the Collegio Propaganda Fide (1953-1961), Xavier University in Cincinnati, and the University of Cincinnati; notebooks, scrapbooks, memorabilia, essays, dissertations, mimeographed circulars and booklets, printed material, correspondence, and diaries (1961, 1966, 1986-2005: closed until 50 years after his death). Also Tax returns (1961-1996), checkbook registers, financial notebooks, and mass intention books.