Scope and Content Correspondence or copies of correspondence from Stephen T. Badin, Julian Benoit, and various American bishops regarding local and university legal and religious matters; letters to Vicar General Augustus Mary Martin at Terre Haute, Indiana, and Saint Theodore Guerin, Mother Superior of the Sisters of Providence at St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana; writings, meditations, instructions; a statement by Sorin on the relationship between the sisters at Notre Dame and those at St. Mary's College...

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Documents by and about the Sisters of the Holy Cross at Notre Dame, Indiana, including papers of Mother Ascension and Mother Angela; last wills of eighteen Holy Cross Sisters; papers of three alumnae of St. Mary's College; correspondence of various sisters; and material concerning St. Mary's Academy (later St. Mary's College). Correspondents of Mother Ascension include Father Edward Sorin.

Scope and Content Correspondence, letters, books, ledgers, and docket book of Thomas Ewing; correspondence of his wife Maria (Boyle) Ewing; letters and papers of Philemon B. Ewing, his sisters, his wife, Maria Rebecca (Gillespie) Ewing, and members of her family: her sister Eliza Maria Gillespie (i.e., Mother Angela), her brother, Neal Gillespie, her mother, Madeline Miers Phelan, and her stepfather, William Phelan. Also Phelan estate papers, diaries, sermons by Father Neal Gillespie, correspondence and...