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Correspondence of Holy Cross fathers Peter P. Cooney, William Corby, James M. Dillon, Gilbert Francais, Julius A. Freré, and Basil Anthony Moreau; last wills (1844- 1861), manuscripts of poems, sermons, and speeches, instructions from superiors, military service records, notebooks, and other papers of many Holy Cross priests at Notre Dame.

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Minutes, 1897-1915; correspondence, 1897-1931; clippings, 1897-1915; and a medal and certificate from a GAR reunion held in 1900; with material on Peter Paul Cooney, William Corby, and James A. McLain.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1855-1904; Cooney's sermons and speeches; his Civil War diary, 1864-1865; manuscripts of his works, 1861-1890; a notebook describing his tour of the United States to collect material on the role of Catholic chaplains and nuns in the Civil War, 1890; clippings he collected on the Civil War, Ireland, and temperance; and printed matter including Child's Recollection of General Grant (1885) and a map of the Chickamauga battle field, 1886. Records of the...

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Eight scrapbooks containing clippings on the Catholic Church in America and one scrapbook on the history of theatre in Boston. Three of the scrapbooks' compilers have been identified as Mr. Rogers of Louisville, Kentucky, Mary Linhardt Frank of Toledo, Ohio, and Rev. William D. Pike of Bardstown, Kentucky. One of the remaining scrapbooks, tentatively attributed to Peter Klein, CSC, was annotated by Peter Cooney, CSC.