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Letters received or collected by Woodruff including letters or notes from Shane Leslie, Francis Cardinal Bourne, Henry Cardinal Manning, J.M.J. Acton, Alfred Noyes, F.C. Hingeston-Randolph, Frances Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Alan Herbert, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert C. Latham, and others; manuscript prayers and notes; datebooks of Woodruff, 1926, 1958; Mass cards, post cards, Christmas cards, clippings, and photographs.

Scope and Content Correspondence, reports, minutes, interviews, notebooks, clippings, contracts with publishers, and drafts of essays, speeches, and books; including letters from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jacques Maritain, Padraic Colum, Hilaire Belloc, Van Wyck Brooks, Francis J. Sheed, Saul Alinsky, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Heinrich Bruning, and Konrad Adenauer; with material pertaining to his visits to Germany in 1937- 1938,...

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Photocopies of clippings from British newspapers and journals, most of them by or about Hilaire Belloc, with a few about G.K. Chesterton, Lytton Strachey, and H.G. Wells, and a few by Arnold Bennett, J.B. Priestley, Alice Meynell, and other writers of their time; concerning Catholicism, fundamentalism, and English history and historiography; with reviews of Belloc's books, accounts of his lectures, and descriptions of his controversies.

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Diary dating from 12 April to 11 October 1889, including some sketches and drafts of poems; sketchbook dating from 1891, with monochromatic drawings of American landscape; sketchbook dating from 1893-1894, with watercolors of French landscape and buildings; sketchbook dating from 1912, with pencil drawings of European scenes, including mountains, bridges, cathedrals, steeples, towers, soldiers, and Robespierre's house.

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Letters from William Butler Yeats, A.E. Housman, Hilaire Belloc, Louise Imogen Guiney, Henry Austin Dobson, Maurice Francis Egan, Joyce Kilmer, Alice Meynell and others, many of them giving or refusing permission to use copyrighted material in A Book of Lines, an anthology of lyric poetry edited by Carrico (1913); manuscripts of essays and sermons; and information on a curriculum proposal in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Scope and Content Personal correspondence, 1864-1981, including letters of Brother Antoninus, OP, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Breig, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Collins, Christopher Dawson, Etienne Gilson, Lucile Hasley, Caryll Houselander, Monsignor Ronald Knox, C. Day Lewis, D.B. Wyndham Lewis, Robert Lowell, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry Luce, Arnold Lunn, Sister Madeleva, CSC, Jacques Maritain, Bruce Marshall, C.C. Martindale, SJ, Marshall McLuhan, Vincent McNabb, OP, Thomas Merton, Alfred...