Scope and Content Typewritten transcripts of correspondence (1940-1958) used by Maisie Ward in the preparation of her edition of Houselander's letters; stories and poems by Houselander; autobiographical passages not used in A Rocking Horse Catholic ; notebooks containing notes for Guilt , The Reed of God , and other works; a scrapbook containing stories she published in periodicals (1929-1937); issues of the ...

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Research files in support of Dana Greene's book The Living of Maisie Ward (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997); consisting of interviews, correspondence, notes, and photocopies of manuscript documents and published articles.

Scope and Content Correspondence with the Catholic Poetry Society of America, 1935-1939, College English Association, 1939- 1971, Indiana College English Association, John T. Frederick, Richard Sullivan, Harry Sylvester, Murray Hickey Ley, and others; class records and exams; department of English notices, 1967-1972; manuscript copies of his work; photographs; and letters signed by prominent authors collected by Hasley, including T.S. Eliot, Vachel Lindsay, Frank Sheed, Maisie Ward, Robert Penn Warren, and...

Scope and Content One note from Thomas Merton (Fr. Louis) to Hasley, November 1949; three letters from Caryll Houselander to Hasley, 1948-1949; Black and white photos of Hasley and her family; one photo of Thomas Merton; one broadside with images of many Sheed & Ward authors; books by Hasley; a book edited by her husband Louis, The Best of Bill Nye's Humor ; books by Caryll Houselander and Maisie Ward; clippings of articles by Hasley, Sheed & Ward publicity, reviews of her...

Scope and Content Polcyn's diary, 1941-1943, relating experiences with Bishop Bernard Sheil; correspondence, including letters from Frank Sheed, Maisie Ward, Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Eddie Doherty, Hans Ansgar Reinhold, Donald Attwater, Renard Koehnemann, Ann Harrigan Makletzoff and a letter from Dorothy Day; clippings concerning Bishop Bernard Sheil, John Cogley, and Pat and Patty Crowley, 1941-1979. One folder concerning the unionization of the CYO, consisting of correspondence, memoranda,...

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...

Scope and Content Records of the New York office of Sheed & Ward. Although the earliest documents in the collection date from 1933, the thirties and forties are not as well represented as the fifties and sixties. The collection consists of files from the editorial department, files from the publicity department, photographs, and printed material. The editorial department is represented by correspondence, 1948-1973; subject files, 1955-1973; rejection files, 1968-1970; foreign book files,...