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Robert Seton Family Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: SET

Scope and Content

Correspondence, mostly of the Seton Family, 1782-1908, including among their correspondents James Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Winand M. Wigger; photographs, clippings, pamphlets and sermons; St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's prayer book and Robert Seton's diaries and books; paintings and family lithographs; an expense account book, a family genealogy, a book of sermons, and four notice books of St. Joseph Church, New Jersey, 1880-1899.

Calendared

Dates

  • Creation: 1782-1908

Language of Materials

English.

Background

Titular archbishop of Heliopolis; fourth of William and Emily (Prime) Seton's seven children; the grandson of St. Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) Seton, founder of the American Sisters of Charity in 1809; and cousin of Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, first bishop of Newark and founder of Seton Hall University in 1856.

Extent

8 linear feet. 1 linear foot of photographs.

Title
Robert Seton Family Papers
Subtitle
Guide
Author
University of Notre Dame Archives
Date
2013
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository

Contact:
607 Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame Indiana 46556 United States
(574) 631-6448