Collection: Thomas F. Dolan Papers

Scope and Content

Transcript of a trial, Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Neva Miller Moss; correspondence with Russell P. Kehoe, who assisted in the prosecution of Mrs. Moss in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and with others; clippings concerning Moss's activities as an anti-Catholic lecturer; leaflets and newspapers concerning anti-Catholicism in the 1920s; and a scrapbook of clippings and correspondence from the Eucharistic Congress, 1926.

Dates

1926-1929.

Creator

Dolan, Thomas F. 1896- (Person)

Language of Materials

English.

Background

Attorney, Clarendon, Virginia. In 1928 Neva Miller Moss was charged with impersonating a nun and Dolan was the prosecuting attorney.

Extent

2 linear inches.

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Given to Paul R. Byrne, University Librarian, by Dolan.

Related Material

Subjects

Anti-Catholicism -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Clippings (information artifacts) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Dolan, Thomas F. Jr.
Imposters and imposture -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
International Eucharistic Congress (28th : 1926 : Chicago).
Kehoe, Russell P.
Letters. Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
Moss, Neva Miller.
Trial proceedings. Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing