Box CNDS 17
Contains 26 Results:
A Student at Notre Dame de St. Croix, 1854/1001
A long letter to a person at the Novitiate at ND (Notre Dame). Talks of the reports of great sickness at ND (Notre Dame) (the Cholera Epidemic), life of an American in a French seminary, and the differences between American and European graveyards.
_______, Wallace [Peterson or Marantette], 1863/0619
A brief letter to "Dear George" (his brother ?) about clothes and money.
McNally, Mrs. M. B., 186_/12
Possibly a letter to an ND (Notre Dame) student. Primarily relates news and financial matters of this family from Ireland whose father was in the army.
Holden, Oscar K., 1868/0209
A short letter to his mother asking a few family questions. Also another letter from his daughter (Mrs. George Heinsohn) to Father McAvoy (17 November 1943) giving her father's letter to ND (Notre Dame).
McKinnon, John J., 1871/0309
A letter to Virgil McKinnon (a minim at ND (Notre Dame)) in which his father refuses to allow him to become a Catholic and threatens to send him to some school in Massachusetts.
Badeaux, Telemaque J., 1871
Four letters to John W. McFadden in which he mainly complains of Notre Dame and says he will leave once the year is over, never to return. His other common topics are life and the Baseball teams.
Jones, William Grant, 1880/1009
A letter to his father in which he confesses to having been in a saloon, played billiards, got drunk, and had a watch stolen. He goes to say that he has since taken an abstinence pledge and asks forgiveness.
Barclay, David F., 1884/1014
A letter to Brother Leander CSC in which a recent alumnus compares ND (Notre Dame) and Northwestern University. Mentions Aby (?) Adler.
Dwenger, Joseph H., 1884/1117
A card to William Berthelet requesting a copy of the Scholastic.
Coulston, J. Warren, 1889/1126
A Letter from the attorney of Marie L. Noel, mother of ND (Notre Dame) student William Johnson, to Andrew Anderson, a lawyer in South Bend, asking that Anderson investigate the assaults on Johnson by Brother Lawrence, CSC, and giving detailed accounts of several incidents between Lawrence and Johnson.
Quinlan, John 1890s-1900s/0724, -1900s/0724
A letter to "Friend John" concerning life in Chicago, a visit to a Commencement at ND (Notre Dame), drunkeness among the students, the Exhibition (in either Chicago or ND (Notre Dame)), Ed White, Hal Hayes, and Bob Yearly.
Frawley, William G., 1906,1907
Two letters, from Henry Frawley (his father) and John Korneman, concerning money, advice, news from home, and post cards.
Denzer, Louis, 1935
Two letters to President O'Hara and his response and statement of Denzer's age. Denzer attended ND (Notre Dame) between 1860 and 1865 and in 1935 needed proof of his age (82 years old). Mentions George Haldorn, Father Timothy Maher, and the way he got his pension in California.
Hickey, Henry "Elmer" (?), c1939?
A letter to John Donahue, found in a copy of the 1939 Dome, which Tries to renew an old acquaintance.
Libert, John, 1952/0315
A letter to his parents. Mentions the Bengal Bouts, Max Montague and his classwork.
McCormack, James M., nd
Typewritten essay of Notre Dame life during the Civil War and after (1863-67). Mentions the Burns and McCormack boys from Nashville Tennessee, Brother Florentius (Aloysius), Peter Muldoon, Father Patrick Dillon, General William Sherman, and the appearance of a Zouave Military Company at Commencement.
Vogel, Leo J., 1976/0520
Remembers life at Notre Dame during 1911-17. Mentions John F. O'Hara, the Library, and life in Carroll Hall as a Prep.
O'Toole, Donald, 1988
Lengthy and detailed memories of the spirit and traditions of Notre Dame in 1927-31; the campus and facilities available; student life and classes; and a retrospective evaluation of his Notre Dame education in light of his post- Notre Dame career and life. A very interesting memoir.
Doan, Franklyn E., 1974/0801
Recalls the presentation of the 1929 Laetare Medal to Alfred E, Smith, the press release announcing it, and the first time the Medal was alluded to as "the American equivalent of the Golden Rose."
Healy, Robert W., 1858-1859
A notebook containing philosophy, logic, metaphysics, and rhetoric notes taken at the lectures of Professor Gardner Jones.
Anonymous, 1921, nd
Typewritten notes on philosophy and psychology. It is assumed but by no means certain that these notes were written by Notre Dame students.
Roger, Brother CSC, 1929-1935
Notes concerning the poetry, confession, and the history of Western Europe and Norman England.
Corr, Bernett J., 1938/0207
Composition entitled "Notre Dame -- Top School in the Country".
Chervenak, Thomas J., 1986/05
Paper re CSC Chaplains, 1861 to date.