Hesburgh Libraries

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Civil War papers and realia of James C. Woodworth of Worcester, Massachusetts, who from 1861 to 1864 served in Co. H of the 25th Massachusetts Infantry, rising to lieutenant. Included in the collection are a 6-volume wartime diary and an album containing 73 tintype portraits of members of Co. H.

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Correspondence with Matthew Harkins, Bishop of Providence, William Stang, Bishop of Fall River, Daniel F. Feehan, Bishop of Fall River, John W. Cavanaugh, CSC, President of the University of Notre Dame, and others, 1878-1916; and clippings concerning Coyle's work, 1880s-1910s.

Scope and Content Correspondence of James Armstrong and Marion Attick from 3 December 1922 to 21 October 1926, covering the period before they were married while Armstrong was a student at Notre Dame and then Alumni Secretary and Director of Sports Publicity; an edition of selected letters, "Hopes and Fears: The James E. Armstrong / Marion Attick Armstrong Extant Letters: 1922-26: Organized, Summarized and Excerpted by Brother Philip Armstrong CSC. December 1997" in both paper and digital form; and...

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Correspondence relating to the operation and mission of the True House ommunity in South Bend and subject files including newsletters, minutes, community reports, and clippings of articles dealing with the Pentecostal movement.

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Correspondence, 1914-1941; notes and manuscript copies of Hagerty's writings such as "The Catholic Church and Social Reform;" and clippings concerning Hagerty's career and the death of Monsignor John A. Ryan in 1945.

Scope and Content Several letters Waldemar Gurian wrote to Newman after the latter entered Berlin as part of the American occupation forces in July 1945 requesting that Newman send him certain German books and look up old friends; and two letters in which Newman reminisces about his explorations in the ruins of Berlin and about classes with Frank O'Malley, professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Also six letters mentioning O'Malley, received by Newman between 1945 and 1947; and...

Scope and Content Journals, personal correspondence, business correspondence, and memorabilia including broadsides and advertisements, calling and business cards, invitations, announcements, menus, post cards, programs, religious objects, tickets, and passes; class records including student lists, grade books, student exams and class notes, files on student organizations, and other student records; records of the Lemonnier Library including correspondence, library subscription and use records, publishers'...

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Three letters from Bishop Martin Marty, OSB, concerning the withdrawal of the Holy Cross sisters from Deadwood, South Dakota, and church affairs in southwestern South Dakota; and one personal letter from Gleeson's sister, Catherine O'Hearn. One of the Marty letters is also addressed to Patrick J. Colovin, CSC.

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Correspondence, notes and research material chiefly concerning his work on Robert Southwell's poetry and prose, 1924-1959; partial manuscript of English Poetry of Robert Southwell, S.J. (1945); bound manuscripts of notes on poetry, philosophy, and theology; radio and television scripts from Family Theater, produced by Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., collected by Fr. McDonald.

Scope and Content Personal and professional papers including: (1) Research and Teaching Files, including articles, offprints, test questions, student papers and tests, correspondence, manuscripts, etc. These files are organized largely in line with the chapters of Carberry's book, Chemical and Catalytic Reaction Engineering , 1976. (2) A file on publishing his book and another containing miscellaneous papers. (3) Personal interest and administrative files, especially concerning...

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Letters received by Father French, most of them concerning the Bengal Mission in Dacca. Correspondents include Timothy Crowley, CSC, Bishop of Dacca, 1929-1945, and John Hennessy, CSC, a missionary stationed at Dacca.

Scope and Content Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and minutes relating to his work with War Relief Services -- National Catholic Welfare Conference (later Catholic Relief Services -- United States Catholic Conference), his chairmanship of the International Catholic Migration Commission, and his participation in the Second Vatican Council. Other organizations reflected in his papers include Caritas Internationalis, International Working Group for Socio-Economic Development (CIDSE), Cor Unum Council, the...

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Letters written to his mother (1898) and sister (1899, 1902); school notes taken by Trahey; and one folder of clippings.

Scope and Content Manuscripts of books by James J. Zatko, including Descent into darkness : the destruction of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, 1917-1923 , (Toronto : Baxter Publishing, 1965), his history of treatment of the Catholic Church under communism in Russia (based on his 1958 Notre Dame Ph.D. thesis); Valley of Silence: Catholic Thought in Contemporary Poland (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1967), which he compiled and edited; ...

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Manuscript, roughly 1000 pages long, of Meagher's book, Christ's Kingdom on Earth; or the Church and Her Divine Constitution, Organization and Framework Explained for the People (New York: Russell Brothers, 1891).

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Postcards collected in a scrapbook by James M. Curry, with scenes from the University of Notre Dame, including the log chapel, old college, Sorin Hall Chapel, the Main Building, Walsh Hall, Sacred Heart Church, and the Grotto, with several postcards representing the 1929 commencement exercises.

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Papers relating to Notre Dame campus trees and a proposed inventory; a Sacred Heart Basilica gifts marketing proposal by Podell Catalogs; biology class handouts and laboratory manual handouts; and audio tapes.

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The collection consists of one and a half boxes of black and white negatives. The majority were taken for the student publications Scholastic magazine and the Dome yearbook. The photograph archivists made identifications in the finding aids where the photos were found to be published.

Scope and Content Publications of James O'Gara on Catholic social teaching, Catholic education, the Church and democracy, the renewal of the Church after the Second Vatican Council, and the role of the laity, including books, pamphlets, articles, typewritten manuscripts of talks and radio and television scripts; general correspondence and editorial correspondence for Paulist Press; and biographical files, including material from sociology courses, files on the Catholic Worker and Dorothy Day, a few folders...

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Fifteen notebooks of research notes by Danehy students, ca. 1956-71; theses by Danehy students; Danehy's doctoral thesis ( The reaction of acetylenic Grignard reagents with metal halides ); Danehy's BA thesis ( The preparation of ethyl acetylene from calcium acetylide in liquid ammonia ). Also one letter in German from Thomas A. Mann, 4 April 1930, with English translation.

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Consists of 11 letters (October 1864 to March 1866) written by the Newark, Ohio printer and pro-war Republican James Parkison. All are directed to his brother William, who for most of the correspondence was serving with the Union army in Tennessee.

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Personal correspondence, 1839-1872, mostly from members of Bayley's family. Collection is calendared.

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A letter copy book containing about 125 pieces of outgoing military correspondence written by 1st Lt. James S. Swearingen of the U.S. Army, during service at the frontier post of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1806 to November 1807.

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This collection consists of a single letter sent from James Stephens to a woman named Nan, as well as a poem, “Optimist,” by Stephens.

Scope and Content Play-by-play notes taken about many Notre Dame home football games, 1957-1980, and at three later games in 1991, 2000, and 2001, as well as notes re post-game interviews coaches and players; typescripts of "Our Lady of the Sacred Heart" columns, 1954-1956; notes, drafts, and photographic contact sheets re his January 1966 Notre Dame Alumnus article about the Notre Dame football press box during a game; and a few printed and miscellaneous items by or about Butz. Also Scholastic Football...

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Papers regarding Charismatic Renewal, about which Fr. Connelly wrote his dissertation, Neo-Pentecostalism, the Charismatic Revival in the Mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches in the United States, 1960-1971 .

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1978-2004, and teaching and research files, 1969-2014 representing his work as an historian and teacher of history at the University of Michigan, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the University of Notre Dame; including files from Lilly Seminars, files representing talks or papers presented at conferences; critiques for publishers; reviews; curricula vitae; his leave file, 2011-2012; and documentation of other professional activities. Also restricted (closed) files...

Scope and Content Ford Foundation Executive Committee and Board of Trustee dockets 1958-1977, budget papers 1969-1977, information and discussion papers 1960-1977, professional staff biographies, directory of personnel, and personnel reports 1958-1977, program reviews and reports 1965-1977; office files of the Special Program in Education (SPE) 1958-1970, including correspondence, college and university profiles, visitation memoranda, dockets and review papers; office files of the Educational Television...

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Letters addressed to Connerton, director of the Moreau Seminary Choir, and to Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C., President of the University of Notre Dame, from radio listeners praising the choir's performance at the Knute Rockne funeral Mass and on a few other occasions; and a manuscript entitled "Data on the History of Music at the University of Notre Dame" (no date).

Scope and Contents The collection contains two discrete series of letters. The larger and more significant consists of 51 letters sent to James Witter Nicholson in New Geneva, distributed rather evenly over the years 1804 to 1842. Thirty-nine of these were written by James's sister Maria Nicholson Montgomery, and nine more by his sisters Catharine Nicholson Few (7) and Jehoiadden Nicholson Chrystie (2). These are personal letters, written first and foremost to maintain contact with a distant brother who made...