Hesburgh Libraries

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Correspondence (originals and copies), with Daniel E. Hudson, CSC, editor of The Ave Maria; Mrs. B.J. Semmes, his god-mother, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. J. M. Semmes; and Thomas Kilby Smith and Walter George Smith (1854-1924), sons of a Civil War companion; with a copy of a journal that Dutton kept during the Civil War, 1855- 1864, articles about, and relics of, Father Damien, and a copy of Charles J. Dutton's The Samaritans of Molokai.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1950s-1982; writings such as book reviews, articles, lectures, unpublished manuscripts, and his dissertation, The Catholic Movement of Employers and Managers (1960); subject files on such topics as population, poverty, social justice, the Committee on Society, Development and Peace, the Pontifical Commission Justice and Peace, inter-faith dialogue with Protestants, Jews, Moslems, and Buddhists, and efforts to formulate a North American theology; records of the Interreligious...

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Papers concerning the formation of the Catholic Summer School of America and its first session held in New London, Connecticut (1892), with correspondence consisting primarily of replies to McMahon's request of university professors and Catholic scholars to participate the first year; and circulars for the Columbian Catholic Summer School of the Mid-west (1895 and 1899).

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ms 67-918

Scope and Content Reports, correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, agenda, speeches, and photographs, 1954-1966, having to do with Catholic Relief Services programs in the far east, including files on Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, the Fiji Islands, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaya, Okinawa, Pakistan, East Pakistan, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the Tonga Islands, and Vietnam. Also reports, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and clippings, 1980-1985,...

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Letters written to Rev. Joseph Haseltine by Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget and others; and documents giving Haseltine's family background and dates when he received sacraments.

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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and meeting material relating to Fichter's membership on the board of directors for the National Catholic Reporter.

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Letters, agreements, and memorabilia concerning Casasanta's Notre Dame fight songs.

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Letters from William Butler Yeats, A.E. Housman, Hilaire Belloc, Louise Imogen Guiney, Henry Austin Dobson, Maurice Francis Egan, Joyce Kilmer, Alice Meynell and others, many of them giving or refusing permission to use copyrighted material in A Book of Lines, an anthology of lyric poetry edited by Carrico (1913); manuscripts of essays and sermons; and information on a curriculum proposal in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Correspondence, 1970-1978; manuscripts of talks and articles by Davis; subject files, 1970-1977; an oral history interview with Davis, 21 January 1972; and printed material collected by Davis, 1970s.

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Files representing Joseph M. Duffy's interests in English and Irish authors (as a writer and as a teacher); class notes and other teaching material; manuscripts of lectures and articles; drafts of his dissertation; offprints of published articles; poems; and annotated copies of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and James Joyce's The Dubliners.

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Four files of correspondence generated during his tenure as President of St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas, 1934-1937, and as Superior to the Holy Cross Community House at Notre Dame.

St. Edward's was operated by the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and correspondence reflects this relationship. Includes letters from Fathers Thomas A. Steiner (Assistant Provincial), James A. Burns (Provincial), James W. Donahue (Superior General), and others.

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Five letters to Finotti (1855-1877), among them one concerning the exhumation of Bishop Frederic Baraga, one concerning the Society of California Pioneers, and one concerning the school question; and scrapbooks of political cartoons, including caricatures of Jefferson Davis, and newspaper clippings on the Civil War, popular poetry, and Catholicism.

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Copies of legalistic, detailed letters that Corcoran, a Philadelphia lawyer, sent to Archbishop John J. Krol and other Pennsylvania bishops, critiquing proposed federal policies toward education and religiously supported educational institutions.

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Files representing Garvin's interest in medieval bibliography and his work on an edition of Stephen Langton's writings; one folder of personal correspondence with Sister Stella Spangler, O.P.; and 103 issues of Speculum with marginalia by Garvin, 1941-1979.

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Manuscripts and pamphlets by O'Meara; correspondence and other material addressing such social issues as civil rights, riots, obscenityh, and Indiana apportionment, 1965-1966; O'Meara's remarks on Law Day USA, 1959-1962; a proposal for remodeling and expanding the law school, 1966; and correspondence and clippings concerning O'Meara's appointment as dean, 1952, and retirement from Notre Dame, 1967-1968.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1929-1979; articles and lectures by Evans, 1929-1969; subject files from Evans' work on such projects as the Head Injury Committee, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, 1967-1969, and the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, 1969; and travel diaries of Evans, 1953-1972. Also personal documents such as genealogical records, weekly reminders, and diplomas and honors; photographs; and records of Evans' involvement with the...

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Letters that Roles received while rector of St. Mary's Church, Chicago, primarily concerning financial and real estate transactions and investments.

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These photographs (negatives, contact sheets, and slides) cover Notre Dame campus and student life, 1970-1974. They include sporting events, lectures, concerts, cenic views of campus, students, professors, administrators, Vietnam war protests, various campus events, some student trips, and scenes of downtown South Bend. Photographs taken after 1974 focus more exclusively on Notre Dame sports, especially football and men's basketball.

Scope and Content Chiefly correspondence, including letters written by Selinger during his years as a student at the North American College in Rome and as a teacher at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee to Rev. Anton Pauk of St. Louis; letters from H.J. Heuser, O.J.S. Hoog, and Bede Maler, OSB, some of them concerning Selinger's views on agnosticism; letters from rectors of the Catholic University of America John J. Keane, D.J. O'Connell, and Thomas J. Conaty; and letters from M. Cardinal Faulhaber, A....

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Notes, typewritten partial drafts, and galleys of his biography of Thomas Ewing Sherman, SJ, General Sherman's Son , with photostats and transcriptions of related documents.

Scope and Content Correspondence with Paul Bube, Joel Connelly, Nancy Johnson and others, including many of his former students; teaching material; manuscripts of translations, both handwritten and typed, including his unpublished translation of Maritain's Approches sans Entraves (Approaches without Shackles); a memoir involving Maritain; and clippings; with material on modern Thomists and on Evolution. Approaches without Shackles also on...

Scope and Content Records of the American Province, 1872-1904; copy and letter press books, 1872-1898, with letters sent by John R. Slattery, SSJ, Provinical (1878-1883), Rector of Saint Joseph's Seminary in Baltimore (1884-1893), and first Superior General of the American Josephite Community (1893-1904); correspondence of Alfred B. Leeson, SSJ, Provincial (1883-1893); Slattery correspondence (1884-1904); annual reports of Josephite institutions and societies sent to Slattery; records of Saint Joseph's...

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Correspondence of Joshua Giddings with family members and acquaintances, including William LLoyd Garrison, regarding reconstruction policy; also correspondence of George W. Julian (1817-1899), Member of Congress from Indiana, and others, including the American Abolition Society, Charles Francis Adams, and Salmon P. Chase; concerning the Republican Party, slavery, the 1856 Republican convention, and political strategy.

Scope and Content This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, conference programs, transcriptions of meetings, books, articles, annotations, and audio and video recordings concerning the Catholic charismatic renewal movement in three parts. (1) It covers the emergence of the Catholic charismatic movement in America in the late 1960s and 1970s, along with literature that would commonly have been read by American Lay Catholic charismatics during the 1970s. (2) It pertains to...

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A collection of letters addressed to Julia Pomeroy Brown from three women: Constance L., Emily Drummond, and Elizabeth Spooner. Letters detail life during WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the death of a British soldier.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1895-1936, concerning his botanical studies, including his work on the American Midland Naturalist, and his chemical studies, including correspondence with researchers at Du Pont, such as W.H. Carothers and W.S. Calcott, documenting his progress in perfecting the formula for neoprene; botany lecture notes, notes taken by Nieuwland as a student, manuscripts of works by Nieuwland, pamphlets, patents by...

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A series of documents and letters from Jutta Schütt, Rose Elvira Grandinetti, Nicholas Emerson Dante Russo, and others, beginning in July 1916 and ending in July 1939.

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A collection of architectural drawings and blueprints of church furnishings, created by the Kaletta Statuary Company of St. Louis, Missouri.

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Clippings, circulars, posters, handbills, position papers, and correspondence having to do with Catholic anti-war activities, 1969-1974; draft resisters; David Darst; the Catonsville Nine; the DC Nine; the Beaver Fifty-five; and St. Francis House, the commune to which Speltz belonged. Also protest buttons and banner.