Hesburgh Libraries

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Chiefly drafts and criticisms of the documents of the Second Vatican Council, with some related correspondence; schemata, circular letters, memoranda, interventions, and commentaries; handwritten, typewritten, mimeographed, photocopied and printed material.

Scope and Content Correspondence and papers of Marcus Lyon; notes on protozoology, 1916; manuscripts of Marcus and Martha Lyon; medical case studies of Martha Lyon; newsletters of the Society of American Bacteriologists, 1938-1939; a scrapbook of Martha Brewer, 1887-1902 (before she married Marcus Lyon); and printed matter. Marcus Lyon's papers are of three main types: 1. Letters, mostly on mammalogical and botanical subjects, including various letters he received from the...

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Papers (1974-2010) consisting of notes, agenda, reports, correspondence, speeches, articles, writings, and presentations; with files on family issues, adolescents and sex, abortion, in vitro fertilization, birth control, Catholic education, women religious, the role of the laity, the Hastings Center, the National Pastoral Life Center, and the Catholic Common Ground Project and the years of meetings leading up to it.

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A collection of 100 manuscript personal letters written by American textile artist Marian Stoll to her friend Elizabeth Morison, all dated between 1928 and 1938. The letters describe aspects of her professional life as well as her experiences living in Paris, Athens, and later, the U.S.

Scope and Content This collection consists of the data, findings, and correspondence related to three studies which Neal conducted: the South African Catholic Education Study, the Jesuit Self-Study for the California and Oregon Provinces, and the Notre Dame International Survey. (A report on the Jesuit Study can be found in Volume III, Chapter 9, of the General Survey of the Society of Jesus, North American Assistancy, edited by Bruce F. Biever, SJ and Thomas M. Gannon, SJ, 1969, National Office of Pastoral...

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A collection consisting primarily of some 200 manuscript personal letters directed to Marie Balje Kimball (1873-1967) of Fulton County, New York. Included are a series of 22 letters written by a missionary friend in Turkish Armenia, 1908-10, and a series of 17 written from New York City in early 1919 by Marie Kimball's socialist and labor activist husband, Harry Kimball.

Scope and Content Correspondence, memoranda, agenda, minutes, reports, proposals, budgets, constitutions, by-laws, talks, presentations, circulars and clippings; representing activities of the Glenmary Home Mission Sisters 1954-1967, the Federation of Communities in Service (FOCIS) 1967-1977, the Department of Rural Developments (DRD) of the Nashville Diocese, Model Valley, Core Appalachian Ministries (CAM), and the Commission on Religion in Appalachia (CORA); with information on poverty in Appalachia, coal...

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Le Marquis de Segur's biography of Louise Elizabeth Molé, Vie de Madame Molé: Fondatrice de L'Institut des Soeurs de la Charité de Saint-Louis, 1763-1825 (1880), with an incomplete English translation.

In French and English

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Papers (1960-1997) collected by Marilyn K. Lukas documenting the Lay Apostolate: Cardijn Associates, Young Christian Workers, Christian Family Movement, and the work of Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand; 9 audio cassettes (mostly Cardijn Associates tapes, 1991-1997, including two by Fr. Steven Avella); and 10 CDs containing an audio recording of Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand conducting a CFM retreat in the 1950s; and digital files containing newsletters published by Cardijn Associates.

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Papers of Mario Rivera, having to do with his work on the Cuban / Haitian Task Force of the United States Department of State; consisting of correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, press releases, manuals, reports, and summaries of interviews; concerning Cuban and Haitian refugees, internment camps, determination of asylum status, and the Cuban Oral History Project.

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Papers generated by Mark C. Pilkinton's work as director of plays, most of them produced at Notre Dame, 1984-2008. Many folders contain related CDs or DVDs. Also several t-shirts associated with theatrical productions.

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Subject files, 1940s-1960s; A.P.I. Bulletin (Archconfraternity of Prayer and Peace and Goodwill to Israel), 1942-1960; minutes of the Union-Management Conferences, 1972, 1976; speeches and articles collected by Fitzgerald; sermons by Fitzgerald; addresses delivered by J. Edgar Hoover, 1936-1942; and sermons and a book- length manuscript by Fitzgerald, Justice Reed: The Economy and a Center Judge.

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Files on liturgical, theological or sacramental topics related to his teaching and scholarly research, with a preliminary inventory provided by his wife Barbara Searle.

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Four manuscript documents relating to the battle at Cap Français in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, 20-23 June 1793. All the documents are written by or to the Marquis de Sercey, a French rear admiral, aboard Éole in Cap Français harbor.

Scope and Content Correspondence with Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, and others; diaries, financial records, legal documents, manuscripts, memoranda, research and writing notes, sheet music, teaching material, booklets, and clippings; concerning his career as a history professor, his travels, his political activities, his research, his advice to the administration of Cardinal Newman College, and his lifelong interest in baseball. Also the manuscript of his book The Winning of Independence...

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Photos of Martin J. Gillen, his family graves, John F. O'Hara, CSC, William A. McGuire, the Land O'Lakes property in Wisconsin, and various buildings at Notre Dame.

Scope and Content Letters received by Spalding from bishops Guy Ignatius Chabrat, Maurice de Saint-Palais, Benedict Joseph Flaget and Francis P. Kenrick, from diocesan priests, Jesuits, and Dominicans, and from relatives; other correspondence involving people in the diocese; one letter written by Spalding to James M. Lancaster (20 December 1846); a circular letter (1858) and an undated sermon. Microfilm contains pastoral letters written by Spalding as Archbishop of Baltimore (1865-1872) and a...

Scope and Content Professional and personal correspondence; notes, galleys, and manuscripts of books written by O'Connell; articles and reviews collected or written by O'Connell; and collected sermons given by O'Connell, with a tape recording of his sermon for the consecration of Bishop James P. Shannon (31 March 1965); also a full run of clippings and typed submissions of a newspaper column, written by O'Connell, 1966-1974, on a wide variety of religious, social and political topics; and photographs. ...

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Correspondence, 1960s-1970s; minutes, correspondence, and reports from such groups as the Movement for the Restoration of the Lay Diaconate, the Bishops Committee on a Permanent Diaconate, and the U.S. Section of Women Aspiring to Presbyteral Ministry, 1970s; clippings concerning Lynch's quest for ordination; tape recordings; and printed matter such as Genesis III, the newsletter of the Philadelphia Task Force on Women in Religion, 1960s-1970s.

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A pair of manuscript letters, each dated 4 October 1862, written to the Philadelphia Quaker Mary Bettle by two relatives, Sophia Jones and Elizabeth Williams. An enclosure in Jones's letter describes audiences of the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends with Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, and Lincoln, regarding exemption from the draft.

Scope and Contents The Mary Clemency Papers consist of materials collected by Mary Clemency related to the history of women’s basketball at the University of Notre Dame. The collection contains original documents, records, ephemera, photographs, and clippings related to the first organized women’s basketball teams on campus from 1972 through 1976, including bookstore basketball, interhall basketball, a women’s basketball interest group, and club basketball. The collection contains some correspondence between...

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A four-page folio-sized manuscript letter written on 28-29 April 1862 by Mary Crowell of Nora, Illinois. Much of the letter is given over to news of members of Co. E, 15th Illinois Infantry, recently engaged at the battle of Shiloh.

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This collection of the papers of the American librarian and editor Mary Eileen Ahern (1860-1938) consists primarily of incoming letters, many from prominent library professionals.

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A manuscript diary of some 80,000 words kept by Mary Huntington Morgan (1873-1966) in Washington DC during the year 1896. Morgan was the unmarried 23-year-old daughter of Daniel Nash Morgan (1844-1931), Treasurer of the United States under Grover Cleveland.

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Mimeographed handouts, reports, correspondence, audio tapes, and printed ephemera having to do with Msgr. Joseph Cardijn and the Young Christian Workers, an organization associated with the Catholic Action or lay apostolate movement.

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Transcripts of oral histories and papers by students in a University of Notre Dame course (History 487), Spring 1992, regarding Women at Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College; and audio tapes of some of the interviews.

Scope and Content Papers of Mary Margaret Funk, OSB, including family documents, records of her time as prioress of her monastery and of her involvement in Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, documentation of her experience in Bolivia, texts from her blog, printed material, and drafts and copies of her books. Correspondence, memoranda, outlines, essays, photographs, newsletters, clippings, brochures, and other printed material regarding Contemplative Outreach and its programs, Rev. Thomas Keating, ocso, and...

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This collection consists of the personal papers of Mary Martín, a Spanish artist. Materials include loose sketches and sketchbooks of Martín, as well as newspaper clippings on her exhibitions, photographs, some prints, and notes. The majority of the materials are undated. Significant topics include women artists, Spanish artists, Mexican art, and sketching.

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Photocopies of her brief memoirs concerning James Cardinal Gibbons; priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross at Notre Dame including Edward Sorin, William Corby, John Zahm, Charles Doremus, Thomas Walsh, Charles O'Donnell, James Burns, John W. Cavanaugh; and Notre Dame laymen James Edwards, Jerome Green, and Knute Rockne. Also an article about Mary Sullivan, 1985.

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This collection consists of twelve incoming letters written to Mary T. McCouattria, an African American schoolteacher from Rome, Georgia.