Hesburgh Libraries

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Anniversary books, pamphlets, dedications, financial statements, invitations, directories, bulletins, and newspaper clippings representing Catholic parishes throughout the United States, with more material for Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana than for other states; a few photographs, mainly from Indiana and Kentucky.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of eleven letters and two records dating from 1757 to 1777. Six of the letters are directed to Sarah Williams (four from the years before her marriage to Parsons, one from the time of the marriage, and one from after Parsons' death). Most are from female friends or relatives. There are three letters from Joseph Parsons, Jr. to his father, mostly relating to land and debts. Two additional letters (April 1764) were provoked by the ill health of Joseph Parsons, Jr. There...

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Records of Partners for the Common Good, 1994-2000; financial files representing investments of religious orders in credit unions and local development funds: consisting of minutes and other meeting material, lists, financial documents, correspondence, chronologies, manuals, reports, legal documents, personnel files, and other papers; documenting activities of the Board of Advisors, Staff, Borrowing Partners, and Investing Partners.

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Photographs taken by Brother Pascal Tomaszewski, CSC, with scenes of Notre Dame football games, quadrangles, buildings, statues, and people.

Scope and Content Includes by-laws and minutes (1948) of the Catholic Action Club of the Sacred Heart School, Davenport, Iowa, (Fenelon was club secretary in the eighth grade); National Federation of Catholic College Students (NFCCS) Wisconsin chapter by-laws, 1954-1956, and NFCCS convention program 1956; a Scholastic article (January 1, 1975) on Fenelon; papers documenting the response of the Notre Dame community to the May 1970 American invasion of Cambodia and the student killings at Kent State University,...

Scope and Content Agenda, minutes, reports, conference material, correspondence, notes, newsletters, newspaper articles, and ephemera; documenting the formation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and its development from its precursor days as the Conference of Major Religious Superiors and Women's Institutes (CMSW); also records of the establishment and early activity of LCWR's Western Region, Region XIV, and records of LCWR's interaction with CMSM (Conference of Major Superiors of...

Scope and Content Questionnaires on the rhythm method of birth control, and on responsible parenthood and love in marriage, with responses from those who answered them; reports, notes taken at meetings, correspondence and background papers, 1964-1967; articles on birth control, dating from the 1960s through the 1980s; a copy of the book Turning Pointby Robert McClory regarding the Commission; book reviews and Crowley correspondence concerning Turning...

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Exhibit material to be used in Mulrooney's proposed "Fighting Born Irish of America" campaign to raise money for the University of Notre Dame Field House Building Fund through the sale of buttons. Consists of proposal, photo, and promotion board used by Mulrooney.

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Chiefly mimeographed copies of letters, 1923-1939, involving Monsignor John A. Ryan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, Josephus Daniels, H.L. Mencken, and others; concerning such topics as Hitler, Father Coughlin, pacifism, anti-semitism, profit sharing, and religious tolerance; with a few autograph letters from Callahan to Frederick Kenkel of the Catholic Central Verein; and a paper by William E. Ellis, "Patrick Henry Callahan: A Kentucky Democrat in National Politics," 1976.

Scope and Content Papers of Patrick Horsbrugh representing his whole life and career, consisting of extensive office files, environics files, and research files, correspondence, diaries, architectural drawings, artwork such as paintings and drawings, and his Italian thesis; consisting of files labelled PH (Patrick Horsbrugh): a chronological series representing his projects; Churchill Memorial files; correspondence files; environics files; files on individuals and locations associated with environics; diaries...

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Correspondence concerning work for The Ave Maria, including letters to editor, Eugene P. Burke, CSC, letters from his readers expressing admiration for his writings, and correspondence from his first years as editor; with copies of some of his poems, two manuscript notebooks of poetry, a book of sermons, and an essay on priests and literary sensibility.

ms 67-88

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Manuscripts and notes, on paper and computer disks, presenting the teaching of recent popes and bishops on labor-management issues, including Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, and John Paul II ; commentaries on and reactions to Catholic social teaching on labor-management issues as reported in Catholic periodicals; and notes on prominent Catholic individuals and organizations involved with organized labor.

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Correspondence with Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, Alexis Coquillard, trader in South Bend, Edward Sorin, CSC, president of the University of Notre Dame, and others, pertaining mostly to business affairs, the second Indian removal from the area in 1840, and Marantette's claims arising from it; and Marentette's account book, 1838-1840.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the professional career of Irish writer Patrick McCabe. The majority of the collection consists of rough drafts of his drama, prose, and poetry, including some of his most popular works in film and literature, Breakfast on Pluto and The Butcher Boy. The collection also contains various ephemera and promotional materials for his published works. Also included are newspaper and magazine interviews, works of other writers,...

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Letters and citizenship, property, financial, pension, and estate documents of an Irish immigrant and his wife, Margaret O'Dea, who settled in South Bend, Indiana.

Scope and Content Clippings documenting Bussard's development of the Leaflet Missal (1929-1930), his reports from Europe (1947), and his participation in the Holy Year Press Flight (1950); correspondence, memoranda, reports, budgets, graphs, affadavits, depositions, pleadings, subpoenas, and clippings related to his suit against St. Thomas College and Catholic Digest, initiated in 1969 when the college, to which Bussard had given his stock in the magazine, removed him from his job as publisher; including...

Scope and Content Includes correspondence; manuscripts and reprints of his articles; drafts, research notes, and copies of three of his books: Profile of a Precinct Committeeman (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1968), The Indiana Third (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1970), and The Irish Judiciary (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Dame Press, 1971); transcripts of his lectures and speeches; grade books and course outlines; correspondence, reports, and minutes relating to his...

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Woodcuts used in Beichner's Once Upon a Parable: Fables for the Present, 1974, and copies of published papers by Beichner, 1943-1960.

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Correspondence, including letters from George Shuster and Kerndt Healy, CSC; a diary (1916); teaching material, including gradebooks, student papers, handouts and lecture notes; printed matter, including books, pamphlets, sheet music, and magazines; and photographs.

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Photostats of Gillen's service record, 1861-1865, records of his experiences and sales as a book agent, account books and records of land transactions in Iowa, and biographical information in manuscripts dating from 1973.

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Clippings concerning the last months and death of Dr. Tom Dooley from cancer 19 January 1961; also a copy of a pamphlet, The Dr. Tom Dooley Story by Barbara C. Jencks (South Bend, Indiana, 1961).

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Manuscripts including "Pioneer Efforts in Cathoic Journalism in the United States (1809-1840)"; personal documents such as his application for naturalization and his ordination papers; newspaper clippings from The Catholic; and photographs.

Scope and Content General correspondence files (1960-1990); lecture notes and student papers from courses on canon law taught by Boyle; correspondence and reports from his tenure as president (1964-1965) of the Canon Law Society of America; subject files (1965-1974) on canon law as it affects religious life; correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and financial reports (1974-1983) from Boyle's close association with Stewardship Services Inc. (La Salette Fathers) and the Religious Communities Trust; minutes and...

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Correspondence, voting records and fact sheets, proceedings, newspaper clippings, phonograph recordings, and other material relating to the Democratic Party and political life, principally between 1950-1960.

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Correspondence, legal documents, manuscripts of articles, and two scrapbooks, one with clippings of editorials he wrote and the other detailing the 1930 concert season at the Ravinia, Illinois.

Scope and Content Fr. Marx's papers consist primarily of twenty years of correspondence between Marx and church officials; brother priests and men and women religious interested in HLI's pro-life activity; fellow Benedictines regarding Marx's work with HLI and business related to the order and to St. John's Abbey; HLC/HLI personnel and members of the HLI Board of Directors; the leaders of other pro-life groups including, notably, Judie Brown of the American Life League and Dr. Jack Willke of the National...

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Scrapbook of photographs, clippings, and ephemera, many having to do with the University of Notre Dame.

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Correspondence, manuscripts of essays, poems, diary entries, biographical sketch, obituary, and a pencil sketch of Father William Corby. Correspondents include James F. Edwards.

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Early accounts of the work of the Society of Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle (CSP), known as the Paulists, officially founded in 1858.

Scope and Content Records of the American chapter of Pax Christi, including correspondence, financial and membership records, subject files, records relating to the American chapter's affiliation with Pax Christi International, files from the group's conferences and special projects, audio and video tapes, and photographs. Principle correspondents include Etienne de Jonghe, Eileen Egan, Joseph Fahey, Thomas Gumbleton, Gordon Zahn, Walter Grazer, Mary Ellen Jegen, Carol ter Maat, Gerard...