Hesburgh Libraries

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Chiefly optical instruments such as microscopes, lenses and related parts, cameras, glass plates, and slides; also pipettes, Bunsen burners, saws, knives, tweezers, rulers, film holders, mirrors, and other tools.

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Eight scrapbooks containing clippings on the Catholic Church in America and one scrapbook on the history of theatre in Boston. Three of the scrapbooks' compilers have been identified as Mr. Rogers of Louisville, Kentucky, Mary Linhardt Frank of Toledo, Ohio, and Rev. William D. Pike of Bardstown, Kentucky. One of the remaining scrapbooks, tentatively attributed to Peter Klein, CSC, was annotated by Peter Cooney, CSC.

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The manuscript of Leslie's 1935 Notre Dame commencement address; a printed copy of his 1935 lecture on Francis Thompson; the manuscript of the first volume and corrected proofs of the second volume of his book Mrs. Fitzherbert (1939-1940); also a copy of Maria L. Storer's book In Memoriam: Bellamy Storer (1923) with a letter (25 September 1922) from Bishop Michael Francis Fallon concerning the publication of the book.

Scope and Content Personal correspondence, 1864-1981, including letters of Brother Antoninus, OP, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Breig, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Collins, Christopher Dawson, Etienne Gilson, Lucile Hasley, Caryll Houselander, Monsignor Ronald Knox, C. Day Lewis, D.B. Wyndham Lewis, Robert Lowell, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry Luce, Arnold Lunn, Sister Madeleva, CSC, Jacques Maritain, Bruce Marshall, C.C. Martindale, SJ, Marshall McLuhan, Vincent McNabb, OP, Thomas Merton, Alfred...

Scope and Content Records of the New York office of Sheed & Ward. Although the earliest documents in the collection date from 1933, the thirties and forties are not as well represented as the fifties and sixties. The collection consists of files from the editorial department, files from the publicity department, photographs, and printed material. The editorial department is represented by correspondence, 1948-1973; subject files, 1955-1973; rejection files, 1968-1970; foreign book files,...

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Films from the early 1930s through the late 1970s, primarily by Cathedral Films, Family Films, Concordia Films, and Loyola Films, regarding all religious topics, both Catholic and non-Catholic; and a few films regarding communism, the Soviet Union, and other subjects relating to current events.

Scope and Content Microfilm of correspondence of Simon Gabriel Bruté, first Bishop of Vincennes (1834-1839), both before and after his appointment as bishop, made from documents in various collections held by the University of Notre Dame Archives. Consists mainly of letters handwritten by Bruté, with some printed material and correspondence received by Bruté. Correspondents include William Gaston, Rev. Stephen T. Badin, and bishops Joseph Rosati, CM, John Timon, CM, John Baptist David, SS, Guy...

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Photostats of letters Sister Mildred received from various Catholic diocesan and institutional archives in response to her requests for information about the territorial and administrative histories of the dioceses in the old Northwest before the Civil War.

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Correspondence, clippings, and publications of Sister Mary Benet McKinney, including The New Sister (1969); correspondence, reports, minutes, and clippings from the School Study Commission, 1970-1971; minutes, correspondence, reports, and office files from the Urban Apostolate of the Sisters, 1963-1976; and subject files representing the activities and interests of Sister Mary Benet McKinney, OSB; also related photographs.

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Letters and bibliographies Sister Monica (of the Brown County Ursulines, St. Martin, Ohio) received regarding the history of Argentina, especially the revolution of 1820.

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Mimeographed circulars, newsletters, material distributed at meetings, memoranda, and a few letters, representing the Sisters for Christian Community (SFCC).

Scope and Content Letters, manuscripts, and typewritten transcripts of letter books and manuscripts (1809-1976); minutes of governing boards and officers of Bardstown, Kentucky (1782-1826), Washington County, Kentucky (1789-1807), and Nazareth, Kentucky (1830-1932); sacramental records, annals, lists, biographical sketches, and historical sketches; and translations of documents from the archives of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in the Vatican; with information on Ignatius A. Reynolds, Francis Chambige,...

Scope and Content Correspondence and other documents in the archives of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome; involving the Sisters of Loretto, Father Charles Nerinckx, and Bishops Benedict Joseph Flaget, Martin John Spalding, and Francis Patrick Kenrick; letters and typewritten transcripts of letters written by or to Sisters of Loretto, including letters from bishops Simon Bruté, John Timon, CM, George A. Carrell, and Peter Joseph Lavialle; a dissertation entitled "Bishop Joseph Rosati, CM, and the...

Scope and Content Records consisting of photocopies of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin letters; files on Coadjutrix Sisters; Jubilee and Celebration Files; Theses and Dissertations by Sisters of Providence; biographies by or about the Sisters; spiritual and theological works written or translated by Sisters; books, pamphlets and scholarly works by Sisters of Providence; and other material, including family collections from the Brassie, Haag and Shirley, and Schaaf and Kuefler families; and files on popes,...

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Chronicles, 1990-2014, with the original handwritten version, and scanned and printed versions; files documenting the foundation process, 1989-2003; papers of sisters Bernardone Reining, Laurene Burns, Dianne Doughty, and Laura Hammel; newspaper articles, 1997-2014; and photographs.

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Documents by and about the Sisters of the Holy Cross at Notre Dame, Indiana, including papers of Mother Ascension and Mother Angela; last wills of eighteen Holy Cross Sisters; papers of three alumnae of St. Mary's College; correspondence of various sisters; and material concerning St. Mary's Academy (later St. Mary's College). Correspondents of Mother Ascension include Father Edward Sorin.

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Photocopies of entries Derrick wrote while at Notre Dame installing an organ in the original Church of the Sacred Heart; with related clippings and a letter, 1956.

Also available on microfilm.

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Papers of Boleslaw Sobocinski; including personal papers; bibliography of his works; files representing his founding and editing of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic; files concerning the transition in management of the journal from Sobocinski to V. Frederick Rickey; Rose Rand's translations of works by Stanislaw Lesniewski; Sobocinski's ontology notes.

Scope and Content Pamphlets on education, politics, civics, youth action, Catholic social action, ethics, socialism, revolution, racial equality, poverty, hunger, immigration, refugees, citizenship, democracy, communism, trade unions, wages, labor, strikes, crime, alcoholism, justice, Nazis, war, atomic bomb, economics, religious liberty, rural electrification, banking, insurance, milk, food, tobacco, farms, coal, population control, the Civilian Conservation Corps, Methodism, Poland, Ireland, Spain, England,...

Scope and Content Letter of 14 April 1942 from Postmaster General Frank C. Walker to Father Charles Coughlin, the publisher of Social Justice , notifying him of a hearing at which he can show why the second-class mail privileges of his publication should not be revoked; and a long letter from Attorney General Francis Biddle to Walker showing how Social Justice routinely conveyed "false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or...

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Newsletters 1969-1998; convention material 1969-1995.

Scope and Content Letters, 1828-1930, from the United States to the central council at Paris (27 reels of microfilm) arranged by diocese; and letters to and minutes of the central council at Lyon, 1822-1900, arranged chronologically (15 reels of microfilm). Correspondents include many members of the American hierarchy, among them Joseph Sadoc Alemany, August M. Blanchet, Francis Norbert Blanchet, Timothy Corbett, Joseph Fréri, Henry Granjon, John Baptist Lamy, Joseph P. Macheboeuf, Augustus M....

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Correspondence, articles, offprints, clippings, newsletters, brochures, photographs, and other documents representing Maurice Lavanoux continuing interest in modern liturgical art and architecture and his efforts to organize a Society for the Renewal of Christian Art to carry on the work of the Liturgical Arts Society.

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Files kept by Rocco Caporale, officer of the Society of Priests for a Free Ministry, which worked to achieve its vision of a renewed church and proposed alternative liberating structures; consisting of correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, proposals, proceedings, clippings, and other papers.

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Chiefly drafts of her poetry and prose.

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Material concerning the commemoration of Fr. Sorin's birth in Ahuillé, France. The commemoration took place in Ahuillé on 14 September 1978, with Father Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, participating. Consists of correspondence received by the Archives in connection with the event; Hesburgh's speech at the commemoration; and xerox copies of newspaper articles concerning the event.

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Letters received from donors regarding the Jubilee of Father Sorin (1888) and the fundraising for a memorial statue to Father Sorin (1905-1906). Letters were received by Professors Orville Chamberlain and J. A. Lyons, James Cardinal Gibbons, John Zahm, CSC, William J. Marr, CSC, John W. Cavanaugh, CSC, Thomas E. Walsh, CSC, and William Corby, CSC, from friends of the University.

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City Court Clerk's docket and fee book (1937-1939); and South Bend Treasurer's journal (1845-1863) listing income and expenditures.