Hesburgh Libraries

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Transcript of a trial, Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Neva Miller Moss; correspondence with Russell P. Kehoe, who assisted in the prosecution of Mrs. Moss in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and with others; clippings concerning Moss's activities as an anti-Catholic lecturer; leaflets and newspapers concerning anti-Catholicism in the 1920s; and a scrapbook of clippings and correspondence from the Eucharistic Congress, 1926.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1925-1957; writings, speech notes, and speeches by Mahony, 1920s-1950; diary of Mahony, 1928; Mahony's subject files on such topics as child labor, Mexican immigration, the sugar beet industry and labor conditions of sugar beet workers, 1920s-1950s, and the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, 1920s; and photographs. The bulk of the material relates to Mahony's efforts on the part of Mexican migrant laborers, with some material on Mahony's early professional efforts....

Scope and Content Papers of Thomas F. O'Meara, O.P., consisting of correspondence, including Dominican correspondence and a letter (19 Feb. 1967) from Martin Heidegger concerning translation of a word in one of his essays, with an English translation of the letter and a cover letter by Father O'Meara; a copy of his dissertation; a bibliography and a complete file of his publications up to 2002, including his studies of St. Thomas Aquinas; some ephemeral material associated with his speeches; a set of...

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Fragments of sermons and manuscripts on angels, the pope, Martin Luther, and Biblical topics; fragments of financial papers; rhetoric instructions.

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Copies of letters, clippings, and other memorabilia concerning Brigadier General Thomas Francis Meagher, his family history, and Notre Dame's reception and possession of the Meagher sword and the Irish Brigade's flag; and four letters Meagher sent to Andrew O'Connell (1866-1867) with a document appointing O'Connell Justice of the Peace at Large for the Montana Territory. Also Meagher's U.S. Army regulation field officer's sword

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Records documenting Thomas Bice-Allen's service on the writing committee for the first book of guidelines for the formation of permanent deacons in the United States (early 1970s), his participation in the first WOC conferences in 1975 and 1978, and his membership in Corpus and the Corpus Board of Directors; also VHS video tapes of segments of 60 Minutes, The Phil Donahue Show, and Geraldo, featuring married priests and their spouses, along with DVD copies of the tapes.

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Sermons and speeches collected or delivered by Brennan, 1906-1964; writings on philosophy collected by Brennan; correspondence, 1952-1971; photographs; and the program from the world premiere, held in South Bend, of the film "Knute Rockne: All American."

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Two scrapbooks compiled by Darby containing clippings and a few letters concerning the Labor School in New Rochelle.

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, minutes, talks, and photographs; papers generated by his work as a member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference and through his involvement in many social action groups, including Pax Christi USA and Bread for the World; with material on the Michigan Catholic Conference, the war in Vietnam, the Detroit Archdiocesan Synod of 1969, and the United States Bishops' Pastoral Letter on War and Peace, The Challenge of Peace: God's...

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Letters (1870-1889) to Jenkins from Benedict Webb, editor of the Catholic Advocate; John Ireland, Bishop (later Archbishop) of St. Paul; Eliza Allen Starr, author; and John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop of Peoria; also letters (1895-1896) from Jenkins to his sister (?), Hetty, and manuscript drafts of travelogue sketches and notes on Kentucky history.

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Correspondence and manuscripts (CTLB, including agreements, contracts, drafts of a book and various articles, and other documents); printed material (PTLB, including football programs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera); photographs (GTLB); and a few objects (OTLB). Includes correspondence with Knute Rockne (1929-1931) and several Notre Dame related photos from 1921 and earlier.

Scope and Content A copy of the Donor's Curriculum Vitae 1963-2011 and bound volumes of his research papers: Turbulent Flow and Transition 1963-1964, Vacuum and Fluid Amplifier 1963-1964, Base Flow Nozzles 1 1965-1969, Base Flow Nozzles 2 1969-1976, Base Pressure 1966-1970, Numerical Fluid Dynamics I 1968-1973, Flow Visualization 1969-1995, Physiological Fluid Mechanics 1972-1981, Low Reynolds Number Airfoil Aerodynamics 1980-1993, and Aeroacoustic Research 1990-2006. Also a CD containing Proceedings of the...

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Photographs collected for research of his book The University of Notre Dame: A Portrait of Its History and Campus (University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame and London, 1975).

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Correspondence, course-teacher evaluations, articles, press releases, reports from the dean of the law school, and book reviews by Shaffer, 1963-1980.

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Photocopies of juvenilia, 1931-1941, consisting of editorials, columns, reviews, articles, and poems that Merton wrote before he entered the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1941 and published in the Oakhamian, the Granta, the Columbia Jester, the Columbia Spectator, the Columbia Review, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Herald Tribune Book Review, the Catholic World, and the Catholic Poetry Society of America Bulletin; and copies of some of the books he wrote after he became a monk.

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Biographical and personal material; teaching notes; reference files; speeches, writings, and meetings files; and an extensive series of files representing his activity in organizations outside Notre Dame.

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Correspondence, appointment calendars, course material, My Notre Dame book manuscripts; collected printed material; a cassette audio tape from his Notre Dame Class Reunion; Posters, framed photographs, and a plaque.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1936-1969; writings such as manuscripts of his publications, lectures, research notes, and manuscripts of other scholars' works collected by McAvoy; correspondence and copies of historical documents collected by McAvoy during a research trip to Europe, 1960-1961; and personal records such as tax returns, calendars, notes, address books, obituaries, clippings and letters of condolence concerning McAvoy's death, 1930-1969. The ...

Scope and Content Personal papers of Rev. Thomas Phelan, including papers documenting his involvement in the Catholic Art Association; documenting activities of the officers and committees of CAA and including its quarterly publication, Catholic Art Quarterly (later called Good Work); containing extensive correspondence with Graham Carey and some correspondence with Tom Barry, Ade Bethune, Richard Bonvillain, Edward (Ned) Catish, Delbert Lederle, Dunstan Pruden, Edgar Holloway, Nancy Carey, George Easter,...

Scope and Content Records of Congressman Tim Roemer's district and congressional offices, 1990-2002. From the district office in South Bend, Indiana: closed case files, 1991-2002; files regarding requests, scheduling, protocol, special projects, grants, and service academies applicants; intern files; and files generated by individual staff members. From the congressional office in Washington, D.C., files belonging to members of Roemer's staff, including Maggie McDow, Mark Brown, Rusty Silverstein, Matt, Pete,...

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Papers of Timothy Unsworth, consisting of nine linear feet of manuscript material, chiefly drafts and copies of his writings with related correspondence, but also including his master's thesis and diploma; also five linear inches of high-school yearbooks and seven linear inches of video tapes of his television appearances.

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Four lesson books containing O'Sullivan's writings; a small quantity of correspondence; notes; and a large collection (5 linear inches) of clippings compromising to Protestants.

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Tintypes (early photographs).

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Correspondence, minutes, reports, and legal and financial records relating to the community's property. Principal correspondents include True House leaders Robert Colson and Jim Byrne. Also 85 tape recordings of lectures on the charismatic renewal.

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Office files; books published by Twenty-third Publications; Braille and large-print editions of some Twenty-third Publications made by the Xavier Society for the Blind; filmstrips with audio tapes, and related printed material; VHS videos, audio cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, and one film.

Scope and Content Manuscripts of books, articles, lectures, essays, sermons and the like, and books of notes, none of which are attributed to any author. Many are incomplete or fragmentary. Almost all deal with religious, theological, philosophical, or literary subjects. Includes a sketch of the life of Robert W. Healy, a Notre Dame graduate, Civil War general, US Marshal in Alabama, and post-Reconstruction Southern industrialist; an incomplete translation of John Baptiste de la Salle's Conduite...

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The company's record of General and Special Orders, i.e. orders pertaining to the company in general or to individual members of it.

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Miniature photostats made from microfilm of the records of the Michigan Superintendency of the Office of Indian Affairs.