Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Contents Collection contains materials documenting Mary Katherine Tillman’s scholarly and professional activities, including copies of journal articles, book reviews, and other publications; unpublished essays, lectures, and manuscripts; teaching materials; scattered correspondence; and recordings and supplementary materials for Tillman’s "Newman and the Thoughtful Believer" lectures for the Notre Dame Great Teachers Series. The collection also includes a list of important life events, a diary kept...

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.

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Microfilm containing data from the 1830 census of Indiana (6 reels); the 1810 census, 1820 census, and 1830 census of Kentucky (29 reels); and the soundex census index from the 1900 census of Pennsylvania (1 reel).

Scope and Content A few pre-1970 documents; board of directors files and bylaws, 1988-2006 (bulk 1993-2001); tax returns, late 1970s - mid 2000s (incomplete); financial reports and statement, late 1970s - 2006/07; Future of the University Club files, ca. 2002 - 2005; employee handbooks, 1980s and 1990s; membership files and statistics, 1990s and 2000s; committee and subject files, 1972-1985 (bulk mid 1980s); miscellaneous subject files, late 1970s - 2000s; printed newsletters, mailings, calendars, blank...

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Records of Notre Dame's yearbook (The Dome), including a large collection of photographs.

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Records of the faculty and staff of Notre Dame libraries, including audio-visual material and photographs.

Scope and Content Three ledgers and a few related loose papers having to do with the early administration of Saint Mary of the Lake University in Chicago by the Congregation of Holy Cross: (1) "Tuition and general accounts of Students in St. Mary's University from Aug 3rd 1856 to date June 15th 1861"; (2) Waste Book of chronological financial transactions, 1 July 1858 to 22 June 1860, with an initial page summarizing earlier accounts; (3) Receipts and Expense Book 1 November 1857 to 31 May 1860. The loose...

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Records of Notre Dame's University Photographer, including black-and-white and color negatives and prints, and video and audio recordings; with images of Notre Dame trustees, advisory council members, administrators, and faculty, scenes from university life representing academic, religious, and recreational aspects, and videos representing campus activities.

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Records of the administration of Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., as President of the University of Notre Dame, including audio and video recordings, photographs, printed material, and objects.

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Drafts of Pioneer Healers: the History of Women Religious in American Health Care, edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak (New York: Crossroad, 1989). Also printed and photocopied material collected in research for the book, concerning religious ordrs that provide health care; and survey data from these orders, with some related correspondence and summaries of data.

Scope and Content Correspondence (approximately one linear foot) of Robert E. Burns (editor of U.S. Catholic, formerly Voice of St. Jude). Burns retired as editor in June of 1984. Editorial files, 1959-1984, including correspondence with contributors, readers, and other editors and publishers of the Catholic press. Very few, if any, of the letters could be considered personal. The correspondence is filed by year, but is not organized within each year. The files do not appear to be complete as there are few...

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Letters from members of the American Catholic hierarchy to the Rectors of the English College in Rome, who acted as their agents; letters from bishops Henry Conwell, Ambrose Marechal, James Whitfield, Samuel Eccleston, and Edward Fenwick, and from Father Gabriel Richard; letters to rectors Robert Gradwell and Nicholas Patrick Wiseman.

In English, Latin, French, and Italian.

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Eight letter books containing copies of letters written by A.M. Soteldo, Simón Camacho, Julio Gonzalez, and other members of the Venezuelan delegation to the United States, 1881-1888; letters sent to the consulate, chiefly from Caracas, 1875-1877; and depositions and briefs from a law suit brought by Seth Driggs against Venezuelan General Santiago Marino, 1852-1855.

In Spanish and English.

Scope and Content Correspondence (1933-1969) of such Vernacular Society leaders as John Ross-Duggan (the Society's founder and secretary from 1946 to 1961), John Agathen, William F. Crowley, Joseph P. Evans and Irwin St. John Tucker; financial reports (1946-1957), minutes and committee reports (1950s-1960s), and newsletters (1947-1965); Ross-Duggan's reports, press releases and clippings from Vatican II; clippings on the vernacular movement (1950s-1960s); printed matter on the use of the vernacular and...

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Records of the Notre Dame post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.

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A mimeographed booklet of many examples of Lemmer's column, "In the Wake of the News", which was usually no more than a few lines of witticism appended to the sports pages; a printed copy of an article Lemmer co-authored, entitled "Thomas Edison's Experimental Work with Michigan Iron Ore"; and a copy of a Chicago Tribune sports page commenting on the admission of women to Notre Dame.

Scope and Content Class notes taken as a student at Notre Dame, ca. 1917; professional and personal correspondence concerning the Notre Dame community, 1939-1949; and photographs. Correspondents include Marcus Bjorndal, Malcolm Pearson, Amos J. Eaton, McCready Houston, Leo L. Ward, Francis E. McMahon, Norbert Engels and Delmar G. Roos. Also drawings and correspondence concerning Fagan's work in researching the settlement at North Salem, New Hampshire, 1943-1949, including letters exchanged...

Scope and Content Autobiographical writings including Vincent McAloon: In His Own Words; similar self-published books sent to him by by Notre Dame alumni: Robert Cronin, William J. Rockenstein, Thaddeus M. Jones, and John David Mooney; a book, The Vatican Observatory and the Arts: the Sculpture of John David Mooney at Castel Gandolfo; remarks by Brother Thomas Dziekan, CSC, and Brother Joseph Umile, CSC, at McAloon's funeral service; a brief page of...

Scope and Content Letters sent by Vincent J. Giese to Rev. James Bates, 1960-1965 and 1980-1990; mimeographed circular letters sent by Giese during his years in the seminary in Rome, 1962-1966; mimeographed newsletter sent by Giese after his retirement, 1989-1991; papers reflecting his interest in John Henry Newman; scrapbooks containing Fides Family Feature, published in Our Sunday Visitor in 1955, other OSV articles, 1956-1957, and editorials by Vincent J. Giese, published in...

Scope and Content Letters, mostly to John Timon, CM. The letters are in large part from priests of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) to Timon when he was at the Vincentian seminary (St. Mary-of-the-Barrens, Perryville, Missouri). Correspondents include Bishop Joseph Rosati of St. Louis, Bishop Benedict Flaget of Bardstown, Bishop Leo de Neckère of New Orleans, John Mary Odin, CM, Bishop of Galveston, later Archbishop of New Orleans, and other members of the American hierarchy, priests...

Scope and Content Correspondence concerning his publications, the University of Notre Dame scholarship committee (1940s), the Catholic Education Club (1943-1944), the Philosophy of Education Society (1951-1953), Pax Romana (International Movement of Catholic Students) and his interest in Latin America and Latin American students and alumni (1945-1946); manuscripts of his publications; class lecture notes and handouts; pamphlets, newsletters, maps, and other printed material on Latin America; and newspaper...