Hesburgh Libraries

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Newspaper clippings regarding Bishop Hendricken; a report of Catholic statistics in Waterbury, New Haven County, by Hendricken (1863); a letter signed by Hendricken (1885); and copies of the Providence Visitor for 18 May 1934 and 25 May 1934 concerning the consecration of Bishop Keough.

Scope and Content Transcripts of letters received by Bishops Richard Vincent Whelan and John McGill (1847-1859); a manuscript book by Bishop McGill containing essays on the Catholic version of the Bible, the inquisition, the spirituality of the soul, free will, the Edict of Nantes, Switzerland, the origin of the Swiss confederation, the Swiss reformation, Zwingle, and pseudo-sacred books; microfilm of records in the Diocesan Archives in Richmond, 1850-1939, including correspondence of Bishops McGill, James...

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Photostats of letters from Lamy to Bishop Zubiria and from Martinez and Taladrid; two autograph letters from Lamy to Father Thomas A. Hayes, and one autograph letter to John O'Kane Murray, Catholic historian; a manuscript and a printed copy of Lamy's farewell address of August 26, 1885; two photos of Lamy and several newspaper clippings.

Additional Lamy papers may be found in the New Orleans and Cincinnati collections.

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Official Year Books and Seminary Reports, parish histories, and other printed material having to do with the Diocese of Toledo (Ohio).

Scope and Content Correspondence of bishops of Vincennes (1796-1897), including Simon Gabriel Bruté (1835-1839) and Celestine de la Hailandiere (1810-1875); sermons of Hailandiere (1826- 1836); historical notes by Hailandiere; papers from Hailandiere's seminary days at St. Germain, Rennes, France; journal of Jean F. Rivet (1799-1803), papers of Pierre Gibault, and an article on Anthony Fourcher, all early missionary priests; and 19th- and 20th-century printed material and transcriptions of correspondence. ...

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Clippings concerning diocesan affairs, 1872-1879, including clippings of the pastoral letters of Richard Whelan and John Joseph Kain; and photostats of letters received by Mother M. de Chantal, Superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Joseph's Academy in Wheeling (1874- 1875, 1895).

Scope and Contents SERIES ONE comprises files, arranged by sport, for the years 1909-1923. It also contains at least some additional files for each sport through 1929. The division of documents by sport is by no means perfect; likewise, sometimes letters are filed by the name of the correspondent, other times by the name of the school, and other times by subject. The files are quite sparse for the period ca. 1919-1923. SERIES TWO comprises one alphabetic run of files for the period 1924-1929,...

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Material related to the development of projects such as the United States bishops' Women's Pastoral, the reactions of bishops and others, and correspondence reflecting the climate and the work of the last quarter of the 20th century; consisting of papers, speeches, diaries, printed material, photographs, and news articles.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1955-1972; correspondence and reports relating to the Notre Dame faculty senate (1969-1973, 1981-1984) and Notre Dame chapter of the American Association of University Professors, 1969-1977; memoranda, correspondence, minutes, and reports from such Notre Dame library committees as the Library Goals and Objectives Task Force, 1975-1976, Library Appointments and Promotions Committee, 1972-1981, and the Library Committee of the Theology Department, 1975-1977; procedures,...

Scope and Content 2008 accession: A scrapbook compiled by Dominic Nigro while a student at Kearney Military Academy and at Notre Dame, ca. 1911-1914, including photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs, and other memorabilia; a binder titled "Rockne - Nigro - Heathman" containing clippings about the 75th anniversary commemoration of the Rockne plane crash and copies of historical clippings about earlier commemorations; newsletters and a plaque from the Rockne Club of America, ca. 1969; a copy...

Scope and Content Approximately 40 films documenting the history of the Dominicans of the Province of St Albert the Great, including dedications, ordinations, historical milestones, special events, and celebrations. Additional films relate to the missions established in Nigeria, Ghana, Bolivia, and Peru. Film projects include St Dominic de Guzman: Preacher of Grace, To Preach the Word: the History of St Albert Province prepared by Fr Richard Woods, the...

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Correspondence, clippings, articles, speeches, ephemera, photographs, and personal papers dating chiefly 1965-1977, with a few items dating from the 1920s.

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A manuscript book of special orders of General William S. Harney, General Persifor Frazer Smith, and Colonel Albert S. Johnston (1853-1856); a manuscript book of letters sent by Buell to assorted military departments and units, primarily concerning orders and monthly strength returns (1853-1856); a book of printed General Orders of the Department of the Ohio (1861-1862); a four-page biography of Buell; and an unidentified index (1841-1846).

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Correspondence; manuscripts of articles and his book The Emerging Layman (1962); research files of clippings, newsletters, and articles; copies of articles by and about Thorman; copies of his speeches; and family and business documents.

Records relating to Thorman's tenure with NCR are in the NCR collection (CNCR). His work with Ave Maria, Act, and Voice of St. Jude is documented only by bound volumes of the publications for some of the years of his employment.

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Correspondence; academic and teaching files representing his work with the graduate school, foreign studies, and the English department; committee files; writing and publishing files; files reflecting his membership in organizations and his participation in conferences; and subject files.

Scope and Content Correspondence files of Donald P. Kommers, representing his work as a teacher and scholar, with some personal letters and some documenting his service at Notre Dame and beyond. Although he identified all of these files as correspondence, many of them contain papers or material distributed at conferences or committee meetings. Some contain no letters (except perhaps a cover letter), and these have been placed at the end of the collection and identified as Articles, Reports, and Research...

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Circular letters, reports, and minutes generated by activities of the Congregation of Holy Cross and the University of Notre Dame, including the University Apostolate, Ad Hoc Committee for the Fatima Apostolate, and the Pastoral Theology Program.

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Files on Catholic Action, high school and college Young Christian Students, and related movements, including correspondence, study weeks, programs, pamphlets, mimeographed material, and bulletins; with publications of JOC (Young Christian) movements in France.

Scope and Content Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, newsletters and clippings from peace, civil rights, social, and religious action groups in the Pittsburgh area, including the Pittsburgh Area Clergy for World Order, 1963-1970; Pittsburgh Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam, 1960s-1970s; the Catholic Interracial Council of Pittsburgh, 1966-1976; Association of Pittsburgh Priests, 1969-1973; NAACP, 1960s; the United Negro Protest Committee, 1968- 1970; the Greater Pittsburgh Fair Housing Movement, 1966- 1968; Civil...

Scope and Content Research material gathered by Sister Dorothy Ann Blatnica for her doctoral dissertation, In Those Days: African American Catholics in Cleveland, 1922-1961 (Case Western Reserve University, 1992), published as At the altar of their God: African American Catholics in Cleveland, 1922-1961 (New York: Garland, 1995); consisting of transcriptions of interviews; photocopies of historical documents including correspondence, reports, and...

Scope and Content Research files and by-products of research into the history of the Lourdes Grotto at the University of Notre Dame and similar grottos at Saint Mary's College and in South Bend; also files on untimely deaths at the University of Notre Dame. Later accessions include additional research files, personal correspondence, collections of poems, and other writings documenting her spiritual journey, thought processes, and the relationships that informed her research on the history of Notre...

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Letters received or collected by Woodruff including letters or notes from Shane Leslie, Francis Cardinal Bourne, Henry Cardinal Manning, J.M.J. Acton, Alfred Noyes, F.C. Hingeston-Randolph, Frances Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Alan Herbert, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert C. Latham, and others; manuscript prayers and notes; datebooks of Woodruff, 1926, 1958; Mass cards, post cards, Christmas cards, clippings, and photographs.

Scope and Content Pamphlets, catechisms, encyclicals, and pastoral letters concerning the lay apostolate, the Mystical Body of Christ, birth control, the Holy Ghost, heaven, forbidden books, worship, marriage and family life, education, parochial schools, conversion, the constitution, communism, college life, Church and State, Catholic Action, the Bible, atheism, the Blessed Virgin Mary, shrines, migration, immigration, refugees, the military, nuns, peace, the poor, prayer, the life of priests and brothers,...

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Correspondence with Matthew Walsh, CSC, and Leigh G. Hubbell, CSC.

Scope and Content Carbon copy of a typewritten transcription of the Civil War diary of E. W. Herman, 22 July 1861 - 31 July 1864; with accounts of camp life, reactions of soldiers to appointment of General Grant, picket duty, marching along the Mississippi, a battle of 7 November 1861 near Columbus, Kentucky, gun boats, reactions of wives, the brass band throwing away instruments to take up muskets, Fort Smith at Smithland, Kentucky, General Lew Wallace, Fort Henry, bitter cold, General Smith, Commodore...

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Two three-inch open reel audiotapes and a transcript (pages 1-66 and 62-70) of Frank Leahy's reminiscences of his early life through 1929 as recorded in interviews the donor had with Leahy circa 1965; and a typescript titled "On Children and the Danger in Football" (6 pages).

Scope and Content Correspondence; historical and religious writings; and research and reference files on Bishop Simon Bruté, Father Stephen T. Badin, Girolamo Savonarola, early missions in Mexican America, Indiana Catholic history, and the Benedictine order in the United States. Also Schmitt's collection of autograph letters, calling cards, and signatures of authors, British and American legislators, presidents of the United States, archbishops, and cardinals (1777-1893). The papers of Father...

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Typewritten transcription of an oral history interview with Edmund A. Stephan conducted by Richard W. Conklin at Stephan's home in Evanston, Illinois, 2 May 1983; with Stephan's impressions of Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Howard J. Kenna, CSC, James W. Frick, Stephan's days at Notre Dame, classmates, professors, commencement, lay governance of the university, the Board of Lay Trustees, and coeducation at Notre Dame.

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Papers and correspondence from members of the American and Canadian hierarchy including Maurice de Saint-Palais, bishop of Vincennes; John Henry Luers, bishop of Fort Wayne; John Walsh, bishop of London (Ontario); and Fergus P. McEvay, bishop of London (Ontario).