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John Kelly Temperance Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5042
Abstract
A single manuscript letter from John Kelly, a Catholic priest, to an unnamed Protestant clergyman and the Chairman of the local Clerical Meeting, 1837 or 1838. Kelly explains why Catholic clergy generally remain aloof from temperance societies.
Dates:
1837 or 1838
John M. Jackson Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5017
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 44 letters from John M. Jackson to his family during the Civil War. With one exception, the letters in this group were addressed to members of Jackson's immediate family — most commonly, to his mother or sisters. The four earliest (September and October 1862) were written from Camp Abraham Lincoln in Portland, Maine, where the 23rd Maine was organized. There follow 12 letters (11 dated from October 1862 to April 1863, and one without date) written from the Potomac...
Dates:
1862-1864
John Thelwall Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3811
Abstract
The bulk of this collection is a group of eight manuscript letters from John Thelwall, British poet and reformer (1764-1834), to Thomas Hardy, one of the main proponents for parliamentary reform (1752-1832).
Dates:
1796-1799, 1803, 1805, 1821
Jorge Luis Borges Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0003
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of Jorge Luis Borges an Argentine writer and poet. It contains ephemera and records related to Borges’ professional career, including newspaper articles, a cigarette holder, interviews, poetry, unpublished manuscripts, and scholarly articles written about Borges and published in various magazines, including the Avant Garde magazine Martín Fierro (1924-1927). Significant topics represented in these files are poetry and Latin American literature and...
Dates:
1924-2003
Julia P. Brown Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3825
Abstract
A collection of letters addressed to Julia Pomeroy Brown from three women: Constance L., Emily Drummond, and Elizabeth Spooner. Letters detail life during WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the death of a British soldier.
Dates:
1914-1918
Jutta Schütt Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3826
Abstract
A series of documents and letters from Jutta Schütt, Rose Elvira Grandinetti, Nicholas Emerson Dante Russo, and others, beginning in July 1916 and ending in July 1939.
Dates:
1916 - 1939
Lawrence Shields Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5021
Abstract
More than 300 personal letters written by Dr. Lawrence Shields (1872-1946), mostly as a member of the American expatriate community in Mexico City, 1898 to 1902. The letters are directed to Shields's future wife, Clara Kinney, of Xenia, Ohio.
Dates:
1898-1903
Le Rossignol Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3821
Abstract
A collection of personal letters written by Arthur Le Rossignol to his sister, Ethel, while he served in the British Motor Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front during World War I. Also included are letters written by Ethel, her colleague Pierre Pulinekse, and others.
Dates:
1914-1919
Lenore Mooney Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0500
Abstract
The correspondence and other papers of the American Lenore Mooney (1859-1941), dating especially from her time as a relief worker in Paris during World War I. There are many letters to Mooney from French soldiers and others victimized by the war, as well as a substantial correspondence with nephew Charles E. Bayly, Jr., an ambulance driver with the American Field Service who subsequently served as sous-lieutenant in the French army.
Dates:
1887-1938; Majority of material found in ( 1917-1919)
Leonard Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 1000
Abstract
Manuscripts and other materials relating to the Confederate army service of the brothers Henry, Martin, Robert, and Joseph Leonard, of Iredell County, North Carolina, including records of Co. C, 48th North Carolina Infantry.
Dates:
1862-after 1865; Majority of material found in 1862-1865
Leonard Williams Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5068
Scope and Contents
Of the 127 letters in the collection, 115 were written by Leonard Williams to his wife Anna Laval Williams during the Civil War. These letters range in date from 18-19 July 1861 to 11 February 1865, and provide a literate, lengthy, and relatively continuous epistolary narrative of Williams's wartime experiences. The letters also stand as one side of an ongoing dialogue with Anna on managing the Greenville household and farm, including the slaves. (During the war the mercantile store was...
Dates:
1861-1865
Liam Creagh Collection on Brendan Behan
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1070
Abstract
Correspondence and ephemera relating to Brendan Behan.
Dates:
1958-1971
Loome Catholic Modernism Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3824
Abstract
The Loome Catholic Modernism Collection consists mainly of research on Catholic Modernism that Thomas Loome gathered for his doctoral dissertation ca. 1968-1974. It is a compilation of thousands of pages of correspondence, publications, and personal papers by and about Catholic Modernists ca. 1890-1925, especially George Tyrrell and Friedrich von Hügel. The items are mainly photocopies of manuscript and printed materials, but originals, microfilms, and photographs are also included. The...
Dates:
1874-1987; Majority of material found in ( 1890-1925; 1967-1972)
Lord Dunsany Letters to Mrs. Wieland
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1002
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of ten letters sent from Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany to a Mrs. Wieland, largely concerning advice and critiques of her poetry. Additionally discusses Dunsany’s opinions on the publishing world.
Dates:
1926 - 1951; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1933
Louisa May Alcott Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3010
Abstract
This small collection consists of one letter written by Louisa May Alcott, one letter written on her behalf by her London publisher, one inscribed photographic portrait, and one page from the manuscript of the novel, Jack and Jill: a Village Story.
Dates:
1879-1887
Louise Chandler Moulton Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3012
Abstract
A group of 33 manuscript letters, written by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908), who wrote poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Many of the letters, for example, those addressed to Fred Holland Day (1864-1933), a publisher and photographer, deal with the literature of the day.
Dates:
1884-1896
Louise Imogen Guiney Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3011
Abstract
The papers of Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) are comprised of letters, postcards, and a limited number of papers. The majority of the letters and postcards were written by Guiney to J. R. Tutin, a publisher located in Hull, Yorkshire, who hoped to revive interest in 17th c. literature.
Dates:
1895-1926; Majority of material found in 1901-1913
M.A. Harvey Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5066
Scope and Contents
A 4-page folio-sized letter written on 15 November 1862 by Confederate private M. A. Harvey, Co. B, 8th Texas Cavalry, describing actions during Bragg's invasion of Kentucky in September-October.
Dates:
1862-11-15
Marcellus Ovando Messer Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108
Scope and Contents
Central to this collection of family letters are personal letters written by Marcellus Ovando Messer during his Civil War era military service in Company C, 19th Ohio Infantry (1861-1865). These letters date from 11 January 1862 to 23 October 1865. Stamped, postmarked envelopes are present for most. Messer writes to his parents Loren S. Messer and Chestina W. Cook Messer and younger brother, Charles Messer, at home in Warren, Ohio, and to his brother George W. Messer (who by 1863 was himself...
Dates:
1853 - 1924; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1865
Marian Stoll Letters to Elizabeth Morison
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5024
Abstract
A collection of 100 manuscript personal letters written by American textile artist Marian Stoll to her friend Elizabeth Morison, all dated between 1928 and 1938. The letters describe aspects of her professional life as well as her experiences living in Paris, Athens, and later, the U.S.
Dates:
1928-1938
Marie Balje Kimball Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5019
Abstract
A collection consisting primarily of some 200 manuscript personal letters directed to Marie Balje Kimball (1873-1967) of Fulton County, New York. Included are a series of 22 letters written by a missionary friend in Turkish Armenia, 1908-10, and a series of 17 written from New York City in early 1919 by Marie Kimball's socialist and labor activist husband, Harry Kimball.
Dates:
1886-1927; Majority of material found within ( 1897-1919)
Mario Antonio Rivera Papers
Fonds
Identifier: HTF
Scope and Content
Papers of Mario Rivera, having to do with his work on the Cuban / Haitian Task Force of the United States Department of State; consisting of correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, press releases, manuals, reports, and summaries of interviews; concerning Cuban and Haitian refugees, internment camps, determination of asylum status, and the Cuban Oral History Project.
Dates:
1980-1981.
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Mary Bettle Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5029
Abstract
A pair of manuscript letters, each dated 4 October 1862, written to the Philadelphia Quaker Mary Bettle by two relatives, Sophia Jones and Elizabeth Williams. An enclosure in Jones's letter describes audiences of the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends with Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, and Lincoln, regarding exemption from the draft.
Dates:
4 October 1862
Mary Clemency Papers
Collection
Identifier: CLM
Scope and Contents
The Mary Clemency Papers consist of materials collected by Mary Clemency related to the history of women’s basketball at the University of Notre Dame. The collection contains original documents, records, ephemera, photographs, and clippings related to the first organized women’s basketball teams on campus from 1972 through 1976, including bookstore basketball, interhall basketball, a women’s basketball interest group, and club basketball. The collection contains some correspondence between...
Dates:
1972 - 2011
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Mary Crowell Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5058
Abstract
A four-page folio-sized manuscript letter written on 28-29 April 1862 by Mary Crowell of Nora, Illinois. Much of the letter is given over to news of members of Co. E, 15th Illinois Infantry, recently engaged at the battle of Shiloh.
Dates:
28 April 1862-29 April 1862
Mary Eileen Ahern Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0504
Abstract
This collection of the papers of the American librarian and editor Mary Eileen Ahern (1860-1938) consists primarily of incoming letters, many from prominent library professionals.
Dates:
1893-1930
Mary T. McCouattria Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10001
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of twelve incoming letters written to Mary T. McCouattria, an African American schoolteacher from Rome, Georgia.
Dates:
undated
Mary Taussig Hall Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0511
Scope and Contents
This collection chiefly consists of the correspondence of Mary Taussig Hall. Early letters (circa 1920s) to and from Mary Taussig Hall frequently concern her family, travels, and studies. Later (1930s-) topics of note include her family and social life, travels, and growing interest in social work and political causes. Most correspondence is with family and friends though professional correspondence is also present. Mary’s time at Hull House is well-described, as is a Depression-era job search...
Dates:
1855 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1960
Masterson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5109
Abstract
The collection includes more than 50 manuscript letters written during the Civil War by Pvt. John William Masterson, Co. A, 133rd New York Infantry, as well as later papers relating to Masterson's service and to his son William and daughter Ida.
Dates:
1862-1923; Majority of material found within ( 1862-1865)
McCracken Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5020
Abstract
A collection of more than 500 personal letters directed to Frank and Ruth McCracken at Toston, Montana. The letters span the years between the wars; most were written by relations and acquaintances in Minnesota, Montana, and (especially) North Dakota. In addition to personal and social content, there is much allusion to the broader economic, geographic, and cultural forces that shaped life on the Northern plains in the 1920s and 30s.
Dates:
1912-1944; Majority of material found in ( 1918-1944)
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