Hesburgh Libraries

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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.

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The manuscript diaries of Surgeon Lieutenant George Marshall Oakden, who served in the British Navy from 1914 to 1919, and the letters of his brother, Arthur, who died in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.

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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Daybook: a small notebook listing all the receipts and expenditures for Drumbo Soup Kitchen from December 1846 to March 1848, accompanied by a sheet of tickets for Drumbo Soup Kitchen.

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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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A collection of more than 40 manuscript sermons and sermon fragments of the Congregational preacher Ebenezer Garnsey (or Guernsey), written and preached in Massachusetts and Connecticut ca. 1757-1763.

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The papers consist of the correspondence and manuscripts of the poet Edward Dorn, particularly from the 1990s. The collection also includes a variety of items related to the publiction Rolling Stock, as well as manuscripts of other writers and audiocassette tapes.

Scope and Contents One bound volume of drawings in various media (pencil, crayon, or ink, some with watercolor washes in color or grayscale). Drawings vary from about 3 cm x 3 cm to an entire page in size. Each has been trimmed from its source and tipped in or laid down on album plates; most plates contain multiple drawings. Images range from simple studies or sketches to finished, toned drawings. Two paper cut-work silhouette images also laid in; one mounted watercolor portrait of an Asian woman in...

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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).

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Certificate of entry into the United States, 1888; citizenship papers, 1898; tax returns and investment (1917-1924) and estate (1922-1926) records; and a report of Notre Dame's acquisition of stock from O'Connell's estate, 1938.

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Articles, newspaper clippings, lectures, unpublished papers, and a small amount of correspondence relating to writers and literary topics. Correspondents include Jean Charlot and Sister Mary Madeleva, CSC, president of St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, 1934-1961.

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Chiefly collected material concerning Polish Catholics in the United States, including printed material, notes, photocopies of newspaper articles, unpublished papers, copies of documents from other archives, color slides, and audio recordings; with parish histories and accounts of Polish history in various regions of the United States.

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Manuscript of a translation (1953) of the unpublished fourth volume of Soderini's The Pontificate of Leo XIII, titled Leo XIII and the United States of America, concerning the Paulists and the Americanist controversy; with a letter from the translator, F. Terras.

Also microfilm of Soderini's manuscript of this volume, Leone XIII e gli Stati Uniti de America (ca. 1933).

In English and Italian.

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Clippings, cartoons, leaflets, photocopies, articles by and about Edward Fischer, reviews, issues of the Notre Dame Magazine, seven bound volumes containing Fischer's column in The Ave Maria (1953-1969), the St. Joseph College Alumni Merit Award, and faculty contracts; concerning communication, worship, films, the Bible, college education, books, missionaries, art, and newspapers.

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Files representing Goerner's research and teaching, his work on The Review of Politics, and his writings, including his unpublished book on aristocracy; documenting courses on political theory, Rawls, Camus, Locke, Kant, Aristotle, and Plato; with articles, notes, offprints, letters, and manuscripts; and restricted student files.

Thanks to Allison Murphy for providing abstracts describing the contents of each folder.

Scope and Content Correspondence, clippings, printed material, and manuscripts of articles and talks, mostly concerning economics, especially Catholicism and labor; reports and correspondence of the National Catholic Welfare Conference's Industrial Council Committee, 1950-1951, and the Holy Cross Fathers' Province Development Project, 1958-1959; biographical file on John Cardinal O'Hara, 1935-1960; oral history interview with Keller for the Herbert Hoover Library, 1969; reviews of Keller's publications,...

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Book manuscript (purple spirit-duplicator copy of typewritten manuscript): Vacuum, Gaseous and Solid State Electronics / by Edward Arthur Coomes, Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 1954, "to be published by Addison-Wesley Press, Inc." However no copies appear in WorldCat, so it seems likely that Addison-Wesley did not publish the book after all.

Scope and Contents One of the inescapable duties of the regimental commander was the submission of reports detailing his unit's actions. This example, in clerical hand, was signed by Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood (c1831-1914) as commanding officer of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry. The report is dated 10 July 1864, and recounts the regiment's operations from 16 May to 10 July, during the drive on Atlanta. Throughout this period the 22nd was attached to 2nd (Coburn's) Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, in George...

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Papers of Edward Cashman, 1947-1985; consisting of musical scores with music and sometimes lyrics by Edward Cashman; photocopies of programs from musicals produced at Notre Dame during his student years; 1940 yearbook from Spalding Institute, Peoria; mimeographed scripts from shows produced at Catholic University of America; "Syllabus of Speech Sounds" from CUA; and correspondence concerning his musical "I Will, I Will", 1973.

Scope and Content Charismatic Renewal files, 1964-1982; consisting of correspondence, agenda, minutes, reports, directories, and publications; with documentation of Charismatic conferences, committees, prayer meetings, and practices; from groups centered in South Bend, Indiana, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, with some information on other groups; including "Michigan Days of Renewal: Pastoral Newsletter", a mimeographed charismatic renewal circular from the prayer group at Ann Arbor, Michigan, prececessor...

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Lecture notes, exams, syllabi, assignments, etc. regarding various courses Hums taught including Accountancy 232 (Spring 1991), Accountancy 477 (Spring 1990), and Accountancy 231 (Fall 1990); and a file of statistics, schedules, etc. about the Notre Dame Faculty Staff Golf Association, 1991.

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Collection of magazines, clippings, dust jackets, and other ephemera containing illustrations of Edward Gorey. Also includes book catalogs, profiles of Gorey, and reviews of Gorey works.

Scope and Content Letters received by Greene (1871-1915), and copies of Greene's correspondence (1904-1909); notebooks containing descriptions of plant species; clippings and scrapbooks; notebooks containing records of letters sent by Greene (1881-1915); an account book (1830s) and financial records; report of the Botany Department, Catholic University of America (1902); card file of books in Greene's library; botanical and autobiographical articles and manuscripts by Greene; and photographs. ...

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Video tapes concerning population and environment, cultural pluralism, ethnic identity, the melting pot myth, and William Faulkner.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials related to the history of Achill Island and the genealogy of its inhabitants. Included is the correspondence of a prominent local historian, John O’Shea, and his research files and notes on genealogy of the island’s inhabitants and the island’s founder, Edward Nangle. Also included are publications about the island or created on the island, including Nangle’s publications, Achill Missionary Herald and Western...