Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Content Copies of typewritten transcripts of documentation assembled by the Bishop Baraga Association in support of the cause for his canonization as a saint; consisting of correspondence, reports, journal and account-book entries, and invoices. Also microfilm containing correspondence, 1850s-1860s; an Indian language (Ottawa or Chippewa) catechism; an introduction to Catholicism in North America, in German, possibly written for the Leopoldine Society; and correspondence and records of...

Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of printed material and ephemera related to the first four Gay Games / Gay Olympic Games: San Francisco (1982), San Francisco (1986), Vancouver (1990), and New York City (1990). The materials—including programs, guidebooks, and other publications—document the athletes, the sporting competitions, other events associated with the Gay Games, and fundraising for the events. Formats include. programs, books, posters, advertising fliers, memorabilia, sheet music,...

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This collection of papers consists of materials created by Grace Atkinson Oliver, a 19th century American author and advocate of women's rights. Notable topics discussed in the papers include the portrayal of women in literature, morality and the press, taxation and the conditions at Danvers Asylum in Massachusetts.

Scope and Content An inventory of material collected by Sister Helen Angela for her biography of Ireland, John of St. Paul: The Making of Archbishop Ireland; correspondence concerning the biography, 1953-1961; and clippings and a manuscript by Sister Angela concerning Ireland's work as a Civil War chaplain. Also microfilm containing notes and transcripts of letters in two different hands and clippings that span the years 1892-1905; concerning Catholic schools in America, the Spanish-American...

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A four-volume illustrated memoir, in scrapbook form, of the World War I military service of Humphrey M. Barbour, an artillery officer in the American Army's 42nd (Rainbow) Division. In addition to a 220-page typescript memoir the volumes contain close to 1000 photographic prints, postcards, published halftones, maps, manuscript military records, and drawings relating to Barbour's service, 1917 to 1919.

Scope and Content Journals, personal correspondence, business correspondence, and memorabilia including broadsides and advertisements, calling and business cards, invitations, announcements, menus, post cards, programs, religious objects, tickets, and passes; class records including student lists, grade books, student exams and class notes, files on student organizations, and other student records; records of the Lemonnier Library including correspondence, library subscription and use records, publishers'...

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A collection of letters and other papers belonging to Jesús González Ortega, an important political and military figure in mid-19th century Mexico. The papers mainly relate to González Ortega's stay in the United States in 1865-1867, the efforts of Benito Juárez's government in Mexico to remove him from political office while he was away, and his detainment by the U.S. government in November 1866.

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Scrapbook concerning American Catholicism containing many articles from Boston-area newspapers.

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Letters received by Cappon, from his brother and others in Belgium, and letters regarding his parish, personal finances, and diocesan questions such as marriage dispensations from bishop; some correspondence unconnected to Cappon; and sermons, notes, certificates, and church documents. Correspondents include Rev. John De Neve, Bishop Peter Paul Lefevre of Detroit, and Bishop Caspar H. Borgess of Detroit.

Scope and Content Nine books of class notes taken by Fitzgerald during the last years of his undergraduate education at Boston College (1932-1933), during the years of his doctoral training at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium (1933-1937), and during a term of postdoctoral research at Louvain (Fall 1947); with notes on Thomist philosophy. Also a mimeographed booklet called Notes on Cosmology printed at Boston College (1932); and a printed Boston College Junior Philosophy Oral...

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Papers relating to the five sessions of the Special Papal Commission on Birth and Population Control and to the three meetings of the planning groups: consisting of material from meetings, correspondence, theological papers, demographic papers, sociological papers, economic papers, medical papers, and psychological papers.

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...

Scope and Content Manuscripts of Joseph C. Carrier's translation from volume four of Ambrose Guillois's Explication Historique, Dogmatique, Morale, Liturgique, et Canonique du Catéchism and lectures drawing on volume one of the same work, probably delivered at the University of Notre Dame circa 1870; copies of reports on educational institutions of the Congregation of Holy Cross and on Catholic education, 1872; lectures on chemistry delivered at Notre Dame in spring of 1873; copies...

Scope and Content Chiefly correspondence, including letters written by Selinger during his years as a student at the North American College in Rome and as a teacher at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee to Rev. Anton Pauk of St. Louis; letters from H.J. Heuser, O.J.S. Hoog, and Bede Maler, OSB, some of them concerning Selinger's views on agnosticism; letters from rectors of the Catholic University of America John J. Keane, D.J. O'Connell, and Thomas J. Conaty; and letters from M. Cardinal Faulhaber, A....

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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.

Scope and Content Microfilm contains correspondence of many Austrians who were active in the American mission field, including St. John Neumann, Bishop of Philadelphia; Frederic Baraga, Bishop of Marquette; Father Caspar Rehrl, founder of the Sisters of St. Agnes; Father Joseph Salzmann, founder of St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee; Father Francis X. Pierz, missionary, especially in Minnesota; Father John Stephen Raffeiner of New York. Other correspondents include Vincentius Eduard Milde,...

Scope and Content Documents include a letter from Neyron to James McIntyre concerning acquaintances at Notre Dame (1866). a letter received by Neyron from Bishop M.J. Spalding of Louisville concerning Know Nothingism in Indiana (1855), a letter from a former student at Notre Dame requesting help (1888), and a fragment of a document. Collection also includes material gathered in 1977 for a memorial service in Albany, Indiana, and one reel of microfilm containing transcripts of seven letters by or...

Scope and Content Five reels of letters from the United States to the Ludwig Mission Society and two reels of the society's magazine, Annalen der Glaubensverbreitung, volumes one through twenty-one (1848-1868), in which many of the letters were published. Correspondents include Rev. Franz Xaver Weninger, bishops Frederick Baraga, Egidius Jünger, Joseph Melcher, Ignatius Mrak, Michael O'Connor, Maurice de Saint-Palais, Rupert Seidenbusch, OSB, John Timon, CM, Richard V. Whelan, and others. Most...

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Chiefly drafts and criticisms of the documents of the Second Vatican Council, with some related correspondence; schemata, circular letters, memoranda, interventions, and commentaries; handwritten, typewritten, mimeographed, photocopied and printed material.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts assembled by the archives.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 220 individual periodical issues with covers that feature boxer Muhammad Ali. The collection includes about sixty different titles. Boxing magazines include titles like Natonal Police Gazette, The Ring, and Boxing Digest. General sports magazines include magazines like Sports Illustrated and World Sports. General interest magazines include...

Scope and Content Microfilmed excerpts of books containing texts and translations of 12th to 14th century Irish documents; including 12th century correspondence concerning the invasion of Ireland by King Henry II; 14th century letters of submission from chiefs and kings of Ireland to King Richard II; the charter to the city of Dublin (1171-1229); the statutes of the city of Kilkenny (1366); and a (12th century?) mythological account of Ireland from the time of the biblical flood until the birth of St....

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Microfilm of a rule book for the Oblates of Providence. The rule book, in French, followed by an English version, details obligations of the superior, oblates, and postulates, tasks to be done, Sunday and feast day observances, guidelines for the school and the children attending it, daily routine, dress, education for the sisters, and reformed constitution in French. The reel contains two copies of the book.

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Diary (1866-1878) containing financial records; exercise book (1870-1875) containing translation exercises.

In Latin, French, and English.

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Three idiosyncratic manuscript journals of deeply cynical leftist political commentary, written by an unidentified Irish-American resident of Pittsburgh, ca. 1922-1932. The journals treat local, national, and international affairs, contemporaneous and historical: there is much on World War I, Ireland, and American politics generally. The volumes are illustrated with some 750 drawings, many of them portraits.

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Collection consists of event programs, reviews of operatic performances and publications, interviews, photographs, and recordings documenting the career of Georgine Resick, current Professor Emerita of Voice at the University of Notre Dame. Collection materials cover Resick’s career as an opera singer, spanning performances from 1975 to 2012, many of which took place in European countries.

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A collection of research files comprised of printed ephemera, correspondence, manuscripts, audio recordings, and other materials documenting the activities and work of more than 100 conceptual artists, assembled by Robert C. Morgan during his professional career as an artist, art historian, curator, and author from 1968-2015.

Scope and Content Microfilm of correspondence of Simon Gabriel Bruté, first Bishop of Vincennes (1834-1839), both before and after his appointment as bishop, made from documents in various collections held by the University of Notre Dame Archives. Consists mainly of letters handwritten by Bruté, with some printed material and correspondence received by Bruté. Correspondents include William Gaston, Rev. Stephen T. Badin, and bishops Joseph Rosati, CM, John Timon, CM, John Baptist David, SS, Guy...

Scope and Content Letters, 1828-1930, from the United States to the central council at Paris (27 reels of microfilm) arranged by diocese; and letters to and minutes of the central council at Lyon, 1822-1900, arranged chronologically (15 reels of microfilm). Correspondents include many members of the American hierarchy, among them Joseph Sadoc Alemany, August M. Blanchet, Francis Norbert Blanchet, Timothy Corbett, Joseph Fréri, Henry Granjon, John Baptist Lamy, Joseph P. Macheboeuf, Augustus M....

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Material concerning the commemoration of Fr. Sorin's birth in Ahuillé, France. The commemoration took place in Ahuillé on 14 September 1978, with Father Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, participating. Consists of correspondence received by the Archives in connection with the event; Hesburgh's speech at the commemoration; and xerox copies of newspaper articles concerning the event.