Hesburgh Libraries

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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).

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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.

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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.

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 Content Personal correspondence (1917-1923); correspondence of the Hurley Machine Company; French correspondence from the Office of the American Commercial Attaché and correspondence concerning the Labor Adjustment Board, the United States Shipping Board, the Peace Conference of 1919, and Housing at Hog Island; manuscripts of The Bridge to France and related papers including some early correspondence (1910-1917) of John Harlan and Woodrow Wilson; photocopies of letters from Woodrow Wilson, Calvin...

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Manuscripts of a A Textbook of Evolution (1952) and Genetics: the Modern Science of Heredity (1956).

Scope and Content Correspondence or copies of correspondence from Stephen T. Badin, Julian Benoit, and various American bishops regarding local and university legal and religious matters; letters to Vicar General Augustus Mary Martin at Terre Haute, Indiana, and Saint Theodore Guerin, Mother Superior of the Sisters of Providence at St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana; writings, meditations, instructions; a statement by Sorin on the relationship between the sisters at Notre Dame and those at St. Mary's College...

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1941-1955; copies of letters from John Tracy Ellis, 1927-1970, and of a memoir by Ellis; sermons and writings by Cardinal; correspondence, minutes, and printed material from such organizations as NCCJ, 1940s-1950s, Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 1943-1954, and Sheil School, 1943-1954; Cardinal's subject files concerning brotherhood (1930s-1960s), American Catholic history (1920s), youth, adult education, and Bishop Bernard Sheil; printed material on anti-semitism...

Scope and Content Correspondence, agenda, minutes, reports, newsletters, and constitutions for the Academic Council, 1966-1976; American Association of University Professors, 1971-1976; Arts and Letters Advisory Committee, 1974-1975; Campus Honor Committee, 1972-1973; Dean's Committee on Collegiate Development, 1971-1972; English Department, 1968-1972; Graduate Council, 1967-1968; Honor System at Notre Dame, 1963-1970; Humanities Committee, 1971-1972; and the Student Life Council, 1969-1971; concerning...

Scope and Content Eight photographs, most of them albumen cartes-de-visites, dating from late in the nineteenth century, several by James Bonney, with images of Notre Dame faculty members Auguste Lemonnier, CSC, William Corby, CSC, Joseph Lyons, Dr. C. J. Lundy, and Professor Arthur Stace; of Timothy Howard and Mrs. Howard; of A. Calameri; of twins who joined the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Sister Presentation Tong, CSC, and Sister Purification Tong, CSC; and a few unidentified others; also one...

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Letters and cards from William A. Moloney, CSC, to Edyth Spalding; a copy of St. Patrick's Church Bulletin, 19 uly 1931, announcing that Fr. Moloney will leave the parish; printed material concerning the death of Fr. Moloney; and printed ephemera concerning the Bengal missions of the Congregation of Holy Cross.

Scope and Content Correspondence, printed matter, mimeographed reports, fliers, clippings, and a history of the American PAX Association by Eileen Egan, "Crime Against God and Man: the Struggle of the Small Vehicle, PAX"; with material on Christian nonviolence, on the Catholic just war doctrine and difficulties of Catholic conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War; including documentation of the PAX Tivoli Conferences at the Catholic Worker Farm and a few items pertaining to other issues of...

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58 letters written by Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., to Sister Elaine DesRosiers, O.P., (1963-1976), and a background narrative by DesRosiers concerning the letters (1992); annals written by Sister Elaine, 1976-1998, and a copy of her family's history, Gregoire - Des Rosiers, by Ben Fontaine (Baltimore, 1996).

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Russian and French manuscripts, notes, bibliographical material, and transcriptions of early sources for the study of St. Maxim the Greek, about whom Denissoff wrote a prize-winning book, Maxime le Grec et l'Occident, contribution à l'histoire de la pensée religieuse et philosophique de Michel Trivolis (Paris: Desclée, de Brouwer, 1943), with a small quantity of material having to do with his other books and research.