Hesburgh Libraries

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Correspondence, 1910s-1930s, including a thank-you note from Theodore Roosevelt, 29 July 1918; scrapbooks of DeVille, 1910s-1930s; and printed material including The Good Samaritan, (April 1924), a monthly publication of the Judge Gary - Bishop Alerding Settlement House, and DeVille's Back from Belgium: A Secret History of Three Years within the German Lines (1919).

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Unpublished manuscript of his "History of the 58th Regt. Illinois Infantry Volunteers From Sept. 1861 to April 1866" and a typewritten transcript of it; correspondence with members of the 58th Regiment, 1894-1905; clippings and pamphlets concerning the Civil War; manuscript essays by Spillard; and information on Brigadier General Robert W. Healy, Colonel William Lynch, and Daniel Joseph Spillard, CSC.

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Scripts, reports, schedules, lists, and Notre Dame Scholastic articles concerning radio and television broadcasting at Notre Dame, 1935-1956, on WSBT, WND (later WSND), and WNDU-TV; and Fallon's Curriculum Vitae, 1992.

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Newspaper clipping, 1899, concerning experiments in wireless telegraphy conducted by Jerome J. Green.

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Chronological files and subject files; including memoirs, manuscript material, printed material, mimeographed material, photocopies, photographs and audio tapes; representing his family background, education, pastoral career, and participation in many Catholic organizations including the Christian Family Movement, International Conferederation of Christian Family Movements, National Marriage Encounter, Young Christian Workers, and the National Federation of Priests' Councils.

Scope and Content Printed material, ephemera, clippings, correspondence, photos, an Irish Village wooden building, etc. relating to the three Hammes Bookstores at Notre Dame, 1955-2009; a Notre Dame Athletic and Convocation Center Commemorative Medal distributed by Romy Hammes; captioned photographs (printed on plain paper) of three Hammes-related exhibits at the December 1968 dedication of the ACC; an email message, some newspaper clippings, and photocopies from the Notre Dame Archives' collections regarding...

Scope and Content Letters sent by the American hierarchy and various missionaries to correspondents in Europe (primarily England) concerning the activities, suppression, and restoration of the Jesuits; including letters from Jesuit Archbishops John Carroll (1735-1815) and Leonard Neale (1746-1817); with a printed copy of a Maryland bill entitled "An Act for Securing Certain Estates and Property for the Support and Uses of the Ministers of the Roman Catholic Religion" (no date) and a pamphlet entitled "A Short...

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Correspondence, 1867-1889, and a manuscript of Toohey's translation of Elementary Course in Philosophy by E. Barbe, 1890.

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Unfinished manuscript of Origins of Western Christian Worship: A Study of the Earliest Christian Liturgy and related material including notes, drafts, correspondence, lectures, xerox copies, offprints, mimeographed material, and a bibliography.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1950s-1977; her writings, including leaflets for her Damascene pictures (1957), entries for the New Catholic Encyclopedia (1963), articles concerning the role of women in the church (1970s), and an unpublished book-length manuscript, My Peregrinations: An Autobiography (1977); reviews of her book The Lady Was a Bishop (1973); and copies of such personal records as birth and baptismal certificates. Also some of her films: Shakespeare Songs, Fight for the Right...

Scope and Content Personal files, 1950s-2000s; sports files, bulk 1970s- 1990s; Ara Parseghian column ghostwriting files, 1960s and 1980s; Notre Dame football files, bulk 1950s-1970s; newspaper clippings of Doyle articles, March-April 1962, April 1967, and August-November 1971; football game play-by-play notes, 1957-1980; reporter's notebooks, ca. 2000s; loose manuscripts, including several book-length manuscripts by other authors; many unfiled papers and some unlabeled folders and envelopes; and photographs...

Scope and Contents The Joe Garagiola Jr. Papers consist of materials related to a 1971 WSND student radio documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Knute Rockne. WSND Sports Director Art Martin and Assistant WSND Sports Director Joe Garagiola Jr. produced the Rockne documentary that aired in March of 1971. The collection contains original correspondence between Martin/Garagiola and players and other people who had known Rockne before his death in 1931. The collection also contains material...

Scope and Content Manuscripts of books, plays, and articles; correspondence, notes, reprints, clippings, news releases, syndicated columns, artifacts, photographs, tape recordings, and subject files; and Catholic pamphlets and books by O'Brien and others; concerning priestly celibacy, birth control, the Masons, converts, anti- Catholicism, evolution, education, and the Crusade for Souls. Most of Father O'Brien's papers and printed material (over 60 linear feet) came to the archives as part of the...

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

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Travel diary (1869-1870); letters received as editor of the Notre Dame Scholastic (1878-1894); letters received from his relatives (1864-1892); letters of obedience for his appointments at Notre Dame and Watertown; manuscripts of essays and poems, some by O'Connell, collected for the Scholastic; and miscellaneous clippings.

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Notes and printed material of John A. Poirier, Notre Dame Professor of physics since 1961; including notes and reports dealing with quantum mechanics, nuclear theory, and electronic circuits, photocopied journal articles, drafts of writings, and a dissertation on threshold enhancement by James J. Phelan.

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Correspondence, 1925-1941; gradebooks, 1925-1942, 1944; employee contracts, 1922-1940; and a photograph.

Scope and Content Correspondence, memorabilia, drafts, clippings, mimeographed notes and handouts; notebooks of John Oesterle; a Polish translation of one of his books, Etyka ; files from courses he taught; correspondence between the Oesterles and Charles de Koninck; personal files of Jean Oesterle representing among other things her work as managing editor of The New Scholasticism ; with drafts of her translation of St. Thomas Aquinas' ...

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Documentation of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the South Bend area, 1972-1980s; consisting of correspondence, mimeographed and ditto material, and printed ephemera on the People of Praise and Charismatics; also some material on cults, and an anthropological study of True House by Fr. Ken McGuire, CSP: "People, Prayer and Promise" (Ph.D Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1976).

Scope and Content Manuscripts of works by Zahm, including his South American trilogy and Women in Science; publications by Zahm; correspondence, bills, and receipts concerning purchases of Italian books and art, 1901-1906; personal correspondence, lectures, drafts of essays, pamphlets, postcards, a bibliography on women, articles on Zahm published after his death; tintypes and albumen and silver gelatin photographs, with images of South America, including pictures of Zahm and Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he...

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Correspondence, minutes, and clippings, 1958-1978, of the Notre Dame Library Council, collected by John Bennet Shaw, who was board chairman from 1963 to 1978. The purpose of the Library Council was "to create a group of book collectors and book lovers who will work for Notre Dame's library by contributing rare and expensive books."

Scope and Contents This collection documents John C. Bermingham's time a student at the University of Notre Dame from 1938-1942. Of particular note are the materials related to Bermingham's job as the Senior Manager of the Notre Dame varsity football team during the 1941 season. The records relate to Bermingham's responsibilities as Manager, including organizing the traveling party for away games, managing sideline passes for home games, and other activities. The collection contains photographs, documents,...

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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.

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Letter book with entries dating from 13 May 1848 to 22 April 1850, including letters to Robert Walsh (U.S. Consul, Paris), John Jay, Commodore W.C. Bolton, Daniel J. Carroll, General Jackson Morton, William Carroll, and James Richard; and photographs. Most of the letters have to do with patents, settlement of estates, payment of bills, and the circumstances of the Brent family after the death of John Carroll Brent's father.

Scope and Content Correspondence and subject files; copies of published articles and columns; drafts of Cogley's memoirs (A Canterbury Tale); bound volumes of Today (1947-1950) and the Chicago Catholic Worker (1938-1941); clippings of his reports on the Second Vatican Council for Religious News Service (1964) and of his columns for the diocesan press (1967-1968); correspondence and clippings relating to his writing for the New York Times (1964-1975); an unpublished manuscript of a collection of his writing...

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Correspondence dealing mostly with Shea's writing and his financial difficulties; manuscripts of the first three volumes of his History of the Catholic Church in the United States; and a manuscript of his American Martyrology: lives of Catholic missionaries killed on the Indian missions in Canada and the United States from the earliest times.

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Scope and Content Primarily correspondence; correspondents include Henry Hussman, John B. Quinn, Boniface Rauch, OSB, and Theodore Vose; some of the correspondence involves Ursuline Sisters, School Sisters of Notre Dame, and the Missouri State Historical Society. Also manuscripts of several historical articles, a catalog of Rothensteiner's personal library and of the Rothensteiner collection at Mundelein College; and personal papers of William Faerber (1841- 1905). The Notre Dame University...

Scope and Content Pamphlets, reprints of articles, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, and unpublished papers relating to social issues such as labor unions, communism, economics, and civil rights, as well as a wide range of topics in moral theology (1935-1977); notes and syllabi for courses Cronin taught at St. Mary's Seminary (1967-ca.1974); copies of Cronin's unpublished report "The Problem of American Communism in 1945" (1945) completed for the National Catholic Welfare Conference; correspondence and...

Scope and Content Schemata, quaestiones, modi, relationes, animadversiones, texti emendati, texti recogniti, votae, normae, disquisitii, allocutiones, observations, reports, liturgies, correspondence, circular letters, newsletters, notes, lists, agenda, minutes, and other documents, most of them in Latin, from the Second Vatican Council (1962- 1965), Roman synods (1967-1985), consistories of cardinals (1969-1985), and meetings of Vatican congregations, secretariats, and commissions (1962-1987); Records...

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Legal documents including his will; a notebook of arithmetic and poetry; and manuscripts of articles on the history of astronomy. Two volumes contain his financial accounts dating from his years as a merchant; part of one volume filed with early Notre Dame financial books (ULDG), contains further financial records.