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James S. Swearingen Letter Book

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Identifier: MSN/EA 5037
Abstract

A letter copy book containing about 125 pieces of outgoing military correspondence written by 1st Lt. James S. Swearingen of the U.S. Army, during service at the frontier post of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1806 to November 1807.

Dates: 1806-1807

James Stephens Letter and Poem

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1012
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a single letter sent from James Stephens to a woman named Nan, as well as a poem, “Optimist,” by Stephens.

Dates: 1925

James Witter Nicholson Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5002
Scope and Contents The collection contains two discrete series of letters. The larger and more significant consists of 51 letters sent to James Witter Nicholson in New Geneva, distributed rather evenly over the years 1804 to 1842. Thirty-nine of these were written by James's sister Maria Nicholson Montgomery, and nine more by his sisters Catharine Nicholson Few (7) and Jehoiadden Nicholson Chrystie (2). These are personal letters, written first and foremost to maintain contact with a distant brother who made...
Dates: 1804-1848

Jesús González Ortega Papers

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Identifier: MSN/MN 0508
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1857-1866; Majority of material found in 1865-1866

J.J. O'Kelly (Sceilg) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1030
Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of the personal papers, letters, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera of John Joseph “J.J.” “Sceilg” O’Kelly in the years 1916-1948. Also included are Seán Óg O’Kelly’s notes and letters on various mid-century Irish labor disputes. Materials include letters, notes, speeches, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, booklets, short stories, ballads, poems, telegrams, letters of condolences, sympathy cards, mass cards, administrative minutes, administrative...
Dates: 1903 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1948

Joe Garagiola Jr. Papers

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Identifier: JGJ
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...
Dates: 1968-1971

John Dinsmore, Jr. Papers

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Identifier: MSN/EA 0503
Abstract

The personal papers and court records of the New Hampshire farmer, innkeeper, and justice of the peace John Dinsmore, Jr. (1759-1814). The greater part of the collection consists of Rockingham County court records.

Dates: 1782-circa 1920; Majority of material found within 1782-1822

John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0504
Abstract

Around 80 manuscripts retained by John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee in the decades following their emigration from Ireland to the United States in 1851. The greater number are personal letters written by family members.

Dates: 1852-1898

John E. Rothensteiner Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: RTH
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...
Dates: 1877-1936.

John F. Delaney Letters

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Identifier: MSN/MN 5004
Abstract

A group of 38 manuscript personal letters of John F. Delaney, chronicling his experiences as a gold prospector in the Yukon and Alaska, 1898-1899.

Dates: 1898-1899

John Joseph "Jack" McGrath Papers

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Identifier: JJM
Scope and Contents This collection consists of football grid graphs created by John J. McGrath while listening to radio broadcasts of Notre Dame football games. McGrath took notes during the game and charted the action on the field as described by the announcers. He recorded and described each play of the game on a football-field shaped diagram, using arrows, lines, and descriptive notes.McGrath’s grid graphs typically went through several phases. The grid graphs started from notes and diagrams...
Dates: 1939-1954

John Kelly Temperance Letter

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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 Lukacs Collection

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Identifier: MSN/MN 10033
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional papers of historian John Lukacs. Lukacs’ professional materials include samples from each stage of his writing process, including research files; article, essay, and poetry drafts; proofs; and published pieces in periodicals and clippings. The collection also contains contracts, financial records and lecture notes from his various teaching positions. Also included is Lukacs’ correspondence. Significant topics include 20th century American history,...
Dates: 1799 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1950 - 2019

John M. Jackson Letters

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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

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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

Joseph P. Roles Letters received

 Fonds
Identifier: ZAX
Scope and Content

Letters that Roles received while rector of St. Mary's Church, Chicago, primarily concerning financial and real estate transactions and investments.

Dates: 1875-1885.

Julia P. Brown Letters

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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

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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

Karl-Werner Gümpel Papers

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Identifier: MSN/MN 10043
Scope and Contents

The collection contains paper files from the later decades of Gümpel's career, including correspondence (notably, correspondence with Michel Huglo), transcriptions of medieval treatises, as well as notes, notebooks and index cards on various manuscripts. Near the end of his life, Gümpel was working on an edition of the anonymous 12-13th century treatise Diologus de musica, and there are many items related to this work in progress.

Dates: 1969 - 2010

Lawrence Shields Letters

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Letters to Joe Jackson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0019
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 127 pieces of fan mail written to baseball player Joe “Shoeless Joe” Jackson in the years after his retirement. The correspondence was in the form of letters and postal cards and nearly all of the letters include the original mailing envelopes. Most of the letters are fan requests for autographs. Some of the autograph requests reference an article about Jackson that appeared in the October 1949 issue of Sport magazine, titled "This Is...
Dates: 1932-2004; Majority of material found within 1932-1957

Lev F. Konson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0007
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of personal letters (1974-1980) from L.F. Konson to his cousin, Maya Konson (b. 1931) and her family, who had immigrated to Israel in 1974.

Dates: 1974 - 1980

Liam Creagh Collection on Brendan Behan

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Identifier: MSE/IR 1070
Abstract

Correspondence and ephemera relating to Brendan Behan.

Dates: 1957-1971

Loome Catholic Modernism Collection

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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

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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

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