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Negro Leagues Players Letters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0012
Content Description 15 letters and cards written and signed by former Negro Leagues players responding to autograph collector Joel Meltzer. The correspondence ranges from small cards to multi-page letters. The authors of many letters discuss the best players they faced, answer other questions, and sometimes provide biographical details. Many letters reference photos or cards signed by the players for Meltzer. None of the letters, however, are accompanied by any signed memorabilia. There are also no envelopes or...
Dates: c. 1991-95

New York Yankees Sunday Baseball Correspondence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0010
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, and other items related to the New York Yankees' efforts to encourage state legislation (primarily the 1918 Lawson Bill) permitting Sunday baseball in New York state. Many of the letters are directed to Yankees president Jacob Ruppert by politicians responding to the club's letter asking, “Will you, if elected, favor an amendment of the Penal Code which will permit the citizens to enjoy professional base ball and other forms of harmless...
Dates: 1915 - 1928; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

Nicolas Miletitch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0045
Scope and Contents The first part of the collection includes a video archive of interviews conducted by Nicolas Miletitch with seventeen famous Soviet human rights activists and dissidents. The video archive is accompanied by full transcripts of interviews. The interviewees describe their “anti-Soviet” activities defending human rights under the totalitarian regime in the 1960s-1980s. Among topics discussed are working of the Solzhenitsyn Fund; activities of the Moscow Helsinki Watch group (1976-1980) which...
Dates: 1970-2020

Nora Ashe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1045
Scope and Contents This collection consists of several pieces of correspondence and ephemera originally sent to Nora Ashe in June 1916 and June 1917. Included are three letters, two telegrams, and one copy of the Liberator newspaper.The content mainly relates to the imprisonment of Nora’s brother, Thomas Ashe, in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, his homecoming journey in June 1917 as well as some references to the impending 1917 East Clare by-election. One letter additionally hints at...
Dates: 1916 - 1917

Norah Borges Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0004
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the personal letters of Norah Borges. All but one letter are sent to Esther Haldo de Amorim, with one letter sent to Aurora Haldo de Haldo. Also included are four drawings by Borges, and two programs of Borges’ exhibitions. Materials include letters, postcards, drawings, and pamphlets.

Dates: 1932 - 1971

Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LOB
Scope and Contents Documents created between 1856 and 1947 and collected by multiple individuals and institutions with connections to the town of Harbor Springs, Michigan, and surrounding communities. The bulk of the collection documents the efforts of Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird to substantiate and defend claims to land ownership and annuities on behalf of Odawa and Ojibwa bands in Little Traverse Bay and nearby communities, stipulated in treaties signed with the United States government in 1836...
Dates: 1856 - 1947

Ann Arbour Olyniec Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAO
Abstract

Collection of letters written to and from Ann Arbour Olyniec, a member of the first cohort of female students to begin undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame in 1972. Letters document Olyniec’s experiences as an undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, Saint Mary’s College, and The University of Notre Dame from 1970 to 1974.

Dates: 1970 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1974

Ora W. Harvey Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5026
Abstract

A four-page letter written on 15 April 1863 by Civil War private Ora W. Harvey of the 46th Massachusetts Infantry, mostly discussing camp recreations, especially baseball.

Dates: 15 April 1863

Orestes Augustus Brownson Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BRO
Scope and Content Correspondence, journal, clippings, and manuscript drafts of books, speeches, articles, and essays, both published and unpublished, 1823-1876; including correspondence with the Comte de Montalembert, Louis Veuillot, Lord Acton, John Henry Cardinal Newman, George Bancroft, Salmon Chase, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Hecker, Henry David Thoreau, and Archbishops John Hughes, Francis Patrick Kenrick and Martin Spalding; manuscripts of essays by Albert Brisbane, Archbishop Francis P. Kenrick, George...
Dates: 1823-1876.

Packet Ship Liverpool Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5022
Abstract

A collection of fourteen manuscripts, mostly letters, providing first-hand accounts of the sinking of the packet ship Liverpool in the North Atlantic in July 1822. The principal author is Hewlett Townsend Coles, the ship's second officer.

Dates: 1822

Pádraig Ó Concheanainn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1083
Abstract

A collection of the papers of Pádraig Ó Concheanainn, including letters on Irish language publications and family papers.

Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1928-1972

Paris-Heard Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0507
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of members of the Paris and Heard families of Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. Materials date from 1852 to 1937, with the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction years all represented. Included are land deeds, contracts, and militia records of James R. Paris, as well as family correspondence and photographs. The Antebellum letters are chiefly between Lucy Paris, James’s wife, and her family, while later correspondence is mainly between...
Dates: 1852-1937

Parsons-Williams Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 8501
Scope and Contents The collection consists of eleven letters and two records dating from 1757 to 1777. Six of the letters are directed to Sarah Williams (four from the years before her marriage to Parsons, one from the time of the marriage, and one from after Parsons' death). Most are from female friends or relatives. There are three letters from Joseph Parsons, Jr. to his father, mostly relating to land and debts. Two additional letters (April 1764) were provoked by the ill health of Joseph Parsons, Jr. There...
Dates: 1757-1759

Patrick McCabe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 2717
Scope and Contents This collection documents the professional career of Irish writer Patrick McCabe. The majority of the collection consists of rough drafts of his drama, prose, and poetry, including some of his most popular works in film and literature, Breakfast on Pluto and The Butcher Boy. The collection also contains various ephemera and promotional materials for his published works. Also included are newspaper and magazine interviews, works of other writers,...
Dates: 1946-2013; Majority of material found in 1980-2010

Paul Boesch Best of Texas Wrestling Financial Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10164
Scope and Contents This collection contains financial records related to 34 professional wrestling matches promoted by Paul Boesch in the city of Houston, Texas in the first half of the 1980s. Boesch’s promotion company was named Gulf Athletic Club and then Best of Texas Wrestling. Records include copies of tax reports sent to the Texas Department of Labor and Standards detailing wrestler pay and ticket sale information for matches; ticket sales account sheets for matches; wrestler paysheets for matches; gate...
Dates: 1980-1985

Peed Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5037
Abstract

Sixteen personal letters written by the brothers John Nathaniel Peed and James Oscar Peed, during their Civil War service in Co. I, 9th Virginia Cavalry (CS). Many of John Peed's 14 letters were written in 1864-65, from the environs of Petersburg.

Dates: 1862-1865

Peter H. Korth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: PHK
Content Description The collection consists of correspondence and a magazine article documenting a 1976-1977 controversy involving a student, Peter Korth and William F. Buckley Jr. The materials detail the aftermath of Korth's article, "The Factor that Max Forgot," published in the November 5, 1976 issue of the Scholastic, which contained libelous statements regarding Buckley's personal life.Included are letters from Buckley to Father Theodore Hesburgh expressing his grievance; letters of apology...
Dates: 1976 November - 1977 March

Philadelphia Chinese Social Relief Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10028
Scope and Contents

The materials in this collection document the efforts of a very early social welfare organization in Philadelphia to aid the city’s Chinese citizens. Materials include correspondence of Edward Syle, an Episcopal missionary who worked closely with the Chinese; reports and minutes of meetings of the welfare committee; and a draft of the committee’s constitution.

Dates: 1883 - 1885

Philip Gleason Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: GLE
Scope and Content Professional correspondence, 1967-1976; manuscripts of publications; correspondence and programs from the Orestes Brownson Memorial Conference, University of Notre Dame (1976), and the American Catholic Historical Association meetings at Notre Dame (1968, 1979); correspondence and minutes concerning the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for the Bicentennial, 1975-1976; correspondence, directories and papers from the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs,...
Dates: 1869-[ongoing]

Polievktov-Nikoladze Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0001
Abstract

This collection derives from three generations of a prominent and historically important Russian-Georgian family. It includes personal and professional correspondence, diaries, documents, photographs, and other manuscript and print formats.

Dates: 1890s-1980s

Price Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5110
Abstract

Thirty-one personal letters written between members of the Price family of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois during the American Civil War. The letters are notable for their Copperhead and anti-abolitionist sentiments.

Dates: 1863-1865

Pugh Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5009
Abstract

A group of 12 letters written by the Western Pennsylvania Quakers John and Joseph Pugh during the Civil War. Included are 6 letters written by John during his service aboard the U.S.S. Quaker City, of the navy's East Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Dates: 1862-1864

R. Otto Probst Golf Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10032
Content Description The bulk of this collection relates to R. Otto Probst's acquisition of golf books during the 1930s. Probst compiled a large and noteworthy library of books about golf, and the thousands of pieces of correspondence (both incoming and outgoing), receipts, and invoices document his acquisition of new golfing titles from rare book dealers, auction houses, and other vendors. Probst had frequent transactions with First Edition Book Shop in London, England, run by well-known collector Cecil...
Dates: 1927-1950

Randolph Huntington Horse Breeding Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_7008
Content Description

A group of 53 letters from 27 correspondents sent to the noted horse breeder Randolph Huntington. All the letters in the collection deal with horses and breeding and are seeking information or advice from Huntington. Most of the letters in the collection date to after February 1894. The designation "ALS" for files indicates a handwritten autograph signed letter.

Dates: 1881-1903

Raymond E. F. Larsson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3000
Abstract

A collection consisting of the correspondence, writings, and drawings of the American poet Raymond E. F. Larsson (1901-1991). Also present are manuscripts by other authors, miscellaneous printed matter, and items relating to a 1983 exhibit about Larsson held in Notre Dame's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Dates: 1927-1983; Majority of material found within , 1940-1960

Read Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5015
Abstract

A small group of papers originating with the Read family of the central Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Included are 28 letters written by three different family members during the Civil War: Confederate States soldier Thomas Griffin Read, Co. I, 33rd Virginia Infantry (10 letters); his wife Martha White Read, of Augusta County (15 letters); and the CS artilleryman John Henry Read (3 letters).

Dates: 1850-after 1900; Majority of material found in 1861-1865

Red Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10061
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith. It includes: Smith's clipped copies of his printed columns, mostly 1954-1982; newspapers and magazines with pieces by or about Smith; clipped columns of Stanley Woodward and Joe H. Palmer; manuscripts and/or proofs of several of Smith's books; an accumulation of around 125 manuscript letters preserved by Smith, including examples signed by Melvin Belli, ...
Dates: 1888 - 2010; Majority of material found in 1945-1982

Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 1001
Scope and Contents The bulk of the Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers consist of a group of notebooks compiled by football coach Reginald W. P. "Reggie" Brown. Five notebooks (1904, 1905, 1905, 1911, and 1914) document Brown’s years as an assistant coach at Harvard University. One notebook (1928) comes from his stint as the head football coach at Boston University. The 1904 and 1905 notebooks chronicle the events of those Harvard seasons through clippings, practice notes, games notes, play diagrams, game...
Dates: 1904-1997; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1939

Reverend Bernard Schlegel Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5026
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of letters written 1952-1956 from Bernard Schlegel to his parents while studying to be a priest at the Pontifical North American College in Vatican City. Also included are two essay drafts, a journal, pamphlets, and prayer cards marking the ordination of fellow priests.

Dates: 1949-1956

Richard C. Morgan Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5050
Abstract

A personal letter written from Columbus, Ohio on 25 August 1863 by Confederate Col. Richard C. Morgan, 14th Kentucky Cavalry, following his capture on John Hunt Morgan's Indiana-Ohio Raid. The letter is directed to sister-in-law Martha Ready Morgan, John Morgan's wife.

Dates: 25 August 1863

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Badin, Stephen T. (Stephen Theodore), 1768-1853 2
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 2
Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 1803-1876 2
Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Cincinnati (OH) 2
Confederate States of America. Army 2
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, 1st 2
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 26th 2
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 30th 2
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 8th 2
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 2
Democratic Party (U.S.) 2
Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957 2
Elder, William Henry, 1819-1904 2
Fenwick, Edward D. (Edward Dominic), 1768-1832 2
Ginzburg, Arina Sergeevna, 1937-2021 2
Hecker, Isaac Thomas, 1819-1888 2
Lukacs, John, 1924-2019 2
Manion, Clarence, 1896-1979 2
Pius IX, Pope, 1792-1878 2
Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823 2
Purcell, John Baptist, 1800-1883 2
Rockne, Knute, 1888-1931 2
Rosecrans, Sylvester Horton, Bishop of Columbus, 1827-1878 2
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 2
Snite Museum of Art 2
Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1880-1962 2
Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) 2
Tunney, Gene (James Joseph), 1897-1978 2
Abbeville Athletics (Baseball team) 1
Abbey Theatre 1
Abbott, Leonard Dalton, 1878-1953 1
Achill Missionary Herald and Western Witness 1
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Ahern, M. E. (Mary Eileen), 1860-1938 1
Aksenov, Vasilii, 1932-2009 1
Albrecht VI, Duke of Bavaria, 1584-1666 1
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1
Alekseeva, Liudmila Mikhailovna, 1927-2018 1
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 1
Allingham, William, 1789-1866 1
Amadeus Victor, Duke of Savoy, I, 1587-1637 1
Amadeus Victor, King of Sardinia, I, 1666-1732 1
American Catholic Historical Association 1
American Football League 1
Amorim, Esther Haldo de 1
Andersen, Eric 1
Anderson, Leroy Hammond, 1814-1863 1
Anderson, Rasmus Bjorn, 1846-1936 1
Anderson, William H., 1836-1902 1
Anselm, Kasimir, Archbishop of Mainz, 1583-1647 1
Aosdána (Organization) 1
Archibald, Edward Mortimer, 1810-1884 1
Arnold, Dennis H., 1819-1892 1
Arnold, Mary E., 1826-1883 1
Asarkan, Alexander, 1930-2004 1
Ashe, Nora, 1882–1970 1
Ashe, Thomas, 1885-1917 1
Asociación Pro-Derechos de la Mujer 1
Association of Chicago Priests 1
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 1
Axenova, Antonina 1
Babic, Ljubo, 1890-1974 1
Bakhchani︠a︡n, Vagrich 1
Baldwin, Albert J. (Albert Jehiel), 1839-1912 1
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 1
Barabtarlo, Gennady, 1949- 1
Baraga, Frederic, 1797-1868 1
Barker, Cicero R., 1848-1917 1
Barrès, Maurice, 1862-1923 1
Barrier, Rufus A. (Rufus Alexander), 1836-1876 1
Barrier, William L. (William Lafayette), 1834-1864 1
Battle Creek Belles (Baseball team) 1
Beatty, William, 1739-circa 1804 1
Beatty, William, Jr., 1758-1781 1
Begun, Yosif, 1932- 1
Behan, Brendan 1
Belinaye, Maurice-René, Viscount de la, 1739-1794 1
Bell, Bert, 1894-1959 1
Bellamy, Amanda M., circa 1810-1845 1
Beláustegui Rodríguez, Melchor, 1811-1885 1
Beláustegui-Bustamante Family 1
Benjamin, René, 1885-1948 1
Bermingham, John C., 1920-2010 1
Bettle, Mary, 1833-1912 1
Big Time Wrestling (Boston, Mass.) 1
Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team) 1
Blackbird, Andrew J., 1810- 1
Blanchard, Abel, Jr., 1798-1867 1
Blanchard, Barnes, 1807-1878 1
Blanchard, Benjamin, 1786-1869 1
Blanchard, Lewis, 1788-1847 1
Blanchard, Mark, 1790-1839 1