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McCracken Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5020
Abstract
A collection of more than 500 personal letters directed to Frank and Ruth McCracken at Toston, Montana. The letters span the years between the wars; most were written by relations and acquaintances in Minnesota, Montana, and (especially) North Dakota. In addition to personal and social content, there is much allusion to the broader economic, geographic, and cultural forces that shaped life on the Northern plains in the 1920s and 30s.
Dates:
1912-1944; Majority of material found in ( 1918-1944)
Meek Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5053
Abstract
A group of 27 personal letters written by, to, or about James Monroe Meek, an East Tennessee lawyer and legislator jailed by the Confederates for his Unionist sympathies. Most of the correspondence dates from the Civil War.
Dates:
1861-1869; Majority of material found in 1861-1865
Michael C. Wales Papers
Fonds
Identifier: WLS
Scope and Content
Correspondence, expense reports, project schedules, and advertising samples from work done for The National Catholic Reporter (1967-1978), Link (1972-1974), Successful Marriage (1973-1975), Celebration (1972-1978), Passionist Missions (1973-1982), Holy Cross Association (1964-1966), Divine Word Seminary (1970-1972), Ave Maria Press (ca.1957-1970), Catholic Church Extension Society (1965-1966), the Claretian publications (1962-1983) U.S. Catholic, Today, and Claretian vocation ads. ...
Dates:
1957-1983.
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Michael James O'Shaughnessy Papers
Fonds
Identifier: OSH
Scope and Content
Correspondence, largely with White House staff persons, concerning his activities in the cause of social justice; and printed material.
Dates:
1933-1943.
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Michael Perkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10023
Scope and Contents
The Michael Perkins Papers consist of the professional and personal papers of Michael Perkins (1942-), a poet, critic, editor, and erotic fiction author. His professional materials represent his writing process for his fiction and poetry, from proposals sent to publishing houses, to multiple rough drafts of his works, to final proofs, as well as publicity for published materials. Also included is a large collection of editorial correspondence with literary agents and publishing houses. Along...
Dates:
1942 - 2016
Michael Quin Documents
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 2013
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of State Department copies of documents sent by British Ambassador Lord Lyons to U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward on 8 August 1863, now being forwarded, on 13 August, to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, accompanied by a cover letter signed by Seward. The case itself was months old, and had spawned a good deal of paperwork prior to the appearance of this particular batch of documents. The two key items are; 1) a seven-page affidavit of Quinn's describing...
Dates:
1863
Morris C. Foote Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0512
Abstract
Personal and military documents of Lt. Morris Cooper Foote, 9th Infantry, United States Army, along with related Congressional documents. Included in the collection is a manuscript diary recording Foote's experiences from 1866 to 1869 in Alaska (its first 19 months as a U.S. territory) and from 1869 to 1871 in the Department of the Platte.
Dates:
1863-1881, undated
Natalia A. and Irina V. Roskina Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0014
Abstract
The papers consist of manuscripts, letters, and miscellaneous items of Natalia A. Roskina and of her daughter, Irina V. Roskina, as well as 50 photographs of the two women and people they knew such as: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Evgenii Rein.
Dates:
1927-2013
National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS) Records
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10024
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS), an African American insurance cooperative headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It also contains related papers of NIBS founder A.W. Holmes. The correspondence in the collection is mostly written by African Americans, from NIBS policy holders to leaders of the African American community. There is also correspondence between A.W. Holmes and various local churches and benefit societies, national charitable and...
Dates:
1912 - 1964
National Organization for Continuing Education of Roman Catholic Clergy Records
Fonds
Identifier: NOC
Scope and Content
Early files of the National Federation of Priests' Councils, 1969-1972; general correspondence with members and non-members, 1975-1979; regional correspondence, 1973-1982; official by-laws, 1973-1982; board meeting correspondence, notes, and minutes, 1974-1988; needs assessment evaluations of NOCERCC, 1982-1984; speeches given and collected by NOCERCC presidents and board members, 1974-1976; membership records, 1973-1983; NOCERCC publications, including newsletters, presbyteral renewal...
Dates:
1969-[ongoing].
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
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 troubles...
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
Ann Arbour Olyniec Papers
Collection
Identifier: AAO
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters written to and from Ann Arbour Olyniec while she was a college student at The University of Texas at Austin, Saint Mary’s College, and The University of Notre Dame from 1970 to 1974. Olyniec was a member of the first cohort of female undergraduate students to begin studies at Notre Dame starting in 1972. Also included are papers and tests written by Olyniec while she was a student at Notre Dame; letters written home by Olyniec from summer jobs at US National...
Dates:
1970 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1974
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
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
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
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:
1755-1757
Patrick Marantette Papers
Fonds
Identifier: MAR
Scope and Content
Correspondence with Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, Alexis Coquillard, trader in South Bend, Edward Sorin, CSC, president of the University of Notre Dame, and others, pertaining mostly to business affairs, the second Indian removal from the area in 1840, and Marantette's claims arising from it; and Marentette's account book, 1838-1840.
Dates:
1833-1879.
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Patrick McLaughlin Papers
Fonds
Identifier: ZBV
Scope and Content
Letters and citizenship, property, financial, pension, and estate documents of an Irish immigrant and his wife, Margaret O'Dea, who settled in South Bend, Indiana.
Dates:
1861-1914.
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
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
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
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
Pierre Marie Rene Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau Letters sent to Henry A. Riviere
Fonds
Identifier: ZBO
Scope and Content
Personal letters from Waldeck Rousseau, one-time vice- president of the French National Assembly, to Henry A. Riviere.
In French.
In French.
Dates:
1852-1859.
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
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
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, Bing...
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
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