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Daniel O’Connell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1007
Scope and Contents

Letters written by Daniel O’Connell to various recipients during the 1830s-1840s, a brief newspaper article, and one black-and-white portrait. Two letters date from 1843, O’Connell’s hoped-for “year of repeal,” and relay information about that movement.

Dates: 1835 - 1894

Diocese of Hartford Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: DHT
Scope and Content Note Chiefly correspondence (1840-1874) of Francis Patrick McFarland with priests of the Dioceses of New York and Hartford and with members of the American hierarchy. Also one letter written by John England, Bishop of Charleston (1830); one letter written by William Tyler, first Bishop of Hartford (1849); the manuscript of a lenten sermon by Bishop Tyler, written in 1841 and delivered in 1844 and 1848; other papers concerning Catholic affairs in the Diocese of Hartford (1874-1892); photographs...
Dates: 1830-1892 (bulk 1840-1874)

Diocese of Marquette Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DMA
Scope and Content Note This collection focuses primarily on the early years of the Diocese of Marquette (then known as the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette) under Bishop Frederic Baraga and later Bishop Ignatius Mrak. Included are the correspondence and papers of Ignatius Mrak; transcripts of letters written by Ignatius Mrak and Frederic Baraga; catechisms composed by Ignatius Mrak, Francis X. Pierz, and Reverend Nicholas Louis Sifferath in Ottawa; a manuscript polyglot dictionary of French, German, and...
Dates: 1808-1968 (bulk 1839-1895)

Doe Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5035
Abstract

A group of 13 manuscript letters, mostly written by Charles C. Doe to his parents. The letters, for the most part, describe a trip from New Hampshire to Janesville, Wisconsin.

Dates: 1842-1850; Majority of material found within ( 1849-1850)

Dr. George Marshall Oakden Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3820
Abstract

The manuscript diaries of Surgeon Lieutenant George Marshall Oakden, who served in the British Navy from 1914 to 1919, and the letters of his brother, Arthur, who died in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.

Dates: 1915-1917

Enoch P. Hill Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5011
Abstract

A group of 40 personal letters written in 1899-1901 by Illinois native Enoch P. Hill, mostly during his army service in Cuba, the U. S., and the Philippines. The letters are directed to Hill's future wife, Mary E. Chilton.

Dates: 1899-1901

Ethel Mannin Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1523
Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of correspondence sent from Ethel Mannin to a number of her fans. Includes seventeen letters from Ethel Mannin to various correspondents including George Arthur Fleet (1899-1988), Victor Croxford, a “Mr. Threadgold,” and a “Cecil.” Additionally includes thirteen carbon copies of letters sent from George Arthur Fleet to Ethel Mannin, a postcard from Fleet to Mannin, a collage including the letter to Victor Croxford, a card from Mannin to “Cecil” and a...
Dates: 1961 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1983

Evgeniia Ginzburg and Antonina Axenova Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0021
Abstract The collection consists of documents, letters, photographs, and some manuscripts relating to Evgeniia Ginzburg, the author of Krutoi Marshrut, an autobiographical account of the author's experience in the Soviet labor camps. Krutoi Marshrut has been translated into English in two volumes: Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind. The collection also includes materials relating to the life...
Dates: 1914-2014; Majority of material found in 1930s-1970s

Francis E. McMahon Correspondence

 Fonds
Identifier: ZBE
Scope and Content

Letters from Archbishops Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio and Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago to McMahon, a liberal Catholic internationalist and Notre Dame faculty member, concerning peace and internationalist issues.

Dates: 1943.

Franciscans. Province of St. John the Baptist Circular letters

 Fonds
Identifier: FRP
Scope and Content

Mimeographed letters chiefly from provincial superiors Dominic Limacher, Vincent Kroger and Sylvan R. Becker to members of the province of Saint John the Baptist of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM), 1951-1962.

Dates: 1951-1962.

G. Julian Pratt Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5041
Scope and Contents Of the seven manuscripts in the group, five are letters by Pratt to his mother or father—one written from western Virginia in August of 1861, and four from various locations in the Shenandoah Valley, December 1862 to November 1863. The two remaining documents (March-June 1862) are letters to Pratt from the headquarters of Brig. Gen. Wise, responding to Pratt's own, perhaps repeated entreaties that Wise use his influence to expedite Pratt's exchange. Pratt's initial assignment to Wise's...
Dates: 1861-1863

Gene Tunney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2013
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...
Dates: 1858 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945

George F. Kennan-John Lukacs Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5018
Abstract

The manuscript correspondence of U.S. diplomat, State Department official, and historian George F. Kennan and Hungarian-born American historian John Lukacs, ranging from 1952 to 2004. The collection includes some 360 letters.

Dates: 1952-2004

George Petrie Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1038
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a small group of correspondence sent to the Irish antiquarian George Petrie from a wide variety of fellow antiquarians and historians over the course of forty-two years. The collection comprises twenty-two handwritten letters primarily dealing with various antiquarian interests and one printed portrait of George Petrie.Notable items in the collection include Irish nationalist Charles Gavan Duffy’s letter to Petrie, written while Duffy was imprisoned at...
Dates: 1822 - 1864

George W. Crawford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0500
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of manuscript letters directed to the Georgia Whig politician George W. Crawford during the 1840s and early 1850s.

Dates: 1784-1853; Majority of material found in 1843-1853

G.K. Chesterton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3817
Abstract

The collection consists of manuscripts, letters, articles by Chesterton, as well as articles about him, photographs, and drawings. In addition to the material described in this finding aid, the collection also includes over 2,000 books and periodicals that have been cataloged separately.

Dates: 1893 - 1977

Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia and Rabinowich Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0013
Abstract Eleonora Petrovna Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia was a well known art critic and historian of art, and the collection consists of documents, diaries, correspondence, written drafts, photographs, books, and slides. Gomberg's daughter, Nina Rabinowich, is a practicing artist, and her husband, Boris Rabinowich, was an important non-conformist artist. The family emigrated to Vienna, Austria, in 1977, and the collection includes catalogs, brochures, and posters for art exhibits of both Boris and Nina as...
Dates: 1900-2014; (bulk 1930s-1990s)

Grace Atkinson Oliver Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0514
Scope and Contents

This collection of papers consists of materials created by Grace Atkinson Oliver, a 19th century American author and advocate of women's rights. Notable topics discussed in the papers include the portrayal of women in literature, morality and the press, taxation and the conditions at Danvers Asylum in Massachusetts.

Dates: 1861-1897

Green Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0508
Abstract

Family correspondence and other manuscript materials of the influential Green family of Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York. Of the 200-odd letters in the collection, the greater number were written by and to the ten children of Dr. John Green and Mary Ruggles in the 1790s, 1800s, and 1810s.

Dates: 1773-1937

Harlem Globetrotters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BKP 670
Scope and Contents This collection consists chiefly of printed and graphic materials related to the Harlem Globetrotters professional basketball team, including programs, yearbooks, promotional material, and publicity photos. The programs document games between the Globetrotters and various professional basketball teams. The earliest program is from 1941 and the latest program is from 1969. The collection also includes programs from the World Series of Basketball, an annual series of games during the 1950s and...
Dates: 1941-1976

Harrison E. Randall Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5013
Abstract

77 Civil War letters of Harrison E. Randall of Fulton County, Ohio, written from the field as a member of Co. H, 100th Ohio Infantry. Most were written from Kentucky (September 1862 to August 1863), Georgia, during the Atlanta campaign (June to August 1864), Alabama and Tennessee, including letters from the Nashville campaign (October 1864 to January 1865) and North Carolina (March and April 1865).

Dates: 1862-1865

Hattie Aiken Robinson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5017
Abstract

A group of 33 letters recording the personal affairs of a Depression-era African-American family. The letters are directed to Mrs. Hattie Aiken Robinson of Texarkana, Arkansas, by family members in Arkansas, St. Louis, and Chicago.

Dates: 1934-1936

Henry H. Maley Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5023
Abstract

A group of 50 personal letters written during the Civil War by Union private Henry H. Maley, Co. K, 84th Illinois Infantry. Most of the letters date from 1864-65, when the regiment was attached to IV Corps, in the Army of the Cumberland.

Dates: 1862-1865; Majority of material found in 1864-1865

Henry S. Figures Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5001
Scope and Contents Letter from Henry S. Figures, a young Alabama salesman, to his father. Much of the letter's content treats the military plans and aspirations of Figures' acquaintances, as the Confederacy hastened to mold existing state militias and fresh volunteers into a national army. Many of those mentioned would serve with Figures in the 4th Alabama: Clifton Walker, Samuel Moore, and Fielding Bradford all were privates in Company I, and William Fariss, like Figures, served in Company F. The regiment had...
Dates: 1861 May 9

Herbert Benezet Tyson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5010
Abstract

A group of 5 letters written by naval lieutenant Herbert Benezet Tyson of the U.S.S. Connecticut, during that ship's cruise to and around the Caribbean in winter/spring 1865.

Dates: 1865

Houghton Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5036
Abstract

A group of 76 letters written by or to members of the William and Marilla Clay Houghton family of Vermont, Massachusetts, Alabama, and elsewhere, 1832-1850. Included are 43 letters directed to printer/publisher Henry Oscar Houghton, when the latter was in his teens and 20s.

Dates: 1832-1850

Irena S. Verblovskaia and Revolt I. Pimenov Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0018
Abstract

Personal correspondence between Irena S. Verblovskaia and her first husband Revolt I. Pimenov, who was one of the founders of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, written during their imprisonment for "anti-Soviet" activities (1958-1963).

Dates: 1957-2014

Isaac Ira White Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5031
Abstract

A personal letter written on 9 April 1864 by Confederate corporal Isaac Ira White, Co. H, 11th Virginia Cavalry, from camp in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Dates: 1864

Jackson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5067
Abstract

A group of around 60 manuscript personal letters, almost all written by and/or to members of the Jackson family of Moore County, North Carolina before and during the Civil War. The collection includes letters of eleven Confederate States soldiers, serving in the 26th or 30th North Carolina Infantry or the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry.

Dates: 1852-ca.1866

Jacques Maritain Manuscript and letter

 Fonds
Identifier: ZBC
Scope and Content

An annotated typescript of a paper "On the Meaning of Contemporary Atheism" delivered at the University of Notre Dame, 23 March 1949; and a letter addressed to "Monsieur et cher confrere", 30 August 1927.

Dates: 1927-1949.

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