Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials related to the history of Achill Island and the genealogy of its inhabitants. Included is the correspondence of a prominent local historian, John O’Shea, and his research files and notes on genealogy of the island’s inhabitants and the island’s founder, Edward Nangle. Also included are publications about the island or created on the island, including Nangle’s publications, Achill Missionary Herald and Western...

Scope and Content Personal correspondence (1917-1923); correspondence of the Hurley Machine Company; French correspondence from the Office of the American Commercial Attaché and correspondence concerning the Labor Adjustment Board, the United States Shipping Board, the Peace Conference of 1919, and Housing at Hog Island; manuscripts of The Bridge to France and related papers including some early correspondence (1910-1917) of John Harlan and Woodrow Wilson; photocopies of letters from Woodrow Wilson, Calvin...

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Manuscripts of a A Textbook of Evolution (1952) and Genetics: the Modern Science of Heredity (1956).

Scope and Content Correspondence or copies of correspondence from Stephen T. Badin, Julian Benoit, and various American bishops regarding local and university legal and religious matters; letters to Vicar General Augustus Mary Martin at Terre Haute, Indiana, and Saint Theodore Guerin, Mother Superior of the Sisters of Providence at St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana; writings, meditations, instructions; a statement by Sorin on the relationship between the sisters at Notre Dame and those at St. Mary's College...

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1941-1955; copies of letters from John Tracy Ellis, 1927-1970, and of a memoir by Ellis; sermons and writings by Cardinal; correspondence, minutes, and printed material from such organizations as NCCJ, 1940s-1950s, Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 1943-1954, and Sheil School, 1943-1954; Cardinal's subject files concerning brotherhood (1930s-1960s), American Catholic history (1920s), youth, adult education, and Bishop Bernard Sheil; printed material on anti-semitism...

Scope and Content Correspondence, agenda, minutes, reports, newsletters, and constitutions for the Academic Council, 1966-1976; American Association of University Professors, 1971-1976; Arts and Letters Advisory Committee, 1974-1975; Campus Honor Committee, 1972-1973; Dean's Committee on Collegiate Development, 1971-1972; English Department, 1968-1972; Graduate Council, 1967-1968; Honor System at Notre Dame, 1963-1970; Humanities Committee, 1971-1972; and the Student Life Council, 1969-1971; concerning...

Scope and Content Eight photographs, most of them albumen cartes-de-visites, dating from late in the nineteenth century, several by James Bonney, with images of Notre Dame faculty members Auguste Lemonnier, CSC, William Corby, CSC, Joseph Lyons, Dr. C. J. Lundy, and Professor Arthur Stace; of Timothy Howard and Mrs. Howard; of A. Calameri; of twins who joined the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Sister Presentation Tong, CSC, and Sister Purification Tong, CSC; and a few unidentified others; also one...

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Letters and cards from William A. Moloney, CSC, to Edyth Spalding; a copy of St. Patrick's Church Bulletin, 19 uly 1931, announcing that Fr. Moloney will leave the parish; printed material concerning the death of Fr. Moloney; and printed ephemera concerning the Bengal missions of the Congregation of Holy Cross.

Scope and Content Correspondence, printed matter, mimeographed reports, fliers, clippings, and a history of the American PAX Association by Eileen Egan, "Crime Against God and Man: the Struggle of the Small Vehicle, PAX"; with material on Christian nonviolence, on the Catholic just war doctrine and difficulties of Catholic conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War; including documentation of the PAX Tivoli Conferences at the Catholic Worker Farm and a few items pertaining to other issues of...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers relating to the career of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. The bulk of the collection is comprised of handwritten, typescript, and computer printout manuscripts in various stages of development for novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and poems by the author, as well as related miscellany (including drawings and a video recording). Titles well-represented within the collection include the novels The Dancers Dancing, ...

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58 letters written by Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., to Sister Elaine DesRosiers, O.P., (1963-1976), and a background narrative by DesRosiers concerning the letters (1992); annals written by Sister Elaine, 1976-1998, and a copy of her family's history, Gregoire - Des Rosiers, by Ben Fontaine (Baltimore, 1996).

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Russian and French manuscripts, notes, bibliographical material, and transcriptions of early sources for the study of St. Maxim the Greek, about whom Denissoff wrote a prize-winning book, Maxime le Grec et l'Occident, contribution à l'histoire de la pensée religieuse et philosophique de Michel Trivolis (Paris: Desclée, de Brouwer, 1943), with a small quantity of material having to do with his other books and research.

Abstract Elisabeth Markstein (1929-2013) was highly regarded for her translations from Russian to German, including Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago (under the pen name Anna Peturnig). She was also a teacher and literary scholar as well as a staunch supporter of the dissident writers in the Soviet Union. This collection consists of personal documents, correspondence (family, personal, and professional), papers dealing with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, scholarly research materials, photographs, and...

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A manuscript journal kept by Connecticut native Elisur H. Rogers from 23 January to 15 October 1849, recording his experiences on a trip to the California gold fields.

Scope and Content Correspondence, including letters sent to Edward Sorin, CSC, John A. Zahm, CSC, James Edwards, Maurice Francis Egan, and Frank Earle Hering, and letters received from Francis Patrick Kenrick, Archbishop of Baltimore; manuscript of Starr's book Isabella of Castile, 1492-1892; and clippings pertaining to Starr. Incorrectly listed in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (MS 67-936) as dealing chiefly with correspondence of Archbishop Martin John Spalding. Extensive...

Scope and Content Personal papers, correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, subject files, photographs, audio-visual material, books, journal articles, book chapters, other scholarly writings, lectures, emails, and printed ephemera; with documents from her youth, her days as a student at the Catholic University of America, her career as a theologian at Catholic University and Fordham, her presidency of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and her life as a Sister of Saint Joseph; including media...

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Manuscripts and tear sheets of her fiction, non-fiction, and verse, including Observer columns; her dissertation on childhood in the work of Graham Greene; her memoir of teaching at DePauw and Notre Dame; and a file on Juniper Press autograph parties. Also copies of books published by Juniper Press, i.e. students in her book publishing course.

Scope and Content Manuscript book (10" x 12.5" x 1.75", bound in red leather with gold stamping) containing samples of writing in many languages, presented to Ella B. Edes; with photographs and lithographs of prelates, Roman scenes, and artworks; a musical composition in five parts for four voices, "Tota Pulchra Es Maria" by D. Lareto Sacovacci; and autographs of prelates with good wishes and blessings. Languages represented in the book include (as identified by the compiler of the book): English, Hebrew,...

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This collection consists of several letters and ephemera sent from Ella Young to Mrs. Roland G. Hopkins while Young was traveling in the United States, 1925-1926. Included are seven letters and one leaflet.

Scope and Content A few letters, writings, and notes of Jolly concerning her movement to erect a national monument to the service of nuns during the Civil War, her gift to Notre Dame of the Immaculate Conception Dogma Medal that she received from Arthur J. Burns, and the life of Mary Seton (d. 1615). Also the ceremonial key to the Nuns of the Battlefield Monument (Washington, D.C.) that she presented to Notre Dame in 1926; and a photograph of Irish poet Mary J. O'Donovan Rossa (1868), with the...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, including her correspondence, biographical materials, and diplomas. The collection also documents her political activity as one of the leading feminists of twentieth-century Argentina through her professional papers, such as records for the Asociación Pro-Derechos de la Mujeres, speeches, and essays. Also included are photographs of Dra. Sara Justo and ephemera and records relating to various feminist...

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Letters and writings relating primarily to Flemish nationalism.

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Photographs of the St. Joseph's Novitiate fire on the Notre Dame Campus (1913) and a photograph of an interhall marble game (ca. 1916).

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1938-1978; book reviews, articles, and manuscripts by Schossberger; information and notes on book editing projects of the University of Notre Dame Press; programs and minutes of the American Association of University Presses, 1965-1975; minutes and correspondence of the executive committee of the Midwest Chamber Orchestra, 1975-1978, and the Christian Education Committee of Sacred Heart Parish (Notre Dame), 1975-1977. Notes, lectures, and syllabi for classes...

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Records (1968-2001) of the work of the English Language Liturgical Consultation and its predecessor the International Consultation on English Texts (international ecumenical groups) towards the creation of common liturgical texts; consisting of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and drafts of liturgical texts for common use by English-speaking congregations.

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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.

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Shelf list of the library of the Episcopal Church Divinity School, Philadelphia.

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Manuals, sermons, articles, constitution, magazines, newsletters, programs, minutes, ceremonials, etc., mainly for the Western, Northern, and Southern Lieutenancies (but also a few foreign titles as well), mainly dating 1950s-1980s.

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Field trip notebooks, lecture notes, correspondence and subject files, papers, offprints written by Winkler, and 21 color slides of stone architectural features at Notre Dame, 1970s-1990s.

Abstract The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections holds a considerable collection of items relating to the work of Eric Gill, a 20th-century English craftsman. These include proofs and original engravings, drawings and designs, woodblocks, bookplates and printed ephemera. Notable among the collections are annotated drawings and designs; signed engravings; posters, leaflets, and other printed matter by the St. Dominic's Press; two scrapbooks Gill kept during his time with the Royal Air...