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Scope and Content Correspondence of Rev. Gabriel Richard, co-founder and vice-president of the University of Michigan and U.S. Representative from Michigan; of Frederic Baraga, missionary to the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan and later bishop of Marquette, Michigan; and of Bishops Frederic Résé, Peter Paul Lefevre, and Caspar Henry Borgess. Other correspondents include the missionary, Rev. Francis Xavier Pierz; the civic leader, Rev. Martin Kundig; Rev. Edward Sorin, founder of the...

Scope and Content Letters (1895-1935) from John J. Ming, S.J., of St. Ignatius College in Cleveland, Joseph H. Meier of the Official Catholic Directory, Frederick P. Kenkel of the Catholic Central Verein, Joseph M. Schifferli of the (Buffalo) Echo, Peter Guilday of the American Catholic Historical Association, Simon Baldus of the Catholic Press Association, and others; correspondence between Preuss and F. Makert, SVD, of the Mission Press, Techny, Illinois (1905-1931); correspondence with and concerning...

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Anonymous diary of life at the University of Notre Dame during the fall of 1867.

Scope and Contents In 2022, the University of Notre Dame sponsored an oral history project to document the campus community’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.The resulting collection includes audio recordings of 85 oral history interviews conducted with administrators, faculty, staff, and students about the University of Notre Dame’s response to, and the campus community’s experience of, the pandemic. A signed consent form and full interview transcription accompanies each recording. The...

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Photocopy of Clark's diaries, 1948-1989; manuscripts of essays, bibliographies, articles, book reviews, proposals, clippings, and offprints; concerning Irish studies, urban history, labor, public housing, desegregation, and Catholic Action; with a few letters and memoranda, a register of the Clark Papers in the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies, a television script, and an interview with Clark (1976).

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A 242-page diary kept by Sylvester H. Rosecrans, 1847-1852, which covers his journey to Rome, travels in Italy and preparation for the priesthood; a typewritten transcript of the same diary; letters, poems and clippings by and about Sylvester H. Rosecrans; photostats of some 25 letters concerning the Dominican Sisters at St. Mary of the Springs, Columbus, Ohio, 1829-1860; and a few other items concerning the Catholic Church in Columbus.

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Diary dating from 12 April to 11 October 1889, including some sketches and drafts of poems; sketchbook dating from 1891, with monochromatic drawings of American landscape; sketchbook dating from 1893-1894, with watercolors of French landscape and buildings; sketchbook dating from 1912, with pencil drawings of European scenes, including mountains, bridges, cathedrals, steeples, towers, soldiers, and Robespierre's house.

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A transcription of his diary for 1852-1853 made by his widow; a diary written for his wife during 1857; a daybook written during 1857-1861; accounts for 1857-1859; a short sketch of his life written by his widow; eulogies; and a photo of Mulligan in uniform.

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Diary and ledger of John Mary Odin, with names of those baptised and married, the days he preached, and a sketchy itinerary of his trip to Europe in 1852 as well as journeys in the United States; also three letters of 1843 and 1850 to church officials in New Orleans.

The original diary is in the Catholic Archives of Texas, Chancery Office, Austin Texas.

Scope and Content Personal correspondence, much of it concerning life at Notre Dame, 1891-1935; correspondence concerning Rhodes Scholarships, 1911-1914, Laetare Medals, 1908-1919, Cavanaugh's work with the Liquor Control Board of the State of Indiana, 1933-1934, and his work in the preparation of Knute Rockne's autobiography, 1931; correspondence of Joseph Burke, CSC, concerning Cavanaugh's death, 1935; Cavanaugh's diary, 1908; his sermons, speeches, class notes, writings, clippings and scrapbook; a draft of...

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Correspondence (originals and copies), with Daniel E. Hudson, CSC, editor of The Ave Maria; Mrs. B.J. Semmes, his god-mother, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. J. M. Semmes; and Thomas Kilby Smith and Walter George Smith (1854-1924), sons of a Civil War companion; with a copy of a journal that Dutton kept during the Civil War, 1855- 1864, articles about, and relics of, Father Damien, and a copy of Charles J. Dutton's The Samaritans of Molokai.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1929-1979; articles and lectures by Evans, 1929-1969; subject files from Evans' work on such projects as the Head Injury Committee, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, 1967-1969, and the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, 1969; and travel diaries of Evans, 1953-1972. Also personal documents such as genealogical records, weekly reminders, and diplomas and honors; photographs; and records of Evans' involvement with the...

Scope and Contents Contains 12 volumes (numbered I-XI, XIV) of a 4,000-page diary that Fritz Keppler created during his year in Innsbruck, Austria, through Notre Dame’s study abroad program. Keppler’s diary entries include observations and reflections on daily life; details about his courses at the University of Innsbruck; reflections on political events, arts, and culture in Europe; and descriptions of his many travels in Austria and surrounding countries. Collection also includes one folder with related...

Scope and Content Manuscript of Klaus Lanzinger's diary, Amerika - Europa: Ein transatlantisches Tagebuch 1961-1989 (2002); manuscript of the English translation of the diary, America - Europe: A Transatlantic Diary 1961-1989; a copy of the book based on the English translation; related digital files; and a file on the administrative history of the beginning of Notre Dame's foreign studies program (Sophomore Year Abroad) in Innsbruck, Austria. ...

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Pocket diary of Gruber, dating from his enlistment at Delphi, Indiana, 3 August 1861, to his discharge, 11 July 1862.

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Brief daily entries describing activities and travel, calls and callers, and subjects of discussion.

Scope and Content Polcyn's diary, 1941-1943, relating experiences with Bishop Bernard Sheil; correspondence, including letters from Frank Sheed, Maisie Ward, Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Eddie Doherty, Hans Ansgar Reinhold, Donald Attwater, Renard Koehnemann, Ann Harrigan Makletzoff and a letter from Dorothy Day; clippings concerning Bishop Bernard Sheil, John Cogley, and Pat and Patty Crowley, 1941-1979. One folder concerning the unionization of the CYO, consisting of correspondence, memoranda,...

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Correspondence, including letters from George Shuster and Kerndt Healy, CSC; a diary (1916); teaching material, including gradebooks, student papers, handouts and lecture notes; printed matter, including books, pamphlets, sheet music, and magazines; and photographs.

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Correspondence, manuscripts of essays, poems, diary entries, biographical sketch, obituary, and a pencil sketch of Father William Corby. Correspondents include James F. Edwards.

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Notes taken by Father Peter E. Hogan, SSJ, on Martin John Spalding, Archbishop of Baltimore, the books he wrote, and the history of his family; consisting chiefly of typewritten information taken from books, clippings, and manuscripts; including a transcription edited and indexed by Hogan of parts of Spalding's journal, 1860-1864, with such headings as Short Accounts of Louisville Institutions, Register of Correspondence with Propagation of Faith, and Diocesan Correspondence.

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Diary (1866-1878) containing financial records; exercise book (1870-1875) containing translation exercises.

In Latin, French, and English.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1855-1904; Cooney's sermons and speeches; his Civil War diary, 1864-1865; manuscripts of his works, 1861-1890; a notebook describing his tour of the United States to collect material on the role of Catholic chaplains and nuns in the Civil War, 1890; clippings he collected on the Civil War, Ireland, and temperance; and printed matter including Child's Recollection of General Grant (1885) and a map of the Chickamauga battle field, 1886. Records of the...

Scope and Content Correspondence, mostly of the Seton Family, 1782-1908, including among their correspondents James Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Winand M. Wigger; photographs, clippings, pamphlets and sermons; St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's prayer book and Robert Seton's diaries and books; paintings and family lithographs; an expense account book, a family genealogy, a book of sermons, and four notice books of St. Joseph Church, New Jersey, 1880-1899. ...

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Photocopies of entries Derrick wrote while at Notre Dame installing an organ in the original Church of the Sacred Heart; with related clippings and a letter, 1956.

Also available on microfilm.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1925-1957; writings, speech notes, and speeches by Mahony, 1920s-1950; diary of Mahony, 1928; Mahony's subject files on such topics as child labor, Mexican immigration, the sugar beet industry and labor conditions of sugar beet workers, 1920s-1950s, and the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, 1920s; and photographs. The bulk of the material relates to Mahony's efforts on the part of Mexican migrant laborers, with some material on Mahony's early professional efforts....

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Journals, ledgers, sermon and lecture notes, 1904, 1916- 1917; and the "Official List of the Officers who were in the Campaign of Mexico in 1847."