Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Content Material concerning the American Federation of Catholic Societies and Anthony Matre, its National Secretary; consisting of proceedings of annual meetings, the federation's bulletin, 1906-1919, issues from the weekly press service of the federation's Social Service Commission, 1913-1918, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings, and various editions of the federation's constitution and bylaws; with correspondence of Anthony Matre and other federation officials to Catholic and secular organizations...

Scope and Content Typewritten transcripts of correspondence (1940-1958) used by Maisie Ward in the preparation of her edition of Houselander's letters; stories and poems by Houselander; autobiographical passages not used in A Rocking Horse Catholic ; notebooks containing notes for Guilt , The Reed of God , and other works; a scrapbook containing stories she published in periodicals (1929-1937); issues of the ...

Scope and Content Correspondence files from the Central Bureau, most of them involving Frederick P. Kenkel and dating from his term as director (1908-1952); concerning Central Verein business and Catholic topics of the day, including a large file on anti-Catholic speakers claiming to be ex-priests and nuns. Correspondents include John J. Cochran, Brother Joseph Dutton, Mary Filser Lohr, Joseph Matt, John Rothensteiner, and George Shuster, and many prominent German Catholics. Microfilm contains...

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Correspondence (1938-1964) with AEC officials, colleagues, and students; grant applications, contracts, reports and other material relating to his experimentation in radiation biology and neuro-physiology for the AEC (1951-1964); personal documents; a scrapbook; and photographs.

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Notebooks; scrapbook and clippings about Wenninger; pamphlets, articles, lectures, and sermons (many by Wenninger); a copy of his M.A. thesis "A Biological Study of Miranda Aurantia," 1917; grade books, 1916-1940; a card catalog, prepared by Wenninger, of books on biology and evolution; articles on science in the Notre Dame Scholastic, 1875-1887; maps of South Bend and Mishawaka, Indiana; and photographs.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1949-1980; writings of D'Alelio such as his Ph.D. dissertation, "A Study of Some Alipathic Substituted Amides," 1935, manuscripts of his papers, talks, and books including his Fundamental Principles of Polymerization (1952), and reports from his work for NASA and the United States Air Force, 1962-1976; subject files concerning his research, professional trips to the USSR (1960) and Honolulu (1969); patent files, 1938-1980; legal records, 1976-1980; student records such as...

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Correspondence, 1910s-1930s, including a thank-you note from Theodore Roosevelt, 29 July 1918; scrapbooks of DeVille, 1910s-1930s; and printed material including The Good Samaritan, (April 1924), a monthly publication of the Judge Gary - Bishop Alerding Settlement House, and DeVille's Back from Belgium: A Secret History of Three Years within the German Lines (1919).

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Scrapbook concerning American Catholicism containing many articles from Boston-area newspapers.

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Five letters to Finotti (1855-1877), among them one concerning the exhumation of Bishop Frederic Baraga, one concerning the Society of California Pioneers, and one concerning the school question; and scrapbooks of political cartoons, including caricatures of Jefferson Davis, and newspaper clippings on the Civil War, popular poetry, and Catholicism.

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Scrapbooks, books, a photograph, and memorabilia dating from the 1930s; a few letters, essays, and other material from the 1950s.

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Scrapbook prepared by Papas for presentation to the Joseph Kennedy family on the 23rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Kennedy, Jr. Papas was in the same WWII squadron as Joseph Kennedy Jr. and was also his roommate, 1943- 1944. Scrapbook includes pictures of Papas with Kennedy and correspondence with Joseph Kennedy, Sr., Rose Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Edward Kennedy, 1967-1969.

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Personal and professional correspondence, 1933-1976; drafts of poetry; copies of publications, 1927-1972; clippings concerning Engels and his family; teaching records; maps from his Wisconsin property and family trips; scrapbooks; and photographs.

Scope and Content Miscellaneous original and transcribed records of various Catholic parishes, orphanages, schools, and cemeteries in Illinois (4 churches and institutions), Indiana (7), Kentucky (more than 50), Michigan (5), Missouri (2), Pennsylvania (1), and Wisconsin (1). There are also records of one Jewish Synagogue (Temple Beth-El, South Bend, Indiana). Baptismal, confirmation, marriage, and death registers; gravestone inscriptions; membership lists; pew rent account books; censuses;...

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Correspondence, legal documents, manuscripts of articles, and two scrapbooks, one with clippings of editorials he wrote and the other detailing the 1930 concert season at the Ravinia, Illinois.

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Reilly's Notre Dame file, consisting of photographs of Notre Dame: buildings, personalities, and events; and letters, 1950-1957, mainly transmitting the photographs; with a few letters between Notre Dame and his son, Peter C. Reilly, Jr. Also a typewritten biographical sketch and copy of the sermon delivered by James E. Norton at the funeral of Peter C. Reilly; a photograph of Reilly; copies of Reilly's obituaries; and clippings about Reilly.

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Scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning his career; with a resolution passed by the board of directors of the Knights of Columbus at Stritch's death, 1958.

Scope and Content Scrapbook (1956-1989) of Mrs. Elizabeth Wukawitz, friend of Tom Dooley, which she sent to Father Hesburgh; consisting of letters from Tom Dooley to Mrs. Wukawitz and from Mrs. Wukawitz to Tom Dooley, draft of pages from "The Night They Burned the Mountain" transcribed from dictaphone recordings with corrections by Tom Dooley; clippings, photocopies of news articles, envelopes and mimeographed material. Also correspondence concerning his Congressional Medal of Honor (1959-1979),...

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Two scrapbooks compiled by Darby containing clippings and a few letters concerning the Labor School in New Rochelle.

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Correspondence (1904-1935); newspaper clippings; manuscripts of sermons; and three scrapbooks.