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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.

Scope and Content The Notre Dame Archives is the repository for the Archives of the American Province of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. The records of the collection consist first of those records generated or collected and kept by the administrative structures of the Province, including the Ancilla Domini Sisters, Inc., corporate board, the Provincial Chapters and Assemblies and the committess associated with them, the Provincial Leadership and its committees, and the departments and offices of the...

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Documents by and about the Sisters of the Holy Cross at Notre Dame, Indiana, including papers of Mother Ascension and Mother Angela; last wills of eighteen Holy Cross Sisters; papers of three alumnae of St. Mary's College; correspondence of various sisters; and material concerning St. Mary's Academy (later St. Mary's College). Correspondents of Mother Ascension include Father Edward Sorin.