Scope and Content

Copies of ICEL correspondence, memoranda, agenda, meeting material and texts collected by Rev. Jeffrey M. Kemper in support of his doctoral dissertation, Behind the Text: A Study of the Principles and Procedures of Translation, Adaptation, and Composition of Original Texts by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy; also audio cassettes and microcassettes of interviews on ICEL.

Scope and Content Correspondence (1933-1969) of such Vernacular Society leaders as John Ross-Duggan (the Society's founder and secretary from 1946 to 1961), John Agathen, William F. Crowley, Joseph P. Evans and Irwin St. John Tucker; financial reports (1946-1957), minutes and committee reports (1950s-1960s), and newsletters (1947-1965); Ross-Duggan's reports, press releases and clippings from Vatican II; clippings on the vernacular movement (1950s-1960s); printed matter on the use of the vernacular and...