Box 1

Scope and Contents Contains letters to Fr. Maguire from: Fr. Michael L. Accolti, San Francisco, with reference to obtaining a patent for a rifle invented by a Dr. Tomasi (11-30-1866); Joseph C. Mallow, County Cork, Ireland (6-29-1865); Abp. of New York, John McCloskey, introducing Madame Fanny Burgess who is working to gain the release of her brother imprisoned in Sing Sing (9-11-1865); P. L. Miller, St. John's College, recommending Mr. Pillsbury (7-24-1853); Robert Ould, Richmond, Virginia (6-29-1867); Fr....

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A bound book of theology notes taken by Fr. Maguire during his theological studies at Georgetown College. Some notes are based on lectures given by Fr. Gianbatista (John Baptist) Pianciani in 1849 and by Fr. Francis X. Knackstedt in 1848 and 1849.

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Contains an obituary from the Georgetown College Journal (4-1886); a clipping titled "Father Maguire's Funeral" (4-1886); and a letter from Fr. John A. Morgan, St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia, recounting Fr. Maguire's illness and imminent death (4-26-1886).

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Contains an identure documenting the sale of real estate to Rev. George A. J. Wilson by Fr. Maguire for the sum of $5,055.

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Contains text of an address given at a St. John's Literary Institution commencement (no date). A marginal note indicates "spoken by B. Maguire I think."

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Contains an invitation to the "Annual Termination of the Course of Moral Philosophy at Georgetown College" (7-1-1856); an 1870 newspaper clipping stating that Fr. Maguire had left Georgetown to conduct a spiritual retreat at Pottsville (attached to a card which gives the dates of his presidencies); and a booklet entitled "Memorial of the Mission Given by the Rev. Father Maguire And Other Fathers of the Society of Jesus in the Church of the Holy Innocents, Commencing March 7th, 1880."

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Contains an identure documenting the sale of real estate to Daniel Genan by Fr. Maguire for the sum of $206.25.

Scope and Contents Twenty pages of handwritten notes by Fr. Maguire.Included are references to taking his vows in the "little Chapel of St. Ignatius"; the student body numbering between 200 hundred and 250; Fr. McSherry as Rector ("he was a man of most gentle amiable manners and kindness personified"); the majority of students coming from Southern states; frequent fights between the "Creole"/"French" boys and the "American" boys; prefects and teachers being "exposed to great dangers from the wild...