"Stray Notes", circa 1915

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Scope and Contents

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A collection of "items of interest which came to the attention of Father Barnum," originally filling four composition books. A later archivist then dismantled many of these notes and filed them with pertinent collections or material. This folder contains those that were not separated and cover the following Georgetown University-related topics:

(1) An 1865-1866 minstrel show performance
(2) The early history of the Dramatic Association
(3) Plaster medallions of Jesus and Mary, previously in Old North and Gaston Hall, that were marked as missing as of 1949
(4) An 1896 wind storm
(5) The Weather Bureau, founded in 1889
(6) The Mandolin Club, founded in 1892
(7) Names given by students to parts of campus, including "Mount Rascal" and "Mount Aquin"
(8) 26 silver medals purchased in 1841 from George W. Webb of Baltimore
(9) The "Bolivar letter" of 1821
(10) The Georgetown College water pump
(11) "Trophies" taken by students in the "spirit of mischief"
(12) List of Georgetown men who became mayors
(13) List of popes represented by papal documents in the archives
(14) List of the "dormant and extinct societies" of Georgetown
(15) List of alumni actors
(16) List of Georgetown men in the Spanish-American War
(17) The Gaston bust (and the Houdon bust of Washington)
(18) Issues with the Maxwell Company printing the 1916 college catalog
(19) The "Hughes Room," which opened in 1899
(20) "Spurlos Versenkt," a list of "valuable things which just for the want of care, have been lost," including: Holaind's "Greek Music"; De Vico's responsaria and medal; the Lord Baltimore penny; the collection of gold coins; the model of Archbishop Carroll; the Bayma manuscript; the collection of fish; the feather flowers; paintings of Judith/Holofernes and the Denial of St. Peter; silver frames/altar cards; rare books; the Duddington Manor sideboard; the old Carroll altar; the Archbishop Charles John Seghers bearskin; a piece of petrified wood from White Marsh; and a 6-8 ft. "speaking trumpet"
(21) Archbishop Charles John Seghers' bearskin, which was destroyed by pests
(22) On Fr. Joseph Jerge's overpurchasing of underwear/string beans and his advocating for a high stone wall around the entirety of Woodstock
(23) A history of the archive collection
(24) List of medals and their donors, including: Brennan, Caughey, Clarke, Collier, Connolly, Corbett, Corcoran, Cunningham, Dahlgren, and Dixon
(25) Re: the "old guns," or cannons, outside of Healy Hall
(26) Re: a pair of small folding mahogany tables in the "large parlor" taken from Bohemia around 1891
(27) Surrounding missions served by priests from Georgetown
(28) Remarks on Fr. J. Havens Richards when he was stationed as a scholastic at Loyola (Baltimore) and his selling of a collection of Jesuit catalogs
(29) Travel from Georgetown to Baltimore, Frederick, and elsewhere by stagecoach
(30) Refugees from Saint-Domingue (part of modern-day Haiti) arriving in Maryland in July 1793, some of whom became students at St. Mary's (Baltimore) and Georgetown
(31) A 1919 plaster replica of the "Chefoo Tablet" or "Stele of Si‑ngan‑fu," a memorial stone that marked the establishment and official arrival of Christian missions in China, first held in the university museum and the relic chapel of Copley Hall before moving to the Bunn ICC in the 1980s (photocopy)
(32) The Healy family
(33) The Decatur family and "Decatur cottage"
(34) The Riggs family
(35) Fr. Charles H. Stonestreet, SJ, president 1851-1852
(37) Fr. Louis William Valentine DuBourg, PSS, president 1796-1798
(38) Fr. William Feiner, SJ, president 1926-1929

Dates

Creation: circa 1915

Creator

From the Collection: Jesuits. Maryland Province (Organization)
From the Collection: Barnum, Francis, 1849-1921 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

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The Francis A. Barnum, SJ Papers are on deposit at Georgetown University and are the property of the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus. As stewards of the Archives, the Georgetown University Library’s Booth Family Center for Special Collections is responsible for managing access to the material based on policies set forth by the USA East Province. Researchers may view these materials in the Reading Room of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. General policies for using Special Collections can be found here.

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1. All Archives materials dated or bearing solely on events occurring before January 1, 1940, shall be open for review unless otherwise restricted, subject to Library policies and procedures.

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