Mary Ellen Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-970617
Evans' notes and transcriptions of letters and diaries of Mary Virginia Merrick (1886-1955), founder of the Christ Child Society (1887). Includes incomplete typed manuscript of biography on Merrick by Evans (unpublished).
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Mary Ellen Evans was born in 1912 in Dubuque, Iowa. She attended the State University of Iowa, Columbia University, and the Catholic University of America. Evans was an editor and writer affiliated with publishers P. J. Kenedy and the Oxford University Press. She was a Dominican tertiary; as well as member of the Catholic International Council and the North American Liturgical Conference. She spent many years in New York, before moving back to Dubuque where she resided until the end of her life, in 2000.
(Source: University of Iowa Libraries Guide to the Mary Ellen Evans collection.)
1.05 Linear Feet (5 Hollinger Slim Document Cases)
English
Gift of Mary Ellen Evans, March 1997.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository