Thomas A. Hughes, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-200103
The Thomas A. Hughes, SJ Papers consist of unpublished drafts for a proposed third volume of A History of the Society of Jesus in North America, Colonial and Federal covering 1773 to 1829. Also included is a report by Fr. Hughes entitled "de abusibus" ("on abuses"), in which he discusses Jesuit issues with modernism and worldly affairs discovered throughout his research, as well as correspondence related to his research.
The Thomas A. Hughes, 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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Thomas A. Hughes, SJ (1849-1939) was born in Liverpool and received his early schooling at St. Francis Xavier before attending Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. He entered the Society of Jesus at Roehampton (London, 1866-1867) but soon traveled to the US to help bolster numbers in the Missouri Province, which had been established in 1863. There he was stationed at St. Stanislaus (Florissant, 1868-1869) before completing his philosophical (1870-1872) and theological studies (1876-1878) at Woodstock. Fr. Hughes was next at St. Xavier College (Cincinnati, 1873-1875, 1879) before proceeding back to Missouri where he was at St. Louis University (1880-1882, 1886-1887, 1893-1895) and St. Stanislaus (1883-1885), taking his final vows in 1884. Between 1888 and 1902, Fr. Hughes was at Detroit College (1888-1889, 1891) and in New York City (1890, 1892).
In 1896 he was charged by then-Superior General Luis Martin with writing a comprehensive history of the American Assistancy of the Society. While living in Rome, often at the Pontifical Latin American College, and consulting the Vatican and Society archives, he produced two volumes of what would become A History of the Society of Jesus in North America, Colonial and Federal: v. 1 -1645 (1908) and v. 2 1645-1773 (1917). Alongside these two volumes of narrative he also produced a set of documents: v. 1 part 1 #1-140 (1907) and v. 1 part 2 #141-224 (1910) that were intended to illustrate the aforementioned texts beginning in 1605 as well as future volumes up to the year 1838. Fr. Hughes worked on a third volume of narrative covering 1772 to 1829 throughout the 1920s and 30s but it was never published; drafts of this text are present within the collection. He died in Rome in 1939.
0.8 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)
English
Latin
The collection was previously part of the University Archives (prior to 1970).
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository