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Scope and Contents A travel diary kept by Fr. Pise containing remarks on his novitiate experience and his voyage to Italy with five fellow scholastics (June 6-September 3, 1820), including notes on weather conditions and religious observances. Subsequent entries written in Italy describe educational facilities, important events to the Society, and Fr. Pise's observations on Italian culture. There is a passing mention of Jesuit officials and his fellow companions.In one entry dated July 13, 1821, he...

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Passports (1831, 1838, 1842) as well as calling cards, dinner invitations, and a letter all surrounding a trip to Paris (1838).

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A booklet used to track donations during two journeys to Ireland to solicit funds for St. Peter’s (1842) and the Church of St. Charles Borromeo (1849) in New York, although it is unclear which entries correspond with which trip. Includes two notes from Bishop John Hughes referring to these efforts.

Scope and Contents Creative works (e.g., odes, poems, epistles, plays) by Fr. Pise.Includes “An Epistle to Robert Durkee” (1818); “On the Death of Napoleon” (1821); “Farewell to the Americans” (1821); six elegies (1821-1822); “Optima Professori” (1822); “The Return of Ambrose, Archbishop of Baltimore” (1822); “In Inventionem Pueri in Templo” (1822); “Harold” (1823); two further elegies (1824); “My Native Place” (1831); a poem for Fr. Thomas Mulledy (undated); two hymns (undated); and a soliloquy...

Scope and Contents Orations, lectures, speeches, prayers, sermons, and commentaries by Fr. Pise.Includes “Oration in Honour of the Late Charles Carroll of Carrollton ...” (delivered before Georgetown's Philodemic Society, 1832); a prayer for the US Senate (c. 1832); “Reverend Demetrius A. Gallitzen” (c. 1840); a sermon on 2 Maccabees 12 (1842); “Requiem for Dr. Power” (c. 1849); a lecture given at the Smithsonian on Charles Carroll (c. 1850); “Catholic Literature in the United States” (c. 1855); a...

Scope and Contents Correspondence sent to or regarding Fr. Pise; predominantly letters of recommendation or introduction.Includes an invitation from Mary Carroll and Richard Caton (1828); a letter from Elizabeth Carroll Tucker to Lady Stafford recommending Fr. Pise for a position in Paris (1832); three letters of introduction for Fr. Pise from Fr. Samuel Barber, Daniel Desmond, and James Rooney (1842); letter from James V. Stoute (1843); letter from Bolivian bishop Guy Ignace Chabrat re: his...

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Includes a papal letter endorsing his resignation from the Society of Jesus (1821); a papal indulgence (1832); a document regarding money owed to Samuel E. Johnson (1838); a certificate from the New-York Mercantile Library Association granting an honorary membership (1849); a printed financial statement for the Church of St. Charles Borromeo (1856); and a manuscript titled “Elements of Classick Rhetorick” (undated).