Box 1

Contains a letter from Sister Mary Augustine (formerly Jerusha Barber) to her son Samuel on the occasion of his first communion (1824) and a note from Representative Robert Dunlap to the same introducing a Mr. Fisk of Maine (1846).

A bound volume of questions on theology purportedly posed to Episcopalian ministers at the beginning of Barber’s crisis of faith in New York state and before his conversion. Was also used for notes in Arabic (date unknown).

A leatherbound prayer book in the Penobscot (Abenaki) language by Fr. Jacques René Romagné. Also includes a French prayer at the end of the volume. The contents of the prayer book were published by Romagné in 1834 as The Indian prayer book: compiled and arranged for the benefit of the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Tribes. Fr. Barber may have used this prayer book around 1828-1831 while on mission in Maine.

A bound volume containing a partial English translation of Emmanuel Alvarez’ book De institutione grammatica libri tres (1572), copied down by Barber while at St. John’s in Frederick (Maryland).

A bound volume of notes by Virgil Barber on a variety of topics such as geology, cosmogony, and Hebrew. Started while at St. John’s in Frederick (Maryland).

Consists of newspaper clippings and offprints, requests for information on the Barber family, biographical details, and miscellaneous notes likely kept by past university archivists.