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Notes for a five-day retreat held at Woodstock led by Fr. James T. Casey.

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A list of personal resolutions written by Fr. Toohey while at Frederick between 1895 and 1899.

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Notebook intermittently maintained by Fr. Toohey after he joined the Society; it includes diary-types entries as well as notes on miscellaneous topics such as shorthand.

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Sermons not intended for a specific liturgical date. Arranged chronologically.

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Correspondence between Fr. Toohey, The New Scholasticism, and an unnamed critic regarding his article "The Term 'Being.'"

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Correspondence between Fr. Toohey and the publishing house Edwards Brothers regarding his book Notes on Epistemology.

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Correspondence to Fr. Toohey from the publishing house Longmans, Green, & Company regarding his book An Indexed Synopsis of the 'Grammar of Assent'. Also includes censor reports from the provincial level and an offprint of a precursory article published in 1907.

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Correspondence between Fr. Toohey and the publishing houses Schwartz, Kirwin & Fauss and Appleton-Century-Crofts regarding his book An Elementary Handbook of Logic. Also includes censor reports from the provincial level, reviews, and correspondence with critics.

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A presumably unpublished philosophical lecture on the topic of truth.

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A presumably unpublished manuscript comparing the thought of Jacques Maritain, Christopher Dawson, and Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc.

Scope and Contents Offprints, correspondence, and censor's reports for: "Appreciation of Newman's Apologia" (1917); "Scholastic Philosophy and the Three Cognitive Acts of the Mind" (1918); "The Distribution of the Predicate" (1920-1921); "The Predicate Term" (1922); "The Cartesian Doubt" (1932); "The Starting Point of Epistemology" (1932); "Truth and Error in the New Realism" (1933); "The Mythical Doubter" (1934); Kant on the Propositions of Pure Mathematics" (1936), "Scholastic Philosophy and Truth" (1936);...

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A presumably unpublished lecture on the nature of the study of literature. Undated but possibly from the 1940s.

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Correspondence regarding Fr. Toohey's involvement in the American Catholic Philosophical Association, including an off-print of his 1936 presidential address entitled "Philosophy and Common Sense."

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Maintained while Fr. Toohey was at the College of St. Francis Xavier (New York), this diary contains only a handful of entries (for January, February, April, and August) discussing daily activities and weather.

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Trigonometry and analytical geometry notebook maintained while Fr. Toohey was at the College of St. Francis Xavier (New York).

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Notebook for a chemistry course maintained while Fr. Toohey was at the College of St. Francis Xavier (New York). Later used for copying down poetry from various sources such as the Georgetown College Journal and the Messenger of the Sacred Heart.

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Notebook containing discussion of Cardinal John Henry Newman's writing style as well as transcriptions of select Newman manuscripts, letters, and other documents.

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Notebook maintained while Fr. Toohey was at the College of St. Francis Xavier (New York).

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Photographs of Fr. Toohey, his parents Joanna and Patrick, and his sister Mary (later Sister Anne de Paul).

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A copy of Fr. Toohey's book Notes on Logic.