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Box 1

 Container

Contains 39 Results:

Classical mechanics notebook, 1895

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1895

Photographs, 1899 - 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
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Photographs of Fr. Toohey, his parents Joanna and Patrick, and his sister Mary (later Sister Anna de Paul).

Dates: 1899 - 1945

Correspondence: John Norris, 1907 - 1910

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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Letters to Fr. Toohey from Fr. John Norris (1843-1912) of the Birmingham Oratory.

Dates: 1907 - 1910

Correspondence: Francis Joseph Bacchus, 1910 - 1932

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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Letters to Fr. Toohey from Fr. Francis Joseph Bacchus (1860-1937) of the Birmingham Oratory.

Dates: 1910 - 1932

Correspondence: Charles Sears Baldwin, 1907 - 1912

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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Letters to Fr. Toohey from Charles Sears Baldwin (1867-1935), professor of rhetoric at Yale University, as well as several draft replies.

Dates: 1907 - 1912

Correspondence: Wilmon Henry Sheldon, 1934 - 1941

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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Letters to Fr. Toohey from American philosopher Wilmon Henry Sheldon (1875-1981) as well as several draft replies. They predominantly discuss philosophical topics.

Dates: 1934 - 1941

Correspondence: Joanna Toohey, 1899 - 1917

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Letters from Fr. Toohey's mother, Johanna/Joanna Kavanagh Toohey. Also contains a note from Fr. Toohey regarding his father's death in 1899.

Dates: 1899 - 1917

Correspondence: Joanna Toohey, 1918 - 1924

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Letters from Fr. Toohey's mother, Johanna/Joanna Kavanagh Toohey.

Dates: 1918 - 1924

Correspondence: Martin Toohey, 1918 - 1936

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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Letters from Fr. Toohey's brother, Martin Toohey.

Dates: 1918 - 1936

Correspondence: William Toohey, 1899 - 1946

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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Letters from Fr. Toohey's brother, William Toohey, as well as one draft reply.

Dates: 1899 - 1946

Correspondence: Mary Toohey/Sister Anna de Paul, 1902 - 1955

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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Letters from Fr. Toohey's sister Mary Toohey, later Sister Anna de Paul of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth (Convent Station, New Jersey).

Dates: 1902 - 1955

Correspondence: Anna Toohey, 1941

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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Letters from Fr. Toohey's sister Anna Toohey, later Anna Morgenroth.

Dates: 1941

Correspondence: Ordination, 1909

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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Letters from friends and fellow Jesuits in celebration of Fr. Toohey's ordination.

Dates: 1909

Correspondence: Other family, 1914 - 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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Letters from Fr. Toohey's other relatives, including nieces, nephews, cousins, and his aunt Sister Teresa Vincent Kavanagh of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth (Convent Station, New Jersey).

Dates: 1914 - 1954

Correspondence: Raymond Reiss, 1921 - 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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Letters to Fr. Toohey from Raymond Henry Reiss (1897-1986), a former Georgetown University student. They predominantly discuss family updates.

Dates: 1921 - 1954

Philosophy examinations, 1935 - 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
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Test questions for philosophy courses at Georgetown University (logic, metaphysics, philosophy, and epistemology, ontology, and cosmology).

Dates: 1935 - 1954

Correspondence: Robert Froude, 1908 - 1912

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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Letters to Fr. Toohey from British engineer Robert Edmund Froude (1846-1924) as well as several draft replies. They predominantly discuss philosophical topics.

Dates: 1908 - 1912

Correspondence: William Wimsatt, Jr., 1932 - 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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Letters to Fr. Toohey from American literary theorist William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr. (1907-1975), a former Georgetown University student, as well as several draft replies. They predominantly discuss epistemology and metaphysical topics.

Dates: 1932 - 1948

"Scholastic Philosophy and the Three Cognitive Acts of the Mind", 1918

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 39
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A copy of "Scholastic Philosophy and the Three Cognitive Acts of the Mind" as well as associated correspondence.

Dates: 1918