Box 2

Contains printed copies of Promises of Our Lord to Blessed Margaret Mary as well as various other Catholic devotions (i.e., the Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria, the Apostle's Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Six Precepts of the Church) in Central Alaskan Yup'ik (1896). Also includes a history of the translation project by Barnum (1900).

Handwritten notes by Barnum on Central Alaskan Yup'ik words/phrases for geographical/natural features as well as names for and descriptions of specific places. Also mixed in are miscellaneous ancecdotes on other aspects of life in Alaska.

A printed devotional containing prayers, hymns, and catechism in Koyukon that Fr. Julius Jette published as Yoyit Rokanaga: Nulator Roka Do-Daletloye. Includes handwritten notes by Barnum.

A piece submitted by Barnum to the New York Times on the subject of the New York-Paris automobile race that was to take place in early 1907. He provides advice regarding choice of route and possible environmental issues.

Correspondence between Barnum and fellow Jesuits (e.g., Frs. William H. Judge and Samuel H. Frisbee) as well as letters concerning him. Of note are letters sent by Barnum to Fr. J. Havens Richards, SJ, then-president of Georgetown University, re: his travels in Mexico (1890) as well as his journey to Holy Cross (Kozyrevsky) via San Francisco (1891).

Correspondence between Barnum and fellow Jesuits (e.g., Frs. William H. Judge and Pascal Tosi) as well as letters concerning him. Of note are letters sent by Barnum to Fr. J. Havens Richards, SJ, then-president of Georgetown University, re: his missioning in Alaska as well as correspondence with Samuel H. Frisbee re: publishing these such acccounts in the Woodstock Letters.

A publishing agreement for Barnum's Grammatical Fundamentals of the Innuit Language (1900) as well as announcements for and reviews of the book (1900-1902). See correspondence related to the work in box 3 folders 5-7.

A printed devotional containing prayers, hymns, and catechism in Koyukon prepared by Fr. Aloysius Ragaru and published as Catholic Prayers & Hymns in the Tinneh Language and Tinneh Indian Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Indian Boys' Press, Holy Cross (three copies). In these instances the two works have been bound together and include handwritten notes by Barnum.

A handwritten catechism by Barnum with 32 side-by-side lessons in English and Central Alaskan Yup'ik.

A hectographed devotional containing prayers and hymns in Central Alaskan Yup'ik prepared by Fr. Aloysius Robaut and hectographed by Fr. Aloysius Ragaru at Holy Cross as Catholic Prayers & Hymns in Innuit. Includes handwritten corrections by Barnum.

A hectographed devotional containing prayers in Central Alaskan Yup'ik likely prepared by by Fr. Aloysius Robaut and hectographed by Fr. Aloysius Ragaru at Holy Cross as Innuit prayers. Includes handwritten corrections by Barnum.

A printed devotional containing prayers and hymns in Central Alaskan Yu'pik (in Cyrillic script) published by Bishop Nicholas Ziorov, and based on a translation by Revs. Jacob Netsvetov and Zachary Bel'kov, as МОЛИТВЫ И ПѢСНОПѢНІЯ НА КВИХПАКСКО-КУСКОКВИМСКОМЪ НАРѢЧІИ or Prayers & Hymns in the Kwikpagmiut-Kuskokwim Dialect. Includes a handwritten note by Barnum explaining its background.

A printed devotional containing prayers and hymns in Central Alaskan Yup'ik prepared by Fr. Aloysius Robaut of Holy Cross as Catholic Prayers & Hymns in Innuit.

Handwritten manuscript (incomplete) by Barnum on the grammar of Central Alaskan Yup'ik that may have eventually become a portion of his Grammatical Fundamentals of the Innuit Language (1901).

Notes and sketches of Alaskan rivers and river crossings (e.g., the Kipniak, Nukklerchor'vik, and Kusilvak) as well as a hand-drawn map of Kalauyet (Ayakulik) Island. Also includes a printed map of Alaska with annotations by Barnum.

Hand-drawn copy of a Holy Cross illustration, including the Sisters of St. Ann/Jesuits residences and the school, originally created by a fourteen-year-old student named Andrew.

Snippets of Holy Cross student schoolwork with questions for priests regarding their salvation (e.g., "Father is it a sin not to hear High Mass on Sundays?").

A copy of The Indian Sentinel (v. 1 no. 6), published by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, in which Barnum provides a translation of the Lord's Prayer in Central Alaskan Yup'ik.

Tickets and clippings related to lectures given by Barnum on his work in Alaska.