Box 4

List of cities Barnum visited, like written around 1900 but covering travels made 1870-1898. See also the front of his spiritual diary for a travel chronology 1849-1889 (box 5 folder 12).

Travel ephemera such as maps, receipts, passenger lists, etc., for some of Barnum's travels.

Contains itineraries and short diary entries from Barnum's travels in Palestine (three versions) and throughout the Mediterranean and Europe.

Notes on an 1869 tour from Piraeus to Corinth via Aegina, Epidaurus, Argos, Mycenae, Arcadia, Mantineia, and Nemea.

Includes a manuscript by Barnum describing his trip from Cairo to Mt. Sinai by camel.

Contains Barnum's account of life cultivating oranges in Palatka, Florida. Also includes a sketch of his home there "after the fire" by artist Ross Sterling Turner.

A diary covering Barnum's travels in Rome and Naples between March and May, 1870.

Contains a manuscript by Banum entitled "Notes on the Nile from the Delta to the Source," including a cartes de visite of the boat "Xarifa" that he chartered to make the trip. The year of this trip is unknown.

Contains a description of bull fights in Spain by Barnum.

Notes on Mexico and Mexican culture by Barnum written during the three months he spent there in the summer of 1890 (predominantly in Orizaba). Topics include excursions to/stays in Patzcuaro, Tlaxcala, Cholula, and Mexico City.

Includes general correspondence and form letters re: WWI as well as historical inquiries for Barnum as custodian of the Georgetown University archives.

Includes general correspondence; form letters and material re: WWI and subsequent recovery efforts; and historical inquiries for Barnum as custodian of the Georgetown University archives.

Undated correspondence, including a series of letters from Scannell O'Neill (editor of the Michigan Catholic and the Catholic Columbian).

Contains short numbered entries of quotations and notes on language/etymology and world cultures (predominantly the Middle East). Likely contemporary to his travels in the region around 1870.

Contains list of 78 Jesuits who died at Frederick 1822-1902.

Clippings and ephemera re: fundraising efforts for a new chapel on Blackwell's Island, which was completed and dedicated in 1911. Also includes handwritten notes by Barnum on the need for a new chapel and on a 1910 celebration held in the unfinished structure in memory of Fr. Hermann Blumensaat. See also box 3 folder 10 of this collection for correspondence on the new chapel.

The closing benediction by Barnum for "the unveiling of a memorial to Dr. Guerney [sic], who obtained for the Homeopathic School the control of Metropolitan Hospital" on Blackwell's Island. This refers to Dr. Egbert Guernsey (1823-1903), a homeopathic physician.

Contains Barnum's address to graduates of the Metropolitan Hospital Training School for Nurses, which had relocated to Blackwell's Island from Ward's Island in 1894.

Contains a manuscript on Fr. Joseph Joset's (1810-1900) life and missionary work with the Salish people of western Montana and the Schitsu’umsh (Coeur d’Alene) people of northern Idaho. The content is based on an 1890 oral account relayed to Barnum by Joset in Desmet, Idaho. Also includes a poem, written by Barnum, in celebration of Joset's golden jubilee of ordination that same year.

A "deposition" concerning the possible deathbed conversion of George Washington as recorded by Barnum at St. Inigoes and signed by himself, Fr. Thomas Hughes, and Fr. William F. Hamilton.