Box 5

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Contains general notes on Jamaica as well as Barnum's account of the January 14 earthquake and its aftermath. Also includes a pamphlet by Fr. Patrick F. X. Mulry outlining the mission's financial losses and several photographs of the destruction at Alpha Cottage School/Alpha Boys' School in Kingston.

Scope and Contents A collection of "items of interest which came to the attention of Father Barnum," originally filling four composition books. A later archivist then dismantled and filed them with pertinent collections or material. This folder contains those that were not separated and cover the following Jesuit-related topics:(1-7) Frederick, including notes on St. John's Literary Institution and a list of masters of novices 1834-1903 (8) The Dzierozynski "picture" of St....

Scope and Contents A collection of "items of interest which came to the attention of Father Barnum," originally filling four composition books. A later archivist then dismantled many of these notes and filed them with pertinent collections or material. This folder contains those that were not separated and cover the following Jesuit-related topics:(1) The purchase of the bells for St. Thomas Manor under the pastorate of Fr. Bernardin Wiget (2) A nameless grave at St. Thomas Manor;...

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Typed anecdotes, often humorous, on incidents in the lives of individual Jesuits. The majority of the stories here replicate those in the handwritten copy by Barnum in box 5 folder 5, with some added later.

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Includes data on Jesuit work at the penal, charitable, and hospital organizations on Randall's, Ward's, Hart's, and Blackwell's Islands in New York Harbor.

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Materials related to Barnums religious formation and career: first vows (1882), ordination cards (1887), and a chronology of his Jesuit life (circa 1900). Also contains a notebook listing of people prayed for, annual retreats taken, and various other chronologies for his life. One of these is of particular use regarding many of the journeys that appear in the Travel subseries of this collection.