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Scope and Contents Addresses and sermons: "Explanation of Holy Childhood" (no date); "Sunday of Advent and Establishment of the Apostleship of Prayer" (12-13-1903); "Feast of St. John" (12-27-1903); "Purpose of the Holy Name and Temperance Society" (6-4-1905); "Causes of Intemperance--The Saloon" (1-11-1906); "Self-denial: Necessary to the Practice of Temperance" (8-10-1906); "The Occasions of Sin" (8-17-1906); "Occasions of Sin" (9-14-1906); "Causes of Drunkenness--Conviviality" (11-9-1906); "Temperance...

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Address to the Boston College Philomatheia Society entitled "The Educational Crisis" (1-12-1923, two versions). Includes cover page.

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Addresses and sermons: "The Kingdom of Love" (6-22/6-26, 1906); "The Catholic Woman in Education" (5-16-1914); "The Holy War, or With Christ in the Trenches" (4-11-1915); and "The Convent-Making League" (1-21-1918). Includes cover page.

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Addresses: "The Catholic Instinct" (10-1-1909); "Acceptance of Suffering" (11-1909); "The Apostolate of the Laity" (4-1-1910); "The Cessation of Mixed Marriage" (11-4-1910); "Good Reading" (no date); "The Devotion of Love" (4-3-1914); "The Devotion to the Sacred Heart: The Best Guarantee of Perseverance" (2-3-1911); "Religious Instruction" (12-4-1914); "The Apostolate of the Press" (1-8-1905); and "Immaculate Heart of Mary" (5-7-1915). Includes cover page.

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Addresses and sermons: "Necessity of Religion" (10-13-1907); "The Catholic Church and the Modern Religious World" (10-11-1908); "The Catholic Church: The Safety of a Perishing World" (no date); "On the Obligation of Belonging to the True Church" (9-20-1908); "Christian Unity" (3-21-1897, also delivered in 1909); "Religious Indifference" (9-19-1909); "Christian Marriage" (9-17-1911); and "Civic Duties" (1908, also delivered in 1911, 1913, and 1914). Includes cover page.

Scope and Contents Addresses and sermons: "Why Catholics Should Prefer Catholic Colleges" (clipping of address delivered 6-20-1910); "The Joyful Day" (6-15-1919); "The Building of the Temple" (6-22-1915); "The Christian Warfare" (6-19-1908); "Opening Address to Students of Regis High School, N.Y." (10-1-1917); "Mass of Holy Ghost for Opening of Parish School, St. Ignatius, N.Y." (9-13-1918); "Duties of Parents in Education" (no date); and two versions of "Purpose of Our Studies" (no date). Includes cover...

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Addresses and sermons: "The Catholic College Woman" (2-10-1915); "The Women's War" (9-30-1914); "The Apostolate of the Laywoman" (3-22-1915); "The Immaculate Conception and the Interior Life" (12-8-1915); "The Interior Life" (3-7-1916); "Work for the Souls in Purgatory" (11-9-1915); "The Spirit of Lent" (2-26-1917); "Joy in God's Service" (3-22-1917); "Reparation" (4-6-1917); and "The White Cross" (5-19-1918). Includes cover page.

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Instructions and sermon: "Instruction on the Obligation of Hearing Mass" (6-5-1887); "Instruction on Confession" (6-5-1887); "Instruction on Communion" (6-6-1877); and "Sermon on 40 Hours" (no date). Includes cover page.

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Instructions: "On the Holy Ghost," "On the Church," "Marks of the Church," "The Communion of Saints," "Purgatory," "Sin," "Resurrection of the Body," "Life Everlasting," "Faith," and "Dispensation from Vows" (1881-1883). Includes cover page which indicates that some, at least, were given to the lay brothers at Georgetown College. Also contains a list of altar boys by height for Annunciation services (1882).

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Instructions on the Sacraments and on the Commandments (1883).

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Instructions: on Commandments (1883); "Catechism to Senior Students at Georgetown College" (1895-1896, two versions); "Catechism to Students of the Visitation Academy at Frederick, MD" (1898-1899); "Catechism to the Coadjutor Brothers at Boston College" (1899-1900); "The Third Commandment" (2-2-1915); on Commandmnents (1920); and a list of female catechism pupils (no date).

Scope and Contents Notes for a sermon on faith; an outline for a sermon on the necessity of religion; notes on "Milton's Panegyric of Chastity" from Comus; notes on St. Patrick; an outline for a sermon on the Passion; clippings of an address by James Freeman Clarke titled "What Do We Know About Christ? Or, Agnosticism in Regard to Jesus" (5-6-1882); and a copy of William Jennings Bryan's address "The Prince of Peace" (1894).Further includes a booklet titled "Notes and Extracts for Sermons" with...

Scope and Contents Contains outlines of other addresses, sermons, and instructions: newsclipping of the text of an address made by Richards at the Carroll Institute Hall on the occasion of the departure of Bishop Keane from Catholic University (10-8-1896); "Closing Address to Students of Visitation Convent, Frederick" (6-18-1899); "Enthusiasm in Temperance Work" (1-1907); "Worldliness" (10-7-1910); "Address to Altar Boys" (12-11-1915); "The Communion of Saints" (11-2-1918); "Fortitude" (11-21-1918); "The Joy...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence to Georgetown President Fr. John B. Creeden re: honorary degrees of "Mr. Brady and Mr. Ryan" (6-1918); correspondence with Judge Thomas C. T. Crain re: the Catholic and Protestant faiths (1920-1921); a letter to a Mrs. Frederick P. Gardner re: her estrangement from her husband (9-29-1920); a letter to Georgetown University Archivist Fr. Francis Barnum re: the estate of Miss Anna E. Smith (12-16-1920); a letter from Winifred B. Madison re: Miss Smith (12-21-1920); a...

Scope and Contents Includes a letter from Fr. James B. Mahoney to Fr. William Tallon containing an account of Richards' last moments (9-20-1923); two letters from Fr. Joseph H. Rockwell to Georgetown President Fr. John B. Creeden requesting information about Richards' presidency for an obituary (1923-1924); a letter from Richards' sister Mary to Creeden re: a photograph of her late brother (10-26-1923); a typescript copy of a letter, and a further letter, from Mo. M. Loretta Griffin, OSU, to St. Joseph's...

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A bound notebook maintained by Richards as an English composition book (1872) before later being used for copying down articles/notes on Jesuits and religion (1879-1899).