Box 4
Contains 14 Results:
Correspondence, 1935-07-06 - 1935-12-26
Letters from Welch to his parents and Sister Christina while at Woodstock. Also letters from Fr. Gustave Weigel and Fr. Leo G. Monaghan to Leo's family members; postcards from his sister Margaret to their parents; and letters from his father to Sister Christina.
Correspondence, 1936-01-07 - 1936-05-10
Letters from Welch to his parents and Sister Christina while at Woodstock. Also letters from Sister Christina to their parents and from Fr. Gustave Weigel to Sister Christina.
Correspondence, 1936-05-14 - 1936-09-22
Letters from Welch to his parents and Sister Christina while at Woodstock, Canisius High School (Buffalo), and from St. Andrew-on-Hudson, where he began his tertianship on September 1. Also letters and postcards between other family members.
Correspondence, 1936-09-27 - 1936-12-29
Letters from Welch to his parents, brother Norbert, and Sister Christina while at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Welfare Island (New York), where he was briefly hospital chaplain.
Correspondence, 1937-06-02 - 1937-12-27
Letters from Welch to his parents and Sister Christina while at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and, beginning August 13, St. Mary's (Boston) from which he was studying meteorology at MIT. Also a note from his father to Sister Christina (December 22).
Correspondence, 1937-01-01 - 1937-05-30
Letters from Welch to his family while at St. Andrew-on-Hudson as well as, briefly, the Jesuit Missions office (New York) and the CCC camp in Livonia (Pennsylvania). Also letters from Sister Christina to their parents.
Correspondence, 1938-01-03 - 1938-05-12
Letters from Welch to his parents and Sister Christina while at St. Mary's from which he was studying meteorology at MIT. Includes discussion of his final vows.
Correspondence, 1938-05-19 - 1938-12-14
Letters from Welch to his parents and Sister Christina while at St. Mary's and later St. Andrew Bobola House (Boston) from which he was studying meteorology at MIT. Also letters from his parents and Fr. Leonard Feeney to Sister Christina.
Correspondence, 1939-01-03 - 1939-06-06
Letters from Welch to his parents and Sister Christina while at St. Andrew Bobola House from which he was studying meteorology at MIT. One letter to his parents includes an invitation and program for the May 31 departure ceremony for missionaries heading to Philippines (May 24). Also letters between Sister Christina and Fr. Alfred Barrett.
Correspondence, 1939-10-03 - 1939-12-29
Letters from Welch to his parents and Sister Christina while traveling to the Philippines with stops in Honolulu, Yokohama, Shanghai, and Hong Kong before arriving at the Ateneo de Manila and working at the Manila Observatory as part of the Astronomical Division of the Weather Bureau. Also a letter for Sister Christina from their parents.
Correspondence, 1939-06-22 - 1939-10-03
Letters from Welch to his family while at Georgetown University, where he was working in the campus observatory as well as the nearby US Naval Observatory, and throughout his cross-country journey to Vancouver on his way to the Philippines.
Correspondence, 1940-01-06 - 1940-07-04
Letters from Welch to his parents and Sister Christina while at the Ateneo de Manila. Also a letter for Sister Christina from their parents and a letter for their mother from Mother Mary Clement of the Infant Jesus Orphanage in Tondo (February 12).
Correspondence, 1940-07-12 - 1940-12-24
Letters from Welch to family while at the Ateneo de Manila and helping with catechism classes at the St. Anthony's Girls Institution. Also letters for his mother and Sister Christina from others.
Correspondence, 1941-01-08 - 1941-11-24
Letters from Welch to family while at the Ateneo de Manila and serving the St. Anthony's Girls Institution, including brief mention of the ongoing war and its affects on the city. Also letters between Sister Christina and their parents.
Although a newspaper article in box 7 folder 3 indicates that Leo sent a letter to his parents September 13, 1943, Leo's postcard of November 24, 1941, is his last communication extant in this collection until February 25, 1945.