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Box 1

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Which Way, Democracy?, 1938 - 1940

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with the publisher and readers regarding Parsons' Which Way, Democracy? as well as a publishing contract and Jesuit censor's reports.

Dates: 1938 - 1940

Mexico Martyrdom, 1935 - 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with the publisher and readers regarding Parsons' Mexican Martyrdom as well as a publishing contract.

Dates: 1935 - 1938

The Pope and Italy, 1929

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with readers regarding Parsons' The Pope and Italy as well as a typescript draft of the work.

Dates: 1929

Early Catholic Americana: MacMillan Company, 1938 - 1956

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and a contract with, as well as royalty statements from, MacMillan Company Publishers for Parsons' Early Catholic Americana.

Dates: 1938 - 1956

Early Catholic Americana: J. J. Little & Ives, 1938 - 1940

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with J. J. Little & Ives Company printers for Parsons' Early Catholic Americana.

Dates: 1938 - 1940

Early Catholic Americana: Douglas C. McMurtrie, 1937 - 1940

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with Douglas C. McMurtrie, of the Work Progress Administration's Historical Records Survey American Imprints Iventory, whose objective was to locate and catalog books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the US before 1877 and create a searchable national bibliography. McMurtrie alerted Parsons to works not already in his list and vice versa.

Dates: 1937 - 1940

Early Catholic Americana: preliminary version, 1937

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents A preliminary version of Parsons' Early Catholic Americana, titled "A List of Catholic Books Printed in the United States 1729-1830," compiled from the books at Riggs Library, Georgetown University. Parsons sent the typescript to "a selected group of Librarians and Bibliographers in the twofold hope that they will check titles on their own shelves and especially that they will add new titles not known to the present compiler. When this census...
Dates: 1937

Early Catholic Americana: draft (1 of 5), 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

A draft of Parsons' Early Catholic Americana with handwritten revisions and notes.

Dates: 1938

Early Catholic Americana: draft (2 of 5), 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

A draft of Parsons' Early Catholic Americana with handwritten revisions and notes.

Dates: 1938

Early Catholic Americana: draft (3 of 5), 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

A draft of Parsons' Early Catholic Americana with handwritten revisions and notes.

Dates: 1938

Early Catholic Americana: draft (4 of 5), 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

A draft of Parsons' Early Catholic Americana with handwritten revisions and notes.

Dates: 1938

Early Catholic Americana: draft (5 of 5), 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

A draft of Parsons' Early Catholic Americana with handwritten revisions and notes.

Dates: 1938