Box 14

Correspondence with the weekly review The Commonweal, predominantly regarding Parsons' articles for the publication. Includes discussion of a critical review by Mortimer Adler of Allan Farrell's The Jesuit Code of Liberal Education and Parsons' response.

Correspondence with the weekly review The Commonweal, predominantly regarding Parsons' articles for the publication.

Correspondence and press releases related to a series of three lectures given by Parsons on "The Papacy and the World Today." See box 2 folder 14 of this collection for copies of each talk: "The Pope and the Peoples" (November 10), "The Papacy and the Nations" (November 17), and "The Papacy and the Modern World" (November 24).

Correspondence with the Critics Forum of Washington, also known as the Washington Critics Forum, which was founded in 1940 as a way for Catholic thinkers and speakers to provide reviews on current bestsellers. Includes discussion of Parsons' review of The Nazarene by Sholem Asch.

Correspondence and ephemera related to the Council for Civil Rights, formerly known as the Committee for Racial Democracy in the Nation's Capital, especially regarding efforts to end discrimination in local theaters. Includes information on Parsons' picketing of the National Theater's production of "The Iceman Cometh," with support of author Eugene O'Neill, as well as a photograph of Parsons reading O'Neill's anti-discrimination statement to the picketers and members of the cast.

Correspondence with COR, a monthly magazine published by the Priests of the Sacred Heart to promote the Apostolate of the Sacred Heart.

Correspondence with and materials related to the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, including a commentary by Simon Marcson on a paper by John LaFarge, SJ (1949), and a typescript by Van Wyck Brooks discussing the aims and purpose of the organization (undated).

Correspondence with and materials related to the Fathers of the Church, Inc., book series, for which Parsons was requested to provide a translation of St. Augustine's De Vera Religione. Although his translation was never published, he did contribute to five volumes of St. Augustine's letters between 1951 and 1956.

Parsons' unpublished translation St. Augustine's De Vera Religione for the Fathers of the Church, Inc., book series.

Correspondence regarding family planning, predominantly including responses to Parson's America article "Is This 'Catholic' Birth Control?" (February 25, 1933).

Correspondence related to the Works Project Administration's play "Triple-A Plowed Under," produced by the Federal Theatre Project. The play depicted issues faced by sharecroppers and farmers as a result of the New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) and advocated for a farmer-labor alliance. Critics, including Parsons, claimed the play was communistic.

Ephemera predominantly related to the Works Project Administration's Federal Theatre Project, including newsclippings, playbills, and bulletins. Parsons and others believed many of the plays criticized capitalism and promoted communistic propaganda.

Correspondence related to Georgetown University while Parsons was stationed there as library director, professor, and dean. Predominantly consists of reference queries; requests for assistance; letters of thanks; and lecture invitations.

Correspondence related to Georgetown University while Parsons was stationed there as library director, professor, and dean. Predominantly consists of reference queries; requests for assistance; letters of thanks; and lecture invitations.

Correspondence related to Georgetown University while Parsons was stationed there as library director, professor, and dean. Predominantly consists of reference queries; requests for assistance; letters of thanks; and lecture invitations.

Correspondence related to Georgetown University while Parsons was stationed there as professor. Predominantly consists requests for assistance; letters of thanks; and lecture invitations. Many letters also congratulate him on his new position at the college.

Correspondence related to Georgetown University while Parsons was stationed there as library director and professor. Predominantly consists of reference queries; requests for assistance; letters of thanks; and lecture invitations. Includes a few letters regarding the hiring of the university's first professional librarian Phillips Temple (August-September).

Correspondence related to Georgetown University while Parsons was stationed there as library director and professor. Predominantly consists of reference queries; requests for assistance; letters of thanks; and lecture invitations.