This collection is of interest to local family and Catholic historians, including research into devout Catholic women.
Contains estate file, including will and probate court documents, relating to Mary M. Mattingly. Also: baptismal record (photocopy) and obituary.
Notes and research material relating to an oral history project on Holy Trinity Church, Washington, D.C., undertaken by William A. Maxwell.
Miscellaneous autograph, signed manuscripts by various individuals collected by John S. Mayfield.
Manuscript items, including letters,notes, photographs, and printed ephemera, found interleaved in books from the personal library of John S. Mayfield.
Miscellaneous items from the John S. Mayfield papers not previously processed as part of other series in the collection.
The papers of Ora Patience Lumpkin Mayfield are contained in 5 boxes. Box 1 comprises correspondence only. Box 2 contains memorabilia collected by Ora Mayfield, and the arrangement is alphabetical. The third (3) box holds greeting cards and photo albums of family and friends while box 4 contains diaries and books. The last box (5) holds two (2) Tyler Rose commemorative plates.
The collection primarily consists of materials that Graham Greene sent to Fr. Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., including 19 letters dating from 1977 to 1989. It also includes, two postcards featuring images of Graham Greene, one with an inscription from Greene to McCoog; two publicity photographs for the film “The End of the Affair” that Greene, both inscribed to McCoog; and one portrait photograph of Greene, also inscribed to McCoog.
The Ann G. McDonald collection of Graham Greene consists of printed periodical articles by and about noted English Catholic author Graham Greene. McDonald collected these materials in support of her doctoral dissertation. Her dissertation, entitled "A Bibliography of the Periodical Contributions of Graham Greene" (1969), is also preserved among these papers. One of the folders in the collection contains periodical clippings of Greene's fellow English Catholic writer Evelyn Waugh.
