Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Esther Neira de Calvo Papers thoroughly document the life and career of Esther Neira de Calvo, a prominent Panamanian educator, politician, diplomat, and women's rights advocate. The extensive collection includes correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, speeches, and awards, and it provides a fascinating perspective on 20th century Panama and Inter-American cooperation. There is material from Carrie Chapman Catt, Maria Ossa de Amador Guerrero, Matilde Obarrio de Mallet, Gabriela...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Paraguayan Jesuits Collection consists of 20 manuscript and 4 printed documents ranging in date from 1639 to about 1744. A number of the manuscripts deal with the employment of Indian laborers from the Jesuit 'reductions' on the fortification of the ports of Buenos Aires; others touch on the incursions of hostile Indians against the reductions. A major emphasis of the collection, however, is on the continuing struggle between the Jesuits and the antagonistic representatives of the Church...

Scope and Contents Materie divers. M.S. (shelfmark CCXLIII)1 bound volume of manuscripts, reports, letter copies, and printed matter. These include an unpublished biography of Confucius, "Vita Confusii Philosophi Apud Sinensis Sapientissimi ac Sanctissimi Magistri", by the Franciscan missionary Fr. Carolus Horatii á Castorano (Carlo Orazi da Castorano), OFM, a significant opponent of the Jesuits in the Chinese Rites controversy, as well as a report of Jesuit martyrdom in Vietnam, "Relazione della...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Paraguayan Jesuits Collection consists of 20 manuscript and 4 printed documents ranging in date from 1639 to about 1744. A number of the manuscripts deal with the employment of Indian laborers from the Jesuit 'reductions' on the fortification of the ports of Buenos Aires; others touch on the incursions of hostile Indians against the reductions. A major emphasis of the collection, however, is on the continuing struggle between the Jesuits and the antagonistic representatives of the Church...