Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Herbert Cardinal Vaughan Collection consists of original and transcribed material pertaining to St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, and clippings, principally pertaining to J. Herman Schauinger's research on early Catholic history in the United States. Included is transcribed and photocopied research material pertaining to Fr. Stephen Badin, Bishop Benoit J. Flaget, Bishop Jean B.M. David, Oresetes Brownson, and William Gaston. Also included are files from Schauinger's involvement with Eugene McCarthy's senatorial and presidential campaigns between 1958 and 1971. Note: Click on...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autographed manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor "Appassionata," a full set of handwritten parts for Robert Schumann’s String Quartet in A minor op. 41 no. 1 (Heavily...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The John L. Brown papers 2, consists of 271 folders of alphabetically arranged correspondence with prominent twentieth-century graphic and performing artists, composers, publishers and writers including Josephine Baker, George Braziller, John Cage, Albert Camus, Marc Chagall, Carlos Chavez, Henry Steele Commager, George Dillon, John Dos Passos, Angna Enters, Paul Flamand, Gaston Gallimard, Julien Green, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jose Limon, Andre Malraux, Jacques...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The John Main papers consist of the personal papers of John Main, O.S.B. (1926-1982), a Benedictine monk who was a world-wide proponent of Christian meditation. His collection includes extensive correspondence to him, a small quantity of correspondence from him, his subject files, printed materials, a few audio cassettes by him, a number of photographs, meditation organizations' newsletters, and books by and about Fr. Main. A large portion of the material dates from his time at the...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series: (Folders 15 -24) This series contains xerox copies of typed transcriptions of correspondence from Father James Noonan to Herbert Cardinal Vaughan, covering the period of his residence at St. Francis Xavier, Baltimore, Maryland, first as teacher for the mission, then as rector and provincial (1872-1877). This correspondence complements the original autograph letters by Cardinal Vaughan in the preceding series. In addition, there are copies of typed transcriptions of correspondence from Father...

Series-level Scope and Content Note (Folders 15 -24) This series contains xerox copies of typed transcriptions of correspondence from Father James Noonan to Herbert Cardinal Vaughan, covering the period of his residence at St. Francis Xavier, Baltimore, Maryland, first as teacher for the mission, then as rector and provincial (1872-1877). This correspondence complements the original autograph letters by Cardinal Vaughan in the preceding series. In addition, there are copies of typed transcriptions of correspondence from Father...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Subject Files of John L. Brown. Arranged alphabetically.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Subject Files of John L. Brown. Arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Box 11. Alphabetical photographic files Ben-Ami — Beresin, Jack, 66 folders.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Box 11. Alphabetical photographic files Ben-Ami — Beresin, Jack, 66 folders.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 3 consists of chronological correspondence of John L. Brown from 1932 through 1974. The correspondence is arranged in chronological order. In each folder, both correspondents writing to Brown and correspondents receiving letters from Brown are listed.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Subject Files of John L. Brown. Arranged alphabetically.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Subject Files of John L. Brown. Arranged alphabetically.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series: (Folders 1 - 14) Contains original autograph letters signed by Herbert Cardinal Vaughan to the early provincials of the St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart mission headquartered at St. Francis Xavier Church, Baltimore, Maryland. These were Cornelius Dowling, the Society's first provincial and rector, and James Noonan, after the former's death on August 2, 1872. For more information on the history and origin of the Society in Mill Hill, London, refer to the Josephite Archives, Baltimore...

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Saxifrage is a journal of poetry by the students of Georgetown University.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series: (Folders 25 - 27) Contains information gathered by the Josephite Archives in Baltimore, Maryland. Includes a Master of Arts thesis by Richard H. Steins on the history of the St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart for Foreign Missions. Entitled, 'The Mission of the Josephites to the Negro in America, 1871-1893.' Also includes biographical data on numerous missionaries, such as Canon Peter L. Benoit, rector of the society's headquarters at Mill Hill, London; fathers Cornelius Dowling the...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Subject Files of John L. Brown. Arranged alphabetically.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Chronological Correspondence. Arranged chronologically.