Scope and Contents This collection contains letters, diaries, and other writings of Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson, S.J. and William Feiner, S.J. Because the two men served as successive Presidents of Georgetown College in the 1820s, and because both made entries in the letterbooks in this collection, these materials have been grouped together. Dubuisson’s materials consist of loose letters (including several pertaining to students at Georgetown College) and three bound items (a diary, a...

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The Mencken-Boyd Collection consists of 19 letters from H.L. Mencken to Ernest A. and Madeleine E. Boyd. The letters are arranged in 19 folders and contained in 1 box.

Scope and Contents This is the fourth of a series of five Georgetown letterbooks that contain copies of outgoing correspondence. These letterbooks provide resumes of letters sent, many of which were to parents and guardians asking for payment of student fees. This letterbook contains entries during the Georgetown presidency of Feiner. Materials on Slavery Contains materials pertaining to Jesuit slaveholding.On January 21, 1828, William Feiner, SJ...

Scope and Contents This is the third of a series of five Georgetown letterbooks that contain copies of outgoing correspondence. These letterbooks provide resumes of letters sent, many of which were to parents and guardians asking for payment of student fees. This letterbook contains entries during the Georgetown presidency of Feiner. Materials on Slavery Contains materials pertaining to Jesuit slaveholding.On July 5, 1827, William Feiner, SJ,...

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This is the first of a series of five Georgetown letterbooks that contain copies of outgoing correspondence. These letterbooks provide resumes of letters sent, many of which were to parents and guardians asking for payment of student fees. This letterbook contains entries during the Georgetown presidencies of both Dubuisson and Feiner. In French and English.

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This is the second of a series of five Georgetown letterbooks that contain copies of outgoing correspondence. These letterbooks provide resumes of letters sent, many of which were to parents and guardians asking for payment of student fees. This letterbook contains entries during the Georgetown presidency of Feiner.

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Five letters pertaining to affairs at Georgetown College.

Scope and Contents This is the fifth of a series of five Georgetown letterbooks that contain copies of outgoing correspondence. These letterbooks provide resumes of letters sent, many of which were to parents and guardians asking for payment of student fees. This letterbook contains entries during the Georgetown presidency of Feiner. Materials on Slavery Contains materials pertaining to Jesuit slaveholding.October 25, 1828: Requests a boy “at...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and a wide variety of supplemental items that document Murray's career as author, editor, lecturer, professor, and theologian. Murray is perhaps best known for his books We Hold These Truths (1960) and The Problem of God (1964) as well as for his longstanding editorship of Theological Studies. Among Murray's correspondents are Rev. John...

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Bound item, labeled “Diary,” covering the years 1820-1834.

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Bound notebook, labeled “De Metaphysica,” containing notes from lectures by Professor Theodore De Theux, dated 1818. In Latin.

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Bound item, labeled “My Spiritual Diary,” covering the years 1818-1833.

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Four letters written by Dubuisson. Letters concern: “conditions” for students entering Georgetown, including tuition in gourdes, a Haitian currency (1820, in French); a debt for $449 owed by a family in New Iberia, Louisiana (1826, in French); the miraculous cure of Sister Stanislaus of breast cancer (written to Henry Daingerfield of Alexandria, 1838); the religious studies of John Roach of Alexandria (written to Roach, from Italy, 1842).