Charles J. Hennessy, born 1877, kept two diaries intermittently from 1896 until 1907. The entries are at random intervals, and of varying length. Altogether they do not provide a very complete picture of that span of years. In addition, there is a notebook of somewhat prosaic clippings, mostly from newspapers, from the early 20th c. with a few as late as the 1930s. Hennessy died in Washington in 1942.
A "Composition" notebook similar to the preceding. In addition to the written matter Hennessy pasted in a certain number of clippings, mostly from newspapers.
This series consists of America Magazine General Correspondence. Within this series will be found folders filed by topic and/or names of specific individuals to and from whom correspondence was either addressed or received. In addition, one will occasionally find correspondence which predates the founding of America Magazine. This particular type of correspondence, normally addressed to Father Wynne, the founding editor, was incorporated into the America Magazine general file.
This series consists of two groups of correspondence from: 1) Writers with recently published works reviewed by America Magazine; and 2) America Magazine reviewers. In both instances, the folders usually include copies of the printed review to which the correspondence pertains.
A diary or journal kept in a schoolboy's "Composition" notebook, allowing entries of varying lengths. Some are merely series of words that would serve as a stimulus to the memory, but that are not meaningful to the present reader.
These clippings are astonishingly impersonal, giving little clue to the man, except that a Boston newspaper account--with photo--of his taking the final vows in 1913 is included.
The Individual Authors Series contains correspondence, manuscripts, questionnaires from the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, photos, publications, and clippings relating to individual authors who were accepted or considered as members of the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors established by Sister Mary Joseph, S.L., in 1932. The series is arranged alphabetically by author. Boxes 1-66.
Diary of St. Peter Claver's Sunday School, an African American sodality for youth and adults connected with St. Alphonsus Church. The diary records the events of the sodality, attendence records, and contains play programs
The John L. Brown papers 1, consist of 99 folders of correspondence from literary and artistic luminaries, including writers Sylvia Beach, John Dos Passos, Anne Fremantle, Katherine Anne Porter, Alice B. Toklas; philosopher Jacques Maritain; photographer Brassai; poets Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Giuseppe Ungaretti, and many more. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.
The Individual Authors Series contains correspondence, manuscripts, questionnaires from the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, photos, publications, and clippings relating to individual authors who were accepted or considered as members of the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors established by Sister Mary Joseph, S.L., in 1932. The series is arranged alphabetically by author. Boxes 1-66.
Manuscript items, including letters,notes, photographs, and printed ephemera, found interleaved in books from the personal library of John S. Mayfield.
Song book purportedly used by the Woodstock Walking Club belonging to C.J. Hennessy, S.J.
Diary of St. Peter Claver's Sunday School, an African American sodality for youth and adults connected with St. Alphonsus Church. The diary records the events of the sodality, attendence records, and contains play programs. Contains a "List of pupils attending teh colored school at Granite."
