Scope and Contents The Catholic Historical Manuscripts Collection is an artificial collection containing documents generated by significant Jesuits associated with Georgetown University in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. It includes correspondence, handwritten documents, financial account information, and bound manuscripts. Noteworthy individuals include Simon Brute, Joseph-Pierre de Cloriviere, Pierre Jean DeSmet, Alphonsus Donlon, Louis William DuBourg, Francis Dzierozynski,...

Scope and Contents The Jose A. Lopez, SJ Papers contain correspondence, official documents, and manuscripts relating to Lopez's careers as parish priest and army chaplain in Mexico; tutor to the children of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico; chaplain of the Visitation Convent in Georgetown; and Acting President of Georgetown College. There are also materials collected by Lopez that do not directly pertain to his own work. Items include a copy of a letter from Simon Bolivar to the Marquis de Lafayette...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of copies (both digital and microfilmed) of documents related to the Jesuit's mission in Maryland that are held by the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI), also known as the Archives of the Jesuit Curia in Rome.One portion of the collection was provided by ARSI (on DVDs). The other portion consists of copies of ARSI documents that were obtained by Francis X. Curran, S.J. sometime prior to 1960.Digital copies of documents from both portions...

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Contains correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts, and other documents pertaining to U.S. Catholic Church History. Boxes 12 and 13, which deal with notable individuals in U.S. Catholic History, are arranged alphabetically by last name of individual. Boxes 14 through 20 contain documents which focus on the history of Catholicism in particular geographic places in America, and they are arranged alphabetically by geographic area.

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Correspondence from Ambrose Marechal, Archbishop of Baltimore, about and to Lopez. In Latin.

Letter 1 - From Marechal “to all whom it concerns,” regarding Lopez (July 12, 1825)

Letter 2 - From Marechal to Lopez (January 8, 1826)

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The American Catholic Sermon collection was formed from manuscript sermons from the Woodstock College Archives, the Maryland Province Archives, and the Georgetown University Archives. It consists of some 456 autograph manuscript sermons, two contemporary written transcriptions, and four printed items (some only fragments) by 44 different preachers, including 55 texts by Archbishop John Carroll and seven by Georgetown's first president, Rev. Robert Plunkett. The sermons are arranged...

Scope and Contents Arbitration decision and supporting documents in dispute between William Pasquet, S.J., Superior of Bohemia (1806-1815) and James Moynihan,S.J., Superior of Bohemia (1815-1817); papers related to manumission of Patrick Barnes by Ambrose Marechal:Order of Registrar of Wills (1788) to appraise chattels of the late John Lewis, S.J.; Decision of arbitrators (1816) in disupute between James Moynihan, S.J., and William Pasquet, S.J.; Observations on the arbitration of James Scanlan and...

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Photocopies of typed notes by P. Maréchal S.J. related to Teilhard 's "Le phénomène humain". Undated. Probably 1928.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts, and other documents pertaining to U.S. Catholic Church History. Boxes 12 and 13, which deal with notable individuals in U.S. Catholic History, are arranged alphabetically by last name of individual. Boxes 14 through 20 contain documents which focus on the history of Catholicism in particular geographic places in America, and they are arranged alphabetically by geographic area.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts, and other documents pertaining to U.S. Catholic Church History. Boxes 12 and 13, which deal with notable individuals in U.S. Catholic History, are arranged alphabetically by last name of individual. Boxes 14 through 20 contain documents which focus on the history of Catholicism in particular geographic places in America, and they are arranged alphabetically by geographic area.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts, and other documents pertaining to U.S. Catholic Church History. Boxes 12 and 13, which deal with notable individuals in U.S. Catholic History, are arranged alphabetically by last name of individual. Boxes 14 through 20 contain documents which focus on the history of Catholicism in particular geographic places in America, and they are arranged alphabetically by geographic area.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts, and other documents pertaining to U.S. Catholic Church History. Boxes 12 and 13, which deal with notable individuals in U.S. Catholic History, are arranged alphabetically by last name of individual. Boxes 14 through 20 contain documents which focus on the history of Catholicism in particular geographic places in America, and they are arranged alphabetically by geographic area.

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Contains documents comprising the personal manuscripts collection of John Gilmary Shea. This series consists of Boxes 21 and 22 and is arranged alphabetically by individual.

Scope and Contents Contains ALS: from McElroy to Dzierozynski on Fr. Graves' improvement in health 11/1/1827; ALS of 11/3/1827; from Bp Dubois to Dzierozynski on ordination of a Joseph Schneller 11/8/1827, on same 11/19/1827; from Abp Marechal to McElroy extending Jubilee 11/8/1827; from Abp Marechal to B. Fenwick granting faculties to ordain 11/16/1827; from McElroy to Dzierozynski on Marechal and circumstances of his extending Jubilee 11/20/1827; from Beschter to Dzierozynski on impending death of Marechal,...

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Contains incoming correspondence to John Gilmary Shea. Arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent.

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"The Marechal Ordinations Myth," probably written by Father Ryan

**Former finding aid locations: 119_13_9; 18O2**

Scope and Contents Contains ALS: from E. Fenwick to Cary on Cobb Neck payments to Baltimore Cathedral 3/13/1819; to G. Fenwick 3/15/1819; from B. Fenwick to G. Fenwick 5/14/1819; from Rev. James Fairclough to F. Neale on pew rent dispute in Alexandria 5/18/1819; from A.S. Divoff, SJ to G. Fenwick on latter's organ-playing 5/20/1819; from Abp Marechal to Leonard Edelin, SJ on reports of Catholic clergy burning Protestant Bibles, financing of Cathedral construction 6/8/1819, on allegations of Bible burning...

Scope and Contents Contains ALS: from Beschter to Dzierozynski on decree of Pius VII, disposition of White Marsh 11/5/1824, on misc. 11/13/1824, 11/14/1824, 11/27/1824; from Abp Marechal to Dzierozynski on status of ex-Jesuit 11/7/1824, regretting anticipated publication of account of difference between Marechal and Society 11/13/1824, on disposition of White Marsh, holdings of Corp RCC 11/24/1824, on misc. 11/25/1827; from Peter Valentin, SJ to Dzierozynski 11/9/1824; copy of letter from Dzierozynski (to...

Scope and Contents Contains ALS: from Bp Conwell to E. Fenwick on Society property in Philadelphia 1/11/1825; from Abp Marechal to Dzierozynski on removal of B. Fenwick from Mt. Carmel 1/12/1825, on same, jurisdiction over clergy transfers 1/25/1825; from Abp Marechal to McElroy on misc. 1/23/1825, on personnel assigments 3/3/1825; from Beschter to Dzierozynski on Bp Edward Fenwick's visit to Emmitsburg 2/17/1825; from F. Neale to Dzierozynski on labor needs of St. Thomas Manor 2/28/1825; from Abp Marechal to...