Scope and Contents From the Series: The series consists of files related to Veatch’s professional work at the Hastings Institute (then known as the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences) and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, broadly dating from the 1970s through the 2010s. It also includes files related to lectures and consulting work conducted for various other institutions during that time period. His work for various bioethical commissions, including the DHEW Task Force on Consent, DC...

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...

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...