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A handwritten manuscript by Barnum on the early history of the Alaska mission, focusing on co-founder Fr. Pascal Tosi who was his superior until 1897. Barnum presents "the actual state of affairs" under Fr. Tosi's administration and offers "actual proofs," via printed sources, of Tosi's "habitual tendency to falsify and exaggerate." See also correspondence from and regarding Fr. Tosi in box 2 folder 36 and box 3 folders 1, 3.

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Newspaper clippings and other printed materials re: Fr. Pascal Tosi, collected and annotated by Barnum, that offer commentary challenging the accounts of his former superior.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Chronological Correspondence. Arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The F. Mark Wyatt Papers document the life and career of F. Mark Wyatt, a noted official in the Central Intelligence Agency and an expert on the subject of Soviet bloc defectors. Correspondents exchanging letters with Wyatt include Elizabeth Bancroft, Lee Hamilton, Max Holland, Sam Nunn, and Thomas Powers, among others. A number of manuscripts and printed materials is also found among the papers. There is a lengthy run of newspaper articles about intelligence issues gathered by Wyatt. ...

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Four scrapbooks of clippings, photographs, and letters relating to ROTC activities and personnel.

Scope and Contents Jesuit obituaries: Gabriel Sanchez (1617), Arnold Damen (1890), Marianus Paredes (1886), Thomas J. Love (1955), Bernardin F. Wiget (1883), Joseph U. Beaudry (1919), Hubert J. Peters (1911), Alexander von Ascheberg (1912), Maurice Sullivan (1899), James de Alagona (1629), Caesar A. Barchi (1906), Henry Knappmeyer (1897), John William Beschter (1842), Joseph B. O'Connell (1968), Albert Peters (1921), Julius Fazio (1596), John Madonado (1583), Andrew White (1657), John Archberger (1858),...

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Correspondence, predominantly from fellow Jesuits, including a letter (4-16-1898) from provincial Fr. Edward J. Pubrick recalling Barnum from Alaska and a letter (5-17-1898) from fellow missionary Fr. Joseph M. Treca concerning the death of Fr. Pascal Tosi in Juneau on 1-14-1898.

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Correspondence between Barnum and fellow Jesuits (e.g., Frs. William H. Judge and Pascal Tosi) as well as letters concerning him. Of note are letters sent by Barnum to Fr. J. Havens Richards, SJ, then-president of Georgetown University, re: his missioning in Alaska as well as correspondence with Samuel H. Frisbee re: publishing these such acccounts in the Woodstock Letters.

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Correspondence between Barnum and fellow Jesuits (e.g., Frs. William H. Judge and Pascal Tosi) as well as letters concerning him, with many discussing his work in Alaska. Also contains "The Great Alaska Donation," a humorous account of a 39¢ money order for the mission from Abbé François Xavier Brunet, and associated correspondence.

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Contains Barnum's description of the death of Archbishop Charles John Seghers in 1886, eventually published as part of the second installment of "Life on the Alaska Mission" in the Woodstock Letters (v. 22, p. 420-456, 1893). Also includes Fr. Pascal Tosi's 1887 account of Seghers' death, accompanied by annotations from Barnum who deemed this original piece "so poor and unsatisfactory" that he had to write another.

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous materials re: Alaska: a poem titled "On the High Festival: Sr. M. Stephen's Feast" (1892); notes on summer steamers arriving in Alaska (1894); an archpastoral epistle from Bishop Nicholas Ziorov for the centennial of the Orthodox mission in North America (1894); faculties granted to Fr. Pascal Tosi (1894-1895); remarks/song for Thanksgiving on St. Michael Island (1897); and ephemera related to Bp. Joseph Crimont's fundraising for the Guild of the Little Flower in Juneau (1919)....