Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection essentially comprises the life and letters of Sir Shane Leslie whose boundless energy and wide-ranging interests took him all over Britain, the United States and Canada, bringing him in touch with people in many fields including the arts, economics, education, literature, politics and religion. Sir Shane's personal papers also reflect his deep concern and interest in Irish culture and politics, particularly the question of Irish independence through Home Rule. The...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

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.

Scope and contents note From the Collection: The Douglass Woodruff Papers are divided into seven series. The Correspondence Series comprises 12 boxes and includes separate sections of correspondence from Evelyn Waugh, Emily Hewett Woodruff (Woodruff's letters to his mother), Marie Immaculee Woodruff, and Mildred Woodruff Tschoeberle (Woodruff's letters to his sister). The letters in this Series contain discussion on a variety of topics, most notably Catholicism, the Tablet, literary endeavors of Woodruff and others, and news regarding...

Scope and Contents Jesuit obituaries: John B. Lesssman (1899), Joseph H. Rockwell (1927), Joseph Berg (1914), John I. Coghlan (1897), Andrew Monroe (1871), Everand Mercurian (1580), Joseph F. X. Cosenza (1961), Charles L. McIlhenney (1964), Francis J. Ruppel (1947), Alfred B. Rockliff (1911), William McGinn (1888), Richard Dugan (1903), Frederick Suermann (1888), Joseph Gieroda (1882), Aloysius X. Valente (1888), Joseph Bax (1852), Alphonse M. Mandalari (1927), John L. Gleizal (1859), William Tyrrell (1924),...