Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Herbert Cardinal Vaughan Collection consists of original and transcribed material pertaining to St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart.

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...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Harold H. Tittmann, Jr. Papers chiefly concern his role as Assistant to the U.S. Special Representative to the Vatican Myron C. Taylor and his post as Charge d'Affaires to the Vatican during World War II. Corespondents include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Cordell Hull, D'Arcy Osborne, Mark W. Clark, Rev. Robert A. Graham, S.J., Myron C. Taylor, and Tittmann's family. The papers also contain Tittmann's research materials and rough drafts for his memoirs which were published by his son Harold H....

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The Brien McMahon Papers consist of correspondence, speeches, legal papers, newspaper clippings, honors and awards, photographs, and personal ephemera concerning the life of the late Senator and his family from circa 1930 to 1953. While the majority of the papers concern McMahon's career with the U.S. Department of Justice, there is also some material regarding his two Senate terms, his marriage to Rosemary Turner, his Presidential campaign in 1952, and his death.The collection...

Collection-level scope and contents note From the Collection: The Harry L. Hopkins Papers, the personal archives of the man who was FDR's most trusted advisor, consist of 26 linear feet (62 archival boxes) of material. The Papers contain appointment books and diaries, drafts of Hopkins' speeches and memoranda, photographs and drawings, and extensive correspondence with the most prominent figures of the 20th century including FDR, the Winston Churchill Family, Averell Harriman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George C. Marshall, Harry S Truman,...

Scope and Contents Jesuit obituaries: Peter Ladaviere (1858), Francis X. de Charlevoix (1761), Antoine Braun (1885), William O'Callaghan (1873), Raymond A. Lutz (1964), Francis J. O'Neill (1905), Joseph F. Kereben (1728), Fabian Garbely (1903), Joseph Tschenhens (1882), Matthew Sanders (1868), Anne de Nouë/Anne de Nove Chaupenois (1646), John Gough (1876), Louis de Quiros (1568), Gabriel de Solis (1568), John Baptist Mendez (1568), Francis Cazeau (1884), Louis d'Avaugour (1732), Joseph E. Keller (1886),...