Scope and Contents
This subseries contains selected, fragmentary papers of George Fenwick, S.J. The materials consist of correspondence and one folder of poetical writing. Of particular note is Fenwick’s correspondence with his former student Patrick Healy, S.J., before Healy’s time as President of Georgetown College. This correspondence includes an 1853 letter from Healy to Fenwick in which Healy alludes to his attempts to pass as white at Holy Cross College; Healy was in fact mixed race, the son of a...
Dates:
1818 - 1856