Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Brunini Papers offer an interesting, inclusive day-by-day account of the life activities of a Catholic writer during a sixty-year period (1915 to 1977). His literary aspirations, his manuscript rejections, and his everyday activities (i.e., '"when writing you work yourself up emotionally") are covered in-depth in the Correspondence section of the papers (Boxes 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, and 12). Brunini's letters also present an interesting sidelight into local New York sights and scenes during...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Brunini Papers offer an interesting, inclusive day-by-day account of the life activities of a Catholic writer during a sixty-year period (1915 to 1977). His literary aspirations, his manuscript rejections, and his everyday activities (i.e., '"when writing you work yourself up emotionally") are covered in-depth in the Correspondence section of the papers (Boxes 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, and 12). Brunini's letters also present an interesting sidelight into local New York sights and scenes during...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Seumas MacManus Family Collection contains letters and manuscripts by and about Seumas MacManus (1869-1960), a prominent Irish author of folktales who lectured extensively throughout the United States and published widely. These materials document fascinating aspects of MacManus' writing career, and they provide primary source materials about his family.The collection includes a small number of letters from notables to Seumas MacManus, including Theodore Dreiser, Maud Gonne,...

Scope and contents note From the Collection: The Breedin Family Papers, which include letters, manuscripts, and photographs, are comprised mainly of correspondence between various members of the Breedin and Singleton families from the 1850s to the 1870s. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to members of the family of Enoch C. Breedin (1797-1856) and Lucy Payne Singleton (1808-1860) of Winchester, Virginia. Lucy Singleton Breedin was the daughter of General James Singleton and Judith Throckmorton Ball (1776-1852) and the sister...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Arthur Johnston Papers represent an extensive collection of materials documenting the life and works of Arthur Johnston (1898-1954), a prolific American music composer who wrote music for the theater and for film. Some of Johnston's correspondence and contracts are preserved among his papers. Also, printed materials about his career and numerous photographs of him and others are present. A large number of his musical compositions--both published an unpublished--are retained in the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Quigley archive is, properly speaking, the photo “morgue” of Quigley Publications, active under various titles since 1915 in motion picture industry trade publishing (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily, and others). Primarily an assemblage of publicity photos, the archive is a unique national resource for photographs of motion picture industry people: producers, directors, animators, and their colleagues. Actors and actresses figure less prominently, but are well represented...

Scope and Contents Sermons by James Ashby, SJ (1714-1767, entered 1739). Woodstock College Archives.(1) No date. No title. Text: "Nolo mortem peccatoris, etc." (possibly an erroneous citation of Ezechiel 33:11: ... nolo mortem impii ...). 8 pages. Note at head (in an unidentified hand) "funeral sermon."(2) No date. No title. Text: "In all thy works remember thy last end Ecc[lesiasticus]: 7v40." 8 pages.(3) No date. No...