Burns Library Archival Collections

Collection is open for research.

Manuscript deed of indentured apprenticeship of Stephen Cory (1765-1790?) to Susanna Nichols (1712-1806), both of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, dated 15 February 1771.

Open for research.

Lewis A. Coser papers document the personal, political, and professional endeavors of this German-American sociologist primarily through correspondence, but course materials, documents, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, periodicals, photographs, and publishing files are also included.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents Rose Laub Coser’s professional work and writing as a sociologist, her career at the State University of New York-Stony Brook and Boston College, and her mentorship of students. It contains correspondence, curriculum vitae, manuscript drafts, pamphlets, and photocopies.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, ephemera, and correspondence about the Boston College football teams coached by Frank Leahy. The materials primarily document the 1940 Cotton Bowl and the 1941 Sugar Bowl. The majority of the articles were written by Bulger. Box 1 houses the original scrapbook, while box 2 holds a preservation photocopy for easier use.

Open for research.

Council of State minutes, concerning the appointments of Denis Bond, Thomas Scot, Herbert Morley, Henry Marten, William Purefoy, and Henry Neville, to a committee to consider the disposition of Irish men into the service of foreign states, taken by John Thurloe, secretary to the Council of State.

Open for research.

This collection includes several letters from twentieth-century American poet and author Nathalia Crane to the poet Louis Untermeyer, as well as photographs, publications, and programs she sent to him. Most of the material relates to Crane's support for Irish political prisoners at Long Kesh prison.

Collection is open for research.

The album consists of six prints restruck from the original plates. The original engravings appeared circa 1819-1826. The collection contains "The Dancing Lesson" Parts 1-4, "Mushroom Monstrosities," and "Juvenile Monstrosities."

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This unpublished transcription of the Flann O'Brien "Cruiskeen Lawn" columns that are not represented in published compilations was prepared by drama scholar Steven C. Young. It is thought to be the only extant copy of this work.

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Autograph album containing containing verse, drawings, and humor by Irish Republican prisoners held at Crumlin Road Gaol. Entries are dated May-June 1921, and are signed by Thomas Sherry, Felix Devlin, Daniel F. Sheridan, Stephen Raferty, Malachy Doddy, and others.

Open for research.

Open for research.

Collection is open for research.

Scrapbook consists of annotated clippings from the Northern Whig, a paper in Belfast of which Samuel Cunningham was chairman for a time. The clippings in this volume are by pseudonymous authors including “Asmodeus,” ‘Merlin, and “Old Fogey,” possibly Cunningham himself. Topics discussed range from Home Rule, World War I, the Titanic, suffragists, elections, unions, Churchill, and the political situation in Ulster, to coupons, waiters, and margarine.

Scrapbook is open for research. Materials are fragile; please use with care.

These materials, collected by professor of English William F. Cunningham, Jr., consist primarily of artifacts and ephemera associated with twentieth-century adaptations of the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. There are also smaller amounts of commemorative items associated with Swift himself.

Collection is open for research.

Appointment certificates for Joseph M. Curley (1864-1932) to the positions of Clerk of the Chelsea Police Court, Clerk of the District Court of Chelsea, and Justice of the Peace of Massachusetts.

Collection is open for research.

Collection documents twentieth-century cardinal and Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cushing through his addresses and speeches, correspondence, event ephemera, religious pamphlets, and a scrapbook.

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This collection documents the scholarship of Boston College professor of history William M. Daly. Daly's work focused on the medieval period and Christianity. His papers consist of research notes and drafts for articles, lectures, and two unpublished books.

Collection is open for research.

Handwritten diary of Timothy Dandy's religious reflections. He finished the diary on August 29, 1824.

Open for research. Fragile; use care in handling.

Composed mainly of newspaper clippings about Daniélou. Also includes publications and letters about him, as well as a photograph reproduction.

Collection is open for research.

Open for research.

The papers document the career of twentieth and twenty-first century Irish author Gerald Dawe as a poet, essayist, and academic, and consist of clippings, correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Collection is open for research.

Composed of published speeches of Sinn Fein leader and Irish president Éamon De Valera, some of which date from the World War II era. There are also images of him, including photographs taken during his visit to Boston in 1947. In addition, the collection includes obituaries of De Valera from Irish newspapers, and two letters of De Valera's wife, Sinéad.

Collection is open for research.

Small collection of correspondence and manuscripts of Irish poet Aubrey De Vere from 1886-1905.

Collection is open for research.