Burns Library Archival Collections

Personal and literary papers of Irish poet and editor John F. Deane.

Collection is open for research.

Contracts and personal financial documents are closed for 75 years from the date of creation for privacy concerns.

Audio and video recordings are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; if possible, reformatting will be scheduled.

Collection is open for research.

Contemporary manuscript copy of a deed of sale by James Boies to Richard Clarke, in establishment of a partnership in a paper mill on the Neponset River, in Milton, Massachusetts.

Open for research.

Manuscript copy of the 1719 Naples edition of Stradiotti's biography of Saint Francis de Geronimo. With an engraved portrait of Saint Francis de Geronimo, signed in plate: Nicolaus Morena delin.

Open for research.

Open for research.

The letters comprise thirteen bound volumes containing the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish author Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster to her uncle, George Dempster. Also contained in the volumes are ephemera, including playbills and programs.

Collection is open for research.

Two-page letter written in black ink on single sheet of unlined blue paper, in which George Anthony Denison expounds on the meaning of "tractarian" i.e., the Oxford Movement.

Open for research.

A button accordion, an event program, photographs, a set list, and phonograph records belonging to Boston-area Irish musician Joe Derrane.

Collection is open for research. The accordion may be viewed by researchers, but may not be played.

Open for research.

Three gouache paintings, done in preparation for a stained glass window triptych. Center painting depicts Jesus Christ holding a lamb, with Saint Joseph and Saint Patrick to each side.

Open for research.

The diary contains entries discussing both academic and extracurricular activities by members of Boston College's sophomore class's section "A" over a four year period. Students were members of Boston College 1923-1926 graduating classes.

Open for research. Fragile; take care in handling.

Bound manuscript written in italic cursive script, consisting of eight works on Roman emperors and a treatise on chivalric orders, including the Templars and the Teutonic Order.

Open for research.

Open for research.

Papers document the teaching and administrative work of twentieth-century American Boston College English professor Paul C. Doherty. Materials include correspondence, clippings, course materials, draft manuscripts, event ephemera, and faculty meeting minutes. Doherty's instructional materials make up the bulk of the collection and focus on numerous topics including James Joyce, William Shakespeare, the short story, literary criticism, and rhetoric and composition.

Collection is open for research. Contains some university records dating after 1968, which are closed per university policy. Access for the university records is with permission of the originating office.

The papers contain a journal, correspondence, legal and religious documents, clippings, ephemera, and photographs documenting the life of twentieth-century professor, Boston College president, and Jesuit James H. Dolan, SJ. Of note are photographs reflecting life at Boston College in the late 1920s and preliminary architectural planning documents for three Jesuit institutions.

Collection is open for research, with the exception of estate documents containing financial information, which are closed until 2037.

Collection compiled by nursing historian Josephine A. Dolan composed of artifacts, letters, ephemera, and photographs, with a particular focus on Florence Nightingale. Included are both original and reproductions of Florence Nightingale's correspondence.

Collection is open for research. The videocassettes are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. The film reels are not available for playback due to format impermanence and cannot be reformatted by Burns Library at this time. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; if possible, reformatting will be scheduled.

The Boston College collection of Dolmen Press contains advertisements, broadsides, catalogs, correspondence, dummy books, ephemera, and manuscripts documenting the administration of the Dolmen Press, an Irish fine print publisher that was in operation from 1951-1987.

Collection is open for research.

Collection primarily consists of correspondence of the Donovan and McCarthy families, Irish immigrants who settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts in the late nineteenth century. Also included are biographical records, ephemera, and photographs.

Collection is open for research.

Letters in Shared box 2524 Folder 1 are restricted due to fragility.

Consists of notes and writings on theological subjects created by Boston College theology professor Jeremiah Donovan, SJ.

Collection is open for research.

Essays and talks about the theology of the priesthood, particularly celibacy, collected by Boston College sociology professor John D. Donovan.

Collection is open for research.

These papers document the life and medical career of Francis J. Dore, SJ, Boston College graduate and Head of the Biology department at Boston College. Materials include manuscripts, correspondence, booklets, clippings, photographs, religious materials, diaries, and other personal materials.

Collection is open for research.

Papers that document twentieth-century Jesuit Leo A. Dore, a history professor at Boston College. Materials include Dore's baccalaurate address to Boston College, his history course materials, and his annotated philosophy textbook in Latin.

Collection is open for research.

Single page note from Dorothy Day to Kathe McKenna, written on the blank side of prayer card with printed text by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Undated, but written shortly after Day's 1974 visit to Haley House after receiving the Isaac Hecker Award.

Open for research.