Burns Library Archival Collections

The collection documents the work of twentieth-century British novelist Pamela Frankau through her correspondence, manuscripts for eight of her novels, her autobiography, and a short story. Also included is a short biographical note about Frankau by Rebecca West, written for the introduction to Frankau's novel Colonel Blessington.

Collection is open for research.

Button with caption "Free Ella Ellison" and black-and-white photograph of Ellison, a Black woman from Boston who was wrongfully convicted for alleged involvement in a 1973 armed robbery. Ellison's conviction was overturned in 1978.

Open for research.

Collection of materials accumulated by Samuel Freedman relating to Irish playwright Bernard Shaw. The collection includes correspondence; ephemera; manuscripts and publications; photographs; and play programs, primarly regarding Shaw and but also including some of his contemporaries.

Collection is open for research. One audio cassette has been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Open for research.

This collection consists of letters to nineteenth-century philologist Frederick James Furnivall, primarily from American Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness. Single letters from English scholar Joseph Hirst Lupton and George H. Radford are also included. Letters discuss literary matters, specifically Shakespearean prose, but also contain some personal asides.

Collection is open for research.

Manuscript consists of extracts from the Gaelic journal, Fáinne an lae; first pt. colloquy between a priest and a woman, second pt. colloquy between a father, child (student), and mother.

Restricted: Material extremely fragile; Microfilm use copy.

Manuscript with prose and poetry mixed throughout. Owners, compilers, include Padric O'Hallorain, Donoch O'Hallorain, Seamus O'Halloran, Padraic O'Halloran, and James Halloran. Manuscript has signature of Padraig O'Hallorain of Ballylough. Includes poems by Eoghan Rua and An Mangaire Sugach; titles of poems include Tuarggbhail cnuic an air and Eachtra an Egoláire.

Restricted: Material extremely fragile; Microfilm use copy.

These papers comprise the correspondence, honors, manuscripts, and schoolwork of American writer Brendan Galvin. The majority of his manuscripts are drafts of his poems, but they also include essays, short stories, and unpublished novels. Additionally, the papers contain articles and interviews about Galvin and reviews of his works, as well as his collected research materials.

Collection is open for research. Some financial materials are closed.

Research files, writings, correspondence, and photographs of author and executive John T. Galvin (Boston College class of 1937), predominantly pertaining to his work on the history of Boston politics.

Collection is open for research.

Papers about twentieth-century Irish playwright, poet, and ballad singer Patrick Galvin. Consists of play and poetry manuscripts, theater programs, notices, and images of Galvin.

Collection is open for research.

The papers document the life and work of twentieth-century Boston College professor and military chaplain James F. Geary, SJ. Contains correspondence, teaching notes, military documents, certificates, and photographs.

Collection is open for research.

Collection of printed holy cards, largely of the eighteenth century, for German-speaking Catholics.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents the life of Irish author Monk Gibbon through his correspondence and manuscripts held in the papers of two of his peers: his bibliographer Alan Denson and one of his early publishers Alan Steele. Also included are portraits of Gibbon and his family, which may have belonged to Denson.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents the creative work of twentieth-century English artist Eric Gill, principally through his drawings and engravings. Materials include proofs and limited-edition prints; use of Gill's engravings in fine print cards, pamphlets, and booklets; printing blocks; correspondence for the Gill family as well as Gill's colleague at St. Dominic's Press, H.D.C. Pepler; and a small sampling of works on paper by Gill's peers.

Collection is open for research.

Collection of letters written by and to Oliver St. John Gogarty and a typewritten manuscript of chapters 2-12 of his autobiography, I follow Saint Patrick.

Collection is open for research.

Open for research.

The David Goldstein and Martha Moore Avery papers relate mainly to their association with and disavowal of the Socialist Party, their conversion to Catholicism, and their subsequent lecture tours. The bulk of the material consists of Goldstein's professional papers, with a smaller amount of his personal papers and of Avery's papers. The collection includes artifacts, correspondence, financial records, pamphlets and clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, subject files, and writings.

Collection is open for research. Some scrapbooks are too fragile to be used without supervision; please consult the Archivist.

These papers document the career of twentieth-century Boston College nursing faculty member Marjory Gordon. Her research, conference papers, workshop materials, draft publications, notes, and correspondence demonstrate her impact on the adoption of nursing diagnoses and functional health patterns to shift the role of nurses within the medical profession and create the nomenclature necessary to include nursing diagnoses in electronic records systems as they were developed.

Collection is open for research.

Recordings and digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Correspondence kept by Alice M. Grady, representative for the Boston and Maine Railroad Group's Fund for the Archbishop's Charities, between the Fund and Archbishop Richard Cushing's office.

Collection is open for research.

The papers consist of correspondence, illustrations, photographs, and postcards belonging to early twentieth-century Boston architect Edward T. P. Graham. The materials primarily concern Graham's time in Europe studying architecture, as well as his career in America.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.