Burns Library Archival Collections

Correspondence from Henderson to William Prichard Eaton, professor of playwriting at Yale University. Includes request for Eaton to review Henderson's biography of George Bernard Shaw.

Collection is open for research.

Rules, examples and questions for teaching arithmetic and geometry, prepared or compiled by Michael Herbert, Limerick, 1772. Midway into manuscript, Irish and English verse poetry some in Irish and some in English with Irish translations, provision accounts, and notes of births and deaths of Herbert family members, 1829-1834.

Open for research.

Made up of meeting minutes, account books, correspondence, and other business and financial records of the bank. Most of the meeting minutes relate to the bank's Board of Trustees and Board of Investments.

Collection is closed until processed.

This collection consists mainly of correspondence from crime novelist and lawyer George V. Higgins to his friend Martin J. Kelly. The letters discuss a wide range of subjects, including schooling, romantic pursuits, and Higgins’ writing, and include some excerpts of Higgins’ work. The collection also contains third-party correspondence to Kelly regarding Higgins, eulogies, and obituaries of Higgins.

Collection is open for research.

Open for research.

Open for research.

An educational game covering the history of England from the Battle of Hastings to the coronation of Queen Victoria. The game board consists of a spiralling circle with six inner rings. There are 134 small circles within the rings each with illustrations of personalities and events from English history. The spiralling rings end in the center of the board with a slightly larger circle number 135, containing a color portrait of Queen Victoria.

Open for research.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents the career of twentieth-century U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and Surgeon General Bartholomew William Hogan, a Boston College alumnus. His papers include correspondence, clippings, photographs, reports, speeches, and scrapbooks, the bulk covering his years as Navy Surgeon General, 1955-1961.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents the life and work of Christopher Hollis, a twentieth-century British Catholic author, historian, and politician. It contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and typescripts for Hollis's theological work "The Mystery of Things."

Collection is open for research.

This collection includes Catholic holy cards produced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These cards cover a variety of devotional subjects including Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Saints, sacraments, angels, and the Holy Spirit. These cards were collected by Boston College librarian Norman Castle.

Collection is open for research.

Composed mainly of business and financial records of the bank. In addition there are some photographs and letterpress books with copies of the bank's outgoing correspondence.

Collection is closed until processed.

Composed of materials relating to members of the Hopkins family, especially Manley Hopkins, his wife Catherine ("Kate"), and their children. A number of items concern Manley Hopkins's involvement with religious and political affairs in Hawaii. The collection also includes a few pieces of correspondence by British Catholic author Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ.

Collection is open for research.

This correspondence documents the literary friendships of Irish journalist and author Norah Hoult through the letters she received from fellow Irish and English writers. The letters span her years living in both England and Ireland, from 1934-1954.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research. Negatives in Shared box 1274 are not an access medium and are not available for use.

Collection containing marketing materials from the hospitality and travel industries from the twentieth century assembled by brand heritage scholar Bradford Hudson. Included are advertisements, brochures, maps, menus, stationery, timetables, and trade cards.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains personal, professional, scholarly, and teaching material from sociologist Everett C. Hughes, whose areas of scholarly interest included multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and multi-lingual societies; the sociology of work and occupations; and the history and sociology of educational institutions.

The papers contain materials related to Boston area lawyer and Irish activist John T. Hughes (1871-1945) and his family. It includes clippings concerning Hughes and Irish politics; correspondence; photographs; letters written by Hughes and published in Boston papers; and Hughes's obituary.

Collection is open for research.

The Boston College collection of Mary Enda Hughes poems includes individual and collected poems by Mary Enda Hughes and related correspondence, indexes of poems, a copy and transcript of a newspaper article, and lists of published poetry.

Collection is open for research.

Composed primarily of articles by twentieth century American behavioral scientist Edgar F. Huse on improving employee production, organizational behavior, and job enrichment. Also contains correspondence, manuscripts, and press releases.

Collection is open for research.

A bound journal containing hand-written notes transcribing F. C. Husenbeth's annotations from his copy of Mores Catholici by Kenelm H. Digby. The transcription includes indications of original page numbers where the annotations were made.

Open for research.

This collection documents the life and work of twentieth-century Jesuit Walter F. Hyland, SJ. It primarily concerns his teaching career in the Philippines and his internment in a Japanese camp during World War II. Materials includes correspondence, photographs, ephemera, printed materials, and clippings.

Collection is open for research.

Collection of nine World War II-era American postal envelopes with hand-painted cachets illustrating town postmarks. Many are signed by the postmaster.

Collection is open for research.