Burns Library Archival Collections

Bound manuscript of 124 pages (paginated 273-396, the last page blank), consisting of a series of meditations in Latin on the Exercitia spiritualia of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

Open for research.

Manuscripts of plays, television drama scripts, poems, and an autobiography from late-twentieth century Irish authors including Bernard Farrell, Hugh Leonard, Frank McGuinness, and Thomas Murphy, collected by the National Theatre Society for a benefit auction in 1988.

Collection is open for research.

Consists of programs and playbills from performing arts theaters in Ireland, predominantly Dublin, Galway, and Cork. The bulk of programs represent Cork Opera House, Druid Theatre/Mick Lally Theatre, Gaiety Theatre, Gate Theatre, and Olympia Theatre. The collection also contains ephemera such as articles, fliers, invitations, posters, and ticket stubs.

Collection is open for research.

Bound manuscript of approximatley 700 pages, written in an italic cursive script, consisting of examples of love poems in different forms. Includes index.

Open for research.

These papers document the work of author and urban planning activist Jane Jacobs. They contain correspondence, clippings, lecture recordings, manuscripts, research material, and notes related to Jacobs's professional life. Also included are date books, awards and diplomas, scrapbooks, and photographs.

These papers concern the life and work of twentieth-century British writer Elizabeth Jennings. Materials include published and unpublished manuscripts and poetry, poetry notebooks, prose, reviews and essays, printed material, ephemera, and correspondence.

Collection is open for research.

Open for research.

This collection contains records related to the operations of the Jesuit Association of Student Personnel Administrators (JASPA), including correspondence; executive committee meeting material; financial records; events organized by JASPA; membership materials; newsletters; and photographs. Also included are updates to the constitution and bylaws of JASPA; reports and white papers related to topics relevant to promoting Jesuit education; and yearbooks.

Collection is open for research.

The records of the Jesuit Educational Association (JEA) document the organization, history, and goals of the Association and its members from its beginning in the early 1930s to its end in 1970. The records were produced and collected by the various commissions, conferences, executive offices, and institutions under or associated with JEA in the form of conference materials, correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, news releases, photographs, reports, speeches, and surveys.

Collection is open for research.

Bound minute book of 401 pages, recording the activities of the John Boyle O'Reilly Reading Circle, 1901-1924. Entries are written in ink, in cursive script, by Katherine E. Conway, Margaret T. Dooley, Nora A. Dwyer, and other officers of the Reading Circle.

Collection is open for research. The Fatherless Children of France manuscripts are fragile and should be handled with extra care.

This collection documents nineteenth-century British author and artist David Jones through his correspondence, ephemera, drawings, engravings, paintings, manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of his poetry and short prose. Also included are some materials about Jones and his works, as well as ephemera he collected.

Collection is open for research.

Consists of correspondence and clippings of Jordan, including letters from Irish leader John Edward Redmond. Most of the clippings concern affairs in Ireland. There are programs and clippings relating to anniversaries of John Boyle O'Reilly and Patrick Andrew Collins, as well as death notices of Daniel O'Connell, the Irish Nationalist. Also includes a photo of Jordan, a ledger of reading abstracts, and some material of the United Irish League of America.

Collection is open for research.

These papers document twentieth-century arts patron Nancy Joyce's work with the Boston College Friends of Art and the McMullen Museum of Art. Papers include committee records, correspondence, docent information, photographs, speeches, and a scrapbook.

Collection is open for research.

Scrapbooks created by Irish-American poet and advocate for Irish independence Patrick Kane. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings documenting Irish, Irish-American, and Catholic political and cultural affairs, as well as a small amount of correspondence and printed material.

Collection is open for research.

Research notes and collected research materials by author Robert Kanigel about the Blasket Islands and Jane Jacobs.

Collection is open for research. The two CDs 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.

Consists primarily of articles and lectures by Louis O. Kattsoff on mathematical analysis, the philosophy of math and science, math education, and logic, as well as professional and biographical information about Kattsoff, and letters received by Kattsoff from prominent philosophers about their work.

Collection is open for research.

Collection consists of correspondence received by Jesuit, Boston College professor and librarian, John S. Keating, SJ. The bulk of the correspondence dates from Keating's time as a student at Boston College, and during his first year at the Society of Jesus Seminary.

Collection is open for research.

Correspondence between author and urban planning activist Jane Jacobs and Boston College PULSE program director Richard Keeley, as well as drafts of works by Jacobs and recordings of interviews and lectures by Jacobs.

Collection is open for research. The audio- and videocassettes 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.