Burns Library Archival Collections

Papers of Jesuit priest, theologian and liturgist, military chaplain, and Boston College professor William J. Leonard, SJ, including collected materials, correspondence, journals, photographs, and his writings.

Collection is open for research.

Jesuit records are closed at the request of the Boston College Jesuit Community.

University records dating after 1968 are closed per university policy. Access with permission of the office.

Audiovisual recordings have been digitally copied; 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.

Open for research.

Correspondence and manuscripts of Irish author Shane Leslie from 1916-1952.

Collection is open for research.

Includes extensive correspondence to Levi, and some copies of replies. Many of Levi's poems, essays, and articles are also included. There are lectures and academic materials relating to student and teaching experiences, as well as material on various organizations. Also includes a draft autobiography, photographs, sermons, publications, reviews, clippings, and interviews of Levi.

Collection is closed until processed.

This is an 18th century copy of an earlier manuscript prepared by Fr. Luis de Valdivia containing hundreds of biographies of Jesuits throughout the world, many of which are missionaries in South America, prepared for publication by Fr. Félix de Villagarcía (1687-1759). Includes index of names.

Open for research.

Open for research.

Open for research

Official records of the Liturgical Commission of the Archdiocese of Boston, including correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, reports, publications, and other material.

Collection is open for research.

The Liturgical Conference is an organization originally comprised of religious and lay Catholics working towards liturgical reforms and greater lay involvement in the liturgy. The collection consists of organizational records once held by Thomas J. Carroll, SJ, Martin B. Hellriegel, William J. Leonard, SJ, and Shawn Sheehan, and includes correspondence, reports, minutes, and photographs.

Collection is open for research. Audio recordings have been digitally copied; 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.

Documents the liturgical movement and religious life in the American Catholic Church from the early twentieth century through the introduction of the Second Vatican Council's reforms. It contains religious pamphlets and artifacts in many forms, including artwork, relics, medals, rosaries, crucifixes, vestments and other textiles, sick call sets, and other items.

Collection is closed for reprocessing; portions available digitally.

Unbound manuscript of 124 leaves measuring 39 x 26 cm and 12 leaves measuring 35 x 20 cm, written in ink on ruled paper. Leaves numbered in a later hand.

Open for research.

The papers concern the work of twentieth-century British historian and biographer Elizabeth Longford. Included is a typescript and thirty-five draft notebooks of Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains fourteen letters from George Byron Lord addressed to John Henry Skinner of East Boston from December of 1862 through May of 1866. Lord’s correspondence relates the activities of the 17th and 41st Massachusetts Infantry Regiments in the state of Louisiana.

Collection is open for research.

This collection includes clippings, correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts photographs, and scrapbooks related to Robert G. Lowery's research on and collecting of materials relating to the life and work of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey.

Collection is open for research. Recordings have been digitally copied; 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.

The Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland scrapbook contains primarily ephemeral material relating to the operation of the association, including membership cards, tickets, broadsides, certificates, cards, and forms.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains manuscripts by Irish poet Seán Lucy; lecture notes from his university courses; personal and professional correspondence; handwritten notes on poetry and prose; and manuscripts by other writers collected by Lucy.

Collection is open for research.

Draft or notes for an unidentified text, possibly a sermon. Caption title reads "Matts. 5:16," which is followed by three lines in Greek and the corresponding Dutch translation of Matthew 5:16: Laat u ligt alzoo schijnen voor de menshen, dat zij uw goede werken mogen zien, ende uwen Vader, die in de hemelen is, verheerlijken. With numerous marginal notes and emendations. Signed on page 16: Dom. Lydius.

Open for research.

Collection of programs and playbills from the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Collection is open for research.

Includes two edited typescripts of MacDonagh's poem "Return" and a typescript of his final address.

Collection is open for research.

Composed of correspondence, vitae, papers, presentations, and letter of tribute concerning the life and career of nurse and director of Massachusetts General Hospital's School of Nursing, Mary E. MacDonald.

Collection is open for research.

Collection comprises correspondence, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia of twentieth century literary figures, primarily poets. The collection was assembled by Boston College professor of English Arthur MacGillivray, SJ and includes his correspondence with many of the authors. The most comprehensive files regard Hilaire Belloc, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, and Graham Greene; significant runs of correspondence are included with Katherine Anne Porter and Robert Penn Warren.

Open for research.

Composed of letters from twentieth-century Irish author Bryan MacMahon to Jack O'Reilly, a collector in San Francisco. The correspondence discusses MacMahon's work, as well as political and literary topics relating to Ireland.

Collection is open for research.

Collection of letters toIrish Press editor and author M.J. MacManus from 1889-1951.

Collection is open for research.