Burns Library Archival Collections

Collection is open for research.

Recordings have 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.

Typed manuscript of work published as Kwangsi, the land of the black banners by the B. Herder Book Company in 1942. It includes 25 photographs used in the publication.

Collection is open for research.

Consists of correspondence between Landais and several Catholic priests in Boston. The major correspondent is John Cheverus, who served successively as Bishop of Boston, Montaubon and Bordeaux (France). The letters primarily discuss Landais and her family and friends.

Collection is open for research.

Personal papers of librarian and historian Helen Landreth relating to her research on Irish history.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents two Irish émigrés to the United States through correspondence and ephemera. Themes covered include funding emigration for relatives in Ireland and conditions there in the 1870s and 1880s.

Collection is open for research.

Papers document the life and career of Washington, DC-based Welsh poet Doug Lang through correspondence, creative writing notebooks, handmade artwork, ephemera such as fliers and posters, manuscripts and typescripts including annotated drafts, and photographs. Materials highlight the poetry and art scenes of Washington, DC in the late twentieth-century.

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.

Collection is open for research.

Some manuscripts are fragile; use care in handling. Audio recordings have 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.

The will of Henry Spaulding, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, naming his wife Susanna, son Henry, and daughter Elizabeth as beneficiaries of his land, buildings, property, and "moveable estate." Four-page manuscript, the third page blank. Inserted is a single-leaf printed form approving the will, filled-out with names, dates, etc. and signed by Samuel Danforth, judge of the Probate of Wills, Middlesex County.

Open for research.

Leaf from a psalter, containing the end of the antiphon "Amplius lava me ab iniustitia mea" from feria 4 at Lauds per annum (Lauds of Wednesday of the first wek after Epiphany). Four-line staff ruled in red.

Open for research.

Leaf from a troper, containing the end of the sequence "Hodierna dies veneranda" and concluding on the verso with the sequence for Ss. Peter and Paul "Isti sunt duae olivae ...". Four-line staff ruled in red.

Open for research.

Single leaf from a medieval Latin bible, possibly produced in England in the 13th century, written on parchment in Gothic script in two columns, with rubricated initials, comprising the end of chapter 14 to the beginning of chapter 17 of the Book of Revelation.

Open for research.

Manuscript of work published in 1846 as An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists : With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by C.C. Little and James Brown of Boston, Massachusetts.

Open for research. Fragile; take care in handling.

Correspondence, research materials, and writings by Bernice Lemire (Boston College M.A. 1963) in relation to her thesis about Jack Kerouac's early life and influences.

Collection is open for research.

These papers document the life of nineteenth-century Irish historian, politician, and journalist Maurice Lenihan. Includes correspondence, records of the O'Connell Testimonial Committee in Limerick, papers of Irish painter Bernard Mulrenin collected by Lenihan, and a draft portion from Lenihan's series 'Reminiscences of a Journalist.'

Collection is open for research.

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.

Collection is open for research.

Manuscript Latin textbook of 296 unnumbered pages, for the use of students at the Jesuit college of Nyasvizh, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Belarus. Possibly lacking preliminary leaves, but retaining title page to the second part.

Open for research.

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.