Burns Library Archival Collections

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.

Black-and-white photographs of property owned by the family of Denis and Mary Lyons in Wakefield, Massachusetts in the early 1950s. Includes a collection of automobiles and the family home.

Collection is 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.

This collection contains family correspondence of exiled United Irishman William James MacNeven, a physician and medical school instructor during the nineteenth century, his wife Jane Riker MacNeven, and his daughter Jane Mary MacNeven. It also includes a brief travel diary, two legal documents, and a speech.

Collection is open for research.

Photographs created by twentieth-century New-York-based Irish photographer Alen MacWeeney documenting Northern Ireland in the early 1970s and Irish artist Anne Yeats in the early 1960s. The nearly 500 photographs of Northern Ireland document the impacts of the violence ensuing from the struggle for power between state military and paramilitary groups, known as the Troubles, on daily life.

Collection is open for research.

Materials documenting Irish artist, art educator, and community activist Leslie MacWeeney's work as an illustrator and hand‑colorist for the Dolmen Press, an Irish fine-print publisher. Items include a nineteenth-century Tarot deck, proofs, and Dolmen Press catalogs and publications.

Collection is open for research.

These papers contain correspondence, photographs, poems, screenplays, and articles by Irish author Derek Mahon, spanning 1980-1987. Also includes clippings about Mahon, translations of his poems into French, and collected writings by other authors.

Collection is open for research.

Collection of materials, predominantly correspondence, relating to the life and work of twentieth-century English author Ethel Mannin.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research. Some audio materials may not be available immediately for use as they will require reformatting; please contact the Burns Library in advance for access to audio materials. McCormack's sheet music cabinet is not available for access at this time due to structural instability.

Collection of letters, theological notes, and poems by the second Archbishop of Westminster, and later Cardinal, Henry Edward Manning. Also includes contemporaneous clippings of articles and engravings about Manning.

Collection is open for research.

The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, teaching materials, research files, broadsides, photographs and ephemera documenting the life and work of Paul L. Mariani. It contains his research materials on John Berryman, Hart Crane, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Lowell and John Berryman. The correspondence includes letters from Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Barry Moser, Robert Pinksy, Dave Smith and Richard Wilbur.

Collection is closed until processed.

Bound manuscript containing recipes primarily of iced desserts written by Francesco Maria Mascarello of Genoa, Italy. The English translation of the title is Rules for Making Any Sort of Iced Desserts. Also includes two paper fragments found within the volume.

Open for research.

Open for research.

Records documenting the operation of the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing (MACN), including by-laws, correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, membership lists, and reports.

Collection is open for research.

These records document the creation and management of the Massachusetts Conference Group for the Classification of Nursing Diagnosis, a twentieth-century American regional nursing organization. Records include bibliographies, brochures, committee and board minutes, correspondence, mailings, membership lists, and papers presented at meetings.

Collection is open for research.

Digital content in this collection has been migrated from source media; digital use copies can only be accessed onsite in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Two-page manuscript instructing Constable John Hill to inform free male inhabitants of Sherborn, Massachusetts, at least twenty-one years old and meeting property requirements, to vote in the general election on Monday 7 April.

Open for research.