Burns Library Archival Collections

These papers document the work of scholar and Boston College English professor Maurice J. Quinlan. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, articles, class notes, research notes, and diaries. The majority of the papers pertain to eighteenth-century English literature.

Collection is open for research.

Religious manuscript in Arabic. Bound manuscript of 684 window-mounted pages, written in ink on paper, with partially illuminated text and borders and marginal annotations in Persian written in a later hand.

Open for research.

Open for research.

Consists of mimeograph copies of typescripts of De Gratia Christi (third edition, 1951) and De Deo Creante et Elevante (1953) by German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner, accompanied by a letter from John D. Gerkin to Father John Foley commenting on them (1959).

Collection is open for research.

Contains academic and professional materials, correspondence, and collected materials of early twentieth century American literature scholar and Boston College faculty member John H. Randall III.

Collection is open for research. All university records dating after 1968 are closed. Access with permission of the originating office.

This collection documents the religious and teaching career of Charles J. Reardon, SJ, military chaplain, Jesuit, and professor in the Theology Department at Boston College. The collection consists of sermons and prayers of the faithful, and teaching materials on marriage and sexuality. Materials are mostly typescripts and manuscripts.

Collection is open for research.

The collection documents Roland J. Regan's service in the U.S. Army during World War II. It consists primarily of photographs taken by Regan in England, France, and Germany. It also includes U.S. Army memorabilia and German military artifacts.

Collection is open for research.

These papers document the personal and professional activities of British Catholic author Anthony Rhodes, whose writing ranged from travelogues, to poetry, to history. Included are articles, clippings, correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notes, and photographs. Many of the diaries focus on Rhodes's experience during World War II.

Collection is open for research.

Consists of scrapbooks of nineteenth-century businessman Thomas F. Ring's personal and professional correspondence and manuscripts, and materials concerning the St. Vincent de Paul Society and other charitable and religious organizations.

Collection is open for research. Materials are fragile and require care in handling.

Bound manuscript written in 19th-century cursive script. Unpublished, satirical, anti-Catholic, fantasy narrative that is an extended allegory of the Ritualism controversy that gripped the Anglican and Protestant Episcopal churches in the late 19th century. The alternative title "The Ritooralists" and the name "Edward Cobblestone" (presumably a pseudonym) are crossed out on the title page.

Open for research.

Three cased photographs of Chandler Robbins, Union soldier in the American Civil War.

Collection is open for research.

Collection documenting the work of twentieth-century writer Graeme Roberts and radio broadcaster Cicely Mathews produced for BBC Northern Ireland in Belfast. Contains typescripts and manuscripts of plays, short stories, and poems, as well as a scrapbook.

Collection is open for research.

Collected by Irish Catholic priest, ecclesiastical historian, author, and educationalist Patrick Rogers, these records document Irish educational, political, and religious history through circulars, correspondence, ephemera, lectures, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

Personal, professional, and research materials of twentieth-century nurse theorist and Boston College faculty member Callista Roy, CSJ, including article drafts, awards, biographical information, conference presentations, correspondence, photographs, research notes, and teaching materials.

Collection is open for research.

Records containing personal identifiable information (PII) are closed. All university records dating after 1968 are closed; access with permission of the office.

Audiovisual and born digital materials are not currently available 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.

This collection documents the professional life and work of Irish writer George Russell, who published under the name "AE." It contains correspondence, manuscripts, artwork, and a photograph.

Collection is open for research.

Consists primarily of correspondence between Father Russell and a Sister Mary Ignatia, who was involved with The Magnificat, a publication in Manchester, New Hampshire. The letters concern writers and books. There is also a letter to Russell from the writer Aubrey De Vere and a postcard portrait of Russell.

Collection is open for research.

One exchange of letters between architect and affordable housing activist Seymour Rutkin to urbanologist and architectural critic Jane Jacobs regarding her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Open for research.

Contains typescripts, correspondence, research files, publications, and ephemera related to Boston writer George E. Ryan's historical research and writing, especially about St. Botolph and Ellen Sewall Osgood.

Collection is open for research.

The papers include manuscripts, correspondence, articles, and other publications of twentieth-century author and editor Mary Perkins Ryan. Much of the correspondence deals with Ryan's book Speaking of How to Pray.

Collection is open for research.

Historical maps of Europe and North America, with a focus on Ireland and revolution-era United States, collected by businessman Thomas F. Ryan, Jr.

Collection is open for research.