Burns Library Archival Collections

Collection is open for research.

Papers document twentieth-century scholar and Trappist monk M. Basil Pennington's writings and teachings, especially about Centering Prayer, Cistercian history, and Thomas Merton. Includes articles written by and about Pennington, book manuscripts, correspondence, event ephemera, and reviews of Pennington's work.

Collection is open for research.

Videocassette has 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.

Records that document the mission of People Against Racism, a twentieth-century American anti-racism organization.

Collection is open for research.

Contains an autobiography, certificates and albums of photographs and ephemera. Much of the material relates to Petkauskas's work as a professor in the Boston College Graduate School of Nursing and the School's Maternal and Child Health Program.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

Bound manuscript of approximately 250 pages, with 6 engraved plates by Domenico Pauner and François de Poilly, including portraits of Saint Ignatius, Saint Francis Xavier, and Francisco Suárez. The text is a synthesis of the philosophy and logic of Francisco Suárez, divided in two sections of 41 and 100 leaves with handwritten foliation.

Open for research.

Collected photographic postcards with blank versos, from Europe and Africa, as well as a few from the United States. The bulk are images of Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and Turkey; while smaller sets document Algeria and Morocco. Photographs are almost entirely black-and-white, with a few hand-colored.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

A speech by the interim viceroy of Peru, Miguel Nuñez de Sanabria, welcoming the incoming viceroy Diego Ladrón de Guevara, upon his arrival, and enumerating donations, including an enslaved person, to the Society of Jesus.

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The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and genealogical information pertaining to the Isaac Plumb family and their relatives, the Cooks and Grants. Of note are letters from Isaac Plumb, Jr. during his time as a Union soldier in the American Civil War.

Collection is open for research.

The collection consists of a letter from Grace Gifford Plunkett to her fiancé Joseph M. Plunkett while he recovered from surgery at a nursing home in Dublin, Ireland, two nights before the Easter Rising. Also included is a newspaper clipping from 1966 discussing the letter.

Collection is open for research.

The typescript is the forward to the anthology English Romantic Poets published in 1933 and contains handwritten corrections.

Collection is open for research.

Flag on white cloth, with the words "Portlaoise. Eire Nua. 1974" and a hand-drawn design depicting the Irish flag, a shamrock, and an orange-and-blue sunburst flag, enclosed within a barbed-wire heart, flanked by the signatures of 36 Irish republican prisoners.

Open for research.

Collection of postage stamps, particularly from Ireland and the United States.

Collection is open for research.

Two bound typescripts in Telugu, translations of the Preface to Saint Joan and Saint Joan.

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Ed Price's collection of writings by detective fiction author Rex Stout contains clippings of articles, novellas, and short stories, often published serially. The collection also includes promotional materials from movies and television shows based on Stout’s novels, and a menu and shirt from the Wolfe Pack, a Nero Wolfe literary society.

Collection is open for research.

Manuscript in a bound journal with handwritten descriptions of the science and mathematics faculty members of the Université de Paris. The accounts largely describe physical characteristics and speaking styles of the faculty members. It also includes several pages with notes from specific lectures. The author of the manuscript is unknown.

Open for research.

Folded sheet with two pages of text, being Sarah Winslow's proposed gift for the support of a minister, grammar school, and meeting-house in Dunstable, Massachusetts. Docket title on leaf 2 verso: Mrs. Winslow's proposals.

Open for research.

Open for research.

Six photographs from the Quadricentennial Celebration of St. Francis Xavier's Arrival in Japan observed in Nagasaki, Japan. The collection also includes photographs of Xavier Castle (Navarre, Spain), the remains of the Jesuit Church and Rectory in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb, the rebuilt Jesuit Rectory in Hiroshima and, the monument to St. Francis Xavier in Yamagughi, Japan.

Collection is open for research.

Two notebooks with entries from an agriculture course or textbook from 1843. One notebook written by George Smith and the other by John Chisom. George Smith's notebook also has Questions on mensuration in it.

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Consists of a fragment of a Harvard University leave of absence pass with Quincy's signature, a letter signed by Quincy to Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., and a black-and-white engraved portrait of Quincy from 1889.

Collection is open for research.

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.