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Seumas O'Sullivan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2003-059
Abstract

Collection contains manuscripts of poems by O'Sullivan and multiple versions of a book of poems by William Starkey (his father), which O'Sullivan edited.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1908 - 1938

Frank Pakenham, Earl of Longford manuscripts

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-2003-006
Scope and Contents

Consists of two corrected typescripts by Pakenham: Nixon: A Study in Extremes of Fortune and Kennedy.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: approximately 1980-1981

Panegirico en honrra de S. Ygnacio de Loiola: thema: qui humiliabitur exaltobitur: manuscript

 Collection — Shared box: 18497, Folder: 1
Identifier: BC-2026-114
Scope and Contents

Panegyric in praise of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, written on a quire of three nested bifolia. Last page is blank.

Access Note

Open for research.

Dates: approximately between 1700 and 1799

Papeles varios contra Jesuitas: manuscript

 Collection — Volume: MS.2019.029
Identifier: MS-2019-029
Scope and Contents Bound manuscript of 179 leaves, comprising 42 manuscript tracts critical of the Jesuits, including 2 folding leaves with watercolors depicting the imprisonment and executions of the Jesuits Gabriel Malagrida and Miguel Calvo. Written in two or more hands, the texts, recounting events of the 18th century through 1765, were likely copied from various sources. As evidenced by the spine title, this is the second volume in a collection about which no further information is known....
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Open for research.

Dates: not before 1765

Boston College collection of Parish of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2004-075
Abstract

Collection of materials by and about the Parish of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, since its founding in 1926, including announcements, histories, photographs, and programs.

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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1926-1998

Joseph Parkes and Edward John Stanley correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2007-010
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence between British political and election reformer Joseph Parkes (1796-1865) and British politician Edward John Stanley (1802-1869). It also includes a small amount of correspondence between Parkes and other correspondents.

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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1834 - 1860; Majority of material found within 1835 - 1843

Coventry Patmore collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1986-062
Abstract The collection contains manuscripts by British poet Coventry Patmore. It also contains letters by and to Coventry Patmore from major 19th Century British literary figures including Alfred Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin as well as a number of letters from members of Patmore's family including Harriet Patmore, Tennyson Patmore and Peter Patmore. Finally, the collection includes visual materials: a drawing of Emily Augusta Patmore, photographs of...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1818 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1896

Derek Patmore papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1991-028
Abstract

Manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs belonging to early twentieth-century British author Derek Patmore. Includes the unpublished manuscript of "Coventry Patmore’s Unhappy Love for Alice Meynell", as well as correspondence with contemporary literary and artistic figures.

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Collection is open for research.

Dates: approximately 1920s-1971; Majority of material found within 1963-1971

G. William Patten papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2003-042
Abstract The G. William Patten papers contain the professional and personal papers of Boston monument designer and artist G. William Patten (1907-1986). They include artwork, architectural drawings, blueprints, correspondence, clippings, exhibition catalogs, notes, photographs, publications, sketchbooks, and writings. The majority of the materials relate to Patten’s memorial design work, including designs he did for the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. There are also...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1920 - 1986

M. Basil Pennington papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1990-004
Abstract

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.

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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.

Dates: 1949-2003

People Against Racism records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2020-066
Abstract

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

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Collection is open for research.

Dates: late 1960s

Mary Rita Petkauskas papers

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2001-112
Abstract

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.

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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1947 - 2000

Philomatheia Club records

 Collection
Identifier: BC-1998-031
Abstract These records document the philanthropic work of Boston College auxiliary organization, the Philomatheia Club. Founded in 1915, the Club worked to increase an interest in Catholic education, to foster the scholastic, athletic, and social interests of Boston College, and for the intellectual advancement of Club members. The collection is composed of historical background materials, organizational administrative records, scrapbooks chronicling the Club's numerous events, photographs of...
Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1915-1984; Majority of material found within 1916-1946

Philophicus scole Iesuitsae cursus iuxta mentem doctoris eximii venerabilis Patris Francisci Suares: manuscript

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MS-2019-031
Scope and Contents

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.

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Open for research.

Dates: probably between 1720 and 1799

Boston College collection of photographic postcards

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1986-089
Abstract

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.

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Collection is open for research.

Dates: probably 1890s-1920s

Boston College collection of photographs and postcards of Ireland

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1986-092
Abstract This is a collection of photographs and postcards of Ireland from multiple sources. Black-and-white photographs of 1921 Dublin and the surrounding area, including some by commercial photographers, document unrest surrounding the execution of six prisoners from Mountjoy Gaol (now Mountjoy Prison) on March 14 of that year. Color slides feature Irish towns and everyday life in the 1980s and 1990s. Postcards feature images of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and Irish tourist destinations...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1921 - 1993

Plazeme que Dio la Real Aud[ienci]a de Lima, y en su nombre el doctor don Miguel Nuñez de Sanabria, como oydor mas antiguo de ella al ex[celentisi]mo Sr. don Diego Ladron de Guevara de el consejo de Sus Magestad, decir, virrey, govenor y capitan general de esto reyno&c en ocasion de su feliz llegada al puerto de el Callao el di 27 a agosto deste año de 1710 : manuscript

 Collection — Shared box: 1675, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-2011-013
Scope and Contents

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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Open for research.

Dates: 1710

Isaac Plumb, Jr. family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2018-011
Abstract

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.

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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1830 - 1899

Grace Gifford Plunkett letter and article

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2017-015
Abstract

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.

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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1916 April 22, 1966 April 12

The Poets and poetry of the nineteenth century, an estimation: typescript

 Collection — Volume: MS.2001.037
Identifier: MS-2001-037
Scope and Contents

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

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1933 December 9

Portlaoise prisoners flag, 1974: manuscript

 Collection — Shared box: 1224, Folder: 1
Identifier: BC-2022-157
Scope and Contents

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.

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Open for research.

Dates: 1974

Boston College collection of postage stamps

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1986-103
Abstract

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

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1851-1983; Majority of material found within 1900-1940

The Preface to St. Joan, and St. Joan, by George Bernard Shaw, translated into Telugu

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-2014-007
Abstract

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

Access Note

Open for research.

Dates: 1924 - 1986

James Prendergast family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1986-141
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence from James and Elizabeth Prendergast in Milltown, County Kerry, Ireland to their children in Boston, Massachusetts. It also includes a few letters from other members of the family in Ireland to their relatives in Boston. Much of the correspondence concerns life in Ireland.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; a portion of the collection is available digitially.

Dates: 1840 - 1850

Ed Price collection of Rex Stout

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2018-057
Abstract

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.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1934 - 2004

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