Burns Library Archival Collections

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.

Open for research.

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.

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.

Collection documents Roland J. Regan's service in the 348th Engineer Combat Battalion in the U.S. Army during World War II. It consists primarily of photographs taken by Regan in England, France, and Germany from 1943-1945. It also includes U.S. Army memorabilia, German military artifacts, Irish printed material and ephemera, and materials related to firefighting.

Collection is open for research. The Photographic Report of the Iwo Jima Operation in Box 1 is closed pending conservation review.

Audiovisual and digital content is not available for playback due to format impermanence and has not been reformatted. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; if possible, reformatting will be scheduled.

Collection is open for research.

Anonymous account of the miraculous intervention of Saint Francis Xavier in the suffering of a religious sister at the Monastero della Madona della Purificatione, Moimenta da Beira, Portugal, authenticated by Miguel de Portugal, Bishop of Lamego. Dated at end: 27 de setembro 1637.

Open for research.

Bound manuscript copy of the printed edition published in Lugano in 1786, prepared by an unidentified scribe. The text is a critique of José Basilio da Gama's epic poem "O Uraguay."

Open for research.

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.

Personal and scholarly papers of American Jesuit philosopher and psychoanalyst William John Richardson, SJ, particularly relating to philosopher Martin Heidegger and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

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.

Collected papers of twentieth-century Black American Catholic Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. Materials include audio recordings, correspondence, news articles, personal papers, photographs, publications, sermons, and speeches.

Collection is 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.