Burns Library Archival Collections

Liturgical manuscript containing three-part antiphons and vespers including settings for the In circumcisione Domini, In Festo S. Agnesio Verginis, In Conversione S. Pauli Apostoli, In Ascensione Domini, Commemoration Solemnis B.V.M. de Monte Carlo, and Assumptio Beate Mariae Virginis. These were used in the Carmelite Convent of Santa Maria degl'Angeli in Florence.

Open for research.

Records of the Speckled Band, the Boston chapter of the Baker Street Irregulars, a literary society dedicated to the celebration and study of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes (created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Materials include administrative records, correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, printed ephemera, and audio recordings.

Collection is open for research.

Audio recordings are not available for playback 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 contains the correspondence, legal and administrative documents, photographs, and artifacts of Gusty Spence (1933-2011), a leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and loyalist politician in Northern Ireland.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research. Some items, particularly in Series IX. and X., have been hand-illustrated and illuminated by Margaret and Henry Adams. Please do not directly touch the illustrations; this helps preserve their detail.

These papers cover the personal life and scholarly work of Edward S. Stanton, SJ (1916-1983), a faculty member in Boston College’s Theology Department. Much of the collection deals with Stanton’s relationship and scholarship relating to John La Farge, SJ (1880-1963), who was an advocate for interracial justice. Materials include Stanton's manuscripts, photographs, publications, retreat notes, speeches, and sermons, as well as some of La Farge’s writings.

Collection is open for research.

Materials written or collected by twentieth-century Jesuit William M. Stinson, SJ, including notes on literary and theological topics, postcards from World War I-era Europe, and early United States currency.

Collection is open for research.

Contains telegraphic codes to transmit sensitive textile trade business, compiled by Boston textile brokers Stoddard, Lovering, & Company. Includes codes for business phrases and mill names.

Open for research.

A scrapbook assembled by New England philanthropist Agnes C. Storer, containing cards, correspondence, a drawing, photographs, and newspaper clippings, most concerning Jesuit priests and institutions. Much of the correspondence has been clipped and just the autograph retained.

Collection is open for research.

Pictoral map. Published by Colortext Publications, Chicago.

Open for research.

Collection of dust jackets from books by detective fiction author Rex Stout, assembled by rare book collector and dealer Peter L. Stern. The collection also includes a poem written to Stout on his birthday by poet Mark Van Doren.

Collection is open for research.

The Rex Stout papers concern the family life, writings, and political activism of detective novelist Rex Stout, author of the Nero Wolfe series. The collection consists of artwork, booklets, carbon copies, certificates, contact prints, comic strips, correspondence, dust jackets, galley proofs, floorplans, ledgers, manuscripts, negatives, posters, radio scripts, transcripts, and typescripts.

Collection is open for research.

Collection of materials relating to Irish poet and novelist Francis Stuart including correspondence, manuscripts, portraits, and newspaper articles.

Collection is open for research.

View of five Black children posing with chimney sweeps' tools.

Open for research.

Contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings documenting the 1940 Boston College football team with particular emphasis placed on the team's invitation to and participation in the 1941 Sugar Bowl. The collection also includes several of Nason's Sugar Bowl game charts, loose clippings and brochures. Most of the loose clippings relate to the 1942 football team. Many of the articles were written by Nason.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, ephemera, photographs, and artifacts owned by or relating to John Lawrence Sullivan (1858-1918), the first American heavyweight champion boxer.

Collection is open for research. Access to the oversized framed photograph of Sullivan is restricted due to preservation concerns.

Collection of audio recordings, news clippings, photographs, and sheet music documenting the music of Tommy Sullivan, an Irish traditional musician from Springfield, Massachusetts. Also included are sheet music, news clippings, and two recordings of accordionist Joe Derrane, who was a friend of the Sullivan family.

Collection is open for research.

Audio recordings have 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.

Handwritten drafts of resolutions and other notes written by American Civil War-era Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, as well as contemporary published materials about Sumner.

Collection is open for research.

Bound manuscript of 120 pages (last 5 pages blank), consisting of a devotional text written in the first person. Text begins on page 3 "Firma Animi decreta. Quemadmodum testudines et cochleae suas domunculas..." and concludes on page 113 "In itineribus memor sis frugalitatis, et modestiae ac pietatis."

Open for research.

The collection contains materials about Seumas O'Kelly, an Irish journalist and writer, collected by his nephew Alphonsus Sweeney. It includes Sweeney's correspondence regarding O'Kelly's life, as well as works by O'Kelly such as short stories and radio plays. It also has lectures and articles about O'Kelly.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research. One phonograph record has been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

The materials include three letters written by Synge to Elkin Matthews and a postcard possibly written by Synge's mother to Matthews.

Open for research.

Consists of correspondence to John Cumming, literary editor of The Tablet, from various English and Scottish writers. Manuscripts of poems, essays, and reviews by these authors are also included.

Collection is open for research.

Hand-colored woodcut of a celtic triskelion bordered by birds, with title below.

Open for research.