Burns Library Archival Collections

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.

Bound manuscript of three works, with continuous pagination, written in cursive script, with title pages in the style of printed books.

Open for research.

Open for research.

Consists of one manuscript, "A Discourse Delivered, at the Roman Catholic Church in Boston, on the 9th of May, 1798, a Day Remembered by the President for Humiliation and Prayer throughout the United States" (1798) composed by Boston-born, Catholic convert, revolutionary, and priest, John Thayer.

Open for research. Original manuscript in folder 1 is closed due to fragility; preservation copy in Shared box 1672, Folder 2 available for use.

Collection of printed materials from the Alcuin Society, a Canadian-based association for book design and production enthusiasts. Contains four issues of the Society's periodical, printed ephemera, and newsletters and communications.

Collection is open for research.

Composed of newspaper clippings primarily related to the conflict between the Catholic Church and the American public school system in the late nineteenth-century, specifically in Boston, Massachusetts.

Open for research. Scrapbook is fragile and should be handled with care.

Collection is open for research.

Three works on the Chinese calendar by the French Jesuit missionary Antoine Gaubil. Includes diagrams and tables.

Open for research.

Handwritten letter from British Army lieutenant Abraham Edgar Thresh, East Lancashire Regiment, 2nd Battalion, to his first cousin Margaret Bottomley, of Rockville, Connecticut. Thresh gives recounts the Clonbanin ambush, in which a British Army convey came under attack by Irish Republican Army forces, wounding Thresh and killing two British officers. Thresh's correspondent is Margaret Bottomley (1898-1981), the daughter of his maternal uncle Charles S. Bottomley.

Open for research.

The papers document the life and academic career of twentieth-century Jesuit physicist John A. Tobin, SJ. It contains correspondence, writings, notes, articles, meeting minutes, administrative files, and photographs. Included are materials related to the Boston College Physics Department, Tobin's work with the Civilian Pilot Training Program, materials related to his teaching and academic pursuits, and some personal materials.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents the Massachusetts political career of Maurice J. Tobin. Materials consist primarily of clippings but also include writings, correspondence, speeches from his terms as mayor and governor, and a scrapbook.

Collection is open for research.

Collection documents the life and career of Boston-area musician and artist Richard "Skip" Toomey through annotated musical manuscripts, drawings, and a watercolor.

Collection is open for research.

Notebook containing manuscript notes for lectures on obstetrics for nurses. With 6 sheets of examination questions, typed or handwritten on Toppan's letterhead, dated 1916, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1922, and 1924.

Open for research.

Three paper-bound notebooks, each including a list of residents and non-resident landowners for the Town of Weymouth with taxes owed for a particular assessment. Each notebook contains multiple assessments. Notebooks are from 1788, 1791, and 1793, and each include categories for polls, real estate, and personal taxes, calculated for each resident.

Collection is open for research.

Manuscript fair copy of an unpublished treatise on the Eucharist by Nicolás de Olea, written in a cursive humanistic script. The existence of this manuscript was known to J.T. Medina, who notes in the entry for Olea's Summa tripartita scholasticae philosophiae, "Se atribuyen a Olea un Tractatus de admirabili Eucharistiae Sacramenti, 1676, manuscrito en 4o., y otros que enumera Torres Saldamando."

Open for research.

Collection is open for research.

A collection of printed material from Trinity Closet Press, a hand press run by members of the Trinity College Library's Department of Early Printed Books from 1973-1995. Contains broadsides, pamphlets, and poetry booklets, including the first printing from the press.

Collection is open for research.

Typed autobiography of Rev. John R. Willis, S.J.

Open for research.

Two hardcover notebooks documenting broadcasts and live performances of Michael J. Twomey's Boston-based band, originally called Twomey's Irish Pipers' Orchestra, later renamed Twomey's Irish Minstrels. Also included are a photograph of the orchestra, a program for The Irish Pipers' Band of Boston Second Annual Grand Costume Ball, and two newspaper clippings of articles concerning the band.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research. The most recent 5 years of records are closed. Records open on a rolling basis at the start of each calendar year.