Burns Library Archival Collections

Single page note from Dorothy Day to Kathe McKenna, written on the blank side of prayer card with printed text by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Undated, but written shortly after Day's 1974 visit to Haley House after receiving the Isaac Hecker Award.

Open for research.

A single handwritten letter documenting Lord Alfred Douglas's conversion to Catholicism.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents the Doyle, Evans, and Persse families, nineteenth-century immigrants to North America from County Galway, Ireland. Materials include correspondence, land deeds, naturalization papers, and military records. Family recollections, genealogies, and other research compiled by Jessie Evans Dugan and James Charles Roy is included.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

Digital photographs on optical disc are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not yet been reformatted. Negatives are not an access medium and are not available for use; print photographs are available for access. Color positive transparencies require use of a light box provided by the Burns Library Reading Room.

Collected materials about W. B. Yeats, particularly ephemera from the centennial of his birth. Also includes cards and pamphlets from Cuala Press.

Collection is open for research.

These papers document the legislative career of Robert F. Drinan, SJ, Democratic Representative in the U.S. House from the Massachusetts 3rd District (later the 4th) from 1971-1981. The collection includes correspondence, committee files, legislative files, campaign materials, district files, speeches, photographs, and audio and video recordings.

Collection is open for research, with the exception of the case files in Series V. The audio and video recordings are not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; when it becomes possible we will schedule reformatting.

The majority of the collection is stored offsite; advanced notice is required for retrieval.

Papers document Robert F. Drinan's career as an academic, lawyer, Jesuit, and social justice advocate. Materials cover his years before Congress as a faculty member and Dean of Boston College Law School, and his post-congressional years as a faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center.

Collection is open for research. Audio and video recordings are not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; when it becomes possible we will schedule reformatting.

The majority of the collection is stored offsite; advance notice is required for retrieval.

Papers of twentieth century American Benedictine William Michael Ducey, OSB, including audio recordings, correspondence, and photographs. Primary topics are Ducey's religious life and involvement with the Liturgical Movement.

Collection is open for research. The audio reels are not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; when it becomes possible we will schedule reformatting.

This collection contains a single item: a commonplace book of poetry gathered by Lady Juliet Duff. Poets include Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, and W.B. Yeats. The book is leather-bound and entitled J.D. 1916.

Open for research.

Collection is open for research. The four scrapbooks are closed due to fragility, pending conservation review.

Consists primarily of copies of correspondence, diaries and newspaper clippings related to the history of Boston College from the first proposals for its founding to the end of World War II. Much of the material was created by Boston College presidents and other Jesuits. Also includes edited manuscripts of A History of Boston College, and some Boston College programs and publications.

Collection is closed until processed.

The collection consists of a bound manuscript and two letters all in Dunsany's hand. The manuscript contains thirty-four of Dunsany's poems and his play The Tent of the Arabs. The poems were originally written from 1917 through 1940 and largely relate to the subjects of the first and second World War. He presented the handwritten anthology to the Red Cross in 1940.

Collection is open for research.

These papers document the life and career of author Eleanor Early, who was best known for her travel articles and books. Additional materials included her magazine quizzes; short stories; chapters for her advice book She Knew What He Wanted; and World War II era radio broadcast transcripts. Her papers also contain extensive photographs of her travels.

Collection is open for research.

An ceathranach caolriabhach -- Bruighean eochadh bhig deirig -- Bruighean ceise coruin.

Bound manuscript of 76 pages, some of which are mutilated with loss of text. Earlier version of the catalog record gives the date of production as 1780 and identifies the scribe as Seaghan O'Domhail, however the basis for this attribution is unknown.

Open for research.

Cover sheet of typescript: "This is the original MS of Ebb and Flood - A Novel - by James Hanley. Cymm. 1932."

Open for research.

Open for research.

This collection contains two Portable Irish Harps by nineteenth century Irish harp maker John Egan.

Collection is open for research. Off-shelf viewing is by appointment, supervised by a staff member to ensure safe handling. The harps are too fragile to be strung at full tension, and therefore are not playable.

A collection of postcards collected by Michael Ehrmann from Massachusetts, Ireland, and Northern Ireland, depicting various historical and cultural sites, hotels, restaurants, recreational activities, and artwork.

Collection is open for research.

Composed of official records of the Eire Society of Boston, including meeting minutes, correspondence, programs, publications, and financial records. In addition there are clippings, scrapbooks, and some photographs which relate to the society and its activities. While most of the material dates from the period after 1937, there are some collected artifacts and ephemera from the nineteenth century pertaining to Irish and Irish-American political figures.

Collection is open for research.

These papers document the religious career of Gerald Ellard, a Jesuit who taught history and religion and was involved in the early stages of the liturgical reform and the Liturgical Conference. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence, typescripts and published material, and lecture materials dealing with various liturgy-related topics like the Mass and worship.

Collection is open for research.

Italian manuscript eulogy for Gasparo Sanchez. Two pages on bifolium. Third page is blank. Addressed on the fourth page to the Jesuit Girolamo Mattia in Recanati, Italy.

Open for research

Calendar includes photographs from Irish Tourist Information Bureau and poems by Irish writers.

Open for research.

Collection consists of correspondence commending Irish revolutionary, soldier, and film producer Emmet Dalton, as well as accounts written by Dalton and others regarding Irish revolutionaries Michael Collins and Sean McKeon (Seán Mac Eoin). Newspaper editorials and official reports concerning nationalist politics in Ireland and the Irish Republican Army are also included.

Collection is open for research.

Correspondence between Boston University professor Jay Corrin and members of the English Catholic New Left movement, conducted as research for Corrin's book Catholic Progressives in England after Vatican II.

Collection is open for research.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence between John and Peter Jorge and president Reverend Abbot Joseph Ilsley regarding the English College of Lisbon in the mid to late nineteenth century. Also included is a legal document in Portuguese related to power of attorney.

Collection is open for research.