Burns Library Archival Collections

The Authors collection comprises various manuscripts created by notable historical figures between 1665 and 2005. The bulk of this collection dates from 1790 to 1900, and consists primarily of letters and lithographs. Notable correspondents represented in this collection include Charles Darwin, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Edward Everett Hale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Florence Nightingale, Walker Percy, Wendell Phillips, John Ruskin, Alec Waugh, and William Wordsworth.

Collection is open for research.

Album containing a collection of autographs of New England authors, ministers, abolitionists, and others. Also contains original drawings, clippings, pressed flowers, and a peacock feather. Includes autographs of Hubbard Winslow, Mary A. Livermore, Henry Ward Beecher, and Daniel Little Furber. Inscriptions are dated 1863-1890, in Newton, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, North Conway, New Hampshire, and Saratoga, New York.

Open for research.

Materials about the work and life of British author, Catholic convert, and priest Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew who wrote under the pseudonym John Ayscough. Consists of two journals containing hand-written drafts of short-stories and correspondence.

Collection is open for research.

A bound journal with poems, fragments and notes. The textrelates to Irish mythology and ancient history. The title page contains an original ink drawing by Joyce.

This collection documents the first president of Boston College, John Bapst, SJ, from his time as a missionary in Maine in the mid-1800s through the early history of Boston College. It is composed of correspondence, ephemera, publications, and other typescripts. The missionary materials also document the establishment of Catholic churches in Maine, the anti-Catholic Know-Nothing movement, and Jesuit work with the Penobscot Nation.

Collection is open for research.

The papers document the life and work of British diplomat, journalist, and author Maurice Baring (1874-1945). The materials consist primarily of correspondence but also include a handwritten manuscript by Baring and some ephemera.

Collection is open for research.

The collection documents the career of twentieth-century English author George Barker through correspondence, typescripts of poems, a signed typescript of the essay "Conspectus for the Converts," and two signed broadsides of the poem "What is Mercy and a Voice."

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents the work of nineteenth-century English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley through an ink drawing, prints, a proof, and clippings of journal illustrations. It includes prints for an 1898 edition of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories, advertisement designs, and a scrapbook containing clippings documenting the last six years of Beardsley's career as an illustrator. There are also two obituaries.

Collection is open for research.

The Samuel Beckett collection at the John J. Burns Library is composed of seven distinct collections of Beckett-related material including manuscripts and typescripts by Beckett, correspondence with Beckett, ephemera, photographs, and publications by and about Beckett.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

Letters written by Brendan Behan to Sylvia and Leonard Lyons. Leonard Lyons was a New York Post columnist.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents cultural life in Belfast and Ulster throughout the 20th century with ephemera created by educational, theatrical, and community groups, as well as fraternal organizations.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains correspondence from Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc and her children, Hilaire Belloc and Marie Belloc Lowndes, to Jeanette Kelsey. It also contains miscellaneous printed materials and ephemera such as newspaper clippings and watercolors by Bessie Belloc.

Collection is open for research.

The collection contains the correspondence of Irish-American Elodie (Hogan) Belloc (1868-1914). The letters are primarily between Elodie and her husband, Hilaire Belloc, with some correspondence from her family and others.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains correspondence to and from members of French-born British author Hilaire Belloc's (1870-1953) family and extended family.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains correspondence to and from various members of the Belloc family including Hilaire Belloc; his wife, Elodie Belloc; his mother, Bessie R. Belloc; his sister Marie Belloc Lowndes; and Hilaire and Elodie's children, Louis, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Hilary and Peter.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains correspondence to and from various members of the Belloc family including Hilaire, his wife Elodie (Hogan), and their five children (in order of birth): Louis, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Hilary and Peter. It also contains a small amount of correspondence from non-family members, as well as a number of Belloc family administrative documents such as marriage certificates, licenses and passports.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains correspondence to and from Hilaire Belloc, a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century French-born British author. It also includes a small number of Belloc's handwritten notes and correspondence between members of Reginald Jebb's family.

Collection is open for research.

Documents the correspondence of French-born British author Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953).

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains correspondence from Hilaire Belloc to Auberon and Mary Herbert. It also includes history notes that Belloc composed for Auberon Herbert while tutoring him.

Collection is open for research.

This collection contains correspondence from Hilaire Belloc to Hoffman Nickerson. It also contains one typescript of an article by Belloc, a typescript of an article by Jane Soames Nickerson about Belloc, and an unidentified manuscript of a fictional work. Finally, this collection contains two photographs of Belloc's boat.

Collection is open for research.

The papers document the personal and professional life of French-born British author Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953). Materials include manuscripts, articles, publications, lecture and research notes, maps, student papers, financial records, drawings and sketches, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, and scrapbooks. Additional materials include a series of diaries by Hilaire Belloc, Elodie Hogan Belloc, and Elizabeth Hogan.

Collection is open for research.

The collection consists of manuscripts, publications, and printed materials from Belloc's nearly sixty years as a public intellectual. Also included are artwork and photographs of Belloc, various family members, and Belloc's King's Land estate. The collection also contains Belloc diaries, memoranda, notes, and bibliographies, as well as background materials that date back to 1694.

Collection is open for research.

Papers document the family life of twentieth-century American Hilary A. Belloc. They contain correspondence, photographs, writings, and documents mainly related to his father, French-born British author Hilaire Belloc.

Collection is open for research.