Burns Library Archival Collections

Papers documenting the work and life of William Van Etten Casey, SJ, a twentieth-century Jesuit author, academic, and faculty member at Boston College. Materials include correspondence, clippings, photographs, manuscript and printed materials, artifacts, and personal materials.

Collection is open for research. One folder containing student works is closed.

Open for research.

Complete collection of postage stamps issued by Vatican City between 1929 and 2014, with a history of their issuing written by Carlson R. Chambliss, the collector.

Collection is open for research.

Fragile. Item is unavailable until conserved.

The Charitable Irish Society records consist of the professional and historical records of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. These include administrative files, reports on committees and special projects, constitutions, membership records, anniversary dinner programs, subject files, photographs, artifacts, and financial records.

Collection of materials concerning the life and work of early twentieth-century Catholic British author and artist G. K. Chesterton. Included are correspondence, drawings, ephemera, writings, and materials about Chesterton.

Collection is open for research.

The records include papers, minutes, and correspondence of the Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations (CSG) from their founding in 1969 to their joining the Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning in 2002.

Collection is open for research.

These papers document the professional lives of Elizabeth O'Brien Christitch and Annie Christitch, Serbian-Irish mother-and-daughter writers and political activists. Their materials include correspondence; drafts and published copies of their writing; ephemera; newspaper clippings; and photographs of their family and the International Council of Women.

Collection is open for research.

A hexagonal shaped medal presented to Joanna Stetson Simpson by the Boston School Committee for "superior scholarship." Simpson was a Boylston School student in the Fort Hill district of Boston, Massachusetts. The Marquis de Lafayette gave the address and presented the medals.

Collection is open for research.

Open for research.

This collection documents Irish music owned by twentieth-century Irish-American musician Eugene Clancy, including audio recordings of Clancy and collected recordings of Michael Coleman.

Collection is open for research. 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.

Diary with printed title page: The standard diary. Published annually for the trade, 1898. With entries from January 1 to June 27 by Annie White Frary, primarily in shorthand, with some entries partially in longhand. Includes cash accounts and memoranda, in longhand. Pages for June 28 to December 31 are blank.

Open for research.

Composed of correspondence, book reviews, typescripts, lecture announcements, and photographs of twentieth-century American author and scholar Charles Upson Clark. Includes a manuscript draft of his autobiographical "Platform Ramblings."

Collection is open for research.

The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Kathleen Daly Clarke (1878-1972), a founding member of Cumann na mBan and an Irish politician, as well as her collection of materials about her husband Thomas Clarke and Irish politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Materials include correspondence, photographs, artwork, clippings, and publications and ephemera circulated by Irish political groups, including Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail.

Collection is open for research.

The correspondence of Douglas Cleverdon, a twentieth-century British bookseller and radio producer who was also a printing enthusiast and producer of fine books. Includes letters to Cleverdon from typographer Stanley Morison.

Collection is open for research.

Nine photographs of Arnett Cobb and other musicians performing at the Hi-Hat Club in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection is open for research.

Includes Coleridge's treatise on Logic, volume II, and Autograph Philosphical Remains.

Collection is open for research.

Typescript is heavily corrected, primarily for typesetting but also includes a significant number of the author's own alterations and annotations.

Open for research.

These papers document the work of Irish immigrant Patrick A. Collins (1884-1905), a lawyer, politician, and activist for Irish independence, through his correspondence, certificates, photographs, manuscripts, and printed materials.

Collection is open for research.

Consists of manuscripts, personal and professional correspondence, diaries, photographs of Margaret A. Colliton and her family, articles on nurses and nursing, and other publications. Some of the material relates to Shiloah, a non-profit foundation concerned with the spiritual dimension of nursing and healing, and Promisek, a non-profit concerned with the healing relationship between individuals and the land.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCÉ) is an international organization for the promotion of Irish music, song, dance, and language. These records document the history and activities of the CCÉ Province in North America, with related material from CCÉ in Ireland. The collection includes administrative records, promotional artifacts, biographical materials, as well as digital and analog media.

Collection is open for research. Audiovisual media in this collection 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.

Records documenting the Commercial Club of Boston, a social club for area businessmen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Materials include correspondence, ephemera and artifacts from Club events, financial records, membership books, photographs, regular and executive committee meeting minutes, and lectures.

Collection is open for research.

Course of lectures on Aristotelian logic and the Institutiones of Saint Porphyry, itself a commentary on Aristotle. Bound volume of 259 leaves; written in Chancery hand, in brown ink. Pages ruled in red. Caption title on leaf A1r reads: Jacobi Comoleti philosophi In commersam dialecticam annotationes. Dated 4th October 1573 in margin of leaf A1r. Inscription on front pastedown reads: Commentaire manuscript par Jacob Comoleti philosophe sur la dialectique d'Aristote, octobre 1573.

Open for research.