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Muise Family Collection of Cape Breton and Irish Music

 Collection
Identifier: IM-M082-2007
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of field recordings of Cape Breton and Irish traditional music performed by various musicians in the Boston area, as recorded on home recording equipment by Johnny and Mary Muise. Included are informal music gatherings and social events that took place in the Muise home in Dorchester (1951-1965) and Roslindale (1965 and later), as well as concerts and other gatherings. Some of the audio recordings also contain published material.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research. Open reel tapes and audiocassettes are restricted (boxes 2-6). All open reel tapes have been reformatted, and digital versions are available for use in the Burns Library Reading Room. All audiocassettes have not yet been reformatted, but can be upon request. Note that there may be a delay in availability of digitized versions.

Dates: circa 1935-2003

Elizabeth Capell recipe book

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2002-012
Abstract

Contains culinary recipes and recipes for medical remedies, in the handwriting of several different authors. The last page is a copy of "the Story of Bembo, a Primitive Christian," originally published in Oxford in 1689 by minister Richard Allestree.

Restrictions on access

Open for research; digital version available.

Dates: 1699 - 1715

Capitolo fratesco priorito geniale di Fra' Tisabesano Secchia, o vero: poema comice, manuscript copy

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-2018-024
Scope and Contents

Bound manuscript copy of a comedic poem, in fifteen cantos, satirizing religious orders, including the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Theatines. Attributed to the Jesuit priest Sebastiano Chiesa, about whom little is known. With numerous corrections and annotations. In Italian, writing in italic script in brown ink with green ink on the title page.

Restrictions on Access

Open for research.

Dates: 1737 August 14

Philip Caraman, SJ papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1998-030
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, clippings, and writings comprise the papers of British Jesuit Philip Caraman. The bulk of the collection is his personal and professional correspondence with other Jesuits, authors, and poets. Among the correspondents are: John Betjeman; Martin Cyril D'Arcy, SJ; John W. Gran; Graham Greene; Peter Levi; André Malraux; Norman Sherry; Edith Sitwell; Muriel Spark; Francis Sweeney, SJ; Catherine Walston; and Evelyn Waugh. Some of the writers are further represented...
Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1944 - 1998

Heather Kelley Carr alumni papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2015-026
Abstract Heather Kelley Carr taught English at the Escuela Secundaria México in Corozal, Belize between 1986 and 1988 as part of the Boston College International Volunteer Program. While there, Carr organized a campaign to request book donations for the purpose of creating a school library. This collection contains correspondence documenting this campaign, as well as correspondence between family and friends, correspondence from Belizean students, and photographs of Escuela México students, Carr's...
Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1985 - 1989

Anthony Carroll, SJ scrapbook

 Collection — Shared box: 2523, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: BC-2025-044
Abstract

Scrapbook of photographs and ephemera by and about twentieth-century American Jesuit chemist Anthony Carroll, SJ.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1930-1942

Thomas J. Carroll papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2003-014
Abstract

The collection documents the life and work of Reverend Thomas J Carroll. It includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, postcards, and published works.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1938-1971 (bulk 1943-1959); Majority of material found within 1943 - 1959

Carta del rey de España â el papa, notìcìando el total exterminio de los jesuitas de sus domìnìos: manuscript fair copy

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2022-053
Scope and Contents

Sixteen-page manuscript fair copy of a letter from King Charles III of Spain to Pope Clement XIII on the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish Empire. Dated at end of last page: Aranjuez, 2 de mayo de 1767. Written in ink on laid paper in a gathering of four bifolia.

Restrictions on Access

Open for research.

Dates: probably between 1767 and 1800

Boston College collection of cased photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2019-002
Abstract

This collection contains examples of mid-to-late 19th century cased photographs, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1840s-1910s

Roger Casement letters

 Collection — Shared box: 5237
Identifier: MS-2004-082
Abstract

Consists of correspondence of Casement including a letter to THE PILOT on English restrictions on Irish trade in 1914.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1905 - 1915

Boston College collection of Juanita Casey

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2024-056
Abstract

Correspondence and ephemera relating to gallery exhibitions and radio dramas by twentieth century artist and author Juanita Casey.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1951-1970

William Van Etten Casey, SJ papers

 Collection
Identifier: BC-1991-035
Abstract

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.

Restrictions on access

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

Dates: 1943 - 1992

Castillo de la Tallada, Spain, land tenure documents, 1688-1759: manuscript

 Collection — Volume: MS.1986.108
Identifier: MS-1986-108
Restrictions on access

Open for research.

Dates: 1688 - 1759

Cérémonial de prise d'habit et de profession religieuse a l'usage des religieuses de la Congrégation de N. Dame, rue de Sèvres

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: BC-2023-174
Scope and Contents

Bound manuscript of 50 pages, written in ink on wove paper, ruled in pencil. Contains the ceremonies for the reception of the habit and the profession of vows in the Congrégation de Notre Dame, as well as burial rites. Musical notation on four-line staff.

Restrictions on Access

Open for research.

Dates: probably between 1800 and 1900

Carlson R. Chambliss collection of Vatican City postage stamps

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2021-108
Abstract

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.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1929-2019
Image: Chants for the Mass for the Feast of the Transfiguration
Image: Chants for the Mass for the Feast o...

Chants for the Mass for the Feast of the Transfiguration

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: BC-2023-159
Scope and Contents Manuscript containing musical notation of chants for the Catholic celebration of the Mass for the Feast of the Transfiguration, consisting of 50 leaves, written in black, red, and blue ink, on parchment, and bound in full leather. Includes De epiphania Ieus nati (Quicumque Christum quaeritis), Kyrie eleison, Gloria in excelsis Deo, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. Music in neumatic notation; four-line staff ruled in red. Pen-flourished initials in red and blue. Divisional title on leaf 4 recto...
Restrictions on Access

Fragile; access limited to digital version until item is conserved.

Dates: 1590

Charitable Irish Society records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1993-012
Abstract

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.

Restrictions on access Collection is open for research. Materials in Series IX: Financial records are closed for 75 years from date of creation. Digital photographs in this collection have been migrated from source media; digital use copies can only be accessed onsite in the Burns Library Reading Room. Videocassettes 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...
Dates: 1781 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1880 - 2014

Boston College collection of G. K. Chesterton

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1986-012
Abstract

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.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1886-1939, 1979; Majority of material found within 1886 - 1939

Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2002-051
Abstract

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.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1969-2002

Annie and Elizabeth Christitch papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1994-039
Abstract

Papers document the professional lives of Serbian-Irish Elizabeth Christitch and her daughter, Annie Christitch, both of whom were 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.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1879 - 1978

City medal for females

 Collection — Object: MS.2004.010
Identifier: MS-2004-010
Scope and Contents

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.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1824

Citywide Coordinating Council records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1990-031
Abstract

Citywide Coordinating Council (CCC) records are the institutional files of the independent, autonomous body created by the courts to oversee desegregation in Boston Public Schools, 1975-1978. Records of the Council include meeting minutes, reports, court documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, monitoring forms, statistics, and publications. The materials document both the activities of the Council and the process of desegregation of Boston's public schools.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research; portions are available digitally. A small number of materials are closed due to privacy restrictions.

One audio cassette has been digitally copied; the 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.

Dates: 1966 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1978

Eugene Clancy Irish music collection

 Collection
Identifier: IM-M194-2013
Abstract

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.

Restrictions on Access

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.

Dates: approximately 1935-2012

Annie White Frary Clark diary, 1898: manuscript.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MS-2004-004
Scope and Contents

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.

Restrictions on access

Open for research.

Dates: 1898 January 1-June 27

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