Burns Library Archival Collections

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.

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.

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.

Open for research.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

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

Collection is open for research.

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

Collection is open for research.

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.

Open for research.

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

Collection is open for research.

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

Collection is open for research.

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

Collection is open for research.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.