MS. Manuscript Collections

The Eamonn O'Toole Papers include letters and scholarly papers received by O'Toole from colleagues.  The collection includes correspondence with a number of individuals prominent in Celtic Studies, including that of Douglas Hyde, first President of the Irish Free State.

The collection includes drafts of stories, plays and lectures written by Victor Power (Victor de Paor, 1930-1987) dating from 1975 -1987.

The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence, sermons and writings, photographs and newspapers clippings relating to the life and career of Msgr. Patrick J. Ryan.

The collection contains materials documenting the organization, meetings, committees, membership and activities of the St. Andrew's Society of Minnesota.

This collection contains subject and family files used as resources by Helen White in writing her book Cornish Cousins of Minnesota.

The Veterans History Project, sponsored by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, has as its goal the collection and preservation of stories of wartime service. From 2003 through 2011, undergraduate students in Professor Joseph Fitzharris’s introductory history classes participated in the collection process for this project.

The Catholic Aid Association of Minnesota records consist of English-language translations of the minutes of the organization's board meetings from 1878 - 1911.

The Actors Theatre of St. Paul records consist of scripts, play books, set designs and music relating to productions mounted by the company from 1977–1982.

This artificial collection containing Anti-Catholic campaign material was compiled by faculty, staff and students of the College of St. Thomas during the 1960 presidential campaign. The collection includes anonymous "hate" mail and pamphlets and ephemeral literature focusing on the careers of Alfred Smith, Democratic Presidential candidate in 1928, and John F. Kennedy, plus reviews of anti-Catholic books, and doctrinal and controversial literature.

The Hilaire Belloc Letters collection contains twenty-seven letters written by the English Catholic author between 1899 and 1936. Most of the letters are to his friend, the American Catholic painter and essayist Carl Schmitt (1889-1989), one of the founding members of the Silvermine Guild of Artists in Connecticut.