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Henry Joseph Browne papers, 1797-1980

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Series I: Research and Scholarship, 1792-1980

The Research and Scholarship Series contains Browne's research material, published articles and drafts, and lecture and reading notes

Subseries 1: John Hughes Biographical Materials, 1792-1956

This Subseries, which forms the bulk of the Research and Scholarship series, contains primary materials relating to Archbishop John Hughes, such as Hughes's original correspondence and topical files, both arranged alphabetically. Hughes's correspondence files include letters from such notable figures as Abraham Lincoln, Popes Leo XII, Gregory XVI, and Pius IX. William Henry Seward was also a regular correspondent. This subseries also contains typescripts and microfilmed copies of Hughes's correspondence, as well as his letterbooks and scrapbooks. Additionally, the subseries contains material collected by other would-be biographers of Hughes, including an unpublished manuscript of a Hughes biography by Peter Guilday.


Box 1 Folder 1 to 17 Correspondence-- A-Z, 1860-1895, (17 Folders)

Correspondence


Box 2 Folder 1 to 18 A-R, 1826-1920, (18 Folders)


Box 3 Folder 1 to 7 S-Y and Unknown, 1840-1880, (7 Folders)

Box 3 Folder 8 to 13 Typescripts and Photocopies, 1827-1863, (6 Folders)

Box 3 Folder 14 Correspondence-- McCloskey-- Typescript, 1835-1836

Correspondence


Box 4 Folder 1 Photostats


Box 5 Folder 1 to 2 Letterbooks, 1841-1854, (2 volumes)

Box 5 Folder 3 Typescript of Letterbooks


Box 6 Folder 1 Photocopies, 1794

Box 6 Folder 2 to 7 Microfilm, 1986-1910 (5 rolls), 1986-1910

Box 6 Folder 8 The Complete Works of John Hughes, Vol. 1


Box 7 Correspondence--Father Smith

Box 7 Letterbook, 1857-1859


Box 8 Folder 1 to 3 Scrapbooks, 1844-1861, (3 volumes)

Topical Files

Box 8 Folder 4 to 5 St. John's College-- Fordham, 1841-1846, (2 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 6 St. Joseph's Seminary, 1845-1855

Box 8 Folder 7 St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1839

Box 8 Folder 8 Statistics on Catholic Population, 1848-1855

Box 8 Folder 9 Varela, Felix (Obituary by Hughes), circa, 1855

Thomas Cassidy's Materials on Hughes


Box 9 Folder 1 General

Box 9 Folder 2 General-- Transferred to Guilday

Box 9 Folder 3 Clippings, 1933-1934

Box 9 Folder 4 to 5 Correspondence, 1933-1934, (2 Folders)

Box 9 Folder 6 List of Clergy in New York, 1847-1895

Box 9 Folder 7 McCloskey, Cardinal, 1879-1888

Box 9 Folder 8 McGlynn Case Materials

Box 9 Folder 9 Murray, Nicholas-- Memoirs, 1862

Box 9 Folder 10 Notes on Hughes's Meeting with Pope Leo XIII

Peter Guilday's Material on Hughes

Correspondence


Box 10 Folder 1 to 2 Guilday, 1927-1937, (2 Folders)

Box 10 Folder 3 New York Negotiation, 1928-1946

Box 10 Folder 4 Sisters of Charity, 1827-1846

Box 10 Folder 5 M.H. Ward, 1890-1909

Research Notes, 1928-1930s

Box 10 Folder 6 to 7 General, (2 Folders)


Box 11 Folder 1 Church History

Box 11 Folder 2 Clippings (originals and photocopies), 1827-1861

Box 11 Folder 3 DuBois Material

Box 11 Folder 4 Hughes Genealogical Material

Box 11 Folder 5 Letters Referenced in Hassard's John Hughes

Box 11 Folder 6 McKenna Clan History

Box 11 Folder 7 Notre Dame and Baltimore Archives Research

Box 11 Folder 8 Research in Europe, 1929

Box 11 Folder 9 St. Patrick's Cathedral Archives

Box 11 Folder 10 San Francisco

Box 11 Folder 11 Outline of Hughes Biography

Box 11 Folder 12 Register of Documents in Jesuit Archives, Rome Relating to Hughes

Box 11 Folder 13 to 16 Manuscript of Hughes Biography, (4 Folders)


Box 12 Folder 1 to 3 Manuscript of Hughes Biography, (3 Folders)

Henry Joseph Browne's Hughes Biography, circa, 1956

Box 12 Folder 4 to 8 Research Notes, (4 Folders)


Box 13 Folder 1 to 6 Research Notes, (6 Folders)


Box 14 Folder 1 to 5 Drafts and Notes, (5 Folders)


Box 15 Folder 1 to 5 Manuscript, (5 Folders)

Subseries 2: Scholarly Research-- Church and Social History, 1947-1980

This subseries is comprised of Browne's research materials and published articles, including his master's thesis, and extensive notes he used to prepare and present his classroom lectures. These files indicate Browne's interest in church and social history.

Box 15 Folder 6 to 7 Church History Research and Resources, (2 volumes)


Box 16 Folder 1 Browne's Publication List

Box 16 Folder 2 Publications-- General, 1956-1958

Box 16 Folder 3 Publications-- In Typescript

Box 16 Folder 4 Publications and Clippings, 1956

Box 16 Folder 5 Articles, 1952-1957

Box 16 Folder 6 Browne on Jack Egan, 1980

Box 16 Folder 7 to 8 The Catholic Church in American Life , (2 Folders)

Box 16 Folder 9 Catholic University of America-- Research Notes

Box 16 Folder 10 "Catholics Face a New Frontier,", 1960

Box 16 Folder 11 Church History Articles, 1951-1956

Box 16 Folder 12 Church and Labor Research

Box 16 Folder 13 "Diocesan Clergy of New York: An Historical Sketch,", 1950-1951

Box 16 Folder 14 "The Faculty and the Archivist," circa, 1960s

Box 16 Folder 15 "Groping for Relevance in an Urban Parish,", 1971


Box 17 Folder 1 "Housing the Poor: The Confused Catholic Social Apostolate,", 1968

Box 17 Folder 2 "Majority Interests,", 1979

Box 17 Folder 3 "Maxima Vigilantia"

Box 17 Folder 4 Molly Maguires, 1947

Box 17 Folder 5 to 6 "One Stop Above Hell's Kitchen: Sacred Heart Parish in Clinton,", 1976, (2 Folders)

Box 17 Folder 7 Parochial Archives-- Notes, undated

Box 17 Folder 8 "Power and the Institutional Church,", 1967

Box 17 Folder 9 "A Preliminary Survey of the Historical Bibliography of the Archdiocese of New York,", 1946

Box 17 Folder 10 "St. Ann's on East Twelfth Street New York City, 1852-1952,", 1952

Box 17 Folder 11 "Terence Powderley: His Relationship with the Catholic Church,", 1945

(Browne's Master's Thesis)

Box 17 Folder 12 "Toward Symbolic, Theopolitical Ministry"

Box 17 Folder 13 Urban Renewal-- Various., 1966

Teaching Materials


Box 18 Folder 1 American Community, 1976

Box 18 Folder 2 to 3 Church History-- Catholic University of America, (2 Folders)

Box 18 Folder 4 Church History-- St. Joseph's

Box 18 Folder 5 Civil War and the Church

Box 18 Folder 6 Comparative Social Movements, 1975

Box 18 Folder 7 Medieval History, 1967

Box 18 Folder 8 to 10 Notes, 1952-1970s, (3 Folders)