Scope and Contents This record group contains primary and secondary source materials created by and pertaining to Bishop James Augustine Healy. Box 1 contains materials relating to Healy's time at College of the Holy Cross, including his diary from his final year at the College, as well as the speech he gave as valedictorian of the first graduating class. Boxes 2 and 3 contain diaries and writings from domestic and international travel as both priest and bishop. Locations include: Smyrna, Europe, New Orleans,...

Scope and Contents This collection relates to the history of the Catholic Church in the Rockland-Thomaston area of Maine. The letters are addressed to Cornelius Hanrahan, mostly from Catholic clergy from the 1840’s – 1870’s. Among the correspondents in the collection are Rev. John Bapst, S.J., Rev. Anthony Ciampi, president of Holy Cross and Bishop David W, Bacon, first Bishop of Portland, Maine. The topics of the letters concern the early Jesuit presence in New England and the running of the Church founded...