Includes a "Bibliography of the Printed Writings of Rev. Edmond J. P. Schmitt," as presented to Rev. P. Bede Maler, O.S.B.; ten volumes of various essays and serial articles; and composition books of poetry, sermons, and short essays.
Clippings, articles, letters, photographs, and miscellaneous items pasted in scrapbooks.
Volume I. Essays (1882-1895): early biographical newspaper clippings, clippings about local or foreign events submitted to local newspapers by Schmitt, and a description of the St. Meinrad's fire (21-38); "Sundfluth und Mammuth" (55-62); "Biography of the Great German Historian Rev. John Janssen" (63-68); "The Irish State Church: the Supposed Merits of the Irish State Church for the Education of Irish Catholics" (69-84); "Dismas, or The Good Thief," published in The Poor Soul's Advocate (97-120); "St. Odilo's All Soul's Day" (123-24); "The Didake, or, Teaching of the Twelve Apostles" (129-33); "Obsequies among the Eskimo" (137-38); "The Brotherhood of the Misericordia" (148-51); "End of a Great Life: Sketch of the Early Life of Janssen, the Famous German Historian" (161-66); "Sons of Alma Mater" (170-78, 211-18); "Velasquez and His Slave (179-81); "Dr. Shea's History" (185-94); "Ein Lebensbild von Johannes Janssen" (234-47); "Ilion" (251-55); obituaries for Rev. W. M. Bultmann (256-68) and August Hipp (273-82).
Volume II. Life of Father Badin: published in the Catholic Record (Indianapolis, Indiana) 24 September 1891 - 19 May 1893.
Volume III. Girolamo Savonarola: published in The Poor Soul's Advocate, 1893-94. English (2-125); German (126-201); English (edited) (205-238).
Volume IV. Lose Blaetter (1890-1893): published by Druk von S. Rosenthal and Co. of Cincinnati, 1890). A short history of the creation of this book after main text.
Volume V. Bibliographia Benedictina (1891-1984): published by Raigerner Benedictiner-buchdruckerie, Bruenn, Austria, 1893.
Volume VI. Essays (1890-1900): biographical newsclippings (3-65); "The History of Catholicity in Warrick County (69-120); "Dr. Ludwig Pastor" (including a carte de visite) (129-143); references to and reviews of Lose Blaetter, Bibliographia Benedictina, and Dismas (183-244).
Volume VII. Texas History (1897-1900): "Ven. Maria Jesus de Agreda: A Correction"; Texas Historical Association miscellaneous news; "Sieur Louis de Saint Denis"; "The Mission Church 'del Alamo'"; "The Alamo in History"; "The Old Franciscan Missions in California"; "The Old Texas Missions"; "Aztec Art and the Friars of Queretaro"; and "Blaetter aus der Kirchengeschichte von Texas."
Volume VIII (IX). Essays (1895-1901): Bibliographic clippings; "Indiana's History: The Catholic Story of Indiana and the Founding of Vincennes"; "Katholische Schriftsteller Amerika's: Dr. John Gilmary Shea"; "Bishop Bruté and the Blessed Sacrament"; "The Golden Jubilee of Rev. E. M. Faller of St. Mary's, New Albany"; "Press Bluethen"; and "The Book Nook" book reviews.
Volume IX (VIII). Very Rev. P. Isidore Hobi, O.S.B. (1887-1898): published in The Alma Mater, 1895, and also as "A Catholic Pioneer: The Late Rev. Father Isidore Hobi, O.S.B.," in The Catholic Record, 1895.
Volume X. Dismas and the Ouiatanon Record (1892-1898): English version of Dismas (published in The Poor Soul's Advocate); German version (published in Der Armen-Seelen Freund); English Second Edition (published by S. Rosenthal and Co., Cincinnati, 1892). "An Old Ouiatanon Record" (1898), translation of an old baptismal record from Post Ouiatanon, discovered in the archives of the Cathedral of Vincennes.
One volume of poetry written by Schmitt; Volume 1 of the composition books contains essays and sermons entitled: "The Fact of Creation," "Der Charakter der Christlichen Philosophie," "Certainty," "The Idioplasm: A New Theory of Life," "Baptism and Penance," and "The Study of Comparative Philology"; Volume 2 contains essays and sermons entitled: "Sundfluth und Mammuth," "Die Kirche und die Wissenschaften," "Das Priesterthum," "The Proper Manner of Conferring Baptism," "Humility," "The Adoration and Devotion to the Holy Ghost,"