2 linear feet.
Calendar with indexes.
Catholic historian, co-founder of the United States Catholic Historical Society (1844).
Correspondence dealing mostly with Shea's writing and his financial difficulties; manuscripts of the first three volumes of his History of the Catholic Church in the United States; and a manuscript of his American Martyrology: Lives of Catholic Missionaries Killed on the Indian Missions in Canada and the United States from the Earliest Times.
Apparently acquired by James Edwards. Edwards first asked for Shea's manuscripts on 10 February 1887.
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