9 linear feet.
90 volumes of printed material.
1 photograph.
1 walking stick.
Calendar with index; also A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Orestes Augustus Brownson Papers (University of Notre Dame Archives, 1966).
Associate of the New England Transcendentalists; convert to Roman Catholicism; founder, editor, and chief author of the Boston Quarterly Review (1838-1842) and Brownson's Quarterly Review (1844-1864 and 1873-1875). He wrote essays on Church and State, civil and religious freedom, Catholic education, the philosophy of science, and the conflict between conservative and progressive forces in the Church.
Correspondence, journal, clippings, and manuscript drafts of books, speeches, articles, and essays, both published and unpublished, 1823-1876; including correspondence with the Comte de Montalembert, Louis Veuillot, Lord Acton, John Henry Cardinal Newman, George Bancroft, Salmon Chase, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Hecker, Henry David Thoreau, and Archbishops John Hughes, Francis Patrick Kenrick and Martin Spalding; manuscripts of essays by Albert Brisbane, Archbishop Francis P. Kenrick, George Thompson and others; a photograph of Orestes Brownson and his walking stick.
Also printed material consisting of The Boston Quarterly Review (1838-1842), Brownson's Quarterly Review (1844-1864, 1873-1875); a twenty-volume set of The Works of Orestes A. Brownson (1882-1887) edited by his son Henry and annotated by his biographer, Thomas R. Ryan; and books by and about Brownson.
Papers available on microfilm for purchase from the Archives of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556. Gift of Henry F. Brownson, 1890.
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