2.5 linear inches.
Preliminary item list.
Established in 1808 as a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, it included all of New England until 1875, when it became an archdiocese with metropolitan authority over other dioceses in the province of New England.
Correspondence, including original letters and photostats from the Archdiocesan Archives of Boston and the National Archives. Correspondents include missionary priests Stephen Theodore Badin and John Thayer; Jean Lefebvre de Cheverus, first bishop of Boston, and Benedict Joseph Fenwick, second bishop of Boston; and Joseph M. Finotti, collector of Catholic Americana.
Also records of the Tabernacle Society of the Convent of Notre-Dame, Berkeley Street, Boston (1898-1906) consisting of correspondence of Lillian Westervelt concerning vestments for churches and priests throughout New England; material concerning Bishop David William Bacon of Portland, Maine; clippings, articles, pamphlets, and pictures.
Collection was begun by James Edwards. Some material (circa 1952) was a gift of William John Guerney.
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