Series 2 - Catholic missionary priests' letters to All Hallows College (secondary research)

114pp

Kerby A. Miller, Bruce D. Boling, and David Doyle created the transcriptions of the Catholic missionary priests' letters to All Hallows College, Drumcondra in August 1990 from a microfilm in the Archives of the University of Notre Dame [All Hallows College Letters, Diocese of Vincennes, VIN. 16a].

Secondary research forming part of Kerby A. Miller's research on letters sent by Catholic missionaries, mainly serving in the United States, to their alma mater All Hallows College in Drumcondra, Dublin during the mid-to-late 19th century. All Hallows College was a prominent Roman Catholic missionary seminary operating from 1842 to 2016. Founded by Father John Hand to train Irish priests for global missions, the college sent over 1,500 missionaries to English-speaking countries.
The series contains: Kerby A. Miller's research correspondence with relatives of the letter-writers, including the Rev Andrew Talty, archivists, the Berkeley County Historical Society, and the diocese in a number of related cities; biographical notes and research on the priests; census research; abstracts of the letters with notes and annotations; an annotated copy of Patrick F. Murray's 1956 notes on the missionary correspondence, also held on University of Notre Dame microfilm; and photocopied pages from secondary sources on West Virginia, St Peters Roman Catholic Church, All Hallows priests, and the Immaculate Conception Parish in Massachusetts.

The complete set of transcripts and abstracts from these papers, along with Kerby A. Miller's main body of research pertaining to the letters, is located in P155/49/2.