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The Collected Letters of Canon Sheehan of Doneraile1883-1913 
Outlines for a Literary Biography


This collection of the letters of Canon Sheehan of  Doneraile consists of 293 letters, drawn principally from  three  archival sources: 

• the Sheehan papers in the archive of the  Presentation  Sisters, Southern Province; 
• the Russell papers in the  archive of the  Irish Province of the Jesuit Fathers; 
• the Heuser papers in the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Centre,  Overbrook,  Philadelphia.

To them, some material has been added from  smaller  deposits: sixteen letters written by Canon Sheehan to Justice  Oliver  Wendell Holmes, Jr., of the American Supreme Court, which are  conserved  in the Library of the Law School of Harvard University; ten  letters to  Fr Joseph Bruneau, SS, of St Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore which  are  currently in the Bruneau papers in the seminary archives; five  letters  written to Lord Castletown of Upper Ossory found in the Castletown  papers in the National Library of Ireland; from the Hudson  papers,  conserved in the archives of the University of Notre Dame, South  Bend,  Indiana, four letters written to Fr Daniel Hudson, editor of the Ave Maria Magazine, and a letter to Fr Hudson from Fr Matthew Russell   enclosing a letter from Sheehan; two letters of Canon Sheehan and three  letters from his brother, Denis Sheehan, from the Mrs William O’Brien   papers in the Boole Library of University College Cork; four letters in   the Doneraile Estate papers in the National Library of Ireland; one   letter in the Katherine Tynan Hinkson papers held in the Morris Library   of the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in the United States  of  America; and one letter in the private possession of the Very  Reverend  Gerard Canon Casey, parish priest of Mallow, Co. Cork.  

A further two  letters (nos. 115 and 125) are transcribed from Herman J.  Heuser, Canon  Sheehan of Doneraile (Longmans, Green and Co., London  and New York,  1917). These two letters were originally supplied to Fr  Heuser in the winter of 1913/14 in preparation for the writing of his  biography of  Canon Sheehan. They are, however, no longer extant in the  Heuser papers  in Philadelphia.

The collection affords  a rare  insight into the personality, character and outlook of a significant contributor to the literary renouveau catholique in English;  it tracks the historic evolution of several of his novels and other  writings and it illuminates the philosophical, theological and literary  concerns of  the Catholic intelligentsia across the three decades  preceding the First World War.



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Publisher: SMENOS Publications
Format:       Hardback  & Paperback 314 pages
Date of Publication: 18 April 2013

ISBN 13: Hardback 9780957552111
ISBN 13: Paperback 9780957552104

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