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Burns Library is best known for the strengths of our Irish and Irish American collections and those which reflect Boston College's Jesuit, Catholic heritage, including British Catholic authors. We have also been developing collections around major curricular areas, such as nursing, and our local Boston community, as well as housing Boston College's university archives.
And This Is Eleanor Early!
Early at the Empire State Building, New York City, undated, box 14, folder 23, Eleanor Early papers (MS1995-005), John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
Eleanor Early was born April 27, 1895 in Newton, Massachusetts. She grew up in Wellesley and attended Miss Wheelock’s School …
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Located in the original Bapst Library building on Boston College's Chestnut Hill campus, the John J. Burns Library offers students, scholars, and the general public opportunities to engage with rare books, special collections, and archives.
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Chatterton, E. Keble. Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates; True Stories of the Stirring Adventures, Bravery and Resource of Pirates, Filibusters & Buccaneers. Daring Deeds Library for Boys & Girls. London: Seeley, Service & Limited, 1917.
Roche, James Jeffrey. By-Ways of War; the story of the filibusters. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1901.
Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt. The Real Story of the Pirate. New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, 1923.
The Pirates Own Book, or Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executions of the most Celebrated Sea Robbers. Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1924.
Bradlee, Francis Boardman Crowninshield. Piracy in the West Indies and its Suppression. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1923.
Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt. In the Wake of the Buccaneers. New York, London: Century, 1923.
Eastman, Ralph M. Some Famous Privateers of New England. Boston: State Street Trust Company, 1928.
Snow, Edward Rowe. Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast. Boston: Yankee Pub., 1944.
Gringo, Harry (Henry Augustus Wise). Captain Brand of the Centipede. A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Loves and Exploits. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864.
Walsh, Richard J., Illian, George, Illustrator; Goudy, Bertha, Compositor; Rogers, Bruce, Contributor; Peters, Paul J., Editor; Diehl, Edith, Binder; and William Edwin Rudge, Printer. Kidd: A Moral Opuscule. William Edwin Rudge, 1922.
Davidson, Norman James. The Romance of the Spanish Main: A Record of the Daring Deeds of Some of the Most Famous Adventurers, Buccaneers, Filibusters and Pirates in the Western Seas. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1916.
Jesse, Fryniwyd Tennyson. Moonraker, or, the Female Pirate and her Friends. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1927.
Lindsay, Philip. Morgan in Jamaica. London: Fanfrolico Press, 1930.