Boston College Libraries
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 …
We are happy to encourage wider use of Burns Library’s unique materials for teaching and research, and will work creatively with faculty and others to develop customized classes, activities, and assignments around syllabi topics and learning objectives.
140 Commonwealth AvenueChestnut Hill, MA 02467-3810
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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Collections Used
Bette Arnold Collection of Bette’s Rolls Royce Restaurant Materials (MS2012-009)
Hilaire Belloc Papers (MS2005-003)
Boston College Collection of Eric Gill Materials (MS1986-139)
Boston College School of Nursing records
Chinese Chess Set (MS1992-014)
Josephine Dolan Collection of Nursing History (MS1988-004)
John Donnelly & Sons Records (MS2012-004)
Dugan Collection of Doyle, Evans, and Persse Family Materials (MS2004-056)
David Goldstein and Martha Moore Avery Papers (MS1986-167)
Greater Boston Area Materials (MS2013-020)
Graham Greene Papers (MS1995-00)
William F. and Michael C. Hanafin Family Papers (IM-M143-2005)
Elizabeth Hayward Collection of Ursuline Academy Materials (MS2011-027)
Loretta Clarke Murray collection of women in revolutionary Ireland (MS2016-006)
Historical Pastime: a New Game of the History of England (MS2001-058)
Hopkins Family Papers (MS1991-023)
Liturgy and Life Collection (BC2013-017)
John J. McAleer Faculty Papers (BC1995-016)
Eva McKee Art Works (MS2005-006)
Alice Meynell Collection (MS1986-061)
New England Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing (MS1989-008)
John Boyle O’Reilly Papers MS2004-093
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital School of Nursing Collection (MS2000-018B)
Rex Stout Collection (MS1986-096)
John Lawrence Sullivan Papers (MS2012-013)
Theater Programs Collection (MS2011-024)
Francis Thompson Collection (MS1986-101)
George F. Trenholm Papers (MS1994-038)
Ward-Martin Family Papers (MS2003-053)
Fine Print Collection
Irish Collection
We are grateful for additional material provided by the Sisters of the Holy Cross Archives.