The University of St. Thomas

Vincent Flynn Papers Series 5

 Vincent J. Flynn Papers


Series V. Biography and Publications

A. Biographical Materials

18/4     List of publications, vitae, 1923-1956

18/5     Biographical clipping file, memorabilia, invitations,1948-1954

18/6     Biographical clippings file, 1941-1956

18/7*  Correspondence from and addresses of Flynn's former classmates in college and seminary, 1947-1955

18/8     Book order list - personal reading, 1948-1956

18/9     Postcard collection, 1932-1941

18/10    Student notebook, for classics course

18/11    Two copies of "The Inauguration of the Very Reverend Vincent J. Flynn as President of the College of St. Thomas," 1944

18/12     Congratulatory letters, 1944

18/13     Responses to invitations, 1944

18/14    Correspondence, texts of addresses, lists of participants, related document. February-May 1944

18/15    Very Rev. Flynn's Silver Jubilee as a Priest,  Correspondence and related documents (Folder 1), 1952

18/16    Doctor of Law, University of Notre Dame, 1951

18/17    Certificates of membership and appreciation, 1938-1950

18/18     Certificates of membership; letter of appointment as President of the College of St. Thomas, 1944-1954

 

B. Miscellaneous Speeches

18/19    Sermon for Lent, 1939

18/19A  Speeches, 1944-1948

18/20    Speeches, 1945

18/21    Speeches, 1945-51

18/22     Speeches/Sermons, 1945-1955

18/23     Speeches/Sermons, 1947-1951

18/24    Correspondence regarding Very Rev. Flynn's speech to the Association of American Colleges in Cincinnati, 1950

18/25     Speeches/Sermons, 1950-51

18/26    Speeches, 1953

18/27     Speech to "mothers and friends" of College of St. Thomas students.

18/28    Baccalaureate sermon - University of Notre Dame. Drafts and related documents, Jan.1951

18/29     Speeches delivered at the 22nd annual conference, 1949, of International Student Service, and related correspondence.

C. Collegio Venerabile Inglese, edited by V.J. Flynn

18/30    Preface

18/31    Summary and Table of Contents

18/32     Rough draft of version of the manuscript.

19/1    Notes on "The Liber Ordinationis of the English Hospice in Rome, 1449-1514."

19/2    Notes on miscellaneous  problem leaves from manuscript.

19/3    Extended notes on the manuscript, almost in draft form.

19/4    Correspondence regarding the manuscript, 1939-1961

19/5 - 19/217   Folio 1 to Folio 59  Recto & Verso

20/1     Bibliography on and Index of names in the manuscript

20/2     Latin text and translation., P. 1-100

20/3     Latin text and translation., P. 101-200

20/4    Latin text and translation,   P.  201-300

20/5      Latin text and translation., P. 301-371
 
D. Masters Theses

20/6     Draft Copy of "The Political Thought of Marcus Tallies Cicero, M.A. Thesis, 1929, University of Minnesota, by Vincent J. Flynn

E. Ph.D. Dissertation

20/7    Life and Works of William Lily." Ph.D dissertation, 1939, University of Chicago, by Vincent J. Flynn

20/8     Synopsis of dissertation

20/9    Chapter I

20/10     Chapter II

20/11    Chapter III

20/12     Chapter IV

20/13    Chapter V

20/14     Chapter VI

20/15     Chapter VII

20/16    Chapter VIII

20/17    Chapter IX

20/18     Chapter IX

20/19    Chapter IX

20/20     Chapter X

20/21    Rough Bibliography for the dissertation

20/22     "Notes and footnotes"

20/23     Background for Dissertation: William Lily's will

20/24    "William Lily", a paper by Flynn, 1931

20/25     Early lives of William Lily - notes

20/26     Bibliography on George Lily

20/27     George Lily's biography of William Lily

20/28     "Moral Ideas of John Lily", by L.C. Sears

20/29    Article: "The Sources of Lily's Latin Grammar: A Review of the Facts and Some Further Suggestions", by C.G. Allen

20/30     General Bibliography on Lily and his times 



F.  A Shorte Introduction of Grammar by William Lily with an introduction by Vincent J. Flynn.

20/31     Text of Flynn's Introduction

20/32     Text of Flynn's Introduction,  plus notes on Lily's Grammar

20/33     Correspondence regarding the Lily Grammar

20/34    Photostats of John Ward's preface to Lily's Grammar, 1755.


G. Prose Readings: An Anthology for Catholic Colleges, selected and edited by Vincent J. Flynn.

20/35    Very rough manuscript copy

20/36    Very rough manuscript copy

21/1    Source notes on items to be included in the manuscript.

21/2     Correspondence, 1940-41

21/3     Correspondence, 1941-43

21/4    Congratulatory correspondence, 1942

21/5     Correspondence, 1942

21/6    Correspondence regarding re-publication. 1956

21/7    Reviews of Prose Readings, 1942



H. Articles by Flynn

21/8     "Can Americans Continue Living Together?"Association of American Colleges Bulletin, volume 36, #1, 1950.

21/9    "Englishmen in Rome during the Renaissance" Modern Philology, volume 36, #2, Nov. 1938, 121-38

21/10     Two copies of "Englishmen. . ."

21/11    "An Evening with the Possibles", unpublished article submitted to The Catholic World, 1931

21/12     "Grammatical Writings of William Lily", various drafts. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. X, 37. Second Quarter, 1943

21/13     "Grammatical Writings of William Lily", galleys

21/14    Articles:"Grammatical Writings...";"Intellectual Life of 15th CenturyRhodes." (Tradition:Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and  Religion. V.J.,1944) "William Lily & the English Hospice,"(Venerabile, v.9,#1, Oct.1938);Review of Humanism in England During the 15th Century by Count Roberto Weiss (Oxford:Blackwell,1941),by Flynn

21/15     "Intellectual Life. . ." various drafts.

21/16     "Sangre Azul", Catholic World, v.132 #791 (Feb. 1931)

21/17     "Sangre Azul", draft copy

21/18    "William Lily and the English Hospice", draft

21/19    Reviews Of Humanism in England by Weiss

21/20     Reviews Of "Viti Sancti Malchi of Reginald of Canterbury", edited by Levi Robert Lind."Illinois Studies in Language and Literature"vol.27, #3-4, Urbana, U of Illinois Press, 1942. Review in Modern Philology, vol. 41 #4, (5/43)



I. Student Papers

21/21    Brief stories and character sketches

21/22     "Carlyle and Mill"

21/23    "Character of the Servants in T. James"

21/24    "Comfort for the Fainthearted" -- church architecture

21/25     "Critical Ideas of George Gascoigne, William Webbe, and George (or Richard) Puttenham.

21/26    "The Dictionary"

21/27     Drama. Notes on and critiques of several familiar plays.

21/28    Education and Church Anti-intellectualism

21/29    English language and vocabulary

21/30    "Fisher, Gardiner, More and the Oath of Royal Supremacy

21/31    "Funerals"

21/32    "Goldsmith's Idea of Heaven"

21/33    "Graduate School Situation"

21/34    "Late Medieval English Churches from Within"

21/35    "Literary criticism materials"

21/36    "Literary Influence of the Oxford Movement"

21/37    "Notes on Chesterfield's Letters to his Son"

21/38     "Notes on Tennyson"

21/39     "Other Sheep" (Protestants)

21/40     "Rhythms in Addison and Steele"

21/41     "Spencer: Faerie Queen"

21/42    "Senault's 'The Use of the Passions'"

21/43    "'The Medea of Euripides and Seneca'"

21/44     "Thomas Babington Maculay"

21/45     Verse

21/46    "Wet Powder" (Defoe)



J. Photostats of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Consulted by Flynn in his Research

21/47    Miscellaneous file (a. Alphabetum Latino Anglicum,  b. Deac Toartionis Partuin . . . . 1523,  c. Dicta Sapientu Graeciae . . . . 1541,  d. Doucie Fragment,  e. Duobus Toliis Libri Crurisdam Anglici...,   f. Exact Rules of Grammar, 1656,  g. Grammatica et Euis Partibus,  h. Inest Libellus Grammaticus Latinius,  i. Integerrimo in Christo Patri,  j. Rhetorice Isagogue,  k. Salutatio Angelica,  l. Three unidentified manuscripts)

21/48    Anti Bas Sicon

22/1     Antilycon, by Robert Whittintar

22/2    Brevissima Instituto Sev Ratio Grammatices,1567

22/3     Miscellaneous file  (a. A Bruta Britannicae, b. Unidentified manuscripts)

22/4    Compendium Totius Gramatice...

22/5     Die Constructione Verbi Froberrio,1517 edited by Froberrio

22/6     Epigrammata Guil. Lilli. Angli

22/7    Miscellaneous file ( a. Guilo Pomponio Leto (Grammaticae Rudimenta), 1484,  b. Rudimenta Grammatices, 1493)

22/8    Lac Prieron Wardi, by John Holt

22/9    Guillemi Lily Angli Rudimenta

22/10    Miscellaneous file (a. A Shorte Introduction of Grammar (Lily),  b. Guillelmi Lily Angle Rudimenta,  c. Orationes Constructione Libellus,Cum Commentarius Irimi Ralirii,   d. Unidentified manuscript)

22/11     Miscellaneous file (a. Sulpitaianum Oprosculum Lege Faeliciter, b. Unidentified Manuscript)

22/12     Manuscript by John Stanbridge

22/13    Two Manuscripts

22/14     One Manuscript

22/15     One Manuscript

22/16    A small green box containing approximately 70 rolls of microfilm of  manuscripts. Only a few of the manuscripts on these rolls have been identified

Box 19     Consists of a 4 drawer note-card file with cards grouped into the following subject areas: Drawer 1: Manuscript and book sources on William Lily, listed by library or depository; a bibliography on Lily; German vocabulary; Student class file and bibliographies, compiled for a class taught by Flynn at the U of Chicago. Drawer 2: Romantic and Victorian English literature, a miscellaneous subject file on English literature and history. Drawer 3: Medieval literature, Renaissance literature, Chaucer, Shakespeare. Drawer 4: a miscellaneous author file on English literature and history.

23/1     "Inventory Problem Sheets", relating to the Collegio Venerabile Inglise manuscript?

23/2     Letter to the Times Literary Supplement, 1939, regarding Gordon Dubb's 15th Century  books.

23/3     Correspondence with Sheed and Ward, publishers, 1944-45