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Although the department of Special Collections does not maintain a formal autograph collection, autographs of famous as well as lesser-known persons may be found in two principal collections and also traced in our online catalog:
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The Theodore M. Hesburgh Collection includes more than 1600 books presented to University President Emeritus Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. over the course of his long career and continues to receive new volumes on a monthly basis. Nearly all of the items in the collection contain personal inscriptions from the authors to Fr. Hesburgh.
Included in this collection are works by many notable politicians, writers and celebrities such as Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Ann Landers, Studs Terkel and Carl Sagan. See the collection description for instructions on how to search our online catalog for these and other names.
Collection description coming soon...
For many years signatures and other manuscript notations that appeared in pre-1800 books were recorded in a card file. The alphabetical index is still available to patrons in our Reading Room but is no longer maintained.
The recording of such notations and other provenance information are included in the electronic catalog record for the item. Following are some instructions on how to search for names and other such information in our onling catalog:
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