Daniel and Philip Berrigan Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4602

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Personal papers and ephemeral publications by and about Daniel and Philip Berrigan, including correspondence, legal documents, manuscripts of poetry and prose writings, notes for talks, periodical arcticles, newspaper clippings, photographs, broadsides, tape recordings, videocassettes, and microfilms. The greater part of the collection consists of papers dated after 1960 and contains much on the Catonsville Nine, the Harrisburg Seven, and the Plowshares Eight. Earlier material includes some Berrigan family history. The collection is supplemented by published books by and about the Berrigans. Also twelve letters of correspondence with Ross Labrie.

Also a broadside from the "America is Hard to Find" weekend, April 17-19, 1970; and a videocassette "America is Hard to Find," - Spring 1970. Video: "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine," screenplay by Daniel Berrigan and Saul Levitt ; produced by Gregory Peck ; directed by Gordon Davidson, ca. 1988; and poster from the Actors' Gang/Office of the Americas (OOA) staged reading of "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine," August 18, 2007.

Dates

1880-1995.

Creator

Berrigan, Daniel. (Person)
Berrigan, Philip. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The brothers Daniel Berrigan (born 1921) and Philip Berrigan (born 1923) have both been prominent in resistance to racial segregation, to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war, and to the production of nuclear weapons. Philip Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, and Daniel, a Jesuit priest, poet, playwright, and teacher, are both lecturers and civil disobedience activists.

Extent

207 cubic feet. (207 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Personal papers and ephemeral publications by and about Daniel and Philip Berrigan.

COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

The collection comprises two series. Series A is documented to item level; please refer to the card catalogue or contact a Reference librarian. Series B comprises later accessions. Within Series B, only boxes B98 and B99 are described to folder or item level.

SERIES LIST

<ref target="s3">Bound Manuscripts</ref>: Bd. Ms. 1-12

OTHER GUIDES TO THE COLLECTION

A card catalogue is available providing item-level description of Series A of the collection.

Physical Description

Correspondence, legal documents, manuscripts of poetry and prose writings, notes for talks, periodical articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, broadsides, tape recordings, videocassettes, microfilms.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: D. Randolph P. McCray staff
Date completed:: Additions Jan. 1996 Sep. 1997
EAD encoding:: Mireille Lee, August 2000
Date modified:: Jude Corina, December 2015