ID	5762
Collection	Russell Papers
Reference	MCA/14/54
Description	Correspondence Charles William Russell (1812-1880), President of Maynooth, (1857-1880). Family from Dounty Down, Student in Maynooth, 1826 nto 1835, on the staff 1835-1855 and President, 1857-1880. He had eight brothers and sisters: George, Ann, Patrick, Thomas, Elizabeth, Margaret, Peter and Kate, 85 items: 1 Russell to Anne, 2 November 1826, 'I like Maynooth better every day'. 2 Russell to Mother, 20 December 1826. Request to spend the Christmas vacation in Drogheda with Mr Brodigan, 'I am studying hard for my examinations'. 3 Russell to Anne, 9 January 1827. 'This day may be considered by me as one of the most eventful I have spent I was both examined and obliged to take the oath of allegiance'. 4 Russell to Anne, 2 February 1827. 'Mr Delaghogue the old Professor of Theology who is now superannuated is expected to live a very short time. He left in his will 12 dozen of wine for the students of Theology' and other details. 5 Russell to Mother, 13 June 1827. 'He [Dr Crolly)] seemed to hesitate about letting me go home. Indeed he was unwilling that any of us should go'. 6 Russell to Margaret, 3 October 1827. 'I am comfortably settled and have got a pretty good room. The studies this year are no more difficult than last but I like them better they are a great deal more entertaining' and other college news. 7 Russell to Margaret, 27 October 1827. 'Our business has been increased since that time, we have to prepare for three professors now and we have a great deal to do for each of them'. 8 Russell to Margaret, 19 March 1828. 'I got really sick and between my bed and the infirmary it was nearly a fortnight before I was able to do anything. I have a lot of work to catch up on', and details of life in College. The entertainment on St Patrick's Day. 9 Russell to Margaret, 5 April 1828. Mr Montague said 'you are a very delicate boy this year and I would advise you to go out for a few days'. 10 Russell to Mother, 7 November 1828. On his father's death. 11 Russell to Margaret, 30 November 1828, similar. 12 Russell to Margaret, 20 December 1828. 'Shut out from the world and from everything I love you cannot think what pleasure, what happiness, I feel in seeing anything that reminds me of home'. 13 Russell to Margaret, 23 February 1829. 'Since the last (letter) I have been confined to the infirmary'. 14 Russell to Margaret, 1 June 1829. 'When I begin to study I can assure you it would be with the greatest difficulty I could find the time to write a single scrap. I got up at 4 o'clock almost every morning for a fortnight'. 15 Russell to Thomas, 17 June 1829. Received money today, will have the trousers made. Also concerning examinations. 16 Russell to Pat, 8 September 1829. Concerning visit to his uncle at Elm Park. 17 Russell to Margaret, 4 October 1829. Concerning the purchase of books. 18 Russell to Margaret, 29 November 1829. 'I am at present enjoying a short respite from the hard labour I have had for nearly two months and in a few days I will be as busy as ever', the study of Hebrew takes from his leisure time. 19 Russell to Margaret, 27 December 1829. Description of the cold in Maynooth. 20 Russell to Margaret, 5 March 1829. Various family matters. 21 Russell to Margaret, 12 April 1830. 'You may perceive by the date that lent is over and with it the greater part of our troubles for this year', account of Holy week ceremonies. 22 Russell to Margaret, 23 May 1830. Received the coat, it fits very well. Other personal matters. 23 Russell to Margaret, 9 September 1830. 'I got here safe on Wednesday morning in time to secure a room I am inclined to think from about what I have seen of it, yet a comfortable one, I would however prefer the lower story. It is troublesome to be obliged to carry water so far up stairs'. We now wear a black stock instead of a white cravat. 24 Russell to Margaret, 8 October 1830. We had a Dr Dubois, Bishop of New York, here a week or fortnight ago. He is a very venerable old man. His object in coming to Ireland was partly to get a supply of recruits and partly to raise funds for the building of a chapel. He might have chosen a better stage to act the latter part of the business. 25 Russell to Margaret, 19 November 1830. 'We have today gotten an addition to our own flock in the person of a little gentleman of the name of Keon from our part of the country. I believe he reads the second class of humanity there are now I believe 15 of us in the house. He has a lodging in the new building which by the way I don't much envy him. I think it will be cold, if not worse. You never saw any place, however so much improved on its external appearance than the house'. 26 Russell to Margaret, 19 November 1830. 'Neither you nor I were every made to moralise on the ills of human life, for my part I'll be contended with little'. Personal and family matters. 27 Russell to Margaret, 25 January 1831. 'I never was in a greater state of uncertainty than since my examinations. I expected to come out here, but was refused by Mr Montague and referred to Dr Crolly'. 28 Russell to Margaret, 15 February 1831. Complaints about conditions in the College. 29 Russell to Margaret, Good Friday 1831. The death of poor George, 'death is the lot of each of us, without distinction of age, rank or disposition', and other family matters. 30 Russell to Margaret, 28 May 1831. 'I had nothing very particular to communicate till I should be able to give an account of issue of this days trial. To me it has been favourable enough. I will not be 21 for a long time yet and consequently cannot take sub-deaconship. But I have sent for my surplus to Elm Hall and on Wednesday morning I will have advanced into the Church as far as minor order of tonsure will allow me'. 31 Russell to Margaret, 12 November 1831. Visit to Elm Hall. 32 Russell to Margaret, 26 October 1831. Concerning his uncle at Elm Hall. 33 Russell to Margaret, 10 December 1831. 'I have managed to scrap up as much time from the revision as will allow me to tell you that all is worth telling since I wrote last'. 34 Russell to Margaret, 23 December 1831. 'I was a good deal surprised to find enclosed in your letter œ1 as I have not the slightest occasion for money, having somewhat more than œ2.0.0'. 35 Russell to Margaret, 23 February 1832. Busy with studies, 'I am still expecting the scripture theme, as it is the only one we wrote during the year, I should not wish to be found with may hands empty'. 36 Russell to Margaret, 25 March 1832. 'I was going up to the President with two or three others to be introduced to our Elocution master who had arrived that day. He has been lecturing ever since. We are all delighted with him'. 37 Russell to Margaret, 18 April 1832. 'I may be leaving college, you have heard now of the Cholera haven taken root in Dublin'. 38 Russell to Margaret, 23 April 1832. 'From the reports which we were hearing we thought the president would return from Dublin with powers to send us off', but reports of spread and severity of cholera much exaggerated. 39 Russell to Anne, 12 September 1832. Death of poor Tom, 'his last two years have been too miserable - his case was too hopeless not to render death a blessing'. 40 Russell to Margaret, 12 December 1832. On his uncles death. 41 Russell to Margaret, 30 January 1833. 'I had your letter this morning enclosing œ3.0.0. And am sorry that you have had any uneasiness on my account as I had not suffered any uneasiness from the want of it'. 42 Russell to George, 15 February 1833. 'I have at last got may examinations over', etc. 43 Russell to George, 4 March 1833. 'I have just returned from Elm Hall, Mr. O'Rourke came here on Friday and told me he thought he would not live any time'. 44 Russell to Margaret, 22 April 1833. Personal and Family news. 45 Russell to Pat, 24 May 1833. 'to an old practitioner like me there is not a great deal of difficulty in making an apology in a much as there are few letters which are more or less in the apologetic strain'. Family news. 46 Russell to Margaret, 27 June 1833. 'As Li says I need not show my face if I do not send a message before me. I think it best to make my peace beforehand', personal and family. 47 Russell to Margaret, 8 September 1833. 'Have delayed till now writing to you as I thought that perhaps before the retreat commenced I might have learned something about the lecturer's appointment. But as yet nothing has transpired and I think likely that the two classes will be united and placed under one professor. However it, as yet, is nothing but a conjecture'. Account of his journey returning to Maynooth. 48 Russell to Anne, 20 October 1833. 'I have not time to write a long letter as I must be back at Elm Hall before 2 o'clock, long postscript on Anne's personal affairs'. 49 Russell to Margaret, 7 November 1833. 'I told George that I had been recommended by one of the superiors to commence reading for the vacant professorship of Rhetoric, that I had every prospect of success'. 50 Russell to Margaret, 19 December 1833. Family and personal 51 Russell to Margaret, 26 December 1833, incomplete. Family and personal. 52 Russell to Margaret, 6 April 1834. 'It is now a length of time since I wrote to you that I feel almost ashamed in taking up my pen. I suppose it will be best to give some account of myself during my long and unbroken silence'. 53 Russell to Margaret, 26 June 1834. 'You will be glad to hear the examination is appointed for September. Mr Montague is president Mr. Dowley vice-president and there is still a dean to be appointed'. 54 Russell to Margaret, [summer 1834]. Sending a book on the real presence for Mr K 'they are to start tomorrow I hope to turn over a new leaf in their life. God will I trust make the remainder of it so happy, as least comfortable as to compensate for the bitterness of what is past'. 55 Anne Russell to Margaret, 3 September 1834. General Family. 56 Anne Russell to Margaret, 9 September 1834. Similar. 57 Russell to Margaret, 31 October 1834 General. 58 Russell to Margaret, 22 January 1835. 'I fear I will hardly be able to go down at Easter it will be near my ordination and will probably be a busy time - I am looking anxiously for the news from Newry tonight'. 59 Russell to Margaret, 24 May 1835. 'You have entered a new state and new duties since I last had this pleasure and that it may secure an increase of happiness to you and to John is my sincere wish'. Family news. 60 Russell to John, 23 June 1838. 'I am writing in the midst of business of the Board of Trustees. The circumstances will account for the shortness of my letter'. 61 Russell to Anne, 5 May 1838. 'I never knew such a number of deaths among the young and certainly never do I recollect fever to have been so universally almost fatal'. Family news. 62 Russell to Margaret, Good Friday, 13 April 1838. On the death of her child. 63 Russell, Irish College Rome, to Peter, 16 August 1841. 'Thank you for your bill of œ30. Although I had a good deal of expense in purchasing books, and especially final documents I trust it will be more than abundantly sufficient'. Account of his travels. 64 Russell to Peter, Marseilles, 2 January 1843. On route to Rome and account of journey. 65 Russell to Anne, Rome, 19 January 1843. 'I expected however every day that the next would remove all doubt and thus deferred writing. As yet the matter is not finally settled, but as I have no longer any reasonable cause to fear and as Dr Cullen is quite confident I think it best to write at once although I cannot yet say when I may hope to be definitely released' from his appointment as Vicar Apostolic of Ceylon. 66 Russell, Irish College, Rome, to Anne, 23 January 1843. 'I have at length had an audience of his holiness which though it has not perfectly released me, has placed me, I trust out of all danger'. 67 Russell, Rome, to Anne, 21 February 1843. 'Good news at last. I have just returned from a long and most anxious wait in the ante-chamber of the Secretary of Propaganda. The Holy Father though my reasons most just and satisfactory and that there is no longer any fear of it not being a small wish'. 68 Russell, Rome to Peter, 23 February 1843. 'Thanks to God I am free at last. The matter after having come back from the Pope has been dismissed in Propaganda'. 69 Russell, Rome, to Peter, 23 March 1843. 'In the expectation of Dr Crolly's answer to my application for leave to stop till Easter. I should not like to be as long away from home [till summer] I would be very glad to avoid the drudgery and confinement of the examinations. 70 Russell, Rome, to Anne, 22 June 1843. 'Although I have not yet obtained access to the state Papers, I have done a great deal since I wrote last, principally consulting persons who lived in the term or were in office under Pius VII'. 71 Russell, Florence, to Anne, 10 July 1843. 'The journey was pleasant however for a day one of the company a Dominican Friar went mad'. 72 Russell to Margaret, 2 January 1845[?]. Concerning her children. 73 Russell to Margaret, 21 December 1868-1869. 'Owing to the length of time that I have been and still must be absent from the College on my Oxford Commission, I can only hope for a glimpse of home this Christmas'. 74 Russell to Margaret, 24 December 186[?]. Family affairs. 75 Charles Russell Kelly to Russell, 9 December 1872. Saw Mr Davis today with reference to the difficulty you have mentioned about his appointment to the commission of the peace. 76 Russell to Kate, 24 December 1873. General. 77 Charles Russell Kelly to Russell, 23 October 1873. Family problems. 78 Anne Kelly to her mother, no date. General. 79 From Rosa, no date and incomplete. 80 Russell to Lillie, 23 May [?]. General. 81 Russell to Lillie, 8 December [?]. General. 82 Russell to Margaret, no date. General. 83 Russell to Margaret ,Thursday. Visit to Lord Leitrim's house. 84 Russell to Margaret, Wednesday night. Account of relations in Drogheda. 85 Russell to Margaret, 6 January 1833. I am going back tomorrow to college and I feel much happier than when I left it. I could not have anticipated such an improvement in George.
Date	1812-80
Century	19th
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Repository Name	Maynooth University and St Patrick's College, Maynooth
Address	Special Collections and Archives John Paul II Library South Campus Maynooth University Maynooth County Kildare
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Comment	There are two separate institutions in Maynooth: the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. The Russell Library serves both institutions. Some of the information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists available in the archive. These lists were compiled by library staff and we are grateful for their assistance. Where partial or no lists were available, staff of the Women's History Project constructed an outline list.
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