Boston College Collection of Christopher Hollis 1961-1975 MS.1993.050 https://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS1993-050

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Summary Information ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Biographical note ...... 5 Scope and Contents ...... 5 Arrangement ...... 6 Collection Inventory ...... 7 I: Correspondence ...... 7 II: "The Mystery of Things", typescripts ...... 7 III: Newspaper clippings ...... 7

Boston College Collection of Christopher Hollis MS.1993.050

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Creator: Hollis, Christopher, 1902-1977 Title: Boston College collection of Christopher Hollis ID: MS.1993.050 Date [inclusive]: 1961-1975 Physical Description 0.25 Linear Feet (1 box) Language of the English Material: Abstract: This collection documents the life and work of Christopher Hollis, a twentieth-century British Catholic author, historian, and politician. It contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and typescripts for Hollis's theological work "The Mystery of Things." Preferred Citation

Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Boston College collection of Christopher Hollis, MS.1993.050, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Boston College Collection of Christopher Hollis MS.1993.050

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Publication Information Processed by Amy O'Sullivan, 1996; Rachael Young in 2019. This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace.

Restrictions on access Collection is open for research.

Provenance Correspondence and clippings were a gift of Adele and Vincent E. Whelan (1996). "The Mystery of Things" manuscript was transferred from Joseph. A. Appleyard, SJ, Boston College Office of Mission and Ministry (1993).

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Boston College Collection of Christopher Hollis MS.1993.050

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Maurice Christopher Hollis, known as Christopher Hollis, was born on March 29, 1902, the second son of Reverend Arthur Hollis, Anglican Bishop of Taunton. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford in England. At one time he was the president of the Oxford Union and from 1924 to 1925 he toured the , , and as a member of the Oxford Union Debating Society. Hollis was received into the in 1924 and published his first book, Glastonbury and England, in 1927. He married Margaret Madeline (Maddie) King in 1929, with whom he had four children. From 1925-1935 he was assistant master at Stonyhurst and from 1935-1939 he lectured and did research in the United States and Canada.

Hollis was an economist, scholar, historian, biographer, lecturer, and journalist. He was a Conservative member of the British Parliament from 1945-1955 and also served with the in World War II. He served as a member of the editorial board of the London Tablet and published many works during his lifetime, including American Heresy, Two Nations, and biographies of and . His last book, Oxford in the Twenties: Recollections of Five Friends, was published a year before his death in 1977.

Sources:

"Christopher Hollis," Simon and Schuster Authors Biographies, accessed July 9, 2019. https:// www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Christopher-Hollis/160842995

"Christopher Hollis, 75; British Writer and M.P.," New York Times, 1977 May 9, accessed July 9, 2019.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence of Christopher and Maddie Hollis with Vincent and Adele Whelan. The letter dated June 1961 contains a request by Justice Vincent Whelan of the Fourth District Court of Appeals in San Diego to meet Hollis while on a trip to England. Following that meeting the two men exchanged letters regularly concerning personal matters and occasional remarks about politics of the Catholic Church. Also included are newspaper clippings from the San Diego Union and San Diego Tribune collected by the Whelans, which report on speeches Hollis gave as well as announcements of lecture itineraries. It also contains two corrected typescripts of Hollis's theological work, "The Mystery of Things."

Boston College Collection of Christopher Hollis MS.1993.050

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The collection is arranged into three series: I. Correspondence; II. "The Mystery of Things", typescripts; and III. Newspaper clippings.

Boston College Collection of Christopher Hollis MS.1993.050

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Series I: Correspondence, 1961-1975

Christopher Hollis to Vincent Whelan, 1961-1975 box 1 folder 1-9

Christopher Hollis to Adele Whelan, 1965-1967 box 1 folder 10

Maddie Hollis to Whelan family, 1966 box 1 folder 11

Series II: "The Mystery of Things", box 1 folder 13-16 typescripts, undated

Series III: Newspaper clippings, 1964-1966 box 1 folder 12

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