In Grateful Memory of Robert Thomas Munday …, 1951

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

This week we offer a significant amount of freshly digitized materials from Distinctive Collections for your research consideration. Especially noteworthy are the many Dime Novels, the early newspaper and popular periodical issues, as well as another early Catalogue of Students for Villanova College, materials on Robert Munday, 1927-1951 – a Villanova graduate killed during the Korean War, and 5 items from Father Driscoll, O.S.A. Collection, including two speeches given at Red Masses at Villanova’s Law School.

Fiction

Shanghaied; or, A wanderer against his will / by H. C. Emmett

Brave and Bold series (5 titles added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:628579]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:628774]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:628814]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:629510]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:629550]

Twelve complete novelettes (from the Fireside Library series)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:622572]

The old stone house / by Anna Katharine Green (from the Leisure Hour Library series)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:625427]

Periodicals

The Penny Magazine Of The Society For the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, [v.1], no. 39, November 10, 1832

The Penny Magazine Of The Society For the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (12 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:629670]

Street & Smith’s Literary Album, v. I, no. 3, January 6, 1866

Street & Smith’s Literary Album (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:629784]

Selection, p. [1], The New York Ledger, v. XIII, no. 46, January 23, 1858

New York Ledger (7 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627229]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627241]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627253]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627265]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627277]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627289]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627301]

The American Apollo, v. 1, no. 1, part II, January 5, 1792

The American Apollo (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627937]

Newspapers

Philadelphia Inquirer, Thursday, June 21, 1877

Philadelphia Inquirer (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:630033]

Villanova Digital Collection

p. [37], Article from The Lynx on Lt. Robert Munday, U.S.M.C., 1951

Robert Munday, 1927-1951 (2 items added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:631004]

Catalogue of Students, 1895-1903
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:630216]

Villanova University President’s Records

The Red Mass : Its Significance for Villanova University, October 25, 1975

John M. Driscoll, O.S.A. records (5 items added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:630477]