Noël Sullivan Papers, [ca. 1911-1956]

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Noël Sullivan Papers, [ca. 1911-1956]

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Correspondence; manuscripts; diaries; clippings; some legal and financial papers; cards, announcements and invitations; concert and theatre programs; address books; snapshots and photographs. Mainly concerning cultural and social life in San Francisco and Carmel: his role as patron of the arts, particularly music; his interest in abolition of the death penalty; his support of Carmelite monasteries in California; his close relationships with his family and with his friends, many of whom were prominent Negroes.

Number of containers: 135 boxes, 8 cartons

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Bancroft Library

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Carmelites

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The Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was founded in Palestine around 1154 by St. Berthold (d. about 1195) but it has claimed (without authentic documentation) continuity with hermits settled on Mount Carmel in earlier times, and even to be a direct descendant of Elijah and the "sons of the prophets" (cf. 2 Kgs. 2). The primitive rule as laid down in 1209 by Albert of Vercelli, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, was one of extreme asceticism and solitude. Honorius III approved the definitive rule in ...

Sullivan, Noel

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Biography Noël Sullivan was born in San Francisco on December 25, 1890, the youngest child and only son of Frank J. and Alice Phelan Sullivan, the nephew of Senator James D. Phelan, and the grandson of John Sullivan who came west in 1844 with the "Sullivan-Murphy Party." The family was a wealthy and distinguished one. Young Sullivan attended the Jesuit colleges of St. Ignatius and Santa Clara, but his interests were musical, not academic. He ...