Papers of Reverend Leo R. Ward - The University of Iowa Libraries

Collection Guide

This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the

Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
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		Photograph from dust jacket of All Over God's Irish Heaven
Guide Contents Administrative Information Biographical and Historical Information Scope and Contents of the Collection Acquisition and Processing Information Inventory

Administrative Information

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Biographical Note

Reverend Leo R. Ward was born in 1893 in Melrose, Iowa. He earned an A.B. degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. from the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Later he studied at Oxford and Louvain. He was a priest, an author, and a professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University.

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts of two of Ward's novels, Holding Up the Hills, which appeared in 1941 and Concerning Mary Ann, published in 1950.

Acquisition and Processing Information

These papers were given to the University of Iowa Libraries by Leo R. Ward in 1951.

Guide posted to Internet: August 2004.

Inventory

Concerning Mary Ann

Typescript -- with revisions

Holding Up the Hills

Typescript -- first draft with revisions