Box: 1 Fold: 1 Correspondence, 1910-1921 Box: 1 Fold: 2 Correspondence, 1922-1923 Box: 1 Fold: 3 Correspondence, 1923 Box: 1 Fold: 4 Correspondence, 1924 Box: 1 Fold: 5 Correspondence, 1925 Box: 1 Fold: 6 Correspondence, 1926 Box: 2 Fold: 1 Correspondence, 1927 Box: 2 Fold: 2 Correspondence, 1928-1929 Box: 2 Fold: 3 Correspondence, undated Box: 2 Fold: 4 Vincent Ferretti, 1919-1926 Box: 2 Fold: 5 Regarding Rev. Francis A. Tondorf, S.J. Box: 2 Fold: 6 Regarding Tondorf Fund, Medal & Painting Box: 2 Fold: 7 Honors & Distinctions Box: 2 Fold: 8 Tributes from Students Box: 2 Fold: 9 Johns Hopkins Univ Transcript, 1898-1900 Box: 2 Fold: 10 Manuscripts Box: 2 Fold: 11 Notebooks of Latin Verse Box: 2 Fold: 12 Biographical Material Box: 2 Fold: 13 Clippings Box: 2 Fold: 14 Photograph & Medal
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1910 - 12/06/1921
DESCRIPTION: Letters received, mostly on seismology and purchase of seismological equipment; some on vivisection, in defense of which Tondorf had written; and some from colleagues and former students. Includes correspondence from Mildred Ester Scheets, J. B. Woolworth, John Sosley, Ricardo Codorniu, Rev. J. Havens Richards,S.J., the Virginia Geological Survey, Thomas L. Watson, Stephen D. Parrish, Charles F. Mcguire, D. E. Jackson, A.S. Loevenhart, Walter B. Cannin, and W. W. Keen.
DATE SPAN: 01/11/1922 - 09/29/1923
DESCRIPTION: Letters received, largely from colleagues in science, on the subjects of seismology and vivisection. Includes correspondence from Charles H. Mayo, W. W. Keen, E. Duque Estrada, C. S. Bluemel, James S. Stone, J. F.Nagle, Stephen A. Yesko, E. C. Schroeder, James L. Edwards, Walter B.Cannon, Harry Pratt Judson, R. G. Hoskins, Carl Heinrich, A. M. Stimson, Charles E. Monroe, the National Geographic Society, Thomas S. Cullen, and Erich Becker.
DATE SPAN: 10/01/1923 - 12/18/1923
DESCRIPTION: Letters received, largely from colleagues in science, but some also from the general public, on the subjects of vivisection and seismology. Includes correspondence from Theodore Hough, Simon Flexner, William C. Woodward, John B. Kennedy, R. W. Ellis, Rev. Alphonse M. Schwitalla, S.J., John Soley, Max Borst, and Andrew F. Resnisky.
DATE SPAN: 01/02/1924 - 12/24/1924
DESCRIPTION: Letters received, largely on seismology and vivisection. Continuing public response from 1923 earthquake article in National Geographic. Includes correspondence from Charles E. Monroe, Erich Becker, John C. Soley, Jay B. Woolworth, Albert L. Midgley, Francis M. Munson, and John J. Shugrue.
DATE SPAN: 02/03/1925 - 12/29/1925
DESCRIPTION: Letters received, largely on the subject of seismology, from other colleague and laboratories; a number from journals requesting articles. Includes correspondence from Sofie Nordhoff-Jung, Harold V. Connerty, J. Harris Rogers, S. Sarasola, S.J., P.S. Constantinople, and Leonard D. Marinaro.
DATE SPAN: 01/09/1926 - 12/24/1926
DESCRIPTION: Incoming letters and telegrams, largely on seismology, with a substantial number from former students, Jesuit colleagues, and journals. Includes correspondence from Sofie Nordhoff-Jung, John C. Soley, Albert L. Midgely, and George E. Reynolds.
DATE SPAN: 01/07/1927 - 12/15/1927
DESCRIPTION: Incoming letters, largely on seismology. Letters from Jesuit colleagues and former students. Includes correspondence from George W. Williams, Paul R. Stillman, Harold V. Phelan, and John J. Shugrue.
DATE SPAN: 01/30/1927 - 12/11/1929
DESCRIPTION: Incoming letters, largely on seismology, with a few on science and religion. Includes correspondence from Erich Becker.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1920 - 12/31/1928
DESCRIPTION: 6 ALSs to Tondorf, all personal.
DATE SPAN: 06/02/1919 - 12/26/1928
DESCRIPTION: Photocopies of letters from Tondorf to Ferretti, deposited at Georgetown in 1969.
DATE SPAN: 07/05/1912 - 05/04/1947
DESCRIPTION: Letters and telegrams referring to Tondorf, most received by the Georgetown University president upon Tondorf's death in November 1929.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1930 - 02/21/1936
DESCRIPTION: Letters, mostly from Dr. Michael L. Mullaney, Providence, R.I., and Georgetown Univ. administration concerning striking a medal to honor Tondorf, erecting a memorial library addition, and commissioning paintings of him. Some newspaper clippings.
DATE SPAN: 09/01/1921 - 04/24/1927
DESCRIPTION: Letters and certificates appointing Tondorf a member of domestic and foreign scientific societies.
DATE SPAN: 02/27/1918 - 04/24/1920
DESCRIPTION: Student letters, resolutions, and petitions occasioned by the belief that Tondorf was resigning.
DATE SPAN: 09/01/1898 - 06/01/1900
DESCRIPTION: Transcript of graduate school work in physics for Rev. Francis A. Tondorf, S.J.
DATE SPAN: 09/19/1899 - 12/31/1923
DESCRIPTION: Misc. Tondorf manuscripts and copies of both eds. of "A Vindication of Vivisection." Contains word-of-mouth account of Catholic (?) baptism of George Washington.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1891 - 12/31/1892
DESCRIPTION: Three notebooks of student Latin verse, from days at Woodstock College.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1930 - 12/31/1931
DESCRIPTION: Brief notes on dates of significance in Tondorf's life.
DATE SPAN: 04/08/1910 - 12/01/1929
DESCRIPTION: Clippings on Tondorf's work; newspaper and scientific society obituaries.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1919 - 12/31/1931
DESCRIPTION: Photo of Tondorf at age 49 and medal.
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