St. Labre's Original Letters,

This collection contains research, correspondence, publications, lectures, awards, audiovisual materials, and other materials related to the work of Dr. Anne M. Butler.

The bulk of this collection is research notes on monasteries across the United States that pertain to her writings (mostly for her book Across God's Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920). The collection also includes fifteen dolls dressed in traditional nun habits.