These 15 bound volumes of handwritten notes by Schlechter contain a mix of materials prepared for sermons, homilies, lectures, and religious instructions. They are mostly written in German, with some English and Latin. Most have a handwritten table of contents on the front end paper and contain several ephemera laid throughout. The notebooks are organized chronologically.

Box 2

Notebook 1: Sermons (26 March 1884 - 1885)

Notebook 2: Sermons (September 1884 - October 1886)

Notebook 3: Sermons; homilies; lectures (22 December 1886 - 25 May 1894)

Notebook 4: Sermons; homilies (1887-May 1888)

Notebook 5: Sermons, “Instructions for Married Men’s Sodality” (1887-1903)

Notebook 6: “Instructions” for Christians on human defects (unbound small notebook), (circa 1880s-1890s)

Notebook 7: Sermons; homilies (1888-1892)

Notebook 8: Sermons; homilies (circa 1888)

Box 3

Notebook 9. Sermons; conference (1889)

Notebook 10: Sermons (29 March 1890 - 4 April 1891)

Notebook 11: Sermons; homilies (July 1890- 12 March 1896)

Notebook 12: Homilies (14 September 1891 - 27 November 1891)

Notebook 13: Sermons (including one at St. Elizabeth’s); homilies (19 August 1891-1902)

Notebook 14: “De Deo”; homilies; lessons; (16 December 1891 - April 1892)

Box 4

Notebook 15: Sermons (September 1892 - December 1892)

Notebook 16: Sermons (30 January 1893 - December 1895)