Collection of materials related to author William Peter Blatty, including photographs (from his time as a student at Georgetown University and during the filming of the Exorcist on campus), clippings from The Hoya, and a letter written by Emory A. Ross, SJ, regarding Blatty and other Georgetown University students kidnapping the mascot of Villanova University in 1947. It also includes one issue of the Saturday Evening Post (March 29, 1958) featuring an article by William Peter Blatty titled "They Believed I Was an Arab Prince."
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0.1 Cubic Feet (2 folders)
English
Gift of Carole Sargent, 2023-2024.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository