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James Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS82
Scope and Contents note
The James Greene Papers consist of an exchange of correspondence between the eminent British novelist Graham Greene and his nephew James Greene, son of Sir Hugh Greene, well-known BBC correspondent and official (director general, 1960-1969). The letters span over a decade from late 1977 to 1989. A total of forty-three original signed letters from Graham Greene respond to the thirty-six typescript letters from his nephew, which have been spiral bound in a paginated volume together with typed...
Dates:
1977-1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Vivien Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS420
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Vivien Greene papers consist of six letters written to Vivien Greene, the wife of noted English Catholic author Graham Greene. A letter from Graham to Vivien sent from Berlin, Germany, refers to the Berlin Wall restrictions. Other correspondents include Tom Cordishley, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Columba Ryan. The letters date mostly from the 1940s.
Dates:
1941-1948
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Greenpeace Latin America Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-110311
Scope and Contents Note
The Greenpeace Latin America Records consist of materials relating to the efforts of Greenpeace to promote environmentalism in Central and South America. Reports, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development documents, printed materials, memos, meeting minutes, and other items are contained in the collection. The collection is preserved in 15 boxes (21.5 linear feet).
Dates:
1986 - 1995
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Grenada Documents Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-880701
Scope and Contents note
The Grenada Documents Collection contains copies of some of the documents which were captured on Grenada by the United States Defense Department when the U. S., at the urging of many of the smaller Caribbean nations, joined a rescue mission to end the rule of the Revolutionary Military Council which had taken control of the country when Maurice Bishop, formerly head of the PRG (People's Revolutionary Government), was assassinated along with many of the people at Fort Rupert in October, 1983,...
Dates:
1979 - 1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Bulkley Southworth Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS304
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This miscellaneous collection of Bulkley Southworth Griffin's contains autographed letters of notable figures and printed ephemera from the 19th and 20th centuries. Of note are two photographs by G.D. Wakeley of the White House and the Capitol Building from 1865 and 1866 respectively, accompanied by an assortment of genealogical materials from the Bulkley, Southworth and Griffin families of the 19th and 20th centuries. Of special interest from this period is his journal of 1922 regarding...
Dates:
1717-1968; Majority of material found within 1830-1900
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Martin J. Griffin Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS61
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the papers of Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin (1842-1911), Catholic historian, writer and editor, who was a native of Philadelphia. Correspondence in the collection concerns subscriptions and requests for or letters pertaining to historical information, and there is an abundant amount of material pertaining to the Temperance Movement as well as to the Total Abstinence Movement which existed in the Catholic Church of Griffin's day. Also included is correspondence...
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Harman Grisewood Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS131
Scope and Contents
This collection centers around the correspondence and related papers of three important and long-standing friendships of Harman Grisewood: with the poet and artist David Jones; with printer and artist Rene Hague; and with Christopher Sykes, the celebrated biographer of Evelyn Waugh. Correspondence relating to Jones and Hague, in particular, reflects the social, literary and artistic circles which they and mutual friend Harman Grisewood, shared with acquaintances such as Thomas F....
Dates:
1916 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Harman Grisewood papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS255
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection comprises the second acquisition of the papers of Harman Grisewood (1906-1997). Included is a long run (Boxes 1 through 5) of correspondence from notable individuals such as W.H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Violet Bonham-Carter, Tom Burns (editor of "The Tablet”), Winston S. Churchill, historian Christopher Dawson, B.B.C. director general Hugh Greene, Vivien Greene (wife of writer Graham Greene), Deirdre and Rupert Hart-Davis, Sibyl Hathaway (Dame of Sark), Saunders Lewis, members...
Dates:
1926-1997; Majority of material found within 1950-1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Harman Grisewood papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS338
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection comprises the third accession of the papers of Harman Grisewood (1906-1997), and contains primarily correspondence from family members. Of particular interest is the series of letters from Grisewood's father, Lt. Col. Harman Grisewood, written from 1936 through 1946, from Nicosia, Cyprus, where the family owned a farm in the mid- to late 1920s until the end of the Second World War. Grisewood recalls life with his family in Cyprus during the earlier of these years in chapter 3...
Dates:
1898-1991; Majority of material found within 1936-1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Charles Guiteau Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS133
Scope and Contents
The Charles J. Guiteau collection consists of correspondence, affidavits and printed material by and about Guiteau, the notorious attorney who assassinated U.S. President James Abram Garfield on July 2, 1881. The assassination resulted in one of the most celebrated American 'insanity trials' of the nineteenth century, which became something of a legal milestone in the judgement of the criminally insane.
Dates:
1876 - 1882
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Anna J. Gurvin papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-161110
Content Description
Resource material relating to Gurvin's work as assistant cultural affairs officer at the U.S. Information Agency. Includes Federal reports and publications by private organizations regarding cultural and educational funding and support abroad.
Dates:
1970-2000
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Otto E. Guthe papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-861216
Collection level scope and contents
The Otto E. Guthe Papers consist of correspondence and articles relating chiefly to the field of geography, with some family and personal materials included. Guthe belonged to many societies and associations, most of which were related to geography, including the association of American Geographers, the National Research Council, the Cosmos Club, the American Geographical Society, etc. His professional status and his ability as a geographer led him to associate with people at the top of his...
Dates:
1906-1983
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Leonard F. Guttridge - William M. P. Dunne Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-051101
Scope and Contents
The Leonard F. Guttridge-William M.P. Dunne papers consist of the research files amassed by historian William M.P. Dunne for a book he intended to publish about Stephen Decatur. The collection includes an extensive amount of photocopied documents deriving from original sources at various archives. The documents provide details on the life of Stephen Decatur, his father, and the Decatur family. Some of Dunne's research correspondence is also retained. Of particular importance is a 692 page...
Dates:
1990 - 2005
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Eugene Hackert - Nickel Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS273
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Hackert-Nickel Collection contains 242 photographs of the Panama Canal, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Republic of Panama. Most of the photos relate to the construction of the canal and to life in the Canal Zone. Many of these photographs are original, and they provide a valuable visible record of the history of American control of the Canal Zone. The Hackert-Nickel Collection is stored in two archival boxes (1.0 linear feet).SERIES SYNOPSIS:
Series 1 - Photographs from...
Dates:
1887 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1969
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Lazlo G. Hadik papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-800701
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts and research files pertaining to Hadik's studies on European security. Lazlo G. Hadik (1932-1975) seved as senior analyst for the Institute for Defense Analysis (1961-1970); and as senior political scientist at the Stategic Studies Center, Stanford Research Institute (1970-1972). Typed finding aid attached as external document.
Dates:
1954-1973
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Todd Haines collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS79
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Todd Haines collection is a mixture of correspondence and printed material primarily by and concerning British author Anthony Powell (1905-2000). Material consists of original typed signed letters from Powell to bookseller Handasyde Buchanan, New Zealand author Patrick A. Lawlor, and to John Lelliott, an admirer of his novel series, 'A Dance to the Music of Time.' Other Powell material includes page proofs for two of his books, 'Books Do Furnish a Room' (1971) and 'Messengers of Day'...
Dates:
1864-1990; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
James O. Hall Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-930826
Collection level scope and content note
The James O. Hall Papers comprise the research files and correspondence of James O. Hall (1912-2007), a noted scholar of the American Civil War in general and the Lincoln assassination in particular.The James O. Hall Papers contain research materials about the alleged missing pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, the alleged meetings between Samuel A. Mudd and Booth, the effort to exhume the body of Booth, and the book "Dark Union" by Ray A. Neff and Leonard Guttridge, among...
Dates:
1960 - 2007
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Marlene and Samuel Halperin Judaica Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20131025
Scope and Contents
The Samuel and Marlene Halperin collection consists of religious ephemera (primarily Jewish, but also Christian), including Haggadot (all mid 20th century, including some illustrated), pamphlets on Franciscans in the Holy Land, stereographs of Biblical scenes produced for Christans, and 19th century postcards depicting ancient coins, portraits, and ephemera.
Dates:
1904 - 1995
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Samuel Halpern Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20231010
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the papers of Samuel Halpern, an officer with the OSS and CIA from 1943 to 1974. The papers primarily document his post-CIA work as a writer and historian on U.S. intelligence and foreign affairs, especially CIA operations in Cuba in the 1960s. It includes correspondence with Richard Helms and a number of other individuals, dating from the 1970s to 2000s. Other documents include writings by Halpern, his commentary on other articles and reports, interviews,...
Dates:
1940s-2000s
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Hugh Halton, O.P. and the Princeton Controversy Archive
Collection
Identifier: GTM-171221
Scope and Contents Note
The Hugh Halton, O.P. and the Princeton Controversy Archive documents the controversy at Princeton University stemming from Fr. Halton's criticism of professors in the religion department. Fr. Halton argued that the professors did not interpret Catholic theology in an appropriate fashion. The collection includes one letter from Fr. Halton to the "Saturday Evening Post," newspaper and periodical clippings about the controversy, and a set of four pamphlets by Princeton professor emeritus...
Dates:
Creation: 1955 - 1959
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts