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Riley Hughes papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-830622
Content Description Papers of Riley Hughes (1914-1981), writer and educator, includes letters from Saul Bellow, William Blatty, John Dos Passos, John S. Mayfield, Eugene McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Katherine Anne Porter, J.B. Priestley, C.P. Snow, and Robert Penn Warren, among others. Other material includes files relating to the Georgetown University Writers Conference, founded by Hughes in 1960; course preparation as associate professor of English for the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; as...
Dates: 1936-1981; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Thomas A. Hughes, SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-200103
Scope and Contents

The Thomas A. Hughes, SJ Papers consist of unpublished drafts for a proposed third volume of A History of the Society of Jesus in North America, Colonial and Federal covering 1773 to 1829. Also included is a report by Fr. Hughes entitled "de abusibus" ("on abuses"), in which he discusses Jesuit issues with modernism and worldly affairs discovered throughout his research, as well as correspondence related to his research.

Dates: 1897 - 1933
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

William J. Hughes, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-741031a
Scope and Contents The Collection is divided into three series. Series I (Boxes 1-5) encompass Hughes's correspondence from the years 1920-1967. Series II (Boxes 6 & 7) deal exclusively with matters relating to Hughes's tenure as law professor at Georgetown and his association with that institution throughout his life. Series III (Boxes 8 - 26) involves itself with all matters pertaining to Hughes's law practice and cases from the years 1919-1970 and are arranged alphabetically.The Collection...
Dates: 1919 - 1973
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

William J. Hughes, Sr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-741031b
Scope and Contents

Hughes' correspondence spans the years 1890-1936. A great portion of this correspondence deals with his service as attorney within the Justice Department. He had been a good friend of J. Edgar Hoover during this period. Also, a great deal of material & correspondence stems fran his association with Georgetown University, both as student and teacher.

Dates: 1890 - 1938
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Huie, Reid and Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS226
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Huie, Reid and Company Collection consists of two series as described below: Series 1. Order Requests - Alphabetical (Folders 1-47) Consisting of 47 folders, this series contains 53 order requests received by Huie, Reid and Company from various individuals, including some members of prominent Virginia families. The orders are arranged alphabetically by customer. The individuals requested a relatively wide variety of goods, such as tobacco, sugar, salt, shoes, and linen. Series 2. Leaves...
Dates: 1787 - 1789
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Paul Hume Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS228
Scope and Contents The personal papers of music critic Paul Hume comprise this collection. Highlights include correspondence from luminaries of the music world such as Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Leonard Bernstein, Rudolph Bing, Nadia Boulanger, Antal Dorati, Alberto Ginastera, Serge Koussevitsky, John La Montaine, Lotte Lehmann, John Mauceri, Gian Carlo Menotti, Eugene Ormandy, Rosa Ponselle, Ned Rorem, Mstislav Rostropovich, Bidu Sayao, Beverly Sills, Gerard Souzay, George Szell, Virgil Thomson, Alan...
Dates: 1871 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1990
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Henry Hunt - William B. Chilton collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-791207
Content Description

Collection consists of materials relating to the Brent, Carroll and Chilton families of Maryland and the District of Columbia, dating from late 17th to early 20th centuries, but primarily from the 19th century.

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Dates: 1663-1936; Majority of material found within 1804-1907
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

John F. Hurley, SJ Papers

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 35, Folder: 10
Identifier: GTM-0055
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a typescript of Fr. John F. Hurley's experiences during the occupation of the Philippines (1941-1945) in which he was held at Santo Tomas Internment Camp. The account was written at the request of Fr. William C. Repetti, then Georgetown University Archivist, in 1964.

Dates: 1964 - 1965
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

George Merriam Hyde Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS244
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The George Merriam Hyde Papers consist of a small number of letters written to George Merriam Hyde (1865-1899), literary critic and editorial writer, who spent some of his career in New York City. Correspondents include notables in the editorial business, such as William Crary Brownell, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Frank Moore Colby, James Gibbons Huneker, James Brander Matthews, Harry Thurston Peck, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. As the documents include references to various items for...
Dates: 1851 - 1898; Majority of material found within 1896-1898
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Elizabeth Iddesleigh - Susan Lowndes Marques collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-800101
Content Description

Correspondence of Elizabeth, Countess of Iddesleigh and sister Susan Lowndes, the daughters of writer Marie Belloc Lowndes. Includes letters from English Catholic writers Isabel Clarke; Martin d'Arcy, SJ; Arnold Lunn; Archbishop David Mathew; as well as more than 130 letters by C.C. Martindale, SJ, many written during internment in Denmark during World War II.

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Dates: 1928-1973
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation brochure on Palestine

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 48, Folder: 5
Identifier: GTM-0090
Scope and Contents

IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation brochure on Palestine titled "Filistin." The brochure is in Turkish.

Dates: circa 2025
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

John Ihlder papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-000012
Content Description Papers of John Ihlder (1876-1958), consisting of correspondence, reports, notebooks, and printed material pertaining to his work with the Committee on Evaluation of Public Housing of the National Capitol Housing Authority. Includes reports from the New Jersey Board of Tenement House Supervision (1916), a guide for the evaluation of public housing (1943), correspondence re the Hillside low-rent housing project in Washington, D.C. (1944), and postwar housing. Notes and printed material...
Dates: 1904-1944
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Levy Collection of Papers of Robert G. Ingersoll

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20210315
Scope and Contents

The collection includes a large quantity of autograph manuscripts by the noted lawyer and lecturer Robert G. Ingersoll, the "Great Agnostic." There is also a group of Ingersoll correspondence, a law diary, and a group of early printed materials. Of major note are two manuscrpt drafts of the famous "Plumed Knight: speech nominating James G. Blaine for the presidency in 1876. An addition to the collection is an account book from Ingersoll's law firm giving details on his legal business.

Dates: 1866 - 1898
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

International Iranian Students Protest Collection

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 47 (Oversized), Folder: 4
Identifier: GTM-0098
Scope and Contents The collection consists of four flyers promoting protests against the Iranian government and the Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) in the 1960s and 1970s. Two of the documents are from Northern California and the other two are from France.The following descriptions were produced by Bolerium Books:1) A hungry nation does not need a 2500 year celebration!... Join us in opposing it [handbill]. n.p.: Iranian Students Association in the USA, [1971]. 8.5x14 inch handbill,...
Dates: 1960s-1970s
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Eugene Ionesco Letters

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-140512
Scope and Contents

Letters from Eugene Ionesco to Georgetown University Professor Roger Bensky and Georgetown University administrators. Includes Autograph Manuscript Signed (in French):"Le Maitre," 21 pages.

Dates: 1976 - 1981
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Iranian Cultural Society Publications

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 48, Folder: 3
Identifier: GTM-0088
Content Description

2 Iranian Cultural Society of Arlington (Virginia) booklets.

Dates: 1984 - 1985
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Iranian Revolution Photograph Album

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 26 (Oversized), Folder: 1
Identifier: GTM-20240206
Scope and Contents Photograph album of private and public life in 1970s Iran, with a sequence of color photographs documenting the mass demonstrations, protest, and burning buildings of the 1978-1979 Islamic Revolution. It contains 98 photographs mounted to adhesive pages under protective plastic, including 69 in black and white (3.5" x 5") and 29 in color (5" x 7").The early black and white photographs in this album show apparent family members and friends in the late Pahlavi-era of Iran’s White...
Dates: circa 1979
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Irish Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230525
Scope and Contents The Irish Manuscripts collection consists of two bound volumes, one sewn signature, and one loose gathering, all held in the Georgetown College archives in the first half of the 19th century, from around 1823. All contain modern manuscripts in the Irish language that were made not much earlier, perhaps in the second half of the 18th century, and all but the sewn signature are written using Irish orthography. One of the volumes is 1/2 bound in leather and patterned boards with label in red...
Dates: 1750 - 1800
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Washington Irving Letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS247
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Washington Irving Letterbook (1 box, 0.25 linear feet) consists of one bound letterbook containing handwritten copies of outgoing letters dated from 1842 to 1844 written by Irving (1783-1859) while he served as U.S. Minister to Spain (1842-1846). Although most of these letters were copied in the hand of Irving's secretary, a number of them seem to have been copied by Irving himself in his own hand. Irving's richly descriptive writing style shines through in these letters as he analyzes...
Dates: 1842 - 1844
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Alfred Isacsson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS428
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Alfred Isacsson Papers represent the research files of Alfred Isacsson, a scholar of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The collection includes extensive correspondence between Isacsson and other Civil War historians and Lincoln assassination experts, including Margaret K. Bearden, John C. Brennan, Helen J. Campbell, Otto Eisenschiml, Frederick Hatch, Richard D. Mudd, Floyd E. Risvold, and Richard Sloan. Subject files regarding John Surratt and the Surratt Society are also...
Dates: 1940 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1989
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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