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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
Erich W. Isenstead Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-070807
Content Description
Papers of Erich Wolfgang Isenstead comprising personal correspondence, professional records, photographs, newspapers and printed ephemera regarding his work in postwar Bavaria for the Information Control Division of the Office of Military Government, United States, primarily regarding U.S. efforts toward denazification and reconstruction of Germany's press, broadcast media, and other cultural infrastructure.
Dates:
1900 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1952
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Agustín de Iturbide Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS157
Scope and Contents
The Agustin de Iturbide Collection consists of financial and military documents, printed ephemera, and correspondence. The first seven items of the collection describe the military career, acsension to the throne, and some official proclamations of Agustin de Iturbide. Many of the remaining items deal with the grandchildren of Iturbide, Agustin Cosme and Savina; their relationship with Emperor Maximilian; and their financial and social stations in Mexico, Paris, and Philadelphia. Items of...
Dates:
1819 - 1867
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Ives Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS72
Scope and Contents
The Ives Family Papers includes material related to Rev. Levi Sillman Ives; Joseph Moss Ives and his son Walter Bigelow Ives; and Cora Semmes Ives, her husband Joseph Ives, and their children Edward, Eugene, and Frank. Levi Silliman Ives and Joseph Moss Ives were both descendants of William Ives who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, from London in 1635, and was one of the original settlers of Quinnipiac (New Haven), Connecticut, in 1638. The connection, however, between them and the others...
Dates:
1853 - 1941
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Edward Jackson, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20250909
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the D.C. Youth Chorale (the official city-wide chorus of the D.C. Public School System) and its director, Edward Jackson, Jr., primarily from the 1960s to the early 1980s. It includes concert programs, advertisements, and newspaper clippings, as well as materials collected for Jackson's application for the 1983-1984 National Teacher of the Year Award. The collection also contains a photograph album documenting an event held in celebration of Jackson and the D.C....
Dates:
1964 - 2008
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Maurice Jackson Papers
File
Identifier: GTM-100510
Scope and Contents
The Maurice Jackson Papers consist of research files and printed materials produced and collected by Georgetown University history professor Maurice Jackson. A series of subject files maintained by Dr. Jackson include materials concerning the history of Washington, D.C., civil rights, and the Washington, D.C. race massacres of 1919 and 1968. Printed materials included in this collection pertain to African American history, communism, socialism, Marxism, Jewish affairs, the Soviet Union, and...
Dates:
1919 - 2023
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
William Harding Jackson Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-101014
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the personal papers of William Harding Jackson. Correspondents include President Eisenhower, Constantine FitzGibbon, Arthur Gardner, Gordon Gray, and Richard M. Nixon, among others. A run of letters regarding Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign is also included among the documents. Some typed manuscripts by Jackson, a few photographs of him, and a series of printed materials round out the collection.
Dates:
1938 - 1971
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Bruno Scott James Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS135
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Bruno Scott James Papers consist of correspondence and manuscript material belonging to Msgr. James. Correspondence by Msgr. James is limited and in xerox form. The originals are located in other collections, specifically, the Douglas Woodruff papers and the Sir Arnold Lunn papers at the Georgetown University Special Collections Division. The bulk of the correspondence relating directly to Msgr. James is to or from his friend, the Bishop William Gordon Wheeler of Leeds. This concerns the...
Dates:
1957 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Daniel James Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-0057
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises the extensive research files of journalist/historian Daniel James on Che Guevara, the Mexican Communist Party (Partido Comunista Mexicano), and in general on Latin American and Caribbean political affairs from 1960 to 1985.
Dates:
circa 1960-1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Louis J.A. Mercier Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-860922
Scope and Contents
The Louis Joseph Alexandre Mercier Papers contain materials covering the entire range of Mercier's public and professional life. The bulk of the collection comprises multiple drafts of his many addresses and articles, as well as auxiliary materials Mercier collected for his writings. Those topics to which Mercier devoted the most time, Humanism and Naturalism, Irving Babbitt, and the Classics in Education, are particularly well represented, as are his major works, Le Mouvement Humaniste aux...
Dates:
1888-1966
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Japanese-American Internment Poster
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 22 (Oversized), Folder: 8
Identifier: GTM-20241106
Scope and Contents
Printed poster instructing persons of Japanese ancestry in San Francisco to report to the Civil Control Station at 1530 Buchanan Street. Author: DeWitt, Lt. Gen. J.LPlace Published: San FranciscoPublisher: U.S. ArmyDate Published: May 5, 1942Printed broadside announcement regarding Japanese Internment, 1942. 56x35.5 cm (22x14")."Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry" in "that portion of the City and County San...
Dates:
1942
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Joseph E. Jeffs Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS429
Scope and Contents
The Joseph E. Jeffs Papers contain correspondence between the former University Librarian at Georgetown University, Joseph E. Jeffs, and a number of scholars and writers. Among the significant individuals with whom Jeffs kept in contact are Ambassador William H. Taft, III, writer Yvonne Cloetta, and author Graham Greene. There are also letters in the collection from Norman Mailer and Anthony Thwaite, as well as a collection of newspaper clippings on Graham Greene. Jeffs also collected...
Dates:
1979 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1979 - 2000
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Jenkins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS462
Scope and Contents
The Jenkins Family Papers contain a small number of historical documents pertaining to the prominent Jenkins family of Baltimore. In addition to providing information about the history of that particular family, this collection has a connection to the history of Georgetown College as three of the letters were sent to Georgetown College student Thomas Robert Jenkins in 1838 and 1839. Those letters make references to several leading Georgetown faculty and hint at what the college was like...
Dates:
1829 - 1870
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Elizabeth Jennings papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS173
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Note to the legacy print version of this finding aid.The Elizabeth Jennings papers 1 consists of correspondence sent and received by the poet. Correspondence is organized by individual name and arranged alphabetically. Also included is correspondence from cultural organizations, museums, and publishers, as well as fan letters. Notable correspondents include many contemporary poets and writers such as, John Betjeman, Charles Causley, Cecil Day-Lewis,...
Dates:
1957-1989; Majority of material found within 1969-1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Elizabeth Jennings papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS136
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Jennings papers 2, consists of manuscripts and notebooks of autograph first drafts of poems, dating from 1972 to 1983,by English poet Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001).
Dates:
1972-1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Elizabeth Jennings papers 3, GTM151109
Collection
Identifier: GTM-151109
Scope and Contents
Addenda to the Elizabeth Jennings papers 1 and 2, consisting of additional letters and poetry manuscripts purchased directly from Jennings in 1992 and 1993; and various manuscripts purchased from Thornton's Bookshop, Oxford, England.
Dates:
1955-2001
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Jerome Slater Notes and Correspondence with Michael Walzer
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 45, Folder: 11
Identifier: GTM-0077
Scope and Contents
One letter written to Jerome Slater from Michael Walzer regarding a talk on just war theory. It also includes notes written by Slater on Walzer's book Just and Unjust Wars.
Dates:
1978
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Jesuit Guild of Washington Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20231214
Scope and Contents
The Jesuit Guild of Washington Records contain ephemera (e.g., flyers, invitations, correspondence, and newspaper clippings) and photographs surrounding the social and fundriaising events hosted by the Guild. There are also several items related to the governance of the organization.
Dates:
1955 - 1982
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts