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Robert Silvercruys Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-861231
Scope and contents note
The papers of Baron Robert Silvercruys consist of letters, manuscripts, pamphlets and clippings mainly concerning the careers of Frantz Silvercruys (1859 - 1936), President of the Court of Cassation of Belgium and created Baron Silvercruys in 1929, and of his son, Robert Silvercruys (1893 - 1971), who was a Belgian Ambassador to the United States (1946 - 1959). The papers comprise 3.5 linear feet of materials, arranged in 56 folders in 7 boxes. The papers are divided into two series, one...
Dates:
1896 - 1968
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Evelyn Simpson-Curenton Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230711
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Evelyn Simpson-Curenton music manuscriots, scores, programs, correspondance, materials related to the 1990 Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman performance at Carnegie Hall, and one compact disc of recorded music by Simpson-Curenton titled "Reflections" (2009).
Dates:
1980s-2024
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Edith Sitwell - John M. Cohen Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-820630
Scope and Content note
The Sitwell-Cohen Collection comprises thirteen letters from Dame Edith Sitwell to John M. Cohen, and related pieces of correspondence addressed to John M. Cohen and his wife, Audrey Cohen, from Sitwell and Harman Grisewood of the BBC. Also included are two autograph manuscripts of "The Road to Thebes" signed by Sitwell and thought to have been enclosed in two of the letters from Sitwell to Cohen. All of the correspondence is dated from May 26, 1950 to May 19, 1952. The majority of the...
Dates:
1950 - 1952
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Edith Sitwell - Humphrey Searle Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-851119
Scope and contents note
The major portion of the correspondence from Edith Sitwell to composer Humphrey Searle (1915-1982) refers to their collaboration on setting some of Sitwell's works to music by Searle. The collection includes correspondence from Sitwell's brothers, Sir Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell, as well as from Cecil Gray.
Dates:
1936 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Alfred E. Smith Scrapbooks and Photographs
Collection
Identifier: GTM-19770329
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of scrapbooks and photographs documenting the career of Alfred E. Smith. The scrapbooks span Smith's political career from 1913 through his unsuccessful U.S. presidential campaign in 1928. They contain newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, and other materials. The photographs document both his professional and personal life. The collection includes a small quantity of correspondence with politicians such as Nelson A. Rockefeller and Robert F. Wagner.
Dates:
1913 - 1929
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Carolyn Smith Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-140106
Content Description
Articles, monographs and printed source material relating to history of Catholic families in Maryland, and Southern American history including American Civil War.Folder list1. Browning, Sister Mary Carmel, OSU. Think Big: A partial biography of Reverend Tong, SJ. (1970). Inscribed by the author to Smith.
2. Smith, Lancaster. “Impeaching a ‘National Expert’ in a Catastrophic Collision Case.” For the Defense, vol. 23, no. 6, June 1981.
3. St. Ferdinand’s...
Dates:
1789 - 1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Emma and Hugh McCormick Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-0108
Scope and Contents
Diaries and journals kept by Hugh McCormick Smith (1865-1941) and his wife, Emma, documenting their years in Siam (Thailand). Hugh's diaries date from July 1923 to October 1934, and Emma's date from July 1924 to June 1927. The diaries not only contain accounts of Smith's work in Sam (as an advisor on fisheries), but also provide descriptions of local life, culture, and topography. The collection also includes a letter from Hugh to Nannie Hancock (1934).
Dates:
1923 - 1934
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Eric M. Smith Political Cartoons Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-0023
Scope and Contents
Collection of political cartoons drawn by Eric M. Smith that were produced for The Capital (Annapolis). They address both Maryland state and national politics, dating from 1974 to 2024. The collection includes sketches and drawings, as well as a set of chronological clippings.
Dates:
1970s-2024
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
George S. Smith Journal
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-100330
Scope and Contents Note
Manuscript Journal of George S. Smith containing original verse, mathematical information, and an autobiography. The autobiography was written at several different places, notably Panama. The first part of the journal includes original verse and songs by Smith. The second part provides mathematical rules, arithmetic, and geometry. The third part comprises a lengthy autobiograhy of George S. Smith. In 1855, he traveled to Australia, China, and the Philippines. He later joined the U.S....
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Jean Edward Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS234
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Jean Edward Smith Papers are housed in 10 boxes and span 12.0 linear feet. Historian Jean Edward Smith amassed these materials for his full-length biography of Lucius D. Clay entitled "Lucius D. Clay: An America Life" (New York: Holt, 1990). Cooperating with his biographer on this project, Clay exchanged correspondence with Smith, recounted key events, agreed to take part in numerous oral history interviews, and provided access to key documents. The correspondence between Clay and Smith...
Dates:
1860 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1975
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Joseph Smolinski Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS141
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Colonel Joseph Smolinski Papers consist of correspondence, ephemera and an autograph collection arranged in 69 folders in one box. He donated many items to Georgetown University at the turn of the century including these papers, a collection of books and two marble tables. The Papers consist of some correspondence to Colonel Smolinski, a scrapbook of clippings and ephemera and an autograph collection. A great majority of the correspondence is in response to Smolinski's requests for...
Dates:
1818 - 1900; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1890
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Clinton Ives Smullyan, Jr. Collection of Graham Greene Materials
Collection
Identifier: GTM-090714
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous items from Smullyan's personal collection of Graham Greene including original and photocopied typescripts, marked copy and mock up of various articles and other works. Includes correspondence to Greene from Gloria Emerson, Richard Hughes, and Robert Graves; and printed items.
Dates:
1947 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Robert Southwell Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-871005
Scope and Contents note
These papers consist primarily of correspondence, including one autograph letter signed by Antoine Arnauld to Robert Southwell; five contemporary copies of letters of Arnauld (Southwell's file copies); one autograph draft and 14 letters of Southwell's; a letter from Edward Coleman, a contemporary copy with a French translation; an autograph letter signed by William Blathwayt, Secretary of War; a letter of Henri Justel, Royal Librarian; and four miscellaneous items. Together, there are 29...
Dates:
1678 - 1685
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Spanish Boundary Commission Report on Spanish and Portuguese Territory in South America and the Guarani War
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20131216
Scope and Contents
The report is a 454 page bound manuscript written in Spanish in scribal hand, dated to approximately 1760.This collection has been digitized and is available to view online in DigitalGeorgetown.
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Dates:
circa 1760
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Spanish Jesuits Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS113
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Spanish Jesuits Collection consists of 1 linear foot of manuscripts and correspondence by and about Spanish Jesuits from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The material is arranged in ten folders in 2 boxes. The Spanish Jesuits Collection contains a special series, The Jose de Francisco de Isla Series, which consists of bound manuscripts and correspondence by and about Isla. Most of the material centers around Isla's Historia del Famoso Predicador Fray Gerundio de...
Dates:
1750 - 1850
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Carroll Spence Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS149
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Carroll Spence papers consist of material originally pasted/sewn into a folio scrapbook album, probably by Spence, chiefly concerning his career as U.S. envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Sublime Porte (Turkey). Includes correspondence and addresses sent and received by Spence by high ranking officials, diplomats, as well as various American and foreign residents in Turkey. Also included is some correspondence to Robert Traill Spence, father of Carroll Spence, as...
Dates:
1822 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1853 - 1858
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Elizabeth Fueller Spencer Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS468
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Elizabeth Fueller Spencer (1898-1973) attended Whittier College and received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California before pursuing coursework toward a Master's at Columbia University Teachers College from 1924-1925. After working at an Episcopal settlement house with the poor in southern California in the late teens, she moved to Shanghai in 1920 as a missionary teaching at St. John's School. On her second tour of China, after study at Columbia, she was assigned to...
Dates:
1925 - 1929; Majority of material found in 1927 - 1927
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Richard E. Sprague Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-740124
Content Description
Papers of Richard E. Sprague, engineer and computer specialist, concerning his involvement with the National Committee to Investigate Assassinations (also the Committee to Investigate Assassinations, CTIA). Included in the papers are committee correspondence, minutes, agendas, memoranda and reports, as well as an extensive collection of clippings resulting from the committee's research into governmental and journalistic sources on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and...
Dates:
1963 - 1972
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
St. Albans Press Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20211104
Scope and Contents
The St. Albans Press Collection predominantly contains pamphlets and other printed items from St. Albans Press, a private printing press operated by Stephen Augustus Hurlbut.
Dates:
1936 - 1951
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
St. John the Evangelist Church (Yorkshire) Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-870825
Scope and contents note
The archives of the Church of St. John the Evangelist consist of .5 linear feet of material, including correspondence, manuscripts, documents and related printed ephemera, regarding its founding and construction in the township of Clifton. The papers, dating from 1856 to 1862 and arranged in chronological order, constitute the earliest records of this parish church, located near Mirfield, Yorkshire.Before 1856, the inhabitants of the township of Clifton worshipped in a church in...
Dates:
1856 - 1862
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts