Box 20

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016). The collection includes over 300 sub-collections of bound and loose manuscripts, documents, journals, correspondence, commonplace books, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, and history -- primarily of the 19th and early 20th century. Highlights include:1. Letters...

Scope and Contents Two manuscript accounts of Sir Robert Hume’s experience in the Crimean War: one octavo volume bound in flexible red morocco, and entitled Continuation of the records of the 55th Regt. from the 20th September 1854 containing an account of the author’s experiences at the siege of Sebastopol through the armistice of 3 March 1856; a second disbound manuscript covering much of the same information, with corrections. The accounts provide details like regimental casualties, names of officers...

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Approximately 65 items of correspondence sent to American journalist and civil servant Dennis Myers between 1910 and 1916, mainly regarding arial law; the bulk of the letters are to Myers from Alfred W. Lawson, editor of Aircraft, a journal in which he regularly published.