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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

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

Alfred Isacsson Papers

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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

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

Agustín de Iturbide collection

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS157
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Agustin de Iturbide Collection consists of financial and military documents, printed ephemera, correspondence and an oil portrait. The materials are arranged in 23 folders held in one box, except for the oil portrait, which is hanging on the walls of a Special Collections office. 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 grandson of...
Dates: 1819-1867

Ives Family papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS72
Collection-level scope and contents note The Ives family papers comprise correspondence by relatives of Rev. Levi Silliman Ives. In addition, the collection includes correspondence by Joseph Moss Ives, the brother of the renowned composer, Charles Edward Ives, and by the former's son, Walter Bigelow Ives. 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...
Dates: 1874-1953

Maurice Jackson Papers

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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 - 2021

William Harding Jackson Papers

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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

Bruno Scott James Papers

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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

Joseph E. Jeffs Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS429
Collection-level Scope and Content Note 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 Leopoldo Duran. 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: 1980 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2000

Jenkins Family Papers

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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

Elizabeth Jennings papers 1

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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

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

Elizabeth Jennings papers 3, GTM151109

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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

Jesuit Guild of Washington Records

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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

"Jesuit History in Stamps" Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-000017
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, article drafts, research notes, and newspaper clippings for a National Jesuit News series entitled "Jesuit History in Stamps," written predominantly by Fr. Paul J. Gibbons.

Dates: 1976 - 1982

Jesuit Missions in the Philippines Photograph Albums

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-211220
Scope and Contents Silver prints of Jesuit missionary activity, Moro culture, and landscapes in Manila and Mindanao, Philippines, at the turn of the twentieth century. Likely taken by Aragonese Jesuits between 1901 and 1907, when the mission was still under their purview. Note on Problematic Language Please be aware that this collection contains materials that use outdated and potentially offensive terminology. ...
Dates: circa 1905

Jesuit Obituaries Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-200301
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of news clippings, typed biographical notes, printed memorial cards, and occasional correspondence regarding approximately 1,300 Jesuits who died between 1565 and 1970. Materials cover Jesuits from North American (e.g., Maryland, Missouri, California, and New Orleans) as well as European provinces and are arranged by day of death. Note on Problematic Language Please be aware that this collection contains documents...
Dates: 1940 - 1970

Jewish Peace Fellowship Newsletters

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 30, Folder: 16
Identifier: GTM-0044
Scope and Contents Five issues of the JPF Tidings, the newsletter of the Jewish Peace Fellowship, dating from 1942 to 1947. It includes volume 1, issues 2-4 and volume 4. issues 1-2.[Description provided by dealer below]1st edition. Original stapled mimeographed sheets, 4to (standard paper size), 4 pages to 8 leaves each issue. Holocaust- and DP-era Jewish Pacifist newsletter. The final issue here (Nov 1947) includes a pen-signed fundraising letter signed in ink by Chair of the National...
Dates: 1942 - 1947

A. Grima Johnson Collection of Travel Postcards Albums

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130809
Scope and Contents

8 albums of travel postcards related to Turkey and Asia.

Dates: 1974 - 1998

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