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Graham Greene - Yvonne Cloetta Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS347
Scope and Contents
The Yvonne Cloetta — Graham Greene Papers consist of correspondence written by Greene to Cloetta between the years 1963 and 1987. In addition to the 121 letters and postcards, the collection contains a typed manuscript for the book An Impossible Woman: The Memories of Dottoressa Moor of Capri, edited and adapted by Greene and later given with an inscription to Cloetta. The manuscript includes extensive autograph additions and corrections by Greene. Along with the correspondence, there are a...
Dates:
1963 - 1987
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Graham Greene - Pedro M. Lopez Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS326
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of seven letters from British author Graham Greene (1904-1991) to Pedro M. Lopez whose home was in Seneca, Mexico. The letters are dated between 1981 and 1989 and were usually written in January in response to Lopez's annual letter. Copies of the letters written by Lopez are not available, but from Greene's responses we know that the letters were mostly personal in nature and contain some discussion of literary topics of the time. The letters written by Greene offer...
Dates:
1981 - 1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Graham Greene - James Marjoribanks collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS130
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This small collection consists of 9 original letters from celebrated British author Graham Greene to Sir James Marjoribanks, KCMG, concerning fundraising and site location for a memorial for Robert Louis Stevenson. An admirer of Stevenson's works, Greene was also the novelist's kinsman through his mother, Marion Raymond, who was Stevenson's cousin. The correspondence refers to the sale of a manuscript that Greene gave to the Robert Louis Stevenson Trust, of which Sir James was a director, in...
Dates:
1985-1986
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Graham Greene Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-851001
Scope and Contents
The Graham Greene Papers include Greene's diaries and journals from his trips to Vietnam, Cuba, Panama, South Africa, Poland, Kuala Lampur, Kenya, and Haiti. Also present are manuscripts by Greene for "Monsignor Quixote" and "Getting to Know the General." There is some correspondence with Evelyn Waugh. Ephemera and clippings round out the collection.
Dates:
1923 - 1982
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Graham Greene Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS325
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Graham Greene Papers Part 2 consists mainly of original correspondence and manuscripts. The collection also contains Greene's appointment diaries and two audio recordings. The correspondence includes a series of letters written by prominent authors in response to Greene's proposal of a mass resignation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in response to the war in Vietnam. The letters often contain the authors' views on the war and the opposition to it. Some of the authors...
Dates:
1944-2001; Majority of material found within 1967-1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Graham Greene - Catherine Walston Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS168
Scope and Contents
The Catherine Walston/Graham Greene Papers consist in bulk of correspondence written by Greene to Lady Walston over a span of three decades from 1946 through 1978. In addition, the collection includes a large portion of original autograph and typed manuscripts, as well as rare proof copies of his works that the author presented over the years as gifts to Lady Walston. There is also a substantial collection of photographs of Greene and Lady Walston, together with friends such as writers...
Dates:
1925 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1946-1978
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Hugh Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-850129
Content Description
Correspondence between Sir Hugh Greene and brother Graham Greene. Letters date from 1925 through 1986. Topics include the latter's books and family matters.Click on External Documents below to link to collection finding aid for Boxes 1-4. Acquisition of Box 5, containing letters dated 1982 and 1985 through 1986, post-dates the finding aid. See following list --12 typed letters signed from Graham Greene to Huge Greene. Most include typed transcriptions by Hugh...
Dates:
1925-1986
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
James Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS82
Scope and Contents note
The James Greene Papers consist of an exchange of correspondence between the eminent British novelist Graham Greene and his nephew James Greene, son of Sir Hugh Greene, well-known BBC correspondent and official (director general, 1960-1969). The letters span over a decade from late 1977 to 1989. A total of forty-three original signed letters from Graham Greene respond to the thirty-six typescript letters from his nephew, which have been spiral bound in a paginated volume together with typed...
Dates:
1977-1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Vivien Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS420
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Vivien Greene papers consist of six letters written to Vivien Greene, the wife of noted English Catholic author Graham Greene. A letter from Graham to Vivien sent from Berlin, Germany, refers to the Berlin Wall restrictions. Other correspondents include Tom Cordishley, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Columba Ryan. The letters date mostly from the 1940s.
Dates:
1941-1948
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Greenpeace Latin America Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-110311
Scope and Contents Note
The Greenpeace Latin America Records consist of materials relating to the efforts of Greenpeace to promote environmentalism in Central and South America. Reports, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development documents, printed materials, memos, meeting minutes, and other items are contained in the collection. The collection is preserved in 15 boxes (21.5 linear feet).
Dates:
1986 - 1995
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Grenada Documents Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-880701
Scope and Contents note
The Grenada Documents Collection contains copies of some of the documents which were captured on Grenada by the United States Defense Department when the U. S., at the urging of many of the smaller Caribbean nations, joined a rescue mission to end the rule of the Revolutionary Military Council which had taken control of the country when Maurice Bishop, formerly head of the PRG (People's Revolutionary Government), was assassinated along with many of the people at Fort Rupert in October, 1983,...
Dates:
1979 - 1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Bulkley Southworth Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS304
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This miscellaneous collection of Bulkley Southworth Griffin's contains autographed letters of notable figures and printed ephemera from the 19th and 20th centuries. Of note are two photographs by G.D. Wakeley of the White House and the Capitol Building from 1865 and 1866 respectively, accompanied by an assortment of genealogical materials from the Bulkley, Southworth and Griffin families of the 19th and 20th centuries. Of special interest from this period is his journal of 1922 regarding...
Dates:
1717-1968; Majority of material found within 1830-1900
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Martin J. Griffin Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS61
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the papers of Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin (1842-1911), Catholic historian, writer and editor, who was a native of Philadelphia. Correspondence in the collection concerns subscriptions and requests for or letters pertaining to historical information, and there is an abundant amount of material pertaining to the Temperance Movement as well as to the Total Abstinence Movement which existed in the Catholic Church of Griffin's day. Also included is correspondence...
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Harman Grisewood Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS131
Scope and Contents
This collection centers around the correspondence and related papers of three important and long-standing friendships of Harman Grisewood: with the poet and artist David Jones; with printer and artist Rene Hague; and with Christopher Sykes, the celebrated biographer of Evelyn Waugh. Correspondence relating to Jones and Hague, in particular, reflects the social, literary and artistic circles which they and mutual friend Harman Grisewood, shared with acquaintances such as Thomas F....
Dates:
1916 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Harman Grisewood papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS255
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection comprises the second acquisition of the papers of Harman Grisewood (1906-1997). Included is a long run (Boxes 1 through 5) of correspondence from notable individuals such as W.H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Violet Bonham-Carter, Tom Burns (editor of "The Tablet”), Winston S. Churchill, historian Christopher Dawson, B.B.C. director general Hugh Greene, Vivien Greene (wife of writer Graham Greene), Deirdre and Rupert Hart-Davis, Sibyl Hathaway (Dame of Sark), Saunders Lewis, members...
Dates:
1926-1997; Majority of material found within 1950-1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Harman Grisewood papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS338
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection comprises the third accession of the papers of Harman Grisewood (1906-1997), and contains primarily correspondence from family members. Of particular interest is the series of letters from Grisewood's father, Lt. Col. Harman Grisewood, written from 1936 through 1946, from Nicosia, Cyprus, where the family owned a farm in the mid- to late 1920s until the end of the Second World War. Grisewood recalls life with his family in Cyprus during the earlier of these years in chapter 3...
Dates:
1898-1991; Majority of material found within 1936-1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Charles Guiteau Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS133
Scope and Contents
The Charles J. Guiteau collection consists of correspondence, affidavits and printed material by and about Guiteau, the notorious attorney who assassinated U.S. President James Abram Garfield on July 2, 1881. The assassination resulted in one of the most celebrated American 'insanity trials' of the nineteenth century, which became something of a legal milestone in the judgement of the criminally insane.
Dates:
1876 - 1882
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Anna J. Gurvin papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-161110
Content Description
Resource material relating to Gurvin's work as assistant cultural affairs officer at the U.S. Information Agency. Includes Federal reports and publications by private organizations regarding cultural and educational funding and support abroad.
Dates:
1970-2000
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Otto E. Guthe papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-861216
Collection level scope and contents
The Otto E. Guthe Papers consist of correspondence and articles relating chiefly to the field of geography, with some family and personal materials included. Guthe belonged to many societies and associations, most of which were related to geography, including the association of American Geographers, the National Research Council, the Cosmos Club, the American Geographical Society, etc. His professional status and his ability as a geographer led him to associate with people at the top of his...
Dates:
1906-1983
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Leonard F. Guttridge - William M. P. Dunne Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-051101
Scope and Contents
The Leonard F. Guttridge-William M.P. Dunne papers consist of the research files amassed by historian William M.P. Dunne for a book he intended to publish about Stephen Decatur. The collection includes an extensive amount of photocopied documents deriving from original sources at various archives. The documents provide details on the life of Stephen Decatur, his father, and the Decatur family. Some of Dunne's research correspondence is also retained. Of particular importance is a 692 page...
Dates:
1990 - 2005
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts