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Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-000119
Scope and Contents **The Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus is currently being digitized, and has recently been reorganized. This finding aid represents the collection's new organization, and replaces the former finding aid (GTM119). If you need assistance locating materials using older citations, please contact staff at the Booth Family Center for...
Dates: 1630-2003
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Joseph Mosley, SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS25
Scope and Contents The Joseph Mosley, SJ Papers consist of sixteen letters written by Mosley to his family, and cover the period from 1757-1963; the bulk of the materials date from 1757-1786. Fifteen of the letters are addressed to “Mrs. Dunn Junior,” Mosley’s sister (living in Northumberland, England); one letter is to his brother, Michael Mosley, SJ (living in Shropshire, England). The letters contain commentary on the environment, politics, and residents of colonial Maryland, and on Jesuit life in the...
Dates: 1757 - 1963; Majority of material found within 1757 - 1786
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Matthews Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-730917
Content Description Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates: 1812 - 1976
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Joseph P. Mobberly, SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS24
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Joseph P. Mobberly, SJ Papers (1815-1827) consist of the remembrances, observations, and expositions of a Jesuit who worked principally as manager of St. Inigoes, a house and plantation in St. Mary’s County, and taught at Georgetown College. Brother Mobberly wrote passionately on a wide variety of topics: agricultural management, focusing particularly on the economic viability of enslaved labor and strategies for maximizing the production of wheat, corn, and other alternatives to tobacco...
Dates: 1815 - 1827
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Stephen Dubuisson, SJ - William Feiner, SJ collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS50
Scope and Contents This collection contains letters, diaries, and other writings of Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson, S.J. and William Feiner, S.J. Because the two men served as successive Presidents of Georgetown College in the 1820s, and because both made entries in the letterbooks in this collection, these materials have been grouped together. Dubuisson’s materials consist of loose letters (including several pertaining to students at Georgetown College) and three bound items (a diary, a...
Dates: 1818 - 1842
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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