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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 - 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

Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Greenhill collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS403
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Greenhill Collection (1 box, .25 linear feet) contains 10 letters from historian and writer Hilaire Belloc to his bookbinder, Elizabeth Greenhill, dated between January 1938 and May 1940. Of the Belloc - Greenhill Papers, seven are typed signed letters and three are handwritten. Belloc discusses a number of books and correspondences he was working on or having bound at the time, such as "The County of Sussex", "The Old Road", "Verses", and "The Path to Rome."...
Dates: 1938-1940
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Hilaire Belloc - Emma Pescatore collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS404
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

Correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and Emma Pescatore.

Dates: 1905-1931
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

Hilaire Belloc - Dorothy Hamilton collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS444
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Hilaire Belloc - Dorothy Hamilton Collection consists of personal correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and Dorothy Hamilton. The collection also includes several letters of correspondence between Elodie Belloc and Dorothy Hamilton, letters from Belloc's children to Dorothy Hamilton, correspondence between Belloc and others, and a few letters from others to Dorothy Hamilton. Several newspaper clippings, tickets to Belloc's lectures, and Hilaire Belloc's account book for 1907-1908 are...
Dates: 1905-1943; Majority of material found within 1907-1920
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Nicholas Joost papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS74
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Nicholas T. Joost papers are remarkable for the voluminous correspondence received by this respected editor, author, and educator, from many well-known writers and scholars. As editor of several literary journals such as Poetry magazine and Papers on Language and Literature, Dr. Joost corresponded with such literary luminaries as John Deedy, Babette Deutsch, George Dillon , Wallace Fowlie, Isabella Gardner, Alyse Gregory, Mary Hemingway, Laura Riding Jackson, Russell Kirk, John Logan,...
Dates: 1920-1980; Majority of material found within 1950-1980
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

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS97
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Sir Hall Caine Papers primarily consist of correspondence to Sir Hall Caine, comprising .5 linear feet of material arranged in 31 folders in 1 box. A majority of the correspondence in the collection involves Sir Hall's business affairs, including sales, advertisements and film and stage productions. There is a letter from Herbert Brenon regarding the filming of The Woman Thou Gavest Me in 1918 and a letter from Virginia Brooks, an actress in the stage production of the same work. Several...
Dates: 1895-1925
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Antonia White - Carmen Callil Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-120607
Scope and contents note The collection consists of the personal files relating to British author Antonia White (1899-1980) maintained by Carmen Callil, founder and editor of Virago Press. Callil was also White's co-literary executor together with White's daughters Lyndall Hopkinson Passerini and Susan Chitty. The collection includes correspondence Callil exchanged with Passerini and White. Important series include copies of White's dream diaries, as well as files relating to her literary estate and related court...
Dates: 1926 - 1980
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Evelyn Waugh - Handasyde Buchanan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-820103
Scope and contents note

The collection consists of letters and postcards from Evelyn Waugh to bookseller Handasyde Buchanan, concerning books the former wished to acquire or sell.

Dates: 1946 - 1966
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

David Jones - Pamela Donner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-820629
Scope and Contents note The Jones-Donner collection contains twelve letters to Pamela Donner, one of Jones' many personal friends, dated from January 9, 1961 - May 11, 1974. Most of these letters were written in 1961 and 1962 at Northwick Lodge, Harrow-on-the-Hill. Two were written during Jones' residence at Montesdene Hotel, and the last letter in the collection was written at Calvary Nursing Home. The form of these letters is uniquely Jones' own--from the characteristic asterisks which explain or elaborate points...
Dates: 1961 - 1974
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

John S. Mayfield Papers: Autographs Series

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-830101a
Scope and Contents note

Miscellaneous autograph, signed manuscripts by various individuals collected by John S. Mayfield.

Dates: 1443 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1950
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

David Jones - Douglas Cleverdon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-841206
Collection-level Scope and Contents note

The collection pertains to the catalogue "Words and Image IV" published for an exhibition of "Paintings, Engravings and Writings of David Jones" at the National Book League, U.K., 1972. The final edition of the catalogue is included (Folder 3).

Dates: 1972
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

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

Katharine Tynan Manuscript of "Fraulein"

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-920401
Scope and Contents

A bound autograph manuscript of Irish author Katharine Tynan's complete and unpublished novel "Fraulein" (267 pages).

Dates: 1915
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Elizabeth Jennings papers 3, GTM151109

 Collection
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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Arthur Benoni Evans manuscripts

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-150618
Content Description

Bound autograph manuscript poems with additional loose leaves, by Arthur Benoni Evans (b.1781-1854), British poet and writer during the Romantic period. Includes a watercolor by Benoni. Total: approximately 140 pages.

Dates: 1809-1850
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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