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Graham Greene - James Marjoribanks collection

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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

Harman Grisewood papers 1

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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

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Alan Redway Papers 2

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS179
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The following 26 folders comprise an addendum to the Alan Redway papers 1, GTMGamms84. They contain primarily correspondence sent and received by Redway and Neil Brennan, coauthor of a bibliography of the works of Graham Greene, from 1925 through 1981. A prolific correspondent, Brennan wrote daily to Redway, detailing his progress on the bibliography. The collection includes correspondence from Brennan to Helen Redway, wife of Alan Redway; fragments of undated autograph...
Dates: 1949 - 1987
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Walter Shewring Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS190
Collection level scope and contents note

The Walter Shewring Papers is a small collection of letters, essays and manuscripts by Shewring. The most notable item is the full autograph manuscript of Shewring's translation of Homer's "Odyssey," published by the Oxford University Press (1980). The collection includes some correspondence and printed articles by such distinguished acquaintances as Walter de la Mare, Eric Gill, David Jones, and Arthur Waley.

Dates: 1930 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Belloc collection

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS202
Collection-level Scope and Content Note Hilaire Belloc-Elizabeth Belloc CorrespondenceThis collection contains the correspondence sent by Hilaire Belloc to his daughter Elizabeth over the period 1932-1944. Hilaire was 62 at the start of this correspondence and entering the final stages of his career. He was plagued increasingly with ill-health over the course of this correspondence, and there is frequent reference to his suffering from flus, fatigue, and difficulties with his handwriting. In 1942 he suffered a...
Dates: 1934-1944
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Harman Grisewood papers 2

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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

Dorothy Craigie collection

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS306
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Dorothy Craigie Collection consists of material related to the first edition (1950) of Graham Greene and Dorothy Glover's collaborative work, The Little Fire Engine, with 16 original 14 by 8 1/2 inch illustrations. It was printed for Max Parrish & Co. Ltd., Adprint House, Rathbone Place, London W1 by Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich.The Little Fire Engine is a children's story of Old Sam Trolley, Toby, the fire horse and the little fire engine of Little Snoreing. They are forced out...
Dates: 1950
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Graham Greene papers 2

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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