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English at Georgetown: Tributes to Professor [Bernard N.] Wagner by his students

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000582
Scope and Contents

Edited by Richard Alan Gordon, William Blatty, and Alan Jarvis. Contents: I. Examination of the English Curriculum by Present and Former Students (includes piece by Tibor Kerekes); II English Courses; III Bibliographies for English Elective Courses.

Dates: 1951, 1953

Paul F. Betz Wordsworth and English Literature collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-141121
Scope and Contents Paul F. Betz, Professor of English, received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1965, taught at Georgetown University until 2007, and remains active as a Wordsworth scholar and in University affairs. His extensive collection of English literature is centered on the Wordsworth circle, but extends to English Romantic poetry in general, to the literature of the English Lake District, and to other late eighteenth century and nineteenth century poetry. Less central elements reflect Betz's...
Dates: 1565-1997; Majority of material found in 1800s-1900

English Honors Theses

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTA-000931
Content Description Two bound volumes of English Honors Theses from 2013. Includes the following papers: "Incoherent Constructions: Forging the Female Identity in the Novels of Thomas Hardy" by Madeleine Collins, "The Chorus" by Madeline [sic] Collins, "One Is Two Is You Is" by Adam Greenberg, "Humoring Religion: How the Witty Women of Southern Literature Redefine Gender Orthodoxy" by Amelia Hall, "The Language of Insecurity in Wordsworth's London" by Madeleine...
Dates: 2013

William K. Wimsatt, Jr. Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS469
Dates: 1941 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1975

Franklin B. Williams, Jr. Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS270
Collection-level Scope and Content Note Franklin B. Williams, Jr. (1906-1997) Professor of English at Georgetown University (1939-1974) is best known for his magnum opus "An Index to Dedications and Commendatory Verses in English Books before 1641," 1962. Throughout the course of more than twenty years Professor Williams consulted the prefatory material in early English printed books in over 120 libraries in Britain, the European continent, and the United States. The resulting index is an indispensable resource for the study of...
Dates: 1931 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1974

Paul R. Sullivan Papers

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Identifier: GTM-870923
Scope and Contents note The Paul Sullivan Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and related printed ephemera regarding Paul Sullivan's remarkable career. The papers are organized in six distinct groups, namely Correspondence, Subject File, Blue and Gray, High Latitudes, Personal, Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Series. The collection comprises 7.5 linear feet of material, and it is organization by series in five boxes with a total of two hundred and fifty four folders. While the Paul...
Dates: 1930 - 1961

Albert H. Marckwardt Papers

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Identifier: GTM-781001
Scope and Contents The Albert H. Marckwardt Papers includes extensive and valuable files of his correspondence and research reports. The Marckwardt gift enables students, faculty, and visiting researchers to find in the Georgetown library a very comprehensive body of books, journals, and other material on English language and linguistics. Mrs. Marckwardt (Maybelle Davis, '67 MS) has given to the library a collection of several thousand linguistics books and journals assembled by the late...
Dates: 1948 - 1975

David Jones - Douglas Cleverdon Collection

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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

William K. Wimsatt, Jr. Papers 2

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS442
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The William K. Wimsatt Papers 2 contain the correspondence, notes, and collected printed materials of William K. Wimsatt, a scholar, literary theorist, and Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. The bulk of the collection consists of offprints given to Wimsatt on a variety of topics, and provide a secondary source base for students of Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His correspondence and collected printed materials also provide insight...
Dates: 1767 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1975

Ann G. McDonald Collection of Graham Greene

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Identifier: GTM-100805
Scope and Contents Note

The Ann G. McDonald collection of Graham Greene consists of printed periodical articles by and about noted English Catholic author Graham Greene. McDonald collected these materials in support of her doctoral dissertation. Her dissertation, entitled "A Bibliography of the Periodical Contributions of Graham Greene" (1969), is also preserved among these papers. One of the folders in the collection contains periodical clippings of Greene's fellow English Catholic writer Evelyn Waugh.

Dates: 1925 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1989

Terry L. Meyers research files on Algernon Charles Swinburne

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-15
Identifier: GTM-140325
Content Description

Contains Meyers' research files re Algernon Charles Swinburne. Includes Meyers' research correspondence, dated 1980-1994.

15 folders arranged alphabetically by name. Includes photocopies of originals with transcriptions of letters by Hall Caine, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Alice Haley, Edward Verrall Lucas, Eden Philpotts, Luigi Siciliani, Isabel Swinburne, Arthur Symons, John Hall Wheelock, and Thomas Wright.

Dates: 1902 - 1994

John Hirsh-Japanese Scholars Collection

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 44, Folder: 10
Identifier: GTM-20250108
Scope and Contents

Three reprints (with one associated letter) sent to Georgetown University English professor John Hirsh by English language scholars from Japan, including Toshiyuki Takamiya, Takami Matsuda, and Fumio Kuriyagawa.

Dates: 1971 - 1982

Foreign Service School: Qatar

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Identifier: GTA-180730

Julian Hawthorne - Francis Bennoch Collection

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS336
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Hawthorne - Bennoch Collection (1 box, 0.5 linear feet) comprises more than 100 letters sent from American author Julian Hawthorne to his English benefactor Francis Bennoch from 1872-1889, written mostly during his residence in England from 1874-1881. There are also more than a dozen letters supplementing the series from Hawthorne to his publishers and others, as well as letters regarding Hawthorne written to Bennoch from other parties. The letters shed light on the early career of...
Dates: 1872-1889

Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS332
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers: Part 2 contain correspondence and manuscripts of Bernard and Barbara Wall, two English Catholic intellectuals who had contact with the Pigotts Circle. Correspondents of the Walls include Tom Burns, Graham Greene, Vivien Greene, Harman Grisewood, Rene Hague, and Michael Richey. A manuscript by Bernard Wall entitled, "Aspects of Italian Civilisation" and manuscripts by Barbara Wall, such as her wartime diary dated 1940, her memoir of Rene Hague, and a draft...
Dates: 1556 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1989

John S. Mayfield papers: Manuscripts in books series

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Identifier: GTM-170718
Content Description

Manuscript items, including letters,notes, photographs, and printed ephemera, found interleaved in books from the personal library of John S. Mayfield.

Dates: 1930s-1980s

Montague Summers Papers

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Identifier: GTM-110501
Scope and Contents The Montague Summers papers comprise the surviving collection of letters, manuscripts, and printed ephemera belonging to this popular author at the time of his death in 1948. A significant portion of the collection consists further of the papers of Summers' friend, the English author and literary biographer S.M. Ellis, which came into Summers' possession after Ellis' death in 1933 (Summers dedicated his 1933 anthology, Victorian Ghost Stories, to the memory of S.M.E.)....
Dates: 1845 - 1949; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945

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

Lancicius collection

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS32
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The collection contains three early nineteenth-century MS English translations by Novice M. Magan of Lancicius' (1574-1652) Latin treatise 'On the Duties of Lay Brothers.' One was from Georgetown, 1808, another(incomplete) belonged to William F. Felix, 1836, while the third, undated,belonged to the Brothers at Georgetown.

Dates: 1808-1834

Scrapbook: Judith Marcia Bream (F 1960)

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Identifier: GTA-850101-DS
Scope and Contents This scrapbook provides a sense of what life was like for women students at Georgetown in the late 1950s, especially in the Foreign Service School. It includes: a photograph of James M. Hunter, captioned “My favorite prof."; napkins/menus/matchbooks from local restaurants; tickets/programs from University events (such as a program from the honorary degree ceremony for German Foreign Minister Heinrich Von Bretano, March 7, 1957, which is captioned “Couldn’t understand his English");...
Dates: 1956-1959; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1959

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