Collection-level Scope and Content Note

Correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and Emma Pescatore.

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...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

This collection contains the correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and the James Murray Allison family for the time period 1918-1941. Much of the correspondence in this collection has to do with the column Belloc contributed to "Land and Water," a periodical founded by James Murray Allison to cover aspects of the war efforts during WWI.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Helen King Boyer Collection includes the personal papers of Zachariah T. Miller (1847-1913), who was attached to the 61st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment under General Carl Schurz during the American Civil War and later practiced homeopathic medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; his daughter Louise Miller Boyer (1890-1976), a noted artist and pioneer screenwriter at Metro Pictures Corporation in the New York City film industry in 1918; his granddaughter Helen King Boyer (b. 1919),...

Scope and Contents The Anthony Cave Brown papers comprise the extensive research files of historian and author Anthony Cave Brown used for his numerous books about U.S. and British military intelligence. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, photocopied documents, internet printouts, printed matter, manuscripts of some of his books, audio cassettes, and some photographs. Documents pertaining to various figures in the intelligence field; including William Donovan, H. St. John B. Philby, and Kim...

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Correspondence written mostly to Ned O'Gorman, the majority being personal in nature. A few letters relate to the publishing of his poetry.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Correspondence. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Scope and Contents Sermon by Ferdinand Steinmayr, also known as Ferdinand Farmer, SJ (1720-1786, entered 1743). Georgetown University Archives.(1) 1782. No title. Text: "Miseremini mei, miseremini mei, saltem vos amici mei, quia manus Domini tetigit me. Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me. Job XIX [19,21].” 8 pages. Notes at end: "Lancast. 1782 Donegal 1783” and (in an unidentified hand)...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The American Song Sheet Collection comprises a relatively cohesive group of 234 song sheets published in the United States (and principally in New York, by de Marsan) in the 1850's and during the early years of the Civil War. There are songs of African American interest, a few relating to events in the Civil War, and at least one exploiting a German accented singer. But of principal note are the fairly large number of songs dealing with the immigrant Irish or their native land, from "The...

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Contains correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts, and other documents pertaining to U.S. Catholic Church History. Boxes 12 and 13, which deal with notable individuals in U.S. Catholic History, are arranged alphabetically by last name of individual. Boxes 14 through 20 contain documents which focus on the history of Catholicism in particular geographic places in America, and they are arranged alphabetically by geographic area.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Correspondence. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

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Professional and personal photographs of Clare Boothe Luce with family and friends throughout her life. Included are photos of from childhood; as wife of millionaire George Brokaw, managing editor at Vanity Fair; and as the wife of American publisher, Henry Robinson Luce. Notable are her campaign photographs of 1942 when she ran for a seat in Congress.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection consists of the personal papers of former U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle. It is one of three portions comprising the larger collection of the Biddle Family papers that include the papers of his wife, Katherine Biddle and a series of family correspondence (see separate finding aids). Of interest are lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. attorney general...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Quigley archive is, properly speaking, the photo “morgue” of Quigley Publications, active under various titles since 1915 in motion picture industry trade publishing (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily, and others). Primarily an assemblage of publicity photos, the archive is a unique national resource for photographs of motion picture industry people: producers, directors, animators, and their colleagues. Actors and actresses figure less prominently, but are well represented...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series: The Correspondence Series mainly contains letters to O'Gorman from family, friends and acquaintances. Among his fellow poets and artists are letters from Bernard Malamud, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Herbert Read, Dame Freya Stark, Dame Janet Baker, Leonie Adams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Eberhard, Anne Fremantle, Robert Lax, Robert Penn Warren, Abbie Huston Evans and Isabella Gardiner. Much of his correspondence relates to his religious and social conscience, with letters from Martin...