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Fulmer Mood Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS139
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Fulmer Mood Papers consist of notes and photostatic copies of Raymond of Sabunde's "Theologia Naturalis" and "Tabula Alphabetica" kept by Fulmer Mood. The Papers comprise 1 linear foot of material, arranged in 14 folders in two boxes. Number of Boxes: 2 Extent: 1 linear foot 18 December, 1984. Date Span: 1970 - 1974
Dates:
1970 - 1974
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Number of Boxes: 2 Extent: 1 linear foot 18 December, 1984. Date Span: 1970 - 1974
Scrapbook: Georgetown College Preparatory School Games, 1910-1912
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000006-DS
Scope and Contents
Contains clippings about Georgetown Prep athletics (specifically its football, basketball, crew, and baseball teams.) References to Maurice Joyce, Patrick Dempsey, and the University boathouse are included.
Dates:
1910-1912
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Spanish Jesuits Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS113
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Spanish Jesuits Collection consists of 1 linear foot of manuscripts and correspondence by and about Spanish Jesuits from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The material is arranged in ten folders in 2 boxes. The Spanish Jesuits Collection contains a special series, The Jose de Francisco de Isla Series, which consists of bound manuscripts and correspondence by and about Isla. Most of the material centers around Isla's Historia del Famoso Predicador Fray Gerundio de...
Dates:
1750 - 1850
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Spanish Jesuits Collection consists of 1 linear foot of manuscripts and correspondence by and about Spanish Jesuits from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.
Joseph G. E. Hopkins papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS171
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Joseph G. E. Hopkins Papers consist primarily of correspondence, manuscripts, and pamphlets. The papers comprise 3.25 linear feet of material arranged in 154 folders in 3 boxes (two 1.5 foot boxes and one .25 foot box). The correspondence in the collection is between Hopkins and various colleagues in the fields of publishing and American history and includes signed pamphlets by colleagues and manuscripts by Hopkins. Among the correspondents and pamphlet authors are Wayne Andrews, Cynthia...
Dates:
1939-1987; Majority of material found within 1957-1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The papers comprise 3.25 linear feet of material arranged in 154 folders in 3 boxes (two 1.5 foot boxes and one .25 foot box). The correspondence in the collection is between Hopkins and various colleagues in the fields of publishing and American history and includes signed pamphlets by colleagues and manuscripts by Hopkins.
Martin J. Bergin, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-151120
Scope and Contents
The Martin J. Bergin, Jr. papers consist of research materials generated by Martin J. Bergin, Jr. about the life and career of Alexis de Tocqueville.The Martin J. Bergin, Jr. papers are arranged into 4 series:Series 1: Research Files. Materials generated by Martin J. Bergin, Jr. Includes xeroxed secondary sources, xeroxed primary sources, and transcripts by and about Alexis de Tocqueville. Concerns political and economic aspects of Tocqueville's career and writing....
Dates:
1831 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Diary of Junior Division of Georgetown College, 1888-1900
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000143-DS
Scope and Contents
Apparently kept by one of the Prefects, this contains brief, daily notes on campus happenings. Reference is made to recreational activities (particularly sports and plays), examinations, weather, etc. Daily schedule noted in entries for 09/13/1889 and 09/18/1892. All Saints' Day festivities, including bobbing for apples, described in entry for 11/01/1891. Marriage of John Agar in Boys Chapel noted in entry for 02/18/1892. Equipment in gymnasium listed in entry of 02/26/1892. Mardi...
Dates:
1888-1900 (with some gaps)
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Skating on river and ice “about one foot thick” referenced in entry of 02/10/1895. Death of George Bahen noted in entry of 03/26/1895.
John F. Parr - D. Harrison Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS103
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Parr-Smith Collection consists primarily of correspondence, clippings, medals and photographs collected by D. Harrison Smith and John F. Parr, most relating to their friendship with Edmund S. Walsh, S.J. and their connections with Georgetown University. The collection consists of 1 linear foot of material arranged in 24 folders in 2 boxes. The Smith-Parr Archives contain correspondence relating to John F. Parr's tenure at Georgetown University. Manuscripts by Parr and Smith are also in...
Dates:
1940-1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The collection consists of 1 linear foot of material arranged in 24 folders in 2 boxes.
La Pucelle d'Orleans Manuscript
Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 39020031848685]
Identifier: GTM-20140421
Scope and Contents
A manuscript copy of the 1762 "authorized" edition of Voltaire's La Pucelle d'Orleans including 47 interleavings on which the copyist has supplied ommitted passages considered too risque to print. The result is something like an early critical edition of the text. A date in the final quarter of the 18th century seems likely, at earliest post-1762.The text is written in a single neat cursive hand throughout, with additions marked by...
Dates:
18th century, after 1762
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
A portion has been cut from the foot of the title page (repaired) and there is some water damage to the final chapters, though it does not compromise legibility.
John C. Bucknill papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-761214
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook containing photographs, correspondence, and drawings compiled by Sir John C. Bucknill (1817-1897), distinguished English physician who was most noted for his work with the insane. The scrapbook contains photographs of Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Huxley, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackery, among others. Correspondence includes letters from John Bright, J. A. Clarke, Sir John Duke Coleridge, and Edward A. Seymour.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1857-1877
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Sir James Crichton Browne said of him that "For twenty years he was the acknowledged and dignified head of his department in this country, and mingled on equal footing with all the finest intellects of his time."
John Hall Brett papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS216
Scope and Contents Note
The John Hall Brett Papers comprise one (1) box containing letters regarding Brett's appointment to the position of manager of the Bank of Siam, miscellaneous financial materials relative to the Bank's affairs, and various photographs (including Dr. Sun Yat Sen and two opium smokers) dating from the early 20th century depicting Far Eastern life. The photographs in this collection provide interested Asian scholars with a vivid representation of the life activities of various Far Eastern...
Dates:
1910-1941; Majority of material found within 1930-1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1931, the Bank was on the brink of insolvency and it was during Brett's seven year tenure that it regained its solid financial footing. For his services the then King conferred the Order of the Crown of Siam on him, a remarkable honor; few foreigners were awarded such a distinction.
Washingtoniana Pamphlets Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-211004
Scope and Contents
Published ephemera relating to the historical develpment of Washington, DC in the 20th century. Primarily comprised of plans, maps, directories, reports, and studies of various agencies, commissions, task forces, associations, and interest groups engaged in the urban planning of the capital area, as well as miscellaneous ephemera consisting of event-related ephemera (invitations, brochures, menus, tickets, etc.), park and monument brochures, gallery show catalogs, playbills, etc.
Dates:
1924 - 1974
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Samuel J. Hamrick Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20151215
Scope and Contents
The papers of novelist Samuel J. Hamrick include book drafts, correspondence with publishers, photographs (box 1), research files, and notebooks (box 13).
Dates:
1929 - 2008
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Map Collection of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections
Collection
Identifier: GRB-20211220
Scope and Contents
Collection of approximately 500 maps of unknown provenance. Many of the maps contain a Georgetown College or Riggs Library stamp and have been held by the Library for some time.
Dates:
1797 - 1998
Found in:
Georgetown University Rare Books
Georgetown Anthology As Compiled and Edited by Al. Philip Kane and James S. Ruby, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000372
Scope and Contents
Dorrance and Company Publishers, Philadelphia. Author’s Index at back. From the preface: "For all those to whom the name of Georgetown suggests a wealth of youthful memories and brings back to view the tower-crowned hill and cloistered quadrangles, this volume will serve as a trusted storehouse of time-dimmed dreams . . ." Includes poetry contributions from: W. Kurtz Wimsatt; Robert J. Collier; Paul D. Page, Jr.; Charles Wells Russell; George LeGuere; Leo J. Casey; Thomas Walsh...
Dates:
1927
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Kirby (including “The Georgetown Walks”); John Augustine Goodwin; Maurice Francis Egan; Charles Constantine Pise; John A. Foote (including "Ode: Georgetown University School of Medicine, 1950-1925"; Charles H.
Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Pamphlets
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20200102
Scope and Contents
The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016).
The collection includes over 75 sub-collections of pamphlets and other small printed ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, history, and bibliography. The largest category, representing more than 300 pamphlets, are lectures produced by various universities worldwide, mainly in the United States and Great Britain, but also including...
Dates:
circa 1810-2012
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
There were questions I felt the book was begging of me: did Foot know Mumford? In 1953 Dr. Foot was a don at Oxford, so had the American ever visited him there?
Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20200101
Scope and Contents
The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016). The collection includes over 300 sub-collections of bound and loose manuscripts, documents, journals, correspondence, commonplace books, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, and history -- primarily of the 19th and early 20th century.
Highlights include:1. Letters...
Dates:
circa 1551-2015
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
There were questions I felt the book was begging of me: did Foot know Mumford? In 1953 Dr. Foot was a don at Oxford, so had the American ever visited him there?
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
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers comprise 1 linear foot of materials, and they are arranged in two archival boxes.
Carroll Quigley Papers
File
Identifier: GTM-790904
Scope and Contents
Papers of longtime Georgetown University professor of history Carroll Quigley (1910-1977), including research and lecture notes, correspondence, manuscripts, Georgetown teaching materials, documents from Harvard and Princeton, and printed materials. Manuscripts of his books are retained, such as “Tragedy and Hope,” “Evolution of Civilizations,” “Weapons Systems and Political Stability,” and “The Anglo-American Establishment.”
Dates:
1930 - 1977
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Richard Stites Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-130711
Boggs Family papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-861226
Scope and Contents
The Boggs Family Papers comprise twenty-one letters, two photographs and four pieces of related materials. Eleven of the letters were written by William R. Boggs, and ten of these were to his brother and sister, Maggie and Adam Boggs, while he was in the Union Army from 1863 - 1865. (Note: The William R. Boggs whose letters are in this Collection should not be confused with the Confederate Brigadier General of the same name.) There are two photographs of William Boggs and they appear to date...
Dates:
1863-1923
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In Virginia he is seriously wounded in the foot and remains in the hospital for two months until he is discharged from the Army.