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Henderson, Gordon G., SJ, Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-200204
Scope and Contents

The G. Gordon Henderson, SJ Papers contain material that reflects his spiritual life and teaching career; his graduate-level schoolwork; and his involvement in CARA (Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate).

Dates: 1931 - 1987
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Creators:  Henderson, G. Gordon, 1917-1987
Found in Notes:  George Gordon Henderson (1917-1987) was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Gordon (1889-1975) and Leatha Mae Might (1899-1984) and raised in Baltimore alongside his nine younger siblings.
Found in Finding Aid Title:  G. Gordon Henderson, SJ Papers
Found in Finding Aid Filing Title:  Henderson, Gordon G., SJ, Papers

Georgetown Citizen: Official Organ of the Georgetown Citizen's Association

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-131206
Dates: January 1920-October 1923 (with gaps)
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

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
Found in: Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:  Edited by Richard Alan Gordon, William Blatty, and Alan Jarvis. Contents: I.

William Harding Jackson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-101014
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the personal papers of William Harding Jackson. Correspondents include President Eisenhower, Constantine FitzGibbon, Arthur Gardner, Gordon Gray, and Richard M. Nixon, among others. A run of letters regarding Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign is also included among the documents. Some typed manuscripts by Jackson, a few photographs of him, and a series of printed materials round out the collection.

Dates: 1938 - 1971
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Correspondents include President Eisenhower, Constantine FitzGibbon, Arthur Gardner, Gordon Gray, and Richard M. Nixon, among others. A run of letters regarding Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign is also included among the documents.

Clippings, 1972-1979

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000367
Scope and Contents Xeroxes of articles from papers including The Washington Post, Catholic Standard, and New York Times. All relate to the University and discuss faculty, events, issues, medical developments, and sports. Clippings from 1973 discuss: program to bring German students to study in U.S.; appointment of Jayne Thomas Rich as head of Protective Services; and move of Woodstock Theological Center. Clippings from 1974 discuss: program to bring German students to study in U.S.; dismissal of Edmund G....
Dates: September 1972-April 1979
Found in: Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:  Clippings from 1975 discuss: appointment of Douglass W. Gordon as Director of Community Relations; visit to Ferdowski University in Iran; award of honorary degree to Empress of Iran and associated protests; and resignation of Robert J.

Playing Card Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000584
Scope and Contents Authors. 1119. U.S. Playing Card Co., Cinicinnati, U.S.A. Copyright, 1897. Authors represented include Will Carlton, Eugene Field, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Reade, Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Buchanan Read, J. Feinmore Cooper, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, William Dean Howells, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Blafour Stevenson, William Mkaepeace Thackeray, Alexander Pope, Helen Hunt Jackson,...
Dates: 1897-1916 and Undated
Found in: Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:  Feinmore Cooper, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, William Dean Howells, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Blafour Stevenson, William Mkaepeace Thackeray, Alexander Pope, Helen Hunt Jackson, Celia Thaxter, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Bret Harte, James Russell Lowell, General Lew Wallace, John Mitlon, Walt Whitman, Edward George Butler, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Shakespeare, George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Stanley John Weyman, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Carlyle, Washington Irving, Bayard Taylor, John Dryden, Charles Dickens, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Wilkie Collins, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarance Stedman, George Elliot, and Anthony Hope Hawkins.

Communications Office: Protocol and Events

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030720794]
Identifier: GTA-130506
Scope and Contents Tickets from talks by: U.S. President Bill Clinton, Gaston Hall, October 28, 2011; U.S. President Bill Clinton, Gaston Hall, April 30, 2013; and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on "U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security", December 19, 2011. Programs from: Changeless Faith for a Changing World: A Lecture by His All holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Gaston Hall, November 3, 2009; Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish U.S. Partnership in the 21st Century:...
Dates: Majority of material found within 2009 - 2013
Found in: Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:  Partnership in the 21st Century: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu, Gaston Hall, November 29, 2010; Department of Homeland Security - Year Eight: A Discussion Featuring Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff in Conversation with Andrea Mitchell, Gaston Hall, Marcj 1, 2011; Global Values and Global Institutions: The Right Honorable Gordon Brown, M.P., Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gaston Hall, April 14, 2011; Clinton-Gore Economics: Understanding the Lessons of the 1990s, Gaston Hall, October 28, 2011 (keynote address by Bill Clinton); Whittington Lecture, America's Enduring Promise, Paul Ryan, Gaston Hall, April 26, 2012; talk by Bono, Gaston Hall, November 11, 2012; National Security in the 21st Century: A Panel Discussion with Former Presidential National Security Advisors (Brent Scrowcroft, Stephen J.

James P. J. Murphy Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS118
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The James P. J. Murphy Papers primarily consist of correspondence and signed photographs of well-known artists, musicians, authors and stage figures of the 1930's and 1940's. The papers are arranged in 845 folders in 9 boxes. James P. J. Murphy had a good eye for art and chose materials wisely, and at a meager cost, he amassed an enormous autograph collection. He began in the early 1930's, mainly trying to get signed photographs of musicians and stage personalities, including...
Dates: 1930 - 1965
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  DuBois, Rachel Carson, Marc Chagall, Asa Cheffetz, Eugene O'Neill, Salvador Dali, Ruth Gordon, John Dos Passos, Rudolf Laban, and Herman Wouk.

Bruno Scott James Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS135
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Bruno Scott James Papers consist of correspondence and manuscript material belonging to Msgr. James. Correspondence by Msgr. James is limited and in xerox form. The originals are located in other collections, specifically, the Douglas Woodruff papers and the Sir Arnold Lunn papers at the Georgetown University Special Collections Division. The bulk of the correspondence relating directly to Msgr. James is to or from his friend, the Bishop William Gordon Wheeler of Leeds. This concerns the...
Dates: 1957 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1984
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  James is to or from his friend, the Bishop William Gordon Wheeler of Leeds. This concerns the prospective publication of the former's spiritual letters to colleagues seeking guidance.

Frederick W. Rolfe, Baron Corvo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-141102.1
Content Description

Secondary works relating to Baron Corvo, including correspondence from collectors such as Donald Weeks, manuscripts of papers about Corvo by various authors (some photocopied), printed ephemera, and photographs.

Dates: 1929 - 2013
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Taraknath Das papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-801201
Collection-level scope and contents note

The Taraknath Das Papers are contained in the John J. Meng Papers. Other papers from the Taraknath Das Foundation, as well as correspondence between Meng and Das, are also located in the Meng papers. Material in this collection span the years 1932 to 1940 and relate to Das' work "Indien in der Weltpolitick." Manuscripts for articles and papers by Das are included.

Dates: 1932-1940
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Gradually this aid project became institutionalized."

(Source: Leonard A. Gordon, Director of the Taraknath Das Foundation)

The Taraknath Das Foundation at Columbia University continues his work.

Foreign Service School: Syllabi

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-901023
Scope and Contents Contains two volumes of course syllabi compiled by Assistant Dean Thomas H. Healy. One volume contains syllabi from the following classes: Political and Diplomatic History of Modern Europe taught by Baron Serge A. Korff; Applied Geography; Commercial Policies and Treaties taught by William S. Culbertson; International Law taught by James Brown Scott, assisted by Thomas H. Healy; French Language: Elementary, Advanced, Diplomatic taught by Jean J. Labat; Economics I taught by...
Dates: 1923-1924; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1924
Found in: Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:  Reid; Credits and Collections taught by William Gordon Buchanan; Steamship Class and Construction taught by Alfred H.

Taraknath Das - Ralph G. Starke collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-160920
Content Description Ephemera re Taraknath Das collected by Ralph G. Starke.Folder 1. Autograph letter dated April 4, 1943, signed by Taraknath Das to Ralph G. Starke. 2 pages + envelope. Reference to the former's upcoming speaking engagements. Folder 2. Autograph notes by Starke re Das. Folder 3. Print outs of internet research re Das. Dated 2016. Folder 4. Offprint, signed by Das: "Rabinadrath Tagore Poet and Patriot" (Thought, March 1942). Folder 5. Offprint, signed by Das: "The Kashmir Issue and...
Dates: 1943-2016
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Gradually this aid project became institutionalized."

(Source: Leonard A. Gordon, Director of the Taraknath Das Foundation)

The Taraknath Das Foundation at Columbia University continues his work.

Byington family papers 3

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS408
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection includes 8 letters to and from Aaron Homer Byington from 1844 to 1899. The majority of these are typed letters signed by John Addison Porter to Byington. The letters cover a broad range of topics including Washington Cabinet appointments, Connecticut Senatorial races, consular salaries, significant newspapers, the Republican Party, the Spanish-American War, and Byington's son, George. Also included in the collection is an autograph signed letter from Aaron Homer Byington to...
Dates: 1844-1899
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  He was the first to deliver news of the battles of Bull Run and Gettysburg, where he reconnected and received exclusive rights to wire services between General George Gordon Meade's headquarters and Washington. Because of Byington, the "Tribune" was also one of the first newspapers to report on the conspiracy and aftermath of Lincoln's death.

Robert Fergusson Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS263
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Robert Fergusson Papers document the business activities of Robert Fergusson (d. 1813), a tobacco factor operating in Port Tobacco, Maryland. The collection includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence of Fergusson. Alexander Hamilton (d. 1799), a tobacco factor in Piscataway, Maryland, is a principal correspondent. Other correspondents include Dumfries [Virginia] merchants George Gray and Alexander Henderson, James Brown & Company of Glasgow [Scotland], and others. John...
Dates: 1717 - 1810; Majority of material found within 1780 - 1800
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Fergusson also represented Glassford, Gordon & Monteith; Neil Jamieson & Company; James Brown & Company of Glasgow, Scotland; the heirs of Matthew Blair; and Henry Glassford, Richard Henderson, and Alexander Henderson of Glassford & Henderson.

Ned O'Gorman Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS328
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ned O'Gorman Papers 2 consist primarily of correspondence, manuscripts, notes and diaries. In addition to personal correspondence and manuscripts, the collection contains material from three projects that O'Gorman undertook. The organization of the papers reflects this, as each of the projects is a separate series. In 1965, O'Gorman returned from a tour in South America and began work on a book for Random House that would be titled "Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on...
Dates: 1920 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2000
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  While at Princeton in 1957, O'Gorman rented a room in the house of Caroline Gordon Tate. His poetry was recognized when he won Guggenheim Fellowships in 1956 and 1962.

Byington Family Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS209
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The collection consists of material relating to at least four generations of the Byington family, and includes correspondence, property deeds, biographical information and newspaper clippings organized into the following series:Series 1. Aaron Homer Byington (1826-1910): Correspondence Series 2. Aaron Homer Byington: Manuscripts Series 3. Aaron Homer Byington: Related Material Series 4. Homer Morrison Byington I (1879-1966): Correspondence Series 5. Homer Morrison Byington I, II...
Dates: 1835 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1960
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  At Gettysburg, he reconnected and was permitted use of the wire service between the headquarters of General George Gordon Meade and Washington. Later, this exclusive privilege served to provide Byington with information concerning the conspiracy and aftermath of Lincoln's assassination, enabling an expeditious report to the 'Tribune' of the death of the president.

Stephen and Susan Decatur papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS245
Collection-level Scope and Content Note Donated to Georgetown College by Susan Decatur, the widow of the War of 1812 naval hero Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), the Stephen and Susan Decatur Papers consist of one letter book containing letters dated from 1812 to 1813 written to Commodore Decatur congratulating him on the victory of the U.S.S. "United States" against the H.M.S. "Macedonian," two letters dated 1812 to him from U.S. Navy Secretary Paul Hamilton, and 16 letters to Susan Decatur dated between 1831 and 1845. Contained in...
Dates: 1812 - 1845
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Correspondents include James Barbour, Gordon Saltonstall Mumford, William Sullivan, Daniel D.

Anthony Cave Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-930701
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...
Dates: 1930 - 2006
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Gray, Gordon, 1909-1982

 Person