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...

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One printed reproduction of a portrait drawing of John Henry Newman by George Richmond and one short handwritten letter by Newman, dated 1877.

Scope and Contents Contains images of U.S. Presidents, mostly at inaugurals. Includes: George and Martha Washington, John Adams, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln (includes detail of his signature), first inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, first inauguration of Grover Cleveland in 1885 (2 photographs, one showing streetcar in front of a decorated Willard Hotel), Benjamin Harrison (presumably his inauguration), William McKinley (at inauguration, with James Cardinal Gibbons, and Admiral Dewey, and lying in...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Carroll Quigley - John F. Parr Collection consists chiefly of manuscript chapters from a work Quigley called "Twentieth Century Europe" in manuscript form but later published as "Tragedy and Hope." The manuscript includes some editing and ample footnotes. The collection also contains one letter from Donald Harrison Smith concerning the Quigley manuscript. The materials date to circa 1965. Quigley published "Tragedy and Hope" in 1966. Although the chapters are numbered, not every chapter...

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The Edward J. O'Dowd Papers are a gift of his niece, Miss J.D. Marguerite Horrigan. The collection consists of a biographical sketch by Miss Horrigan about her uncle; an autograph/memento book belonging to O'Dowd, photographs and some printed items. Abbreviations used in this register include: EO'D (Edward O'Dowd); TLS (typed letter signed). Bulk dates: 1907-1948 Span dates: 1908-1985 Size: 0.25 linear feet, 1 Box

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Loughborough Family Papers: Part 3 contain materials related to the Loughborough family, which was prominent in the neighborhood of Georgetown in the 1800s and into the 1900s. Included are letters from William Cabell Bruce to his cousin Margaret C. Loughborough regarding family and other matters. Also, poetry and writings of Caroline Loughborough are preserved in the collection. Similarly, correspondence and manuscripts by Margaret C. Loughborough are retained. Documents to and from...

Collection-level scope and contents note The Lester Adams Papers primarily consist of the official papers and ephemera of Captain Lester Adams, who was part of the U.S. Medical Corps during World War I stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. The papers are arranged in 19 folders and housed in 1 box.The Lester Adams Papers cover Adams' brief service in the Medical Reserve Corps, mainly consisting of military orders, ephemera, and a few photographs. Among Adams' official correspondence are a telegram from Surgeon General...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note Eleven composition-style notebooks constitute the W. H. Chesson Diaries, ten of which offer a record of the life of a man of letters living in a suburb of Edwardian London. Over the many entries dated between 1904 and 1934 a unique picture of this London emerges, as witnessed from the vantage of the familial, professional and mental life of Wilfrid Hugh Chesson. In these diaries Chesson kept record of his family life, correspondence, dreams, books and manuscripts he had read, and other...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The preeminent American Catholic historian of his day, John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) amassed an extraordinary collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials. The John Gilmary Shea Papers preserved in the Georgetown University Library Special Collections Division provide valuable documentation of both American History in general and American Catholic History in particular. The papers are contained in 26 boxes (11.5 linear feet). Along with a small amount of outgoing...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ord family papers consist of correspondence exchanged between, among others, three family members who were important American military figures. Namely, James Ord (c.1789-1873), an officer in the U.S. Navy for a short time, and later a lieutenant in the army during the War of 1812; his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883), a noted Civil War general; and his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923), who served in the Indian campaign in Texas in 1880, commanded the Seminole Indian...

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.

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Harrison, Marguerite, 1879?-1967

Born for trouble the story of a chequered life, by Marguerite Harrison

London, V. Gollancz, ltd., 1936

MI-10334

39020030170958

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Contains the transcripts for the interviews conducted by Colin Campbell with officials from the Carter Administration.

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...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The John L. Brown papers 2, consists of 271 folders of alphabetically arranged correspondence with prominent twentieth-century graphic and performing artists, composers, publishers and writers including Josephine Baker, George Braziller, John Cage, Albert Camus, Marc Chagall, Carlos Chavez, Henry Steele Commager, George Dillon, John Dos Passos, Angna Enters, Paul Flamand, Gaston Gallimard, Julien Green, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jose Limon, Andre Malraux, Jacques...

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Correspondence, reports and other material relating to CVHE's service in Cuba from 1923 to 1925.

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Surratt, John H. (John Harrison), 1844-1916

A remarkable lecture : John H. Surratt tells his story

1949

MI-6625

39020030171113

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...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: 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...