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Everett, Alexander Hill, Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS246
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Diplomat, author, political insider and brother of Edward Everett, Alexander Hill Everett (1790-1847) shaped American politics both abroad and at home. The Alexander Hill Everett Collection provides documentation of four important and diverse topics: life as charge d'affaires to The Hague in 1822 and 1823, analysis of the U.S. presidential election of 1824 before the final result was formalized, discussion of population theories, and expenses of the U.S. minister to Spain between 1825 and...
Dates:
1822 - 1829
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Born on March 19, 1790, in Boston, Massachusetts, Alexander Hill Everett (1790-1847) was the son of the Reverend Oliver and Lucy (Hill) Everett and brother of Edward Everett (1794-1865).
Found in Finding Aid Title:
Alexander Hill Everett Papers
Found in Finding Aid Filing Title:
Everett, Alexander Hill, Papers
Georgetown Architecture, Northwest Washington, District of Columbia: Historic American Buildings Survey Selections Number 10
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000536
Scope and Contents
Issued jointly by the Commission of Fine Arts and the Historic American Buildings Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. Includes: Benjamin Miller House; Robert P. Dodge House; Philip T. Berry House; Carriage House; Oak Hill Cemetery Gatehouse; Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel; Mt. Zion United Methodist Church; First Baptist Church of Georgetown; Christ Church; Georgetown Custom House and Post Office; Healy Hall; Jackson...
Dates:
1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Berry House; Carriage House; Oak Hill Cemetery Gatehouse; Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel; Mt.
Richard L. Harris Plaque
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030701539]
Identifier: GTA-000560
Scope and Contents
Mounted reproduction of newspaper article: "Event at Mateur Hill 523 - Son of U.S. Lines Chief Stars in Tunisian Attack. New York World-Telegram, May 5, 1943." Includes image of Capt. Richard L. Harris.
Dates:
1943
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Mounted reproduction of newspaper article: "Event at Mateur Hill 523 - Son of U.S. Lines Chief Stars in Tunisian Attack.
Record of Enslaved Individuals from the Estate of John L. Millard
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 45: [Barcode: 39020030733607], Folder: 27
Identifier: GTM-20250620
Scope and Contents
This ledger provides a record of enslaved persons hired out from the estate of John Lewis Millard (misspelled on this document as Milliard) in Leonardtown, St. Mary’s County. Titled "Servants belonging to the Estate of John L. Milliard the year 1845 and to whom hired and for what amounts," the document lists each hirer's name, the names of the enslaved individuals, and amounts allowed or owed.Notably, several entries show a woman named Ginnie who either "hires herself" or...
Dates:
1845 - 1852
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Gift of Marylu Hill, 2025
The Pirate Playscript
File — Box GTM Shared Box 16: [Barcode: 39020030723756], Folder: 3
Identifier: GTM-20180414
Scope and Contents
One playscript copy of Cole Porter's "The Pirate," produced posthumously by the Cole Porter Trusts around 1968. The script includes songs that were omitted from the 1948 film.
Dates:
circa 1968
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Purchased from Clouds Hill Books with funds provided by the DuVal Fund, 2018.
Evelyn Waugh - Handasyde Buchanan Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-820103
Scope and contents note
The collection consists of letters and postcards from Evelyn Waugh to bookseller Handasyde Buchanan, concerning books the former wished to acquire or sell.
Dates:
1946 - 1966
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Handasyde Buchanan worked at the Heywood Hill bookstore in London starting in 1945; he sometimes told people that he was Heywood Hill.
Eleanor Cropley Papers
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 29: [Barcode: 39020030756319], Folder: 7-15
Identifier: GTM-0034
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials related to the Cropley and Libbey families of Georgetown in Washington D.C. It includes photographs (family portraits, street scenes in Georgetown, and other images), genealogical notes on the Cropley and Libbey families, correspondence, and other materials (an advertisement for George Pimper Cigars, 3245 M ST. NW and a program for the reinternment of John Howard Payne at Oak Hill Cemetery).
Dates:
1880s-1981; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1910
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
NW and a program for the reinternment of John Howard Payne at Oak Hill Cemetery).
Conference on Education and Student Life in the United States, 1955-1956
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000648
Scope and Contents
Report of Conference held at University of Chicago, June 19-22, 1955. Edited by William Birenbaum. I. Graduate Teaching and Research in the United States Universities - Charles E. Odengaard (university of Michigan). II. Students in the Community of Scholars - E.G. Williamson (University of Minnesota). III. Philosophy of Education in the United States - Clarence H. Faust (Fund for the Advancement of Education). IV. Summary Statement of Conference - Erich A. Walter (University of...
Dates:
1955-1956
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Assumptions Underlying the University's Services to Its Students - Ruth Hill Useem (Michigan State University). IV. The Personnel Idea in American Higher Education - Robert M.
Edmund P. Cerrute, SJ Papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 37010000467833]
Identifier: GTA-000926
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Office files of Edmund P. Cerrute, S.J., faculty moderator of "The Hoya", for the academic year 1935-1936. Cerrute's primary concern appears to have been the business aspects of "The Hoya," especially managing advertisements for it. The correspondence, arranged by month, reveals a little about the motivations of advertisers and the difficulties of obtaining ads during the Depression. Includes correspondence from various advertising firms like Cluett, Peabody and Company, Inc., Newell-Emmett...
Dates:
1935-1936; Majority of material found within 1935-1936
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
., Newell-Emmett Co., and A.J. Norris Hill Company placing advertisements on behalf of companies such as the Ford Motor Company, Chesterfield Cigarettes, Camel Cigarettes, Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co., W.A.
William O. Dundas Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-710820
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the correspondence of William Oswald Dundas. It includes outgoing letters addressed chiefly to Edward I. Devitt, SJ. (1841-1920), archivist and professor of history at Georgetown College and Henry J. Shandelle, S.J. (1848-1925), librarian and professor of English and philosophy; extensive recollections of student life at Georgetown 1856-58 and of life in Washington DC during the 1850s. Incoming correspondence includes letters from James Edward Calhoun (1796-1889)...
Dates:
1839 - 1920
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
More of Dundas' papers can be found in The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at UNC Chapel Hill.
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:
Esling; Alan Dailey; Owen A. Hill; Daniel Loughran Daly; E.R. Smith; Ward F. Barrow; John Boyle O'Reilly; Nicholas T.
Clinton Ives Smullyan, Jr. Collection of Graham Greene Materials
Collection
Identifier: GTM-090714
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous items from Smullyan's personal collection of Graham Greene including original and photocopied typescripts, marked copy and mock up of various articles and other works. Includes correspondence to Greene from Gloria Emerson, Richard Hughes, and Robert Graves; and printed items.
Dates:
1947 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Purchased from Cloud Hill Books, New York, representing Clinton Ives Smullyan, Jr., 2009.
Scrapbook: Georgetown University Public Relations, 1955-1956
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000044-DS
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings on: deaths of John O’Brien, Roy J. Glezen, Phillip Stein, Jesse C. Atkins, Dennis R. Bilbrey, Francis B. Hargadon, S.J., John J. Toohey, S.J., James A.V. Buckley, S.J., Judge Harold Stephens, Helen Rock, W. Coleman Nevils, S.J., John J. Kehoe, S.J., and Paul A. McNally, S.J.; dedication of statues of St. Luke and St. Apollonia in the Medical-Dental Building Chapel; award of honorary degrees to Thomas J. Tudor, Clare Booth Luce, and Michael X. Sullivan; speech by Secretary...
Dates:
1955-1956; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1956
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Costello, Foreign Minister of Spain Alberto Martin Artajo, and President of Itlay Giovanni Gronchi; establishment of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Banking; commencement, 1955; John Gombojab Hangin; Riley Hughes and his book "The Hills were Liars"; construction of St. Mary’s Hall; retirement and death of Edmund A.
Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000339
Scope and Contents
Includes black-and-white and color postcards, most unsent. Box 1 consists of images of campus and building exteriors and interiors.Some sets are present. Included are: Exterior:
Aerial Shots (14);
Lateral View from Potomac (16);
Observatory Hill (3);
School of Nursing (St. Mary's) (1);
Medical Dental Building (1);
Old Medical School (10);
Front Gates (Old-5/First Remodel-5/New-3);
Georgetown University Hospital (New-3, Old-2);
Old North (6);
Dahlgren Chapel...
Dates:
ca. 1909-1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Ohio:
Columbus-Sheraton-Columbus Motor Hotel (3)
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia-College of Chestnut Hill.
South Carolina: Mount Holly-Medway Plantation.
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia-College of Chestnut Hill.
South Carolina: Mount Holly-Medway Plantation.
Vaughan, Herbert Cardinal, Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS156
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Herbert Cardinal Vaughan Collection consists of original and transcribed material pertaining to St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart.
Dates:
1841 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1872 - 1877
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He died at his beloved Mill Hill college on June 19, and was buried there.
Collection of P.G. Wodehouse Letters to Angus Thuermer
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 5 (Letter): [Barcode: 39020030726437], Folder: 9
Identifier: GTM-20230523
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four letters from P.G. Wodehouse to journalist Angus Thuermer chiefly pertaining to Wodehouse's time in the Nazi concentration camp Tost in Poland and his present-day life in the New York City suburb of Remsenburg. The letters date from 1961 to 1975. Also included are twelve pieces of correspondence between Thuermer and others regarding his A.P. article on Wodehouse's incarceration in Tost first published in the "New York Times" in 1940 (1975-2008). A photograph of...
Dates:
1961 - 2008
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Purchased from Capitol Hill Books, 2023.
University Reform: U.S.A., 1970 - A Symposium on the occasion of the inauguration of Robert J. Henle, S.J. as 45th President of Georgetown University, October 7, 1969. Georgetown University Press
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: GTA-000370
Scope and Contents
Panelists: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, "Reform and the Future of the American Catholic University"; Dr, Allan M. Carter, Chancellor, New York Univesrity, "Redefining the Mission of the American University"; Dr, Harold Enarson, President, Cleveland State University, "Reform of University Governments"; The Honorable Edith Green, U.S. House of Representatives, "Federal University Policies for the 1970s"; and Rev. R.J. Henle, S.J., President, Georgetown...
Dates:
1969
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
John Kolojeski, President, Student Bar Association; and Mr. David Hill, Undergraduate, School of Foreign Service.
Martyn Goff Papers
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 5 (Letter): [Barcode: 39020030726437], Folder: 1-2
Identifier: GTM-20221006
Abstract
Collection primarily consists of correspondence between Martyn Goff (administrator of the Booker Prize from 1973-2006) and Ian Norrie (a longtime friend and member of the Booker Prize management committee). It includes approximately 125 letters between the two dating from the 1970s to the early 1990s.Martyn Goff (7 June 1923 – 25 March 2015) was a British literary administrator, author, and bookseller. He made a significant contribution to the organization and popularity of the...
Dates:
1973 - 1991
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
There are mentions of various literary and publishing figures, such as Christina Foyle, Graham Greene, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Holroyd, Matthew Evans, Louis Baum, Frank Delaney, Sir Stanley Unwin, Frank Muir, Alan Hill, Simon Hornby, Clifford Simmons, Charles Hammick, Peter Stockham, Hunter Davies, Richard Adams, Ivor Courtney, Margaret Drabble, Carme Callil, Anthony Burgess, Michael Caine, Jack Morpurgo, David Whitaker, Norah Smallwood, and Ian Parsons.
Panama Hattie Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-171129
Scope and Contents Note
The Panama Hattie Collection contains a screenplay for the film "Panama Hattie" and a typescript of the play by that same name. The music and lyrics to Panama Hattie were authored by Cole Porter; the book was authored by Herbert Fields and B.G. De Sylva.
Dated July 10, 1941, the screenplay was actor Dan Dailey's personal copy. The screenplay is 117 pages long. Deriving from State Fair Musicals in 1954, the typescript includes several pencil sketches among the pages.
Dates:
Creation: 1941 - 1954
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Purchased from William Reese Co. (2016) and from Clouds Hill Books (2017). The items were acquired with funds provided by the DuVal Fund.
Samuel Ebling papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830120
Scope and Contents
Certificates of U.S. Department of State consular appointments signed by various U.S. secretaries of state, as well as presidents of U.S. and other countries. Post and date of appointment noted. Arranged by document signatory.
Dates:
1924-1950
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Samuel Gale Ebling was born on December 11, 1893, in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He attended Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, and later spent part of his undergraduate years at the Universite de Nancy, France.