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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 / Robert Fergusson Papers 1

Causten Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS201
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

This collection contains the letters written by members of the Causten family over the period 1805-1820.

Dates: 1805 - 1820
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Causten Family Papers

Elder Family Papers

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Identifier: GTM-800826
Scope and Contents The Elder Family Papers consist primarily of correspondence to Francis William Elder (1807-1889), a Baltimore merchant, and his wife, Matilda Winchester Elder. The correspondence concerns various aspects of nineteenth century American Catholicism and Southern history. The collection includes material on Mt. St. Mary's Seminary and St. Joseph's Academy in Emittsburg, Maryland, and correspondence from American Catholic bishops William H. Elder, Thomas S. Byrne, Martin John Spalding, and John...
Dates: 1794 - 1906; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1898
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Elder Family Papers

Michel Marsaudon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS158
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Michel Marsaudon Papers primarily consist of correspondence to the young French merchant Michel Marsaudon trading in various ports in Haiti during the Haitian and French Revolutions. Also included are documents relating to Marsaudon's brief service in the artillery corps of his native Bordeaux, as well as other correspondence, official documents and receipts mostly relating to trade and society in Haiti in the early 1790's. The collection is arranged in 104 folders in one box....
Dates: 1788 - 1802
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Michel Marsaudon Papers

Robert Fergusson Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS449
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Robert Fergusson Papers 2 consist of three documents concerning the tobacco trade in late 18th century America. One document was received in 1771 in Piscataway, Maryland by noted tobacco factor Alexander Hamilton the merchant (not the more famous politician by that name), and it touches on economic activities. A second document is a ledger of Neil Jamieson in account with John Brown & Company, detailing commercial items purchased in 1774. The third document, dated 1789, is an account...
Dates: 1771 - 1789
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Robert Fergusson Papers 2

Huie, Reid and Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS226
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Huie, Reid and Company Collection consists of two series as described below: Series 1. Order Requests - Alphabetical (Folders 1-47) Consisting of 47 folders, this series contains 53 order requests received by Huie, Reid and Company from various individuals, including some members of prominent Virginia families. The orders are arranged alphabetically by customer. The individuals requested a relatively wide variety of goods, such as tobacco, sugar, salt, shoes, and linen. Series 2. Leaves...
Dates: 1787 - 1789
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Huie, Reid and Company Collection

Edmund A. Walsh, S.J.: Speeches/Writings

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Identifier: GTA-000528
Scope and Contents Character: The True End of University Education. Baccalaureate Sermon to the Class of 1924. Delivered in Dahlgren Chapel, June 8, 1924.Soviet Russia and the United States: A Study in Comparative Government by Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Ph.D., Regent, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Reprinted from the Georgetown College Journal, June 1925.Why Pope Pius XI Asked Prayers for Russia on March 19, 1930: A Review of the Facts in the Case Together with Proofs...
Dates: 1924-1952
Found in: Georgetown University Archives / Edmund A. Walsh, S.J.: Speeches/Writings

Joseph G. E. Hopkins papers

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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 / Joseph G. E. Hopkins papers

Leonor K. Sullivan Papers

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Identifier: GTM-761019
Scope and Contents

Gift of Leonor K. Sullivan, 1976/1977.

Collection consists of photocopies; originals located at St. Louis University Library, St. Louis, Missouri.

Material pertains primarily to U.S.-Panama treaty negotiations relating to the Panama Canal and a proposed interoceanic Atantic-Pacific sea-level canal.

Dates: 1943 - 1976
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Leonor K. Sullivan Papers

Edward W. Bodnar, SJ papers

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Identifier: GTM-120731
Scope and content note Series I includes only works by Edward Bodnar, whether originally authored by Bodnar or translated by him. The series contains multiple drafts of many of these works, from first draft tentative "sense-translations" to final drafts. The card catalogs included in the series also contain photographs of manuscripts found in many of the archives listed. Series II includes not only copies of Ciriaco manuscripts, but also Bodnar's notes on them, meticulously organized by archive, then...
Dates: 1960-2010
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Edward W. Bodnar, SJ papers

James Greene papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS82
Scope and Contents note The James Greene Papers consist of an exchange of correspondence between the eminent British novelist Graham Greene and his nephew James Greene, son of Sir Hugh Greene, well-known BBC correspondent and official (director general, 1960-1969). The letters span over a decade from late 1977 to 1989. A total of forty-three original signed letters from Graham Greene respond to the thirty-six typescript letters from his nephew, which have been spiral bound in a paginated volume together with typed...
Dates: 1977-1989
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / James Greene papers

Tonita Ridgway Martin Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS340
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Tonita Ridgway Martin Papers comprise the personal papers of longtime Georgetown resident Tonita Ridgway Martin along with some of her relatives' materials. Of note are a few documents relating to the life of New York Catholic Dominick Lynch I, whose will is included, and more documents relating to U.S. naval officer Dominick Lynch III, whose two brief but fascinating journals regarding Ecuador and Hawaii are retained. Also preserved is Tonita Ridgway Martin's personal collection of...
Dates: 1796 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1949
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Tonita Ridgway Martin Papers

Journal of the Slave Ship Mary

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Identifier: GTM-170907
Content Description This journal, a log book of the daily activities of the 232-ton slave ship Mary, documents in detail a voyage undertaken by ship owner and slave trader Cyprian Sterry. The ship set sail from Providence, Rhode Island, on November 22, 1795 and arrived on the west coast of Africa on December 24, 1795. Under the command of Captain Nathan Sterry, the crew acquired and then subdued African men, women, and children at several ports along the Senegambia, the Windward Coast, and Gold Coast. It...
Dates: 1795-1796
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Journal of the Slave Ship Mary

McHarg Family Papers 2

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS266
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 contain a small number of documents related to U.S. Civil War officer Horace Porter, financier and railroad president Henry K. McHarg, and Civil War assistant quartermaster of volunteers John McHarg. Porter married into the McHarg family during the Civil War. The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 further document the history of the Porter and McHarg families and supplement the McHarg Family Papers: Part 1 already preserved in the Georgetown University Library...
Dates: 1856 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1856 - 1928
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / McHarg Family Papers 2

Pierre Leroy - Janetta Warre Collection 1

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS309
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Leroy-Warre Collection primarily consists of correspondence from Pierre Leroy to Janetta Warre concerning the works of Teilhard de Chardin Centenary Exhibition organized by Mrs. Warre in London and Edinburgh in 1983. The material is arranged in 116 folders in 1 box. In the summer of 1983, Janetta Warre brought to London and Edinburgh the Teilhard de Chardin Centenary Exhibition which had appeared in Paris in 1981. The bulk of the collection is letters she received from Fr. Leroy...
Dates: 1982 - 1987
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Pierre Leroy - Janetta Warre Collection 1

McHarg Family Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS248
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The McHarg Family Papers (1 box, 0.5 linear feet) contain some fifty substantial Civil War letters, dated 1861 to 1864, including a few penned by Union officer Horace Porter, exchanged among members of the McHarg family, in addition to five remarkable baseball letters, dated 1864, with lengthy discussion and even three detailed box scores concerning an amateur baseball club in Albany, New York. A small number of manuscripts, printed matter, and letters written after the Civil War rounds out...
Dates: 1861 - 1922; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / McHarg Family Papers

Pierre Leroy papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS78
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The collection consists of correspondence to Pierre Leroy, S.J., from his long-time friend the great paleontologist and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, as well as from mutual friends such as George Barbour, Lucile Swan, Helmut and Rhoda de Terra, Marguerite Teillard-Chambon (cousin of Teilhard de Chardin), as well as Teilhard's biographer Mary Lukas. The collection includes some 77 individual letters written by Teilhard de Chardin to Father Leroy primarily during the...
Dates: 1947-1984; Majority of material found within 1948-1955
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Pierre Leroy papers

Patrick O'Mahony Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS221
Scope and Contents Material in this collection centers around the human rights work of Fr. Patrick O'Mahony, a major focus of which was on ethical employment and working condition policies and practices of multi-national companies and subsidiaries in the Third World, including South Africa, South America, and countries in Asia. Fr. O'Mahony undertook a study of the moral implications of investments and the responsibilities of shareholders, particularly with regard to the policies of his own diocese of...
Dates: 1954 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1989
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Patrick O'Mahony Papers

Jack K. McFall Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS150
Scope and Contents note The Jack K. McFall Papers consist primarily of correspondence received from State Department colleagues on the occasions of McFall's various career appointments, notably his appointment as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations in 1949, and as U.S. minister and later ambassador to Finland, in 1952 and 1953, respectively. Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Spruille Braden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert Humphrey, Thomas B. Inglis, Henry Cabot Lodge,...
Dates: 1925 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1956
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Jack K. McFall Papers

Michael Richey Papers 1

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS223
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Michael Richey papers 1, consist of original correspondence from personal friends who also comprise the notable circle of artists who congregated at the home of English sculptor Eric Gill (1882-1940), on Pigotts farm in Buckinghamshire. Together with Gill, these included Anthony Foster, Rene Hague, David Jones, Walter Shewring, and Denis Tegetmeier. Correspondence is also included from other well-known acquaintances (many of whom were related or closely associated to the...
Dates: 1930 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Michael Richey Papers 1

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