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....

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The material in this collection reflects the consultation Michel Chevalier was requesting from a Minister, probably in Paris or a nearby capital, as to how he should approach Chamorro. This Minister was probably a Central American diplomat in Europe, possibly Peralta. The letter which Chevalier eventually sent to Chamorro is also in the collection. It seems clear that Chevalier's claims were so weak by the time of this correspondence that he would not receive his concession, which was...

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Materials that belonged to Thomas H. Healy, including a photograph of Queen Marie of Roumania (1927), a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933), a photograph of s portrait of James Brown Scott (1933), a letter from John J. Pershing to Healy (1927), sheet music inscribed by John Philip Sousa (1932), commemorative medallions (1914-1935), Georgetown University medals (1913), World War I medals (1910s), and a variety of decorations presented to Healy from foreign governments.

Content Description Les Productions fumière présentent CONTRASTE "du Classique au Jazz." Theatre National du Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 15 Juin, 1945. Upright folio. 56 pp. Gray wrappers with raised embossed printing, bound with French red/white/blue twisted silk cord. Semigloss pages printed in black and white with blue highlighting, and including many illustration pages and some advertisements, interspersed with heavy stock pages, some with tipped-in semigloss reproductions of historic documents. Stamped 111...

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The Constantin Kluge - Pierre Leroy collection consists of 34 personal, autograph signed letters from Father Leroy to his friend Constantin Kluge, in addition to first-hand background information provided by Kluge on his acquaintance with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and his circle (especially Pierre Leroy and Claude Riviere). A complete typed transcription of the 34 letters has been graciously provided by Mme. Solange Soulie, a close friend of Pierre Leroy.

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The John L. Brown Papers 1, consist of 99 folders of correspondence from literary and artistic luminaries, including writers Sylvia Beach, John Dos Passos, Anne Fremantle, Katherine Anne Porter, Alice B. Toklas; philosopher Jacques Maritain; photographer Brassai; poets Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Giuseppe Ungaretti, and many more. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.

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Addendum to John L. Brown papers 1, 2, 3, 4. Includes research source materials (notes, newspaper/magazine articles), correspondence, family photographs, and Brown's journals.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The John L. Brown Papers: Part 4 represent the extensive personal papers of author, poet, critic, diplomat, and man of letters John L. Brown, who served as U.S. cultural attache to Brussels (1954-1958), Rome (1958-1962), and Mexico City (1964-1968) and as a longtime professor of literature at the Catholic University of America. The massive collection contains correspondence with noted individuals, chronological correspondence, manuscripts by Brown, notebooks, materials for lectures and...

Scope and Contents The John L. Brown Papers 3, consists of correspondence with 20th century artists, scholars, and writers. Notables include artists Huseyin Halit, Loren McIver and her husband, poet Lloyd Frankenberg, Lilian Mckendrick, Irene Rice Pereira and Antoinette Schulte; art critic and historian Roger Avermaete; historian Henry Steele Commager; and writers Jacqueline Bernard, Faith Berry, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, Lewis Galantiere, Elsa Gress, poet James Laughlin, Boris Schreiber, Pierre Seghers,...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note 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...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials related to Vladimir Nabokov that were collected by Dave Barbor. It includes letters written by Nabokov (1946-1964), his father (1906), and his cousin, Nicolas Nabokov (to Misia Sert, 1932). It also includes letters written by Véra Nabokov to Irving P. Lazar (1971), a letter from Véra Nabokov to Dave Barbor (1986), and a letter written from Dmitri Nabokov to Dave Barbor (1986). It also includes newsclippings (1929-1973), a typescript of a musical version...

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Tansky, Michel

Quatre siècles de police secrète russe

[Paris,] Éditions Colbert, 1968

MI-10329

39020030171113

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 1 contains correspondence between John L. Brown and individuals. Correspondents include Huseyin Halit, Loren MacIver, Lloyd Frankenberg, Carson McCullers, Irene Rice Pereira, and Katherine Anne Porter. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 1 contains correspondence between John L. Brown and individuals. Correspondents include Huseyin Halit, Loren MacIver, Lloyd Frankenberg, Carson McCullers, Irene Rice Pereira, and Katherine Anne Porter. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 1 contains correspondence between John L. Brown and individuals. Correspondents include Huseyin Halit, Loren MacIver, Lloyd Frankenberg, Carson McCullers, Irene Rice Pereira, and Katherine Anne Porter. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 1 contains correspondence between John L. Brown and individuals. Correspondents include Huseyin Halit, Loren MacIver, Lloyd Frankenberg, Carson McCullers, Irene Rice Pereira, and Katherine Anne Porter. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 1 contains correspondence between John L. Brown and individuals. Correspondents include Huseyin Halit, Loren MacIver, Lloyd Frankenberg, Carson McCullers, Irene Rice Pereira, and Katherine Anne Porter. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.