Collection-level Scope and Content Note The David Mitchell Papers consist of research files generated by writer David Mitchell for his 1980 book "The Jesuits: A History." There are notes on Mitchell's interviews with Jesuit and non-Jesuit sources, notes on published secondary sources, and a fine set of photographs. The Mitchell Papers are of use to scholars studying the history of the Jesuits. The collection is contained in two archival boxes (3.0 linear feet). Jesuit history is one of the principal collecting areas of the...

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Manuscript notes and articles by Marion Stancioff on Catholicism and a range of humanitarian interests such as art, education, literature, philosophy, as well as economics and politics. Includes correspondence with friends in both English and French on many of the foregoing topics. Notable letters are from Dorothy Day, Anne Fremantle, and Ezra Pound. Family letters are also included.

Scope and Contents Box 1: 50 slides labeled "National Geographic Society" which show American and New Zealand scientists, members of an expedition organized by the National Geographic Society and led by astronomer Samuel Alfred Mitchell, who traveled to Canton Island (also known as Kanton Island or Abariringa Island) in the South Pacific to study a total solar eclipse in June 1937. Included are images of Paul A. McNally, S.J., who was a member of the expedition. Slide 8, for example, shows Fr. McNally saying...

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:...

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Letters, manuscripts, printed source material and photographs relating to Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Greenhill Collection (1 box, .25 linear feet) contains 10 letters from historian and writer Hilaire Belloc to his bookbinder, Elizabeth Greenhill, dated between January 1938 and May 1940. Of the Belloc - Greenhill Papers, seven are typed signed letters and three are handwritten. Belloc discusses a number of books and correspondences he was working on or having bound at the time, such as "The County of Sussex", "The Old Road", "Verses", and "The Path to Rome."...

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The Kenneth Atchity - Denise Levertov Collection primarily consists of correspondence and manuscripts. There is a series of letters from Levertov to Atchity dated 1979-1980 and a few letters from Atchity to Levertov. The manuscripts comprise poems, journals, and notes.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note Hilaire Belloc-Elizabeth Belloc CorrespondenceThis collection contains the correspondence sent by Hilaire Belloc to his daughter Elizabeth over the period 1932-1944. Hilaire was 62 at the start of this correspondence and entering the final stages of his career. He was plagued increasingly with ill-health over the course of this correspondence, and there is frequent reference to his suffering from flus, fatigue, and difficulties with his handwriting. In 1942 he suffered a...

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Correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and Emma Pescatore.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Hilaire Belloc - Dorothy Hamilton Collection consists of personal correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and Dorothy Hamilton. The collection also includes several letters of correspondence between Elodie Belloc and Dorothy Hamilton, letters from Belloc's children to Dorothy Hamilton, correspondence between Belloc and others, and a few letters from others to Dorothy Hamilton. Several newspaper clippings, tickets to Belloc's lectures, and Hilaire Belloc's account book for 1907-1908 are...

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This collection contains the correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and the James Murray Allison family for the time period 1918-1941. Much of the correspondence in this collection has to do with the column Belloc contributed to "Land and Water," a periodical founded by James Murray Allison to cover aspects of the war efforts during WWI.

Scope and Contents The Brunini Papers offer an interesting, inclusive day-by-day account of the life activities of a Catholic writer during a sixty-year period (1915 to 1977). His literary aspirations, his manuscript rejections, and his everyday activities (i.e., '"when writing you work yourself up emotionally") are covered in-depth in the Correspondence section of the papers (Boxes 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, and 12). Brunini's letters also present an interesting sidelight into local New York sights and scenes during...

Scope and contents note The George Horton Papers consist of 34 boxes. The collection is arranged into eight series: Correspondence; Diaries, Memoirs, and Lectures; Manuscripts and Drafts; Photographs; Newspaper Clippings; Horton Family Scrapbooks and Schoolbooks; Miscellaneous Documents; and Nancy Horton Materials. The contents of these series range from circa-1870 to 1964, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1923-1940. The collection includes information on Horton's work for the U.S. Consular...

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Mitchell, John B

The Roma : first last army dirigible / by John B. Mitchell. Panama Canal zone police, 1916

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The personal papers of music critic Paul Hume comprise this collection. Highlights include correspondence from luminaries of the music world such as Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Leonard Bernstein, Rudolph Bing, Nadia Boulanger, Antal Dorati, Alberto Ginastera, Serge Koussevitsky, John La Montaine, Lotte Lehmann, John Mauceri, Gian Carlo Menotti, Eugene Ormandy, Rosa Ponselle, Ned Rorem, Mstislav Rostropovich, Bidu Sayao, Beverly Sills, Gerard Souzay, George Szell, Virgil Thomson, Alan...