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Sunday Morning Group
Collection
Identifier: GTA-150701
Content Description
Materials relating to a Jesuit/faculty discussion group which met in the Jesuit Residence. Group members were mainly Roman Catholic and met to consider how the University could offer the best Jesuit education to students. Includes roster of group members as well as copies of articles, etc. discussed.
Dates:
1975-1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Joseph Thomas Dailey (L 1925) Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000289-DS
Scope and Contents
Includes: Bachelor of Laws diploma from Georgetown University, June 8, 1925 [damaged]; Bachelor of Arts diploma from National University, June 13, 1928; certificate of admission to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, January 11, 1926; certificate of admission to the bar of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, January 19, 1928; and a Presidential Memorial Certificate for Veteran awarded "by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and selfless...
Dates:
1923-ca. 1962
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Also two panorama photographs: Georgetown Morning Law Junior Class, November 11, 1923 [placed with Law School oversize photographs] and HDQ & HDQ Company 59th Signal BN.
Diary of Junior Division of Georgetown College, 1888-1900
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000143-DS
Scope and Contents
Apparently kept by one of the Prefects, this contains brief, daily notes on campus happenings. Reference is made to recreational activities (particularly sports and plays), examinations, weather, etc. Daily schedule noted in entries for 09/13/1889 and 09/18/1892. All Saints' Day festivities, including bobbing for apples, described in entry for 11/01/1891. Marriage of John Agar in Boys Chapel noted in entry for 02/18/1892. Equipment in gymnasium listed in entry of 02/26/1892. Mardi...
Dates:
1888-1900 (with some gaps)
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Reference to “Dan Lynch, a new boy, [leaving] surreptitiously this morning for his Philadelphia home” made in entry of 02/20/1898.
Old Entry Book
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000581
Scope and Contents
Contains details of College real property, with details of conveyances and tax liabilities (Holy Trinity and lots from Congress are among the properties listed). Also lists of stock purchases and bills and notes receivable and bills payable (including to Lucretia S. Hobbs, pg. 31). Page 24 lists "Remarkable Occurrences" which include: completion of New Barn, 1874 [O'Gara?]; completion of new gasline work, 1874; purchase of villa at Cold Spring, Lebanon, County, Pennsylvania, 1874; "James...
Dates:
1789-1876
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
; completion of new gasline work, 1874; purchase of villa at Cold Spring, Lebanon, County, Pennsylvania, 1874; "James Robbins & Shea, contractors, commenced 8 o'clock this morning, Saturday, the excavations for New Building" [Healy Hall], October 13, 1877; "First stone of N Un Building laid today at 3:12 p.m. by Fr.
Nelson Algren Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-160405
Scope and Contents Note
The Nelson Algren Collection consists of some correspondence and two manuscripts of noted American writer Nelson Algren (1909-1981). Included is correspondence about Algren's books "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "Somebody in Boots." The primary correspondent is Ken McCormick, an editor with Doubleday and Company, Inc. Two typed manuscripts by Algren are also preserved in this collection: "The Door to Dingdong Daddyland" and "The Door to Pingpong Playboyland." A number of books that...
Dates:
1937 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1951
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Algren's other early works include "Never Come Morning" (1942), "The Neon Wilderness" (1947), and "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1949).
Joe Raposo Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-980701
Scope and Contents Note
The Joseph Raposo Papers contain original musical compositions by Joseph Raposo (d. 1989), a well renown musician who wrote numerous children's songs. Included in the collection is a set of original lead sheets for songs composed by Raposo for the popular children's television show "Sesame Street." In fact, in addition to composing the music for these songs, Raposo wrote the lyrics for some of them, too. The papers also include a few compositions by Raposo for the Muppets. Moreover, the...
Dates:
1969 - 1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Raposo wrote many works for television shows, including the "Cabbage Patch Kids," the CBS Morning News, the "Electric Company," Muppet productions, Dr.
Julie and Thomas Kernan papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS181
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Julie and Thomas Kernan papers are organized into 7 series: correspondence by notable individuals and friends who were frequent correspondents; files on Jacques and Raissa Maritain; correspondence by Julie and Thomas Kernan; subject files which include correspondence and material about the various organizations and miscellaneous business that the Kernans were involved with; manuscripts and published works by Julie and Thomas Kernan; a large collection of information and...
Dates:
1765-1988; Majority of material found within 1940-1975
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Here, he wrote his novel, "Now with the Morning Star," perhaps the first to be written in an internment camp.
H. L. Mencken - Ernest A. and Madeleine E. Boyd Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS174
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Mencken-Boyd Collection consists of 19 letters from H.L. Mencken to Ernest A. and Madeleine E. Boyd. The letters are arranged in 19 folders and contained in 1 box.
Dates:
1923 - 1951
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Between 1899 and 1935 he worked as a reporter and editor at several Baltimore newspapers including The "Baltimore Morning Herald," "The Evening Herald," "The Baltimore Sun," and "The Evening Sun."
William W. Wright Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS178
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the four folios of General Wright's scrapbook which contains primarily news items relating to the proposed construction of the Panama Canal. Some letters, notes, and sketches by Wright are included, along with printed maps showing the different interoceanic routes that were considered. In addition, the scrapbook includes a letter from John A. Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, and several broadsides in Spanish citing Ferdinand de Lesseps and the canal...
Dates:
1857 - 1883; Majority of material found within 1879 - 1882
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was sent to Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia, and was found dead the next morning, March 9, 1882. He was buried beside his parents in Adams County.
Todd Haines collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS79
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Todd Haines collection is a mixture of correspondence and printed material primarily by and concerning British author Anthony Powell (1905-2000). Material consists of original typed signed letters from Powell to bookseller Handasyde Buchanan, New Zealand author Patrick A. Lawlor, and to John Lelliott, an admirer of his novel series, 'A Dance to the Music of Time.' Other Powell material includes page proofs for two of his books, 'Books Do Furnish a Room' (1971) and 'Messengers of Day'...
Dates:
1864-1990; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
But of course there he would be next morning, in front of the typewriter. It was all a question of guts.
Arthur Ransome - Bertrand Jerram Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS289
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Arthur Ransome - Sir Bertram Jerram Collection consists of nine letters and one postcard written by the noted author of children's books Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) to Jerram. One of the letters, which are preserved in chronological order, dates to 1929, but the others date from 1952 to 1953. Some of the correspondence focuses on Jerram's uncle, E.F. Knight (1852-1925), the famous yachtsman, whom Ransome greatly admired. Knight, war correspondent, barrister, and author, commanded the...
Dates:
1929 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1953
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Knight also served as a war correspondent for "The Times" and the "Morning Post." [Source: "The Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea." ed.
Michael Richey Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS223
Scope and Contents
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
Found in Notes:
I got myself appointed assistant navigator, and took stars morning, noon and night for about a year." Richey subsequently took the long navigation course at the shore station HMS Dryad to become a specialist navigator.
Washington Irving Letterbook
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS247
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Washington Irving Letterbook (1 box, 0.25 linear feet) consists of one bound letterbook containing handwritten copies of outgoing letters dated from 1842 to 1844 written by Irving (1783-1859) while he served as U.S. Minister to Spain (1842-1846). Although most of these letters were copied in the hand of Irving's secretary, a number of them seem to have been copied by Irving himself in his own hand. Irving's richly descriptive writing style shines through in these letters as he analyzes...
Dates:
1842 - 1844
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Seeking a more creative profession, he turned to writing and soon began contributing to the "Morning Chronicle," in which he published the first installment of "The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent." (1802).
Michael Richey Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS321
Scope and Contents
The Michael Richey papers 2, consists of original correspondence from personal friends and members of the Richey family; as well as printed material including clippings, journals, and magazines featuring articles by and about Michael Richey. A portion of the correspondence is from the notable circle of artists who congregated at the home of English sculptor Eric Gill, (1882-1940), on Pigotts Farm in Buckinghamshire. These include Gill, Anthony Foster, and Rene Hague. Additional...
Dates:
1897 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1940 - 2000
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
I got myself appointed assistant navigator, and took stars morning, noon and night for about a year." Richey subsequently took the long navigation course at the shore station HMS Dryad to become a specialist navigator.
William F. Claire Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS409
Scope and Contents
The William F. Claire Papers consist of 12 autograph signed letters and 3 typed signed letters to and from William Claire. Of them, a majority discuss his writing on and analysis of the work of poet and writer Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle, entitled "The Unpredictable Bloom." The collection contains correspondence from the Academy of American Poets, as well as the "Southern Review", the quarterly literary magazine fo the Louisiana State University, in reference to Claire's publication...
Dates:
1959 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1966-1968
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Ruth Norman Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-180524
Scope and Contents
The collection consists musical compositions authored by pianist and composer Ruth Norman, including music manuscripts and printed scores. Norman produced a variety of works, including piano solo compositions, organ solo compositions, choral compositions, solo vocal compositions, and orchestral compositions. The collection also includes a small amount of related documents, such as concert programs, correspondence, promotional flyers, and composition lists. Finally, the collection also...
Dates:
1969 - 2007
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
From 1985 until her death in 2007, I heard from Ruth once in a while and occasionally shared concert programs with her that were presented by Friday Morning Music Club in Washington, DC. We met from time to time when she would phone and say she wanted to come over to Trinity College to copy some music for me or to show me a new composition she had been working on.
Brien McMahon Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-870219
Scope and Contents note
The Brien McMahon Papers consist of correspondence, speeches, legal papers, newspaper clippings, honors and awards, photographs, and personal ephemera concerning the life of the late Senator and his family from circa 1930 to 1953. While the majority of the papers concern McMahon's career with the U.S. Department of Justice, there is also some material regarding his two Senate terms, his marriage to Rosemary Turner, his Presidential campaign in 1952, and his death.The collection...
Dates:
1930 - 1953
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
On July 27, 1952, despite that he had withdrawn his candidacy and despite his inablity to attend the Democratic National Convention the delegates from the state of Connecticut unanimously nominated McMahon as their choice for President of the United States. The following morning Brien McMahon fell into a coma and died shortly thereafter.
Molly Sinclair McCartney Papers
File
Identifier: GTM-20220811
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the career of longtime journalist Molly Sinclair McCartney. The collection includes newspaper articles written by McCartney for the "Houston Post," the "Atlanta Constitution," the "Washington Post," and the "Miami Herald." A run of magazine articles she wrote are also included. Of interest are files and audio cassettes from Sinclair's interview with Ambassador Madeleine Albright in 1991. Also included are records related to McCartney's Georgetown University thesis on...
Dates:
1868 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2022
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Dave Barbor Collection on Vladimir Nabokov
Collection
Identifier: GTM-0041
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...
Dates:
1907 - 1986
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
I made a pilgrimage to Montreux in 1975 with the intention of amiably intercepting Nabokov at the kiosk where he was known to buy his morning papers (the Montreux Palace, where he lived, had a strict policy of discouraging fans stalking Nabokov in the hotel itself).
"Morning Chronicle".
File — Box 23: Series 1532; Series 1533, Folder: 37
Identifier: 96371
Series-level Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Contains Knox family materials. Includes family correspondence and photographs (arranged alphabetically) and printed materials (arranged alphabetically).
Dates:
03/25/1816-03/25/1816
Found in Notes:
"Morning Chronicle" newspaper issue dated London, 3/25/1816.