Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Horace Porter Collection consists of 13.0 linear feet of photographs, manuscripts, letters, clippings, prints, and printed ephemera, together with a large assortment of valuable artifacts connected with General Porter's career. Porter, best known for his role as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was a noted soldier, railroad executive, diplomat, and son of Governor David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) of Pennsylvania. The collection includes a variety of...

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The Horace Porter - Mrs. Osborn Collection consists of correspondence written by Horace Porter to a Mrs. Osborn between the years 1906 and 1917. In addition to the ten letters, the collection contains the New York Times obituary of Horace Porter.

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...

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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.

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...

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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.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection includes 8 letters to and from Aaron Homer Byington from 1844 to 1899. The majority of these are typed letters signed by John Addison Porter to Byington. The letters cover a broad range of topics including Washington Cabinet appointments, Connecticut Senatorial races, consular salaries, significant newspapers, the Republican Party, the Spanish-American War, and Byington's son, George. Also included in the collection is an autograph signed letter from Aaron Homer Byington to...

Scope and Contents Junior College with entries for Ruth Eleanor Archamault, Margarita M. Bolivar, Mary Josephine Cassidy, Marilee de Bonrepos Chadeayne, Margaret Mary Clark, Marie Angelique de Golian, Mary Patricia Griffin, Mary Kathryn Hagerman, Marie Rose Howard, Margaret Hester Jenkins, Mary Catherine Johansen, Joan Catherine Kelly, Moira Kennedy, Cornelia Malone, Ellen Elizabth McDonnell, Patricia Rose McGue, Maria Jane McHugh, Raquel Mercade, Marilynn Elizabeth Mercer, Norma R. Mujica, Kathleen Joan...

Content Description Papers of Riley Hughes (1914-1981), writer and educator, includes letters from Saul Bellow, William Blatty, John Dos Passos, John S. Mayfield, Eugene McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Katherine Anne Porter, J.B. Priestley, C.P. Snow, and Robert Penn Warren, among others. Other material includes files relating to the Georgetown University Writers Conference, founded by Hughes in 1960; course preparation as associate professor of English for the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; as...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Charles Lacey Papers consist of seven letters dated between 1809 and 1814 received by Charles Lacey, an American naval officer during the War of 1812. Lacey's cash book dating to 1809-1810, which he used as a midshipman on board the U.S.S. "John Adams," is also preserved in this collection. Although they comprise but eight folders, the Charles Lacey Papers document some interesting incidents during the War of 1812, especially its naval aspects. The correspondence in the Lacey Papers...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Cynthia Helms Papers consist of letters, manuscripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and printed materials documenting the life of Cynthia Helms, author, Middle East expert, and wife of Richard M. Helms, who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1966 to 1973 and U.S. Ambassador to Iran from 1973 to 1976. Mrs. Helms' personal papers include a number of book reviews written by her concerning books on the Middle East in the 1980s and 1990s. In addition, a limited amount of...

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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.

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...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The papers of Katherine Biddle are organized into nine series: 1. Individuals - Correspondence with notable individuals, including composers, musicians, poets and writers (see biographical note below for a list of names). 2. Alphabetical correspondence - Frequent correspondents, arranged by name. 3. Chronological correspondence - Arranged alphabetically by year. 4. Literary associations, publications and publishers - Related correspondence files. Of particular note are files relating to the...

Scope and Contents The Anthony Cave Brown papers comprise the extensive research files of historian and author Anthony Cave Brown used for his numerous books about U.S. and British military intelligence. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, photocopied documents, internet printouts, printed matter, manuscripts of some of his books, audio cassettes, and some photographs. Documents pertaining to various figures in the intelligence field; including William Donovan, H. St. John B. Philby, and Kim...

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Only 1 series. Arranged chronologically.

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Only 1 series. Arranged chronologically.

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Only 1 series. Arranged chronologically.

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One series only.