Abstract The collection contains the papers of Robert M. Veatch. It includes material created while employed at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) at Georgetown University (1979-2019) and at the Hastings Center (1970-1979). It also documents his work as an advisor and lecturer at a wide variety of universities, hospitals, healthcare organizations, and governmental bodies. The records document the development and administration of the KIE, particularly during his directorship from 1989-1996. On...

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Correspondence to and from William K. Wimsatt, arranged chronologically.

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Contains folders arranged by subject on publications and projects of John Deedy.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The series consists of files related to Veatch’s professional work at the Hastings Institute (then known as the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences) and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, broadly dating from the 1970s through the 2010s. It also includes files related to lectures and consulting work conducted for various other institutions during that time period. His work for various bioethical commissions, including the DHEW Task Force on Consent, DC...

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(Box 1, Folders 1-85; Box 2, Folders 1-33) This series consists of chronologically arranged correspondence received by Ambassador Wilson. Letters for each year are in alphabetical order. Most include copies of replies from the ambassador. @ Note: All correspondents are listed in the description sections of this finding aid. However, only those names that have been asterisked appear in the index.

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Anna M. Brady correspondence. Arranged chronologically.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection consists of the personal papers of former U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle. It is one of three portions comprising the larger collection of the Biddle Family papers that include the papers of his wife, Katherine Biddle and a series of family correspondence (see separate finding aids). Of interest are lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. attorney general...

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This series consists of the general records of and pertaining to America House and America Press/Magazine. The folders within this series contain materials concerning the general business and procedural affairs of America House as well as materials regarding the history of the house and its activities. America Press legal documents are also included in this series.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The series contains subject files that were maintained by Veatch over the course of his professional career, first at the Hastings Institute (then known as the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences) and then at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Veatch started compiling the files around 1970 and they include documents dating from 1953 through 2016. The series is organized according to a classification system devised by Veatch (indexes to the...

Scope and contents note From the Collection: The Douglass Woodruff Papers are divided into seven series. The Correspondence Series comprises 12 boxes and includes separate sections of correspondence from Evelyn Waugh, Emily Hewett Woodruff (Woodruff's letters to his mother), Marie Immaculee Woodruff, and Mildred Woodruff Tschoeberle (Woodruff's letters to his sister). The letters in this Series contain discussion on a variety of topics, most notably Catholicism, the Tablet, literary endeavors of Woodruff and others, and news regarding...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The T.B. Miskimon Papers consist of copies of letters and reports submitted by Miskimon, an inspector with the chairman's office, Panama Canal Zone, to Col. George W. Goethals, chairman and chief engineer of the Panama Canal construction project. The Miskimon Papers include enlightening, as well as sometimes entertaining, information concerning the daily life of both American and foreign Canal Commission employees, covering such subjects as professional baseball player-employees, domestic...

Scope and Contents Jesuit obituaries: Peter Ladaviere (1858), Francis X. de Charlevoix (1761), Antoine Braun (1885), William O'Callaghan (1873), Raymond A. Lutz (1964), Francis J. O'Neill (1905), Joseph F. Kereben (1728), Fabian Garbely (1903), Joseph Tschenhens (1882), Matthew Sanders (1868), Anne de Nouë/Anne de Nove Chaupenois (1646), John Gough (1876), Louis de Quiros (1568), Gabriel de Solis (1568), John Baptist Mendez (1568), Francis Cazeau (1884), Louis d'Avaugour (1732), Joseph E. Keller (1886),...

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17 Audio reels and 4 records of Woodstock events, persons, and musicians including the Woodstock Singers and Paul Quinlan.