Collection-level Scope and Content Note "Happy are the dead and their biographers who have left materials for the building of their monuments"A.T.W. Alexander Tremaine Wright's correspondence (1909-1915) to William John Carlton offers a unique insight into research characteristic of a small English fraternity intrigued by the literature and history of shorthand. This practice of the educated, beginning with Englishman John Willis' alphabet-based system in 1640, remained the domain of writers and reporters until...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is comprised of photographs that were used in Quigley Publications, active under various titles since 1915 in motion picture industry trade publishing (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily, and others). It is primarily an assemblage of publicity photographs that feature individuals associated with the motion picture industry: producers, directors, animators, and their colleagues. Actors and actresses figure less prominently, but are also represented among the...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The letters composing this sub-series of the Stewart Marsh Ellis papers document Ellis' relations with his friends, publishers, and readers, and provide a panorama of his extensive social circle. Many of the letters reflect Ellis' efforts in research through interviews or correspondence, for both his published books on William Harrison Ainsworth and George Meredith, as well as his interest in hauntings and apparitions. Letters tipped into the News Cuttings scrapbook or removed from it are...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The letters composing this sub-series of the Stewart Marsh Ellis papers document Ellis' relations with his friends, publishers, and readers, and provide a panorama of his extensive social circle. Many of the letters reflect Ellis' efforts in research through interviews or correspondence, for both his published books on William Harrison Ainsworth and George Meredith, as well as his interest in hauntings and apparitions. Letters tipped into the News Cuttings scrapbook or removed from it are...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Condolence Letters. Written upon the death of Richard M. Helms, arranged alphabetically.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The archives of the English novelist Christopher Sykes, friend and official biographer of Evelyn Waugh, include a large group of Waugh letters and comprehensive research files about him. In addition to the extensive family correspondence, with a charming series of rebus letters from his sister Angela Antrim, there are letters from a multitude of literary friends and acquaintances, including John Betjeman, Max Beerbohm, Ivy Compton-Burnett, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Harman Grisewood, Nancy...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The following 26 folders comprise an addendum to the Alan Redway papers 1, GTMGamms84. They contain primarily correspondence sent and received by Redway and Neil Brennan, coauthor of a bibliography of the works of Graham Greene, from 1925 through 1981. A prolific correspondent, Brennan wrote daily to Redway, detailing his progress on the bibliography. The collection includes correspondence from Brennan to Helen Redway, wife of Alan Redway; fragments of undated autograph...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Photographs. Arranged alphabetically by person.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

(Box 3, Folders 5 - 34; Box 4, Folders 1-38; Box 5, Folders 1 - 22) This series contains files on numerous non-literary projects and interests of LS. Subjects include Africa, India, Italy, Latin America, the Middle East. Additionally, there are files on the various associations and churches LS was involved with.