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Sykes, Christopher, Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-020228
Content Description
Photocopies of correspondence between Christopher Simon Sykes and his brother Richard Sykes (dated 1930-1978). Includes letters to the former's uncle, British writer Christopher Sykes (born 1907-1986) from Patrick Balfour, Cyril Connell, Harman Grisewood, Rupert Hart-Davis, Roy Howard, Joan Hoare, and Serena James (photocopies).
Dates:
1928 - 1978
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Photocopies of correspondence between Christopher Simon Sykes and his brother Richard Sykes (dated 1930-1978).
Ora Patience Lumpkin Mayfield papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-810101a
Scope and Contents
The papers of Ora Patience Lumpkin Mayfield are contained in 5 boxes. Box 1 comprises correspondence only. Box 2 contains memorabilia collected by Ora Mayfield, and the arrangement is alphabetical. The third (3) box holds greeting cards and photo albums of family and friends while box 4 contains diaries and books. The last box (5) holds two (2) Tyler Rose commemorative plates.
Dates:
1880 - 1979
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
She was the daughter of Simon Hyron Lumpkin and Laura Alexander Lumpkin.
Martyn Goff Papers
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 5 (Letter): [Barcode: 39020030726437], Folder: 1-2
Identifier: GTM-20221006
Abstract
Collection primarily consists of correspondence between Martyn Goff (administrator of the Booker Prize from 1973-2006) and Ian Norrie (a longtime friend and member of the Booker Prize management committee). It includes approximately 125 letters between the two dating from the 1970s to the early 1990s.Martyn Goff (7 June 1923 – 25 March 2015) was a British literary administrator, author, and bookseller. He made a significant contribution to the organization and popularity of the...
Dates:
1973 - 1991
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
There are mentions of various literary and publishing figures, such as Christina Foyle, Graham Greene, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Holroyd, Matthew Evans, Louis Baum, Frank Delaney, Sir Stanley Unwin, Frank Muir, Alan Hill, Simon Hornby, Clifford Simmons, Charles Hammick, Peter Stockham, Hunter Davies, Richard Adams, Ivor Courtney, Margaret Drabble, Carme Callil, Anthony Burgess, Michael Caine, Jack Morpurgo, David Whitaker, Norah Smallwood, and Ian Parsons.
College Democrats
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030722279]
Identifier: GTA-20240425-a
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 had a long-time relationship with French author Simone de Beauvoir. Nelson Algren died on May 9, 1981.
Graham Greene - Anita Bjork letters
Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-28
Identifier: GTM-061127
Content Description
A collection of 26 letters (1971-1990) from British novelist Graham Greene to Swedish actress Anita Bjork (1923-2012). Includes two letters from Vivien Greene to Bjork.
Dates:
1971-2000; Majority of material found within 1971-1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In the book-length interview "Hitchcock/Truffaut" (Simon and Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock said he had hired Björk as the female lead for his film "I Confess" in 1952 after seeing her in "Miss Julie".
John L. Brown Papers 5
Collection
Identifier: GTM-200113
Scope and Contents
Addendum to John L. Brown papers 1, 2, 3, 4. Includes research source materials (notes, newspaper/magazine articles), correspondence, family photographs, and Brown's journals.
Dates:
1950s-2002
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was survived by his wife Simone-Yvette L'Evesque and two sons Michel-Simon and John Halit.
Christopher Sykes Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS207
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
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...
Dates:
1945 - 1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
John W. Blaney Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230821
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the papers, photographs, digital files, and artifacts produced and collected by Ambassador John W. Blaney over the course of his career. These items include official memoranda, performance evaluations, photographs, notebooks and calendars, speaking notes, newspaper clippings, honors, and memorabilia. The collection spans the 1970s to 2024, covering subjects that include: Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, the US/USSR arms control and...
Dates:
1971 - 2023
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Featured individuals include Nelson Mandela, Charles Taylor, Les Aspin, Sen. Paul Simon, and Madeleine Albright.
John L. Brown Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS167
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
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.
Dates:
1933 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was survived by his wife Simone-Yvette L'Evesque and two sons Michel-Simon and John Halit.
John L. Brown Papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS253
Scope and Contents
The John L. Brown Papers 3, consists of correspondence with 20th century artists, scholars, and writers. Notables include artists Huseyin Halit, Loren McIver and her husband, poet Lloyd Frankenberg, Lilian Mckendrick, Irene Rice Pereira and Antoinette Schulte; art critic and historian Roger Avermaete; historian Henry Steele Commager; and writers Jacqueline Bernard, Faith Berry, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, Lewis Galantiere, Elsa Gress, poet James Laughlin, Boris Schreiber, Pierre Seghers,...
Dates:
1946 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1986
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was survived by his wife Simone-Yvette L'Evesque and two sons Michel-Simon and John Halit.
John L. Brown Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS205
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...
Dates:
1940 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was survived by his wife Simone-Yvette L'Evesque and two sons Michel-Simon and John Halit.
Alfred M. Beck collection of Friedrich von Boetticher research materials
Collection
Identifier: GTM-171212
Content Description
Research files and notes, transcriptions and translations, government documents, microfilm, photographs, and archival film footage and sound recordings compiled by Beck in the course of conducting research for his dissertation on the life of General der Artillerie [Lt. Gen.] Friedrich von Boetticher and his service as German military attaché in Washington, D.C., 1933-1941. Beck’s original dissertation, "The Ambivalent Attaché (1977, Ph.D. in History, Georgetown University) explored the...
Dates:
1900-2006; Majority of material found within 1930-1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Navy's multi-volume "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" and "The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II" (1978).
Paul C. Warnke Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS337
Scope and Contents
The Paul C. Warnke Papers: Part 2 consist of material regarding the career of Paul C. Warnke. Included in the collection are document lists, files concerning Warnke's government service, documents related to the organizations to which Warnke belonged, texts of some of Warnke's oral presentations, publications, and a limited amount of correspondence to and from Warnke. The Paul C. Warnke Papers: Part 2 supplement the more extensive Paul C. Warnke Papers [Part 1] also preserved in the...
Dates:
1959 - 1999
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Warnke practiced law until 1991 with the firm later known as Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White. Warnke retired in the late 1990s, but he continued to do arms control consulting work.
Theodore Maynard - Robert F. McNamara Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS346
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Theodore Maynard - Robert F. McNamara Collection consists of personal correspondence between Theodore Maynard and Robert F. McNamara. The collection also includes a few letters of correspondence between Robert F. McNamara and Kathleen Sheehan. A few newspaper and magazine clippings and one printed pamphlet are also contained in the collection. Mentioned in the letters of Maynard and McNamara are Maynard's numerous publications, including "Apostle of Charity: The Life of Saint Vincent...
Dates:
1932 - 1956
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Mentioned in the letters of Maynard and McNamara are Maynard's numerous publications, including "Apostle of Charity: The Life of Saint Vincent dePaul," "Queen Elizabeth," "The Story of American Catholicism," "The Reed and the Rock: Portrait of Simon Brute," "Orestes Brownson: Yankee, Radical, Catholic," "Too Small a World: The Life of Francesca Cabrini," "Mystic in Motley: The Life of Saint Philip Neri," "Humanist as Hero: The Life of Sir Thomas More," "A Fire Was Lighted: The Life of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop," "The Better Part: The Life of Teresa Demjanovich," "The Catholic Way," "The Catholic Church and the American Idea," "The Long Road of Father Serra," "Saint Ignatius and the Jesuits," "The Life of Thomas Cranmer," and "Great Catholics in American History."
Paul C. Warnke Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS440
Scope and Contents
Although Ambassador Paul C. Warnke's official papers are at the Johnson Presidential Library, this collection documents the controversy that preceded his confirmation as Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and as a principal U.S. negotiator of the SALT II treaty. Most importantly the collection portrays his continuing role in the non-government arms control movement. There is much on Democratic presidential campaigns, the Vietnam War, and the legal culture of Washington, D.C....
Dates:
1963 - 2000
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Warnke practiced law until 1991 with the firm later known as Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White. Warnke retired in the late 1990s, but he continued to do arms control consulting work.
Alan Gabriel Barnsley Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS76
Scope and Contents
The Alan G. Barnsley Papers consist of eight letters from such prominent writers as Ian Fleming, C.S. Lewis, Muriel Spark and Stephen Spender.
Abbreviations used in this register include: ALS (autograph letter signed); TLS (typed letter signed).
Dates:
1954-1959; Majority of material found within 1954 - 1959
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was married to Edwina Eleanora Cook and had six children, Michael, Jonathan, Simon, Felicity, Gabriel (daughter), and Anna Swan (his ward).
Jose A. Lopez, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20210614
Scope and Contents
The Jose A. Lopez, SJ Papers contain correspondence, official documents, and manuscripts relating to Lopez's careers as parish priest and army chaplain in Mexico; tutor to the children of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico; chaplain of the Visitation Convent in Georgetown; and Acting President of Georgetown College. There are also materials collected by Lopez that do not directly pertain to his own work. Items include a copy of a letter from Simon Bolivar to the Marquis de Lafayette...
Dates:
1781 - 1840
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Items include a copy of a letter from Simon Bolivar to the Marquis de Lafayette (March 20, 1826); directions as tutor to the Iturbide children (1822); and “Manifesto al Mundo de Agustín de Yturbide,” Emperor Agustin’s holograph justification of his conduct in Mexico, written after his dethronement in 1822.
Andre Visson Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-760105
Scope and Contents
The major bulk of material from the Andre Visson papers dates from Visson's arrival in the United States in 1940. The papers are of particular interest in chronicling world events and in tracing the development of journalism from the beginning of the Second World War through the Cold War years. In each of these cases, Visson brought a unique perspective as a native of Russia who adopted the United States as his home. The role of the American press in articulating the course of the Cold War...
Dates:
1920 - 1964
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Andre Visson (née, Isodore Akivisson) was born September 29, 1899 in Kiev, Russia, the son of Sam-Simon Akivisson, industrialist and ship owner. In 1917 Visson entered the University of St.
Gregory Orfalea Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-990608
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the career of a American author and editor Gregory Orfalea. It includes manuscripts and research files for many of Orfalea’s books, including “Wrapping the Grapeleaves: A Sheaf of Contemporary Arab-American Poetry” (1982), “Before the Flames: A Quest for the History of Arab-Americans” (1988), “Messengers of the Lost Battalion: The Heroic 551st and the Turning of the Tide at the Battle of the Bulge” (1997), "Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding...
Dates:
1968 - 2023
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
[Sources: “Multicultural Voices” (1995), p 190; Simon and Schuster Writer Profile Online; and Pulitzer Online]