Scope and Contents This collection contains Fr. Augustus J. Thébaud's draft of Three-Quarters of a Century (1807-1882): A Retrospect Written from Documents and Memory in 1877-1882. Vol. I: Political, Social, and Ecclesiastical Events in France (ed. Charles G. Herbermann, United States Catholic Historical Society, 1912). It also contains his draft of what would later become chapter six of Three-Quarters of a Century (1807-1882): A Retrospect Written...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Charles Quest Papers include correspondence, news clippings, photographs, and personal biographical materials contained in five boxes. The papers are well-documented, due to Dorothy Quest's organization as well as her handwritten notes which are thorough and descriptive. Charles Quest's tenure at Washington University in St. Louis (1944-1971) brought him into contact with many names well-known to students of 20th century American printmaking. Quest worked with Werner Drewes,...

Scope and Contents The Francis A. Barnum, SJ Papers include materials documenting his missionary work--particularly at Holy Cross, Koserefsky, Alaska--and his research on Native Alaskan languages. The collection also reflects his Jesuit service at Blackwell’s Island (New York) and Georgetown University. Alongside correspondence, the papers also hold records of his world travels and family genealogy. Note on Problematic Language and Imagery Please be aware that...

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...

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...

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...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Contains subject files generated by Edwin C. Fishel for his Civil War research. Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II of the Montague Summers papers consist of Summers' literary manuscripts, notes, records and related documents. The bulk of the series is comprised of complete autograph and typed manuscripts of shorter works, published and unpublished, but includes a significant amount of fragmentary, sometimes unidentified, rough draft material, mostly from Summers' longer works. This series, the largest in the collection, includes many manuscripts of works not described in the two primary...

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: This collection comprises the second acquisition of the papers of Harman Grisewood (1906-1997). Included is a long run (Boxes 1 through 5) of correspondence from notable individuals such as W.H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Violet Bonham-Carter, Tom Burns (editor of "The Tablet”), Winston S. Churchill, historian Christopher Dawson, B.B.C. director general Hugh Greene, Vivien Greene (wife of writer Graham Greene), Deirdre and Rupert Hart-Davis, Sibyl Hathaway (Dame of Sark), Saunders Lewis, members...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of the personal and professional papers of Jesuits associated with Woodstock, former Woodstock Jesuits, ex Jesuits, and Jesuits within and outside the province. The collection is made up of spiritual notes, sermons, class materials, materials for publication, correspondence between Jesuits and family, photos, scrapbooks, diaries, newspaper clippings, and menologies.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of the personal and professional papers of Jesuits associated with Woodstock, former Woodstock Jesuits, ex Jesuits, and Jesuits within and outside the province. The collection is made up of spiritual notes, sermons, class materials, materials for publication, correspondence between Jesuits and family, photos, scrapbooks, diaries, newspaper clippings, and menologies.

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...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts, and other documents pertaining to U.S. Catholic Church History. Boxes 12 and 13, which deal with notable individuals in U.S. Catholic History, are arranged alphabetically by last name of individual. Boxes 14 through 20 contain documents which focus on the history of Catholicism in particular geographic places in America, and they are arranged alphabetically by geographic area.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Consists of transcripts of John Carroll correspondence. Shea used these transcripts to write 'Life and Times of Most Rev. John Carroll,' volume two of his four-volume history of the Catholic Church in America. The transcripts are arranged in rough chronological order.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Offprints, notes, printed materials, and book reviews collected by William K. Wimsatt, Jr. relating to Alexander Pope, the English poet. Arranged alphabetically.

Scope and contents note From the Collection: This is the second acquisition of the Harry L. Hopkins Papers at Georgetown University's Special Collections Department. The papers in this second collection, comprising 7 boxes and 3.5 linear feet, are arranged in the following series: a Family Correspondence Series, Organizations Correspondence Series, White House Correspondence Series, Personal/Manuscripts Series, Photographic Series, Clippings Series, and Oversize Items Series. Harry Lloyd Hopkins' personal papers illuminate the family...