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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:
His later books include "A Walk on the Wild Side" (1956) and "The Devil's Stocking" (1979).
Wilfrid Hugh Chesson Diaries
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS335
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Eleven composition-style notebooks constitute the W. H. Chesson Diaries, ten of which offer a record of the life of a man of letters living in a suburb of Edwardian London. Over the many entries dated between 1904 and 1934 a unique picture of this London emerges, as witnessed from the vantage of the familial, professional and mental life of Wilfrid Hugh Chesson. In these diaries Chesson kept record of his family life, correspondence, dreams, books and manuscripts he had read, and other...
Dates:
1896 - 1934
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Chesson was personally acquainted with many of the most noted literary figures and other luminaries of his day, including Richard Garnett, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, and M. P. Shiel, and contributed to newspapers and magazines such as the "Athenaeum", "G.
Bert Seal ARAMCO Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS314
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 94 photographs taken in Saudi Arabia between the years of 1955 and 1960. The photos have been left in their original order as they were received from Bert Seal, ARAMCO Public Relations Department Photographer. The prints were made by Seal from copy negatives from 8x10 prints he brought back from Saudi Arabia. The Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) was organized to carry out oil operations in Saudi Arabia under a concession agreement with that country's...
Dates:
1955 - 1959
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Nasser's visit to Saudi Arabia in September of 1956 occurred two months after he had nationalized the Suez canal, a bold move that made him wildly popular throughout the Arab world. He was met in Riyadh by huge cheering crowds.
Arthur Ransome Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS230
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Arthur Ransome Collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and printed matter related to the life and writings of Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), the English journalist, critic, and renowned children's author best known for his series of books, "Swallows and Amazons." The collection comprises 5 boxes (1.25 l.f.) of materials and is divided into five series. Nineteen letters, most handwritten or typed by Ransome, are retained in the collection, including correspondence from...
Dates:
1913 - 2011
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Ransome's earlier works included "Highways and Byways in Fairyland" (1905), "Bohemia in London" (1907), "A History of Storytelling" (1909), "Edgar Allen Poe: A Critical Study" (1910), "Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study" (1912), "Old Peter's Russian Tales" (1916), "Six Weeks in Russia" (1919), "The Soldier and Death" (1920), "The Crisis in Russia" (1921), and "The Chinese Puzzle" (1927).
Fitzhugh Green, Sr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS132
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Fitzhugh Green, Sr., Papers consist of Green's correspondence; diaries and notebooks; manuscripts (autograph and typed) to articles and prospective books; reprints of articles/papers; clippings from newspapers and magazines; and photographs including many negatives of family and a notable set of glass slides showing scenes from his Arctic travels. Most prominent are the series consisting of correspondence, scrapbooks, articles, notebooks and journals belonging to Green about the Crocker...
Dates:
1900-1947; Majority of material found within 1913-1935
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Byrd, and the explorer and photographer of wild animals, Martin Johnson. Green also contributed many articles to periodicals and was a popular lecturer, particularly concerning his Arctic experiences during the Crocker Land Expedition of 1913 through 1916.
Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Pamphlets
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20200102
Scope and Contents
The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016).
The collection includes over 75 sub-collections of pamphlets and other small printed ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, history, and bibliography. The largest category, representing more than 300 pamphlets, are lectures produced by various universities worldwide, mainly in the United States and Great Britain, but also including...
Dates:
circa 1810-2012
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The staff in the traditional bookshop’s years of service: Mr. Wild, the manager, always asked for in affection and trust by visiting librarians, collectors, and booksellers.
Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20200101
Scope and Contents
The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016). The collection includes over 300 sub-collections of bound and loose manuscripts, documents, journals, correspondence, commonplace books, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, and history -- primarily of the 19th and early 20th century.
Highlights include:1. Letters...
Dates:
circa 1551-2015
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The staff in the traditional bookshop’s years of service: Mr. Wild, the manager, always asked for in affection and trust by visiting librarians, collectors, and booksellers.
Patrick T. Bakman Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS182
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the career of theater director Patrick Bakman. It contains notes on a myriad aspects of production, including cast and technical staff contact lists, rehearsal schedules, costume and prop lists, script revisions and cuts, scene summaries or breakdowns, as well as printed reviews and programs relating to the performance. In addition, there are resource files regarding opera histories, period costumes, furniture and culture, which Bakman used to research and...
Dates:
1891 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
For two consecutive semesters, from fall 1979 through spring 1980, he taught a directing seminar on the plays of Tennessee Williams and Oscar Wilde at the University of Houston, Theatre Department.
Julie and Thomas Kernan papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS181
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Julie and Thomas Kernan papers are organized into 7 series: correspondence by notable individuals and friends who were frequent correspondents; files on Jacques and Raissa Maritain; correspondence by Julie and Thomas Kernan; subject files which include correspondence and material about the various organizations and miscellaneous business that the Kernans were involved with; manuscripts and published works by Julie and Thomas Kernan; a large collection of information and...
Dates:
1765-1988; Majority of material found within 1940-1975
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Other notable correspondents include Cornelia Borgeroff, friend and secretary to the Maritains; Rene de Chambrun; Paul Claudel; Ernest Dimnet; William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan; Stanislas Fumet; Henri Gheon; Antoinette Grunelius, friend of the Maritains; Helen Iswolsky; Emmet Lavery; Marie Belloc Lowndes and her daughter Susan Lowndes Marques; Francois Mauriac; Andre Maurois; Conde Nast; John U.
Dave Barbor Collection on Alfred Hitchcock
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030756137]
Identifier: GTM-0040
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials related to Alfred Hitchcock that were collected by Dave Barbor. It includes the following:One letter written by Alfred Hitchcock to his assistant director, Herbert Coleman (1955). One letter written by Francois Truffaut to Alfred Hitchcock (circa 1966).Six letters from Patricia Hitchcock to Peter Halliday regarding "Strangers on a Train" and other matters, 1950-1956, 1983.Eight photographs, including three...
Dates:
1949 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1983
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Eight photographs, including three taken in 1949 at the set of "Under Capricorn" (one of Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Cotten, and Michael Wilding; one of Hitchcock and Ingrid Bergman sitting opposite an unidentified man; one of Hitchcock and his film crew); four of the extended Hitchcock family (Alma, Patricia, her husband, and children, 1956); and one publicity photograph of Patricia Hitchcock (circa 1950).
Wilde, Larry.
File — Box 12: Series 418, Folder: 29
Identifier: 37014
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Kenneth Atchity Collection is a set of personal papers of Kenneth J. Atchity comprised of correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes, scrapbooks, video tapes, printed ephemera and related material, comprising 42 linear feet of material arranged in 29 boxes. The collection is arranged in eight series: the Individuals Correspondence Series, the Scripts and Manuscripts Series, the Academic Series, the Business Files Series, the Printed Materials Series, the Video Series, the Scrapbook...
Dates:
03/28/1983-04/04/1983
Found in Notes:
2 TLSs from Larry Wilde at PEN to KJA regarding PEN.
Wilde, Oscar.
File — Box 22: Series 1272 [Barcode: 39020030746732], Folder: 69
Identifier: 80251
Series-level Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Contains documents comprising the personal manuscripts collection of John Gilmary Shea. This series consists of Boxes 21 and 22 and is arranged alphabetically by individual.
Dates:
01/04/1882-01/04/1882
Found in Notes:
WILDE, OSCAR - AUTOGRAPH (1882): Other Types
Wild, Heinrich
File — Box 2: [Barcode: 39020030737319], Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Typed letters to Isenstead from Heinrich Wild of Kösel Verlag.
Dates:
1946 - 1966
Found in Notes:
Typed letters to Isenstead from Heinrich Wild of Kösel Verlag.
Wild, E.
File — Box 205: [Barcode: 39020030749454]
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...
Dates:
1906 - 1972
Wild, John
File — Box 205: [Barcode: 39020030749454]
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...
Dates:
1924
Wilde, Richard
File — Box 205: [Barcode: 39020030749454]
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...
Dates:
1906 - 1972
Wilde, Ted
File — Box 205: [Barcode: 39020030749454]
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...
Dates:
1924
Wilding, Michael
File — Box 205: [Barcode: 39020030749454]
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...
Dates:
1951
Wilde, Cornel
File — Box 48: [Barcode: 39020030751153], Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Space, White House
Dates:
1975-08-15