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Records of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-711101
Scope and Contents
Records of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations (CTIA), an unofficial, private organization founded in 1968 to investigate facts surrounding American political assassinations, most specifically those of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy. The papers, consisting of clippings, manuscripts, and sundry publications, relate to the Committee’s work in producing "American Political Assassinations: Bibliography of Works Published, 1963-1970".According to...
Dates:
1963-1973
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Valerie A. Earle Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000020
Scope and Contents
This series contains the papers of Georgetown University professor Valerie A. Earle. Series 1 contains material related to Earle's Georgetown University career, including notes and syllabi from courses taught by Earle and others. Series 2 contains written works, both published and drafted, by Earle and her husband, American University professor Chester Earle. Series 3 contains Earle's personal papers, including correspondence, material from political science groups, and family...
Dates:
1956 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
John O'Leary Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS319
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This one box collection is additional material for the John O'Leary Papers. The papers contained here are more personal in nature including handwritten notes and correspondence. There are also items that were added to the collection at a later date. John O'Leary was the U.S. Ambassador to Chile 1998 - 2001.
Dates:
1993 - 2001
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Embassy Officials:
James Carragher - Deputy Chief of Mission
Stephen Wesche - Econ/Political Counselor
Kathleen Brion - Counselor for Public Affairs
Richard Blabey - Agricultural Counselor
John Harris - Commercial Counselor
Chilean Officials: Augusto Pinochet - Coup Leader, President of Chile (1974-1990) Patricio Alywin - President of Chile (1990-1994) Eduardo Frei - President of Chile (1994-1999) Ricardo Lagos - President of Chile (2000 - ) Soledad Alvear - Minister of Foreign Relations (2000 - )
[Sources: Day, Adam. Mainebiz. "Santiago Calling," 23 July, 2001.]
Chilean Officials: Augusto Pinochet - Coup Leader, President of Chile (1974-1990) Patricio Alywin - President of Chile (1990-1994) Eduardo Frei - President of Chile (1994-1999) Ricardo Lagos - President of Chile (2000 - ) Soledad Alvear - Minister of Foreign Relations (2000 - )
[Sources: Day, Adam. Mainebiz. "Santiago Calling," 23 July, 2001.]
Ned O'Gorman Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS180
Scope and Contents
The Ned O'Gorman Papers 1 consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks and diaries. The papers trace O'Gorman's career from a graduate student at Columbia University in the late 1950s to his tenure at the Children's Storefront in the mid 1980s.
Dates:
1944 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
O'Gorman soon published another set of poems, "Adam Before the Mirror" in 1961. O'Gorman was an editor at "Jubilee" from 1962 to 1965, and during that time published another set of poems, "The Buzzard and the Peacock" (1964).
Abe S. Ashcanase Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-051214
Scope and Contents
Printed reports, film reels, photographic slides and audio recordings from Abe S. Ashcanase, who worked for USAID (Agency for International Development) in the 1960s and 1970s.
Series 1 contains slides depicting Ashcanase's work in the Middle East and Asia, including Operation HELP in Afghanistan (1972-1973).
Series 2 contains reports, correspondence, and other written material from Ashcanase's career.
Series 3 contains film and audio reels.
Dates:
1940s-1970s
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Ned O'Gorman Papers 4
Collection
Identifier: GTM-050910
Scope and Contents Note
The Ned O'Gorman Papers 4 comprise part of the personal papers generated by Ned O'Gorman (b. 1929), a noted American poet, author, and educator. This collection primarily contains lengthy drafts of O'Gorman's autobiography entitled, "Venerated Trinkets, Kept Memorials, and Things Lifted Up: A Volume of Autobiography." In addition, many other manuscripts written by O'Gorman are retained in this archive, which includes some of his poetry. Additional materials include letters with notable...
Dates:
1951 - 2011
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1961, O'Gorman's new set of poems was published as "Adam Before the Mirror." From 1962 to 1965, he worked as an editor of "Jubilee."
Ned O'Gorman Papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS431
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ned O'Gorman Papers 3 are comprised of a portion of the personal papers of Ned O'Gorman, a noted poet and philanthropist. The collection includes correspondence sent to O'Gorman from individuals, such as John Andrew, Isaiah Berlin, Carla Carlisle, Jorge Guillermo, Shirley Hazzard, Joan Hooker, Albert Kresch, James Kritzeck, Samuel Menashe, Kathleen Raine, Ned Rorem, and Bill Scott, among others. Other materials in this collection include address books, diaries, printed materials, and...
Dates:
1956 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2007
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His collected works appeared as "The Night of the Hammer" (1959). His book "Adam Before His Mirror," published in 1961, contained more of his poetical works.
Joseph Smolinski Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS141
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Colonel Joseph Smolinski Papers consist of correspondence, ephemera and an autograph collection arranged in 69 folders in one box. He donated many items to Georgetown University at the turn of the century including these papers, a collection of books and two marble tables. The Papers consist of some correspondence to Colonel Smolinski, a scrapbook of clippings and ephemera and an autograph collection. A great majority of the correspondence is in response to Smolinski's requests for...
Dates:
1818 - 1900; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1890
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Several items in the collection belonged to General Smolinski, including letters to him from the Princes Adam and Witold Czartovyski, Princess Czartovyska and General Zamoyski.
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
Found in Notes:
The collection also includes considerable research material about Nancy Astor, Robert Byron, and Adam von Trott, subjects of other books by Sykes.
Grant Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-781016
Scope and Contents
The Grant Richards Papers consist of correspondence, (Boxes 1 to 3), manuscripts (Box 4 and throughout individual correspondence files), printed materials (Box 5), photos and clippings (Box 5 and 6), all relating to Richards and to the various authors he published. Of note is correspondence between Lady Gregory and himself regarding proposed biographies of Sir Hugh Lane, who died on the "Lusitania." The collection would be of interest in the study of any of the writers represented to the...
Dates:
1889 - 1962
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1888, he began his publishing career earning 8 shillings a week clerking for the firm of Hamilton Adams in Paternoster Row. At the age of 17, in 1889, Richards joined W.T.
Gerard Mannion Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20220623
Scope and Contents
The collections contains the papers of Catholic scholar Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), who served as a professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University from 2004 until his death in 2019. The collection includes materials from his studies at Oxford and Cambridge, as well as his teaching materials from Georgetown University, the University of Tubingen, Liverpool Hope University, the University of Leeds, and San Diego University. Many of Mannion's research...
Dates:
1987 - 2019
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The collection was inventoried by student assistant Adam Teece in the summer of 2022. Student assistant Nina Skweres assisted in rehousing the collection into archival boxes and folders in the fall of 2022.
James Brown Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-660503
Scope and Contents
The papers of James Brown Scott (1866-1945), authority in international law, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, documents, minutes, printed material, manuscripts of articles and addresses, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Included is material from Scott's activities as Solicitor (1906-1910) and Special Advisor (1914-1917) for the State Department, as delegate to the Second Hague Conference (1907) and Paris Peace Conference (1919), his membership and offices in the Carnegie...
Dates:
1891 - 1967
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Correspondence includes letters from Charles Evans Hughes, Robert Bacon, William Jennings Bryan, James Bryce, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Francis Adams, Frank B. Kellogg, Robert Lansing, Franklin Roosevelt, Elihu Root, and Woodrow Wilson, among others.
Loughborough Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS274
Scope and Contents
The Loughborough Family Papers 2 document the history of the Loughboroughs, a prominent nineteenth century family with connections to the neighborhood of Georgetown and Georgetown University. Of note are documents by and about early U.S. Comptroller of the Treasury Nathan Loughborough, U.S. Congressman John Randolph of Roanoke, Hamilton Loughborough, Confederate officer James Henry Loughborough, artist Margaret M. Loughborough, and others.
Dates:
1796 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1800 - 1880
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In his politics, Loughborough was a supporter of John Quincy Adams and an opponent of Thomas Jefferson. At one point, Loughborough went to court because he refused to pay District of Columbia taxes on the ground of "taxation without representation."
Gallery of Living Catholic Authors Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS472
Scope and Contents
The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors Collection was formed by the Gallery, founded in 1932 by Sister Mary Joseph, S.L. It was transferred in 1980 from its original home at Webster College in St. Louis to Georgetown. It consists of manuscripts, letters, and photographs by and about more than 600 British, American, European, and Asian Catholic authors of the twentieth century, including such writers as Hugh de Blacam, Roy Campbell, Wilfrid Rowland Childe, August Derleth, Julian Green, Mary...
Dates:
1890 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1961
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
., and a series of architectural sketches by Ralph Adams Cram for a proposed Gallery building.
Ray Bradbury Letters
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030751609]
Identifier: GTM-141117
Scope and Contents
A collection, assembled by author Nelson Bond (1908-2006), of 18 typed letters, dated 1949-1996, received from science fiction writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). Includes 5 typed letters signed from Nelson Bond, dated 1957 to 1976. Additional items regarding Bradbury sent by Nelson Bond to friend Allen Ahearn (owner, Quill and Brush).
Dates:
1949-1996; Majority of material found in 1949-1974
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Eric Gill - H. Cotton Minchin Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS299
Scope and Contents
The Eric Gill - H. Cotton Minchin Collection consists of correspondence dated 1928 to 1929, mostly from Eric Gill to H. Cotton Minchin, concerning an engraving that Gill provided for "The Legion Book." That book was edited by Minchin and published in 1929, and contributions and illustrations were solicited from the leading writers and artists of the day, including Gill. In the letters, Gill discusses the details for the work to be done. One of the letters in the collection is from Gill to...
Dates:
1928 - 1929
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Gill's other major works included "Prospero and Ariel" in 1931 and "The Creation of Adam" from 1935 to 1938. In 1915, with Douglas Pepler, Gill founded St.
Gene Basset Collection of Political Photographs
Collection
Identifier: GTM-770301
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photographs of politicians that were used as reference materials by the newspaper cartoonist Gene Basset, dating from 1912 to 1989 (bulk 1960s-1980s). The photographs extensively document U.S. political figures from the 1960s through the 1980s, especially Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. It also includes some foreign political leaders (1930s-1980s) and a small selection of actors/performers/film productions (1930s-1960s). The collection consists entirely of...
Dates:
1912 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Gene Basset's son, Brian Basset worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Times during the 1980s and 1990s and is now a comic strip artist working on Adam at Home and Red and Rover.
[Source: "Gene Basset Papers, an inventory of his papers at Syracuse University."
[Source: "Gene Basset Papers, an inventory of his papers at Syracuse University."
Charles Kent Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS456
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection contains letters written by religious and political leaders to Charles Kent and others dating from 1862 to 1889. The authors of the letters include Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman, Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and Prime Minister William Gladstone. Most of the letters are written to Kent, editor of The Sun and The Weekly Register, and discuss England's newspapers with regard to religious matters and Catholicism. The letters were written after the time of...
Dates:
1862 - 1896
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Dictionary of English Literature. W. Davenport Adams. Cassell Petter. Britannica Encyclopedia. 2004.
Mary O'Hara Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS166
Scope and Contents
A collection of manuscripts for various works by American author and screenwriter Mary O’Hara (1885-1980), including the novella and musical screenplay “The Catch Colt”, “The Wyngate Children”, as well as the complete manuscript for her autobiography “Flicka’s Friend.” Also included is sheet music for compositions by O’Hara: “Green Grass of Wyoming” (1946), and “The Wind Harp” (1954).
Dates:
1943-1985; Majority of material found within 1952-1978
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Other books by Mary O'Hara include: “Let Us Say Grace,” (Christopher, 1930); “The Son of Adam Wyngate” (McKay, 1952); an autobiographical work, “Novel-in-the-Making” (Mckay, 1954); “Wyoming Summer” (Doubleday, 1963), based on her diary of sixteen years; and her autobiography, published posthumously, “Flicka's Friend” (G.P.
Horace Porter Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS249
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Horace Porter Collection consists of 13.0 linear feet of photographs, manuscripts, letters, clippings, prints, and printed ephemera, together with a large assortment of valuable artifacts connected with General Porter's career. Porter, best known for his role as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was a noted soldier, railroad executive, diplomat, and son of Governor David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) of Pennsylvania. The collection includes a variety of...
Dates:
1855 - 1921
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The collection contains photographs of Brigadier General Quincy Adams Gillmore, Grant and his staff at Lookout Mountain taken in 1863 after the battle (photo by A.