Scope and contents note From the Collection: The papers of Baron Robert Silvercruys consist of letters, manuscripts, pamphlets and clippings mainly concerning the careers of Frantz Silvercruys (1859 - 1936), President of the Court of Cassation of Belgium and created Baron Silvercruys in 1929, and of his son, Robert Silvercruys (1893 - 1971), who was a Belgian Ambassador to the United States (1946 - 1959). The papers comprise 3.5 linear feet of materials, arranged in 56 folders in 7 boxes. The papers are divided into two series, one...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The George H. O'Connor Papers contain correspondence, photographs, programs, songs, music and cartoons, accumulated by O'Connor throughout his life. The correspondence includes letters from William H. Taft, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, J. Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, and Edward Stettinius. The most interesting letters are two written by O'Connor himself to his wife Blanche, while O'Connor was staying at Warm Springs with President Roosevelt.Perhaps the most...

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Includes unidentified correspondence. Also note: only names marked with an asterisk (*) are included in the index. Correspondence primarily concerns Katherine Biddle's poetry and poetry readings.

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Correspondants include: Lore Beenken 1947-02-22; Heinrich Berl 1947-12-29; Hans Braun 1951-02-04; Christoph Brecht 1949-01-14; E.C. Breitenkamp 1951-11-09; Harry Buckwitz 1948-12-22; Franz Biermann 1983-02-26; Solweig Brown (for Ralph A. Brown, deceased) 1988-05-03.

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Fliers from elections in 1932: broadside for Adolf Hitler, rejecting the economic "Roungplan" of Hindenburg and the Social Democratic party, for the German presidential election held March 13; two-sided flier promoting the campaign of Otto Braun and Carl Severing in the Prussian parliamentary election of April 24, with a prominent cartoon against Hitler.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The personal papers of music critic Paul Hume comprise this collection. Highlights include correspondence from luminaries of the music world such as Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Leonard Bernstein, Rudolph Bing, Nadia Boulanger, Antal Dorati, Alberto Ginastera, Serge Koussevitsky, John La Montaine, Lotte Lehmann, John Mauceri, Gian Carlo Menotti, Eugene Ormandy, Rosa Ponselle, Ned Rorem, Mstislav Rostropovich, Bidu Sayao, Beverly Sills, Gerard Souzay, George Szell, Virgil Thomson, Alan...

Scope and Contents Jesuit obituaries: Peter Ladaviere (1858), Francis X. de Charlevoix (1761), Antoine Braun (1885), William O'Callaghan (1873), Raymond A. Lutz (1964), Francis J. O'Neill (1905), Joseph F. Kereben (1728), Fabian Garbely (1903), Joseph Tschenhens (1882), Matthew Sanders (1868), Anne de Nouë/Anne de Nove Chaupenois (1646), John Gough (1876), Louis de Quiros (1568), Gabriel de Solis (1568), John Baptist Mendez (1568), Francis Cazeau (1884), Louis d'Avaugour (1732), Joseph E. Keller (1886),...

Scope and Contents Contains ALS: from Clarke to Brocard on possible purchase of lot in Smyrna 12/11/1848; fro McElroy to Brocard on misc. retreats 11/3/1848; from Brocard to McElroy on misc. 11/6/1848; from Dietz to Brocard on establishment of school at Wheeling 11/6/1848; 3 fro S. Barber to Brocard on misc. 11/6-8/1848; from Sopranis to Brocard on former's assigment to Holy Cross 11/8/1848; from a Rev. Braun to Brocard on situation of Richmond congregation 11/13/1848; from Combs to Brocard on misc....