One printed reproduction of a portrait drawing of John Henry Newman by George Richmond and one short handwritten letter by Newman, dated 1877.
Scrapbook consisting of newspaper clippings documenting the 1858 trial of Rev. Patrick Cheyne for allegedly preaching in favor of transubstantiation in Aberdeen, Scotland. The clippings date from 1858 to 1860.
The Kim Philby - Oleg Kalugin Collection consists of five letters from Philby to Kalugin and three typed manuscripts written by Philby. In the letters, Philby expresses his friendship for Kalugin and mentions mutual acquaintances. The manuscripts, for their part, concern counterintelligence. They are typed with a few handwritten notations. The Kim Philby - Oleg Kalugin Collection is preserved in one small archival box (0.25 linear feet).
One map titled "Lower Mesopotamia" printed in Dehradun, India, by the Survey of India in 1914. One of 500 printed copies that were issued to British staff officers on the eve of the Mesopotamian Campaign and the invasion of Ottoman Iraq. It depicts central and southern Iraq, Kuwait, southwestern Persia, and the head of the Arabian Gulf.
See the External Documents section below for a more detailed description of the map provided by the dealer.
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.
The collection consists of a book outline by Robert Nolan on post-World War II geopolitics, written around 1949 by Robert Nolan. Nolan was a student at the Walsh School of Foreign Service.
In the outline, Nolan mentions that Fr. Walsh's Nuremberg Trials diaries will be utilized as a source for the book.
The Panama Hattie Collection contains a screenplay for the film "Panama Hattie" and a typescript of the play by that same name. The music and lyrics to Panama Hattie were authored by Cole Porter; the book was authored by Herbert Fields and B.G. De Sylva.
Dated July 10, 1941, the screenplay was actor Dan Dailey's personal copy. The screenplay is 117 pages long. Deriving from State Fair Musicals in 1954, the typescript includes several pencil sketches among the pages.
Letters, manuscripts, printed source material and photographs relating to Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton.
A collection of 10 autograph letters, dating between 1822 and 1848, addressed to the longtime American consul in London, Col. Thomas Aspinwall. They are from several prominent Americans and Englishmen seeking Aspinwall's assistance in a variety of matters.