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Edward W. Bodnar, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-120731
Scope and Contents
Series I includes only works by Edward Bodnar, whether originally authored by Bodnar or translated by him. The series contains multiple drafts of many of these works, from first draft tentative "sense-translations" to final drafts. The card catalogs included in the series also contain photographs of manuscripts found in many of the archives listed. Series II includes not only copies of Ciriaco manuscripts, but also Bodnar's notes on them organized by archive, then by individual...
Dates:
1960 - 2010
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
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 Lavin, Claude McKay, Alfred Noyes, Daniel Sargent, and Frank H.
Spanish Boundary Commission Report on Spanish and Portuguese Territory in South America and the Guarani War
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20131216
Scope and Contents
The report is a 454 page bound manuscript written in Spanish in scribal hand, dated to approximately 1760.This collection has been digitized and is available to view online in DigitalGeorgetown.
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Dates:
circa 1760
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Spanish King nominated the Marquis de Valde-Lirios as his plenipotentiary. The party set out from Cadiz in November 1751, arriving at Montevideo in January 1752 proceeding later to Buenos Aires.
St. John the Evangelist Church (Yorkshire) Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-870825
Scope and contents note
The archives of the Church of St. John the Evangelist consist of .5 linear feet of material, including correspondence, manuscripts, documents and related printed ephemera, regarding its founding and construction in the township of Clifton. The papers, dating from 1856 to 1862 and arranged in chronological order, constitute the earliest records of this parish church, located near Mirfield, Yorkshire.Before 1856, the inhabitants of the township of Clifton worshipped in a church in...
Dates:
1856 - 1862
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
There are also letters from other donors and subscribers, including Lord de Saumarez, and from architects James Mallison and Thomas Healey.
Walter Shewring Papers
Item
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS190
Collection level scope and contents note
The Walter Shewring Papers is a small collection of letters, essays and manuscripts by Shewring. The most notable item is the full autograph manuscript of Shewring's translation of Homer's "Odyssey," published by the Oxford University Press (1980). The collection includes some correspondence and printed articles by such distinguished acquaintances as Walter de la Mare, Eric Gill, David Jones, and Arthur Waley.
Dates:
1930 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The collection includes some correspondence and printed articles by such distinguished acquaintances as Walter de la Mare, Eric Gill, David Jones, and Arthur Waley.
Leopoldo Duran Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-110727
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily contains correspondence from Graham Greene to Leopoldo Duran (1964-1990). It also includes correspondence from Vivien Greene, Hugh Greene (brother) and Elizabeth Dennys (sister). Of note is a common place book containing autograph entries by Greene dating from the late 1970s. This was a gift from Duran whose intention was for Greene to jot down notes about his readings and thoughts. Nicknamed "the Picasso" by Duran who conceived the idea after a visit to the Picasso...
Dates:
1960 - 2008
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Over a decade beginning in 1976, Duran and Greene embarked on a series of annual holidays through Spain ranging from retreats to Oseira Monastery, visits to the grave of Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936), but primarily to vineyards where they sampled the wines.
Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230714
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials related to Pan African composers and musicians that was collected by Hildred Roach. It includes music scores from a variety of Black composers, Hildred Roach concert programs, and music recordings (phonograph records, compact discs, and open reel). The collection includes William Grant Still, Ulysses Kay, George Walker, and many others.
Please see the External Documents section below for preliminary inventories of the collection.
Dates:
1900 - 2023
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Leland B. Morris Papers
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 30: [Barcode: 39020030756301]
Identifier: GTM-150928
Scope and Contents
The Leland B. Morris Papers include correspondence, a State Department questionnaire, a receipt dating from 1941-1942, and a letter to Leland B. Morris' wife, Marie, dated 1952. Morris' correspondence primarily concerns Germany in 1941. Highlights include Morris' account of Joachim von Ribbentrop declaring a state of war between Germany and the United States on December 11th, 1941, and a copy of Ribbentrop's declaration. The collection also includes a long, completed questionnaire...
Dates:
1941 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1942
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
By the time of the 1920 census, Morris was married to Marie (or Marika) de Jaba Morris (b. 1895). Marie was born in Turkey to a Polish-speaking father and an Italian-speaking mother.
Thomas Murray Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS111
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Thomas Murray Wilson Papers consist primarily of photographs and diaries by Wilson mainly during his travels around the world in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's in the United States diplomatic corps. The collection is comprised of 5 linear feet of material, arranged in 40 folders in 4 boxes and 3 oversize containers. Thomas Murray Wilson was an avid traveler during his service as a diplomat, visiting all over Southern Asia, Africa and Europe in addition to the countries where...
Dates:
1920 - 1944
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
However, by 1937 he was back in the field again as Consul General to Australia, becoming 'de facto' American Ambassador there. From 1941 to 1942 he was American Commissioner to India with the rank of Minister.
H. A. Jules-Bois Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS114
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The H. A. Jules-Bois Papers primarily consist of 1 linear foot manuscripts of poetry and essays by and about H. A. Jules-Bois with a small amount of correspondence and clippings, arranged in 78 folders in 2 boxes. The H. A. Jules-Bois Papers primarily consist of manuscripts of verse and prose by Jules-Bois, most of which are in individual folders arranged by title, first poetry and then essays. The papers also include a small portion of correspondence between Jules-Bois and Jean le Cardinal...
Dates:
1824 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He later attended the College de France where he was granted Litt.D. At the Sorbonne he studied under Dr.
Michel Marsaudon Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS158
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Michel Marsaudon Papers primarily consist of correspondence to the young French merchant Michel Marsaudon trading in various ports in Haiti during the Haitian and French Revolutions. Also included are documents relating to Marsaudon's brief service in the artillery corps of his native Bordeaux, as well as other correspondence, official documents and receipts mostly relating to trade and society in Haiti in the early 1790's. The collection is arranged in 104 folders in one box....
Dates:
1788 - 1802
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Notable names in the collection are Francisco Louis Hector Baron de Carondelet, Spanish governor of Louisiana and a Mr.
John S. Monagan - Anthony Powell Collection 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS165
Scope and Contents
This collection contains over two decades of correspondence between writer Anthony Powell and his American friend John S. Monagan as well as various magazine and newspaper articles relating to Powell as collected by Monagan. Also within the collection are numerous photographs of Anthony and Violet Powell at their home, the Chantry in Somerset, England, mostly taken by Monagan during visits made with his wife Rosemary in 1981, 1987, and 1988.
Dates:
1969 - 1994
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His military honors include the rank of Major, receiving the Order of the White Lion (Czechoslovakia), the Order of Leopold II (Belgium), and the Oaken Crown and Croix de Guerre (Luxembourg).
Powell was also an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the Modern Language Society, a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London (1962-76), and a member of the London Travellers' Club.
Powell was also an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the Modern Language Society, a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London (1962-76), and a member of the London Travellers' Club.
Carroll Quigley - John F. Parr Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS334
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Carroll Quigley - John F. Parr Collection consists chiefly of manuscript chapters from a work Quigley called "Twentieth Century Europe" in manuscript form but later published as "Tragedy and Hope." The manuscript includes some editing and ample footnotes. The collection also contains one letter from Donald Harrison Smith concerning the Quigley manuscript. The materials date to circa 1965. Quigley published "Tragedy and Hope" in 1966. Although the chapters are numbered, not every chapter...
Dates:
1965 - 1977; Majority of material found in 1965 - 1965
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Parr was born in Lafayette, Indiana, on November 8, 1914, the son of William Clarence Parr and Mary Louise (de Marcus) Parr. John F. Parr earned two degrees from Georgetown University, a B.S. in 1939 and an M.A. in 1948.
John S. Monagan - Anthony Powell Collection 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS341
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence between John Monagan and the Powell Family and correspondence between Monagan and others regarding Powell. Further, it includes manuscripts/articles on Powell written by Monagan and others; papers related to the Anthony Powell Society; photographs of the Powell family and related subjects; and materials from the Georgetown University Library exhibition and symposium celebrating the Anthony Powell centennial in 2005.
Dates:
1961 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1985 - 2005
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His military honors include the rank of Major, receiving the Order of the White Lion (Czechoslovakia), the Order of Leopold II (Belgium), and the Oaken Crown and Croix de Guerre (Luxembourg).
Powell was also an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the Modern Language Society, a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London (1962-76), and a member of the London Travellers' Club.
Powell was also an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the Modern Language Society, a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London (1962-76), and a member of the London Travellers' Club.
Octavio Paranagua Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-810102
Scope and Contents
Collection of papers and photographs owned by Octavio Paranagua, including typescripts, research notes on economics, photographs, postcards, and a letter related to the settling of Jewish refugees in Brazil.The typescripts are related to international economics and the collection also includes an unopened copy of Politique Commerciale Internationale by Paranagua.The photographs (prints and negatives) in the collection are personal in nature and they include images of...
Dates:
1914-1930s
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Harman Grisewood Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS131
Scope and Contents
This collection centers around the correspondence and related papers of three important and long-standing friendships of Harman Grisewood: with the poet and artist David Jones; with printer and artist Rene Hague; and with Christopher Sykes, the celebrated biographer of Evelyn Waugh. Correspondence relating to Jones and Hague, in particular, reflects the social, literary and artistic circles which they and mutual friend Harman Grisewood, shared with acquaintances such as Thomas F....
Dates:
1916 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His special interest was in the Continental Catholic thinkers such as Jacques Maritain and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. It was through Bernard Wall, that Hague became the prime translator of the works of the French Jesuit and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin.
Liège Jesuit Manuscript Text Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-850325
Scope and Contents
The Liège Jesuit Manuscript Text Collection consists of manuscript volumes used by students in the English College at Liège between 1660 and 1730. All but one of the volumes cover specific subjects in theology, and probably fairly represent the Jesuit theology curriculum at Liège. Most titles occur at least twice and others as many as three times, a significant consideration, even in a collection of this size.Most of the sections of the present texts were presumably copied from a...
Dates:
1660 - 1730
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The odd volume of the collection, the "Tractatus de Horographia Sphaerae armillaris...", has an interesting inscription on the last page of the text.
John J. Toohey, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-200109
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers related to Fr. John J. Toohey's personal and spiritual life; his work at Georgetown University; and written works both published and unpublished.
Dates:
1892 - 1955
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Toohey, SJ (1873-1955) was born in Kearney, New Jersey, to Joanna/Johanna Kavanagh (1841-1926) and Patrick Toohey (1840-1899) and was the brother of Martin A. (1869-1940), William I. (1871-1954), Mary T. (1877-1959; later Sister Anna de Paul of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, New Jersey), Joseph P. (1879-1883), and Anna G. (1882-1953).
Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Greenhill collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS403
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Greenhill Collection (1 box, .25 linear feet) contains 10 letters from historian and writer Hilaire Belloc to his bookbinder, Elizabeth Greenhill, dated between January 1938 and May 1940. Of the Belloc - Greenhill Papers, seven are typed signed letters and three are handwritten. Belloc discusses a number of books and correspondences he was working on or having bound at the time, such as "The County of Sussex", "The Old Road", "Verses", and "The Path to Rome."...
Dates:
1938-1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Greenhill worked with Walter de la Mare, Hilaire Belloc, and other notable authors before beginning work on the restorations of rare books in Florence after the flood of the Arno in 1966.
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:
It also includes anecdotes about Cardinal Manning, a copy of a letter from Charles de Montalembert, and a selection of Kent's diary entries.