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William DuBourg Papers

Collection

Identifier: GTA-820101

Scope and Contents The William DuBourg Papers contain correspondence, invoices, and other documents dating between 1796, the year DuBourg assumed the presidency of Georgetown College, and 1833, the year of his death.The bulk of the papers dates from 1796 to 1798, the period of his Georgetown College presidency, and reflect the role of the president at that time as a procurer of goods needed by the institution. Letters and accompanying invoices itemize books ordered by DuBourg for the College...

Dates: 1796 - 1833; Majority of material found within 1796 - 1798

Found in: Georgetown University Archives

Found in Notes: After studies at the Collège de Guyenne, he entered the Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Paris (1786).

Frederick W. Rolfe, Baron Corvo Collection

Collection

Identifier: GTM-141102.1

Content Description

Secondary works relating to Baron Corvo, including correspondence from collectors such as Donald Weeks, manuscripts of papers about Corvo by various authors (some photocopied), printed ephemera, and photographs.

Dates: 1929 - 2013

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Also known as Baron Corvo, he was associated with the "Yellow Book" circle and fin-de-siecle decadent culture. In 1889, while a student in Rome, he was adopted into the circle of the Duchess Sforza Cesarini (1818-1897), who became his patron.

La Pucelle d'Orleans Manuscript

Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 39020031848685]

Identifier: GTM-20140421

Scope and Contents A manuscript copy of the 1762 "authorized" edition of Voltaire's La Pucelle d'Orleans including 47 interleavings on which the copyist has supplied ommitted passages considered too risque to print. The result is something like an early critical edition of the text. A date in the final quarter of the 18th century seems likely, at earliest post-1762.The text is written in a single neat cursive hand throughout, with additions marked by...

Dates: 18th century, after 1762

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Several additions and inscriptions are present, including two names on first original flyleaf: "Monsieur de Fourkowitch" and "Chale Damans" -- both likely 18th or early 19th century.

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: Now, here’s a pretty prize, indeed,

On which De Vinne’s art is lavished; Harkee! the bonny, dainty thing

Is simply waiting to be ravished!

Horace B. McKenna, SJ Project Collection

Collection

Identifier: GTM-130312

Scope and Contents

Consists of drafts and notes relating to a project on Fr. Horace B. McKenna undertaken by Joseph K. Hines in the 1980s. It also includes a copy of "Christ is with the Poor: Stories and Sayings of Horace McKenna, S.J." (eds. Dear and Hines, 1989), a collection of anecdotes based on interviews done by Hines, and three related VHS tapes.

Dates: 1979 - 1989

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Aloysius became a hub of social outreach, housing the St. Vincent de Paul Society--where community members could seek assistance--and hosting McKenna’s informal Sunday afternoon "coffee klatsch."

Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers 2

Collection

Identifier: GTM-GAMMS235

Scope and Contents

The Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers 2 consist predominantly of correspondence received during his ministry in Ridge, Maryland, from fellow Jesuits as well as his family members and friends/parishioners. Further, there is printed matter; photographs; and a series of files collected by Thomas E. Ambrose, SJ, Horaces' nephew.

Dates: 1900 - 1992

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Aloysius became a hub of social outreach, housing the St. Vincent de Paul Society--where community members could seek assistance--and hosting McKenna’s informal Sunday afternoon "coffee klatsch."

Ernest Dimnet - Anita Lawrence Simpson collection

Collection

Identifier: GTM-GAMMS339

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ernest Dimnet-Anita Lawrence Simpson collection consists mostly of letters written from noted French literary priest Ernest Dimnet to Anita Lawrence Simpson. The correspondence relates to their friendship, and it touches on some of Dimnet's works. The collection is contained in one small archival box (0.25 linear feet), and the documents are arranged in chronological order. * * * * * * * BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Abbe Ernest Dimnet was born at Trelon in the Ardennes...

Dates: 1925-1965; Majority of material found within 1925-1940

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Soon thereafter, in 1908, he wrote "Figures de Moines." In 1910, Abbe Dimnet produced "Les Soeurs Bronte."

John L. Brown Papers 4

Collection

Identifier: GTM-GAMMS353

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The John L. Brown Papers: Part 4 represent the extensive personal papers of author, poet, critic, diplomat, and man of letters John L. Brown, who served as U.S. cultural attache to Brussels (1954-1958), Rome (1958-1962), and Mexico City (1964-1968) and as a longtime professor of literature at the Catholic University of America. The massive collection contains correspondence with noted individuals, chronological correspondence, manuscripts by Brown, notebooks, materials for lectures and...

Dates: 1787 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2000

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Brown received the Grand Prix de la Critique in 1954 for his "Panorama de la Litterature Contemporaine aux Etats Unis."

Sennep and Tim French Political Cartoons Collection

Collection

Identifier: GTM-20240717

Scope and Contents Collection of approximately 1,500 political cartoons that were published in three major Paris newspapers between 1959-1964 by Jean-Jacques Charles Pennès (Sennep) and Louis Mitelberg (Tim)The cartoons lampoon Cold War-era international relations of the early 1960s, often featuring political figures such as Charles De Gaulle, François Mitterand, Nikita Kruschev, Mao, Fidel Castro, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Topics include the French economic...

Dates: 1959 - 1965

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Collection of approximately 1,500 political cartoons that were published in three major Paris newspapers between 1959-1964 by Jean-Jacques Charles Pennès (Sennep) and Louis Mitelberg (Tim)

The cartoons lampoon Cold War-era international relations of the early 1960s, often featuring political figures such as Charles De Gaulle, François Mitterand, Nikita Kruschev, Mao, Fidel Castro, Dwight D.

John L. Brown Papers 5

Collection

Identifier: GTM-200113

Scope and Contents

Addendum to John L. Brown papers 1, 2, 3, 4. Includes research source materials (notes, newspaper/magazine articles), correspondence, family photographs, and Brown's journals.

Dates: 1950s-2002

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Brown include Decorated Commander, Chevaliers du Tastevin (Burgundy, France), 1953; Grand Prix de la Critique from Syndicat des Critiques, 1954, for “Panorama de la Littérature Contemporaine aux Etats Unis”; and Le Grand Ordre des Coteaux (Champagne), 1973.

John F. Hurley, SJ Papers

Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 35: [Barcode: 39020031367967], Folder: 10

Identifier: GTM-0055

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a typescript of Fr. John F. Hurley's experiences during the occupation of the Philippines (1941-1945) in which he was held at Santo Tomas Internment Camp. The account was written at the request of Fr. William C. Repetti, then Georgetown University Archivist, in 1964.

Dates: 1964 - 1965

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Hurley was confined to the Ateneo de Manila through January 1944 after which he was sent to Santo Tomas Internment Camp.

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.

Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers

Collection

Identifier: GTM-941229

Scope and Contents Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...

Dates: 1804-1950

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: It also includes approximately 50 signed musical quotations by such composers as by Franz Abt, Michael William Balfe, Ole Bull, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Rudolph Ganz, Aleksandr Glazunov, José Iturbi, Joseph Joachim, Fritz Kreisler, Jan Kubelík, Pietro Mascagni, Jules Massenet, Pablo de Sarasate, John Philip Sousa, Arturo Toscanini, and an interesting example with signed quotations by both Theodor Kullak and Charles Wehle.

Stephen and Susan Decatur papers

Collection

Identifier: GTM-GAMMS245

Collection-level Scope and Content Note Donated to Georgetown College by Susan Decatur, the widow of the War of 1812 naval hero Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), the Stephen and Susan Decatur Papers consist of one letter book containing letters dated from 1812 to 1813 written to Commodore Decatur congratulating him on the victory of the U.S.S. "United States" against the H.M.S. "Macedonian," two letters dated 1812 to him from U.S. Navy Secretary Paul Hamilton, and 16 letters to Susan Decatur dated between 1831 and 1845. Contained in...

Dates: 1812 - 1845

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Bossuet, Jacques Benigne. "Exposition de la Doctrine de l'Eglise Catholique sur les Matieres de Controverse."

John S. Monagan - Horace B. McKenna, SJ Collection

Collection

Identifier: GTM-970507

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, drafts, and other ephemera related to the writing and publication John S. Monagan's biography of Fr. Horace B. McKenna entitled Horace, Priest of the Poor (1985). Also contains audio cassette recordings of interviews used by Monagan for the work, photographs of many interview subjects, and six interview transcripts.

Dates: 1978 - 1988

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Aloysius became a hub of social outreach, housing the St. Vincent de Paul Society--where community members could seek assistance--and hosting McKenna’s informal Sunday afternoon "coffee klatsch."

John L. Brown Papers 1

Collection

Identifier: GTM-GAMMS167

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The John L. Brown Papers 1, consist of 99 folders of correspondence from literary and artistic luminaries, including writers Sylvia Beach, John Dos Passos, Anne Fremantle, Katherine Anne Porter, Alice B. Toklas; philosopher Jacques Maritain; photographer Brassai; poets Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Giuseppe Ungaretti, and many more. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.

Dates: 1933 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1960

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Brown include Decorated Commander, Chevaliers du Tastevin (Burgundy, France), 1953; Grand Prix de la Critique from Syndicat des Critiques, 1954, for “Panorama de la Littérature Contemporaine aux Etats Unis”; and Le Grand Ordre des Coteaux (Champagne), 1973.

Photographs: Nursing School

Collection

Identifier: GTA-000351

Dates: 1906-1972 and Undated

Found in: Georgetown University Archives

Leo J. O'Donovan, SJ Papers

Collection

Identifier: GTM-20241101

Scope and Contents

The personal papers of former Georgetown University President Fr. Leo O'Donovan (1934-) consist of his published and unpublished writings; teaching materials for classes at Fordham University, Union Theological Seminary, Weston School of Theology, and Woodstock College; and papers related to Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner.

Dates: 1961 - 2017

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: He then went on to study at Georgetown University, earning a degree in English and philosophy in 1956, and the L’Universite de Lyon, where he was a Fullbright scholar (1956-1957).

Gregory T.S. Walker Papers

Collection

Identifier: GTM-20250227

Scope and Contents

The collection contains digital files, including photographs of Gregory T.S. Walker and his father George Walker. Additionally, the collection contains an copy of the Minstrels and Minimoogs: New Virtuosity at the University of Colorado phonograph EP (released by Walker Productions in 1988).

Dates: 1988, 2009-2024

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: His music has been performed by Poland's Filharmonia Sudecka, the Detroit Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, and the Encuentro Musical de los Americas in Cuba, as well as at Great Britain’s Lake District Music Festival, the Lamia Conservatoire in Greece, and the Cork Orchestral Society Concert Series in Ireland, the London Song Festival, and at the Chetana International Music Festival in Kerala, India.

Joseph P. Orme Papers

Collection

Identifier: GTM-GAMMS317

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The collection contains eight autograph letters written by Georgetown College alumni to fellow alumus, Joseph P. Orme, between the years 1856 and 1860. The content of the letters range from catching up on news of friends and family to serious political debate. The opinions written by these young men display the divided state of the nation on the brink of civil war. Of the seven friends, at least three went on to fight in the war, two for the Union and one for the Confederacy.

Dates: 1856 - 1860

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: He joined the Federal Service and was a Colonel and Aide-de-camp on the staff of the Governor of Maryland.

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William DuBourg Papers

Frederick W. Rolfe, Baron Corvo Collection

La Pucelle d'Orleans Manuscript

Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Pamphlets

Horace B. McKenna, SJ Project Collection

Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers 2

Ernest Dimnet - Anita Lawrence Simpson collection

John L. Brown Papers 4

Sennep and Tim French Political Cartoons Collection

John L. Brown Papers 5

John F. Hurley, SJ Papers

Fitzhugh Green, Sr. Papers

Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers

Stephen and Susan Decatur papers

John S. Monagan - Horace B. McKenna, SJ Collection

John L. Brown Papers 1

Photographs: Nursing School

Leo J. O'Donovan, SJ Papers

Gregory T.S. Walker Papers

Joseph P. Orme Papers

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