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Pierre Leroy - Janetta Warre Collection 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS308
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Leroy-Warre Collection 2 is composed primarily of correspondence between Janetta Warre and Pierre Leroy S.J. The remainder of the Collection is composed of letters to Janetta Warre and others about the Teilhard de Chardin Centenary Exhibit in London and Edinburgh, as well as many manuscripts and printed items related to the lives and work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin S.J. and Pierre Leroy S.J. The Leroy-Warre Collection 2 is part of a group of collections at Georgetown...
Dates:
1960 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1992
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
After returning to Europe in 1946, Pierre Leroy served as a researcher at the College de France and director of the Gif-sur-Yvette laboratory until 1970 and 1971 respectively.
Allied Commission for Austria Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-110411
Scope and Contents Note
The Allied Commission for Austria collection consists of typed reports: proceedings of the Allied Council, proceedings of the Executive Committee, and materials from the Intergovernmental Committee on European Migration. The archive is preserved in 22 boxes (32 l.f.).
Dates:
1945 - 1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
On July 4, 1945, the Allied powers of the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union established four-power occupation zones in Austria as a whole and in the city of Vienna as well.
William Zimmerman Manuscripts Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS152
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The William Zimmerman, Jr., Manuscripts Collection consists of two series of material. The first series is a collection of autograph materials such as correspondence by literary figures, intellectuals and politicians, including novelists R.D. Blackmore, Samuel Butler, Anatole France, Thomas Hughes, Edgar Lee Masters, and George McDonald; and statesman Harold Ickes. Photographs by Burton Holmes and Henry Greenwood Peabody are also included. Of special interest is a fragment of a sixteenth...
Dates:
1500 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1900
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Blackmore, Samuel Butler, Anatole France, Thomas Hughes, Edgar Lee Masters, and George McDonald; and statesman Harold Ickes.
Edythe Patten Corbin Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS271
Scope and Contents
The Edythe Patten Corbin Papers consist of correspondence sent to Edythe Patten Corbin, the wife of General Henry C. Corbin. One of the famous Patten sisters of Washington, D.C., Edythe Patten Corbin was a socialite who corresponded with members of the highest social circles of the nation's capital. Principal correspondents include Philippe Bunau-Varilla, American Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick, General John J. Pershing, Senator Elihu Root, and President William Howard Taft. While...
Dates:
1898 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Principal correspondents include Philippe Bunau-Varilla, American Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick, General John J. Pershing, Senator Elihu Root, and President William Howard Taft.
Horace Porter - Mrs. Osborn Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS348
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Horace Porter - Mrs. Osborn Collection consists of correspondence written by Horace Porter to a Mrs. Osborn between the years 1906 and 1917. In addition to the ten letters, the collection contains the New York Times obituary of Horace Porter.
Dates:
1906 - 1917
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1897, Porter was appointed US ambassador to France and was instrumental in dispelling hostility toward the US.
Lucile Swan Photograph Album
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030734779]
Identifier: GTM-090102
Scope and Contents
A photograph album from Lucile Swan's life in China (1930-1939), including pictures of her sculpting, Chinese cultural events, the landscape of Beijing, and her friend John Carter Vincent (a Foreign Service Officer) and his wife Elizabeth ("Betty").
Dates:
1930 - 1939
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
From 1916 through 1923 she worked and traveled in Corsica, Japan, China, Tahiti, and France. In 1924 she divorced. Two years later, she closed her Chicago studio and moved to New York City where she continued her work.
Charles Guiteau Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS133
Scope and Contents
The Charles J. Guiteau collection consists of correspondence, affidavits and printed material by and about Guiteau, the notorious attorney who assassinated U.S. President James Abram Garfield on July 2, 1881. The assassination resulted in one of the most celebrated American 'insanity trials' of the nineteenth century, which became something of a legal milestone in the judgement of the criminally insane.
Dates:
1876 - 1882
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He called upon his brother-in-law, George Scoville, who had married his sister Frances. After the death of their mother, Frances had practically raised her younger brother, and was to provide him often with both moral and financial support throughout his life.
Edward Jackson, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20250909
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the D.C. Youth Chorale (the official city-wide chorus of the D.C. Public School System) and its director, Edward Jackson, Jr., primarily from the 1960s to the early 1980s. It includes concert programs, advertisements, and newspaper clippings, as well as materials collected for Jackson's application for the 1983-1984 National Teacher of the Year Award. The collection also contains a photograph album documenting an event held in celebration of Jackson and the D.C....
Dates:
1964 - 2008
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Founded in 1961 as Young Scholars with Special Gifts by Dr. Frances White Hughes, then a music teacher at Roosevelt High School.
Samuel Ebling papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830120
Scope and Contents
Certificates of U.S. Department of State consular appointments signed by various U.S. secretaries of state, as well as presidents of U.S. and other countries. Post and date of appointment noted. Arranged by document signatory.
Dates:
1924-1950
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He attended Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, and later spent part of his undergraduate years at the Universite de Nancy, France. He received his AB degree in 1920 from George Washington University.
Alain C. White Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-860101
Scope and contents note
The Alain C. White Papers primarily consists of pamphlets and books, with some correspondence, relating to the history of Litchfield, Connecticut. The collection comprises .5 linear feet of material, arranged in 11 folders in 1 box. The collection consists of books and pamphlets on the history of Litchfield, Connecticut collected by Alain C. White, with much of the material written by White himself. Litchfield was first settled in 1720, and much of the material in the collection was...
Dates:
1860 - 1946
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was born in Cannes, France in 1880, a son of John J. White, a lawyer and descendant of seventeenth century colonial settlers.
Shusaku Endo papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-841022
Scope and Content note
The Shusaku Endo papers include manuscript drafts of Endo's novels "The Samurai" and "Scandal," a short story draft, and an as-yet unidentified draft. Evident in the manuscripts are Endo's corrections and notations, the additions and revisions he occasionally taped to existing manuscripts, and the work of his secretary to transcribe a clean version of the draft for later review.
Dates:
1984-1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He studied at Keio University and in Lyons, France, where he studied the writing of French Catholic authors.
Maria Fitzherbert Collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030751625]
Identifier: GTM-150617
Scope and Contents
Collection of letters by and about Maria Fitzherbert (b.1756-1837). Includes miscellaneous documents including copies of wills (1830, 1832).
Dates:
circa 1786-1837
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
From an old Roman Catholic family in England, Maria studied at a convent in France. In 1775, she married Edward Weld who died after their marriage.
Arthur Ransome - Bertrand Jerram Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS289
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Arthur Ransome - Sir Bertram Jerram Collection consists of nine letters and one postcard written by the noted author of children's books Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) to Jerram. One of the letters, which are preserved in chronological order, dates to 1929, but the others date from 1952 to 1953. Some of the correspondence focuses on Jerram's uncle, E.F. Knight (1852-1925), the famous yachtsman, whom Ransome greatly admired. Knight, war correspondent, barrister, and author, commanded the...
Dates:
1929 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1953
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
During vacations from school, Knight spent time in France and learned to sail a small boat in the River Seine.
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:
Just before World War I, he published "France Herself Again." The book "The Art of Thinking," brought out in 1928, was his most highly regarded work.
Stephen Dubuisson, SJ - William Feiner, SJ Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS50
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters, diaries, and other writings of Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson, S.J. and William Feiner, S.J. Because the two men served as successive Presidents of Georgetown College in the 1820s, and because both made entries in the letterbooks in this collection, these materials have been grouped together. Dubuisson’s materials consist of loose letters (including several pertaining to students at Georgetown College) and three bound items (a diary, a...
Dates:
1818 - 1842
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In poor health, Stephen Dubuisson returned to Europe in 1841. He died in France in 1864.
William Feiner, S.J.
William Feiner, S.J.
Norah Tracey Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-861201
Scope and Contents note
The collection primarily consists of personal correspondence. Letters from male admirers provide some insight into life in the British Armed Forces during World War II. Business exchanges relate to the commissioning and sale of women's travel clothing. Included are photographs of Tracey with acquaintances.
Dates:
1923 - 1949
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In spite of personal problems, Tracey was able to maintain a wide social circle as evidenced by the copious correspondence from friends in Hollywood, Washington, D.C., France, South Africa, and England. Date of death unknown.
Beauchamp-Hughes Family collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-770930
Scope and Contents
A collection of autograph letters to/from members of the Beauchamp and Hughes families including Louise Augusta Beauchamp, her husband David M. Hughes, their daughter Lolita Beauchamp Hughes. Notable correspondents include Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Thomas Henry Husley, Robert Mullan, John Pagrave Simpson, Anthony Trollope, and Sir Mordant Wells, among others.Other materials include: 1.Photographs; 2. Printed sheet music composed by Lolita Beauchamp Hughes; 3. Newspaper...
Dates:
1855-1903
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Hughes died in Nice, France in 1886.
[Source: Ancestry.com].
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Milton House Archives
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-840716
Scope and Contents
This collection, whose title derives from the house in England where its contents were maintained for almost 200 years, consists of significant portions of the papers of George Birkhead, Archpriest of England in the early seventeenth century, and of the Belson family, together with a miscellany of letters and documents pertaining in one way or another to English Catholic history between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. Among the more prominent authors of letters are Robert...
Dates:
1579 - 1760
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The documents are said to have been at Douai College in France until the French Revolution, when they were taken to England (though this sequence of events was not verified in researching this collection register).
Kilmer Family Papers - Part 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-190919
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials relating to Kenton Kilmer: files relating to his work as Washington Post poetry editor; translations of works by author Andre Chouraqui (1917-2007), and letters from US Congressmen on environmental and health policy issues (issues of concern to Kilmer). Also includes manuscript and sheet music set to poems by Aline and Joyce Kilmer.
Dates:
1937 - 1993
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Kenton Kilmer resided in Vienna, Virginia, with his wife, poet Frances Frieseke. They were the parents of 10 children.
Arnaud and Alexandra de Borchgrave Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-151008
Scope and Contents
The Arnaud and Alexandra de Borchgrave Papers comprise the personal and professional papers of the journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave and his wife, photographer Alexandra de Borchgrave. Included are country files, family photographs and documents, chronological files, "Newsweek" materials, subject files, photographs, biographical information, speaking engagement files, invitations and other documents from social occasions, scrapbooks, travel itineraries, and audiovisual materials. Of particular...
Dates:
1889 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In July 2014, de Borchgrave received the Legion of Honor from the President of France in recognition of his personal contribution to the liberation of France during the Second World War.