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Lester Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-920101
Collection-level scope and contents note
The Lester Adams Papers primarily consist of the official papers and ephemera of Captain Lester Adams, who was part of the U.S. Medical Corps during World War I stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. The papers are arranged in 19 folders and housed in 1 box.The Lester Adams Papers cover Adams' brief service in the Medical Reserve Corps, mainly consisting of military orders, ephemera, and a few photographs. Among Adams' official correspondence are a telegram from Surgeon General...
Dates:
1916-1919; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1919
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Mills, and they had two children, Mary Susan and Sarah Frances Adams. Lester Adams died in Thomaston, Maine on December 14, 1971.
H. L. Mencken - Ernest A. and Madeleine E. Boyd Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS174
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Mencken-Boyd Collection consists of 19 letters from H.L. Mencken to Ernest A. and Madeleine E. Boyd. The letters are arranged in 19 folders and contained in 1 box.
Dates:
1923 - 1951
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Boyd, the wife of Ernest Boyd, was born Madeleine Elise Reynier in France in 1886. She was the translator of "A Commoner Married a King" and author of an autobiographical novel, "Life Makes Advances."
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:
Born on November 9, 1910, in Boston, Massachusetts, Quigley was the son of William Francis Quigley and Mary Frances (Carroll) Quigley. Carroll Quigley received a number of degrees from Harvard University: an A.B.
Peter Epinette, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS38
Scope and Contents
The Peter Epinette, SJ Papers contains a letter from Fr. Dzierozynski regarding the "Mattingly Miracle," an "Exhortation on the Commons Rules," and four bound volumes of spiritual writings.
Dates:
1806 - 1824
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Peter Epinette, SJ (1760-1832), born in France, originally joined the religious life as a Pacconarist but later became a member of the Society of Jesus in Russia (1805).
French Military Treatise
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS451
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Dating to the period of the French Revolution and handwritten in French, this military treatise on French battle tactics is contained in 32 folders in one 0.25 linear-foot box. The text covers a wide variety of topics, such as encampment, mountain warfare, artillery, military reconnaissance, and attack and defensive tactics. The material includes references to Buonaparte, the Italian Campaign of 1796, the Cairo Campaign, Louis XVII, Le Duc de Castries, and Lord Camelford. This treatise is a...
Dates:
1786 - 1799
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
For example, folder 1 includes a reference to Louis XVII (1785-1795), who held that name as titular king of France only between 1793 and 1795. Also, folder 10 makes reference to the Italian Campaign of 1796 and the Cairo Campaign (part of the Egyptian Campaign of 1798-1801).
Maurice Jackson Papers
File
Identifier: GTM-100510
Scope and Contents
The Maurice Jackson Papers consist of research files and printed materials produced and collected by Georgetown University history professor Maurice Jackson. A series of subject files maintained by Dr. Jackson include materials concerning the history of Washington, D.C., civil rights, and the Washington, D.C. race massacres of 1919 and 1968. Printed materials included in this collection pertain to African American history, communism, socialism, Marxism, Jewish affairs, the Soviet Union, and...
Dates:
1919 - 2023
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He has lectured in several countries, including France, Italy, Turkey, and Qatar.
Dr. Jackson has been involved with local government in the nation's capital and served as the Inaugural Chair of the D.C.
Dr. Jackson has been involved with local government in the nation's capital and served as the Inaugural Chair of the D.C.
John F. Parr - D. Harrison Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS103
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Parr-Smith Collection consists primarily of correspondence, clippings, medals and photographs collected by D. Harrison Smith and John F. Parr, most relating to their friendship with Edmund S. Walsh, S.J. and their connections with Georgetown University. The collection consists of 1 linear foot of material arranged in 24 folders in 2 boxes. The Smith-Parr Archives contain correspondence relating to John F. Parr's tenure at Georgetown University. Manuscripts by Parr and Smith are also in...
Dates:
1940-1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Harrison Smith then moved to the Villa de la Grangette in Lens-Lestang, France. Donald Harrison Smith was also born in 1917 and began attending Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1935 with John F.
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:
Born in La Celle-Saint Cloud, France, he was educated at the Oratory School in Birmingham.
Richard H. Clarke papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS92
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Richard H. Clarke Papers consist of letters, essays and printed materials of Richard H. Clarke (1827 - 1911). The papers comprise .20 linear feet of material, arranged in 15 folders in one box. The corresponence and manuscripts of this collection mainly involve Clarke's interest in Catholic history in America. He founded the United States Catholic Historical Society in the mid-1880's and conversed with many Catholic historians such as Martin I. J. Griffin, George Pax, Colonel Lamson,...
Dates:
1863-1911
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He also wrote 'The History of the Bench and Bar of New York,' 'Old and New Lights on Columbus,' 'France's Aid to America in the War of Independence,' 'Hints on Prolonging Life,' and 'Guide to Washington.'
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Walter Granger Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-841101
Scope and Contents note
The Granger - Teilhard de Chardin Collection consists of seventeen letters from Teilhard to Dr. Walter Granger of the American Museum of Natural History, plus one letter to Roy Chapman Andrews, scientist and explorer.The letters contain detailed accounts of Teilhard's paleological findings and scientific research, and his comments on the findings and writings of others in the field. These discussions include a number of allusions to research on Peking Man (Sinanthropos), as well...
Dates:
1924 - 1936
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Andrews, 30 August 1924
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist and philosopher, was born 1 May 1881 at Sarcenat, in the Department of Puy de Dôin France, and educated at the College of Mongréin Villefranche-sur-Saô He entered the Society of Jesus in 1899 at Aix-en-Provence and was ordained a priest in 1911.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist and philosopher, was born 1 May 1881 at Sarcenat, in the Department of Puy de Dôin France, and educated at the College of Mongréin Villefranche-sur-Saô He entered the Society of Jesus in 1899 at Aix-en-Provence and was ordained a priest in 1911.
Leon Keyserling Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS219
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection includes that part of Keyserling's papers which relate to his long tenure as legislative aide to Senator Robert F. Wagner. Besides correspondence from Wagner, it contains numerous drafts of bills written by Keyserling, such as the Housing Act of 1937 and the Wagner National Labor Relations Act (present in eight separate drafts), files of campaign speeches, and related material.
Extent: 4.5 linear feet
Date Span: 1928 - 1982, bulk 1934 - 1956
Dates:
1928 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1956
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1953, he became a private consulting economist and worked with various national organizations, governments, firms, and individuals; his clients included the governments of France, India, and Israel. In 1971, he retired from private practice and devoted his time to working for the Conference on Economic Progress, a private, nonprofit research organization he founded in 1954.
Horace Porter Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS249
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Horace Porter Collection consists of 13.0 linear feet of photographs, manuscripts, letters, clippings, prints, and printed ephemera, together with a large assortment of valuable artifacts connected with General Porter's career. Porter, best known for his role as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was a noted soldier, railroad executive, diplomat, and son of Governor David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) of Pennsylvania. The collection includes a variety of...
Dates:
1855 - 1921
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
From 1897 until 1905, Porter held the post of U.S. Ambassador to France.
Sources:
Sifakis, Stewart. "Who Was Who in the Civil War."
Sources:
Sifakis, Stewart. "Who Was Who in the Civil War."
Hilaire Belloc - Emma Pescatore Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS404
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and Emma Pescatore.
Dates:
1905 - 1931
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The outbreak of the First World War strengthened Belloc's attachment to France, a Catholic nation at the heart of civilization in conflict with protestant Germany, or ‘Prussia’, as he liked to call it; he regarded the Catholic south Germans and Austrians as at best misguided, at worst renegades.
Kilmer Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-980703
Scope and Contents
The Kilmer Family papers contain materials from the Kilmer family, a noted family of American writers. The collection includes materials relating to Joyce Kilmer, Aline Kilmer, Kenton Kilmer, Nicholas Kilmer, and other family members. Some letters, manuscripts, poems, photographs, ephemera, and clippings by and about poet-soldier Joyce Kilmer are present. In addition, materials by and concerning poet Aline Kilmer, such as letters, poems, and photographs, are preserved. Moreover, an...
Dates:
1861 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1995
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Army during World War I and died in action near Seringes, France on July 30, 1918. [Source: "Encyclopedia Britannica" Online].
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:
DuBourg resigned the See of New Orleans in 1826 and returned to France, where he became Bishop of Montauban. In February 1833, he was appointed Archbishop of Besançon, where he died later that year.
Washington Irving Letterbook
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS247
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Washington Irving Letterbook (1 box, 0.25 linear feet) consists of one bound letterbook containing handwritten copies of outgoing letters dated from 1842 to 1844 written by Irving (1783-1859) while he served as U.S. Minister to Spain (1842-1846). Although most of these letters were copied in the hand of Irving's secretary, a number of them seem to have been copied by Irving himself in his own hand. Irving's richly descriptive writing style shines through in these letters as he analyzes...
Dates:
1842 - 1844
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The younger Hamilton penned these letters when Irving was on leave in France recovering from a skin ailment. Three of Hamilton Jr.'
Alfred Earle (Bishop of Marlborough) papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-860131
Collection-level Scope and Contents note
The papers of Rt. Rev. Alfred Earle (1827-1918), consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and related printed ephemera, regarding Earle's remarkable career. The papers include material from his early days as a student in Oxford, to his appointments first as Bishop of Marlborough ( 1888-1900) and later as Dean of Exeter (1900-1918). The collection comprises 1.5 linear feet of material, and it is organized chronologically in three boxes with a total of thirty-six folders....
Dates:
1840-1920
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
There is much correspondence from relatives of Frances Anne Ilbert (1832-1911), Alfred's wife since 1866.
Louis J.A. Mercier Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-860922
Scope and Contents
The Louis Joseph Alexandre Mercier Papers contain materials covering the entire range of Mercier's public and professional life. The bulk of the collection comprises multiple drafts of his many addresses and articles, as well as auxiliary materials Mercier collected for his writings. Those topics to which Mercier devoted the most time, Humanism and Naturalism, Irving Babbitt, and the Classics in Education, are particularly well represented, as are his major works, Le Mouvement Humaniste aux...
Dates:
1888-1966
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Louis Joseph Alexandre Mercier was a teacher, lecturer, and philosopher of education. Born in Le Mans, France, on 19 June
1880, he came with his family to Chicago in 1890, in part, to escape the growing interference of the State in religious education.
Augustus J. Thébaud, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS54
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Fr. Augustus J. Thébaud's draft of Three-Quarters of a Century (1807-1882): A Retrospect Written from Documents and Memory in 1877-1882. Vol. I: Political, Social, and Ecclesiastical Events in France (ed. Charles G. Herbermann, United States Catholic Historical Society, 1912). It also contains his draft of what would later become chapter six of Three-Quarters of a Century (1807-1882): A Retrospect Written...
Dates:
1877 - 1882
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
I: Political, Social, and Ecclesiastical Events in France
Marion Stancioff Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-131113
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes and articles by Marion Stancioff on Catholicism and a range of humanitarian interests such as art, education, literature, philosophy, as well as economics and politics. Includes correspondence with friends in both English and French on many of the foregoing topics. Notable letters are from Dorothy Day, Anne Fremantle, and Ezra Pound. Family letters are also included.
Dates:
1903 - 2009
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Ivan Stancioff’s father, Dimitri, had been chief adviser to King Ferdinand; while his mother was a Savoyard countess by birth who had been lady-in-waiting to Ferdinand’s mother, a daughter of Louis Philippe of France.
As a diplomat’s wife, Stancioff spent much of the ensuing period in Sofia and Rome.
As a diplomat’s wife, Stancioff spent much of the ensuing period in Sofia and Rome.