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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.
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.
Cornelius Van H. Engert Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-970901
Scope and Contents
The Cornelius Van H. Engert papers 2 comprise a portion of the personal papers of Cornelius Van H. Engert, a U.S. diplomat who served in a number of important diplomatic posts. The collection includes correspondence, diplomatic memos, printed materials, speeches, and photographs.
Dates:
1887 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In January 1937, Engert was named Consul for the legations in Teheran and Kabul, and in August 1940 he was posted as Consul General in Beirut and Damascus where he was serving during the invasion of the forces of France Libre. In 1942, Engert became the first American Minister to reside in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he served until 1945.
Alexander Ward Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-850101
Scope and Contents
The Alexander Ward Papers comprise fifteen autograph diaries of Alexander Ward from 1870 to 1889. The diaries begin while Ward is eighteen and trace his development from a wealthy youth working part-time in a factory to a wealthy land owner doing local magistracy work. The diaries offer us an interesting perspective on the day to day life of a country squire during his early years before his marriage in 1895. The entries are written in a "matter-of-fact" style, often with little commentary....
Dates:
1870 - 1889
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Ward also made three trips to the Continent to France, Germany, and Switzerland, mostly to help his rheumatism by attending the Baths in each place.
Patrick O'Mahony Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS221
Scope and Contents
Material in this collection centers around the human rights work of Fr. Patrick O'Mahony, a major focus of which was on ethical employment and working condition policies and practices of multi-national companies and subsidiaries in the Third World, including South Africa, South America, and countries in Asia. Fr. O'Mahony undertook a study of the moral implications of investments and the responsibilities of shareholders, particularly with regard to the policies of his own diocese of...
Dates:
1954 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Correspondence with the editors of these journals is a part of the collection and includes letters from John Frances Xavier Harriott, Peter Hebblethwaite, and Hugh Kay (editor) of "The Month"; Michael Richards (editor) of "The Clergy Review"; and Thomas Ferrier Burns (editor) of "The Tablet.
Hilaire Belloc - Dorothy Hamilton collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS444
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Hilaire Belloc - Dorothy Hamilton Collection consists of personal correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and Dorothy Hamilton. The collection also includes several letters of correspondence between Elodie Belloc and Dorothy Hamilton, letters from Belloc's children to Dorothy Hamilton, correspondence between Belloc and others, and a few letters from others to Dorothy Hamilton. Several newspaper clippings, tickets to Belloc's lectures, and Hilaire Belloc's account book for 1907-1908 are...
Dates:
1905-1943; Majority of material found within 1907-1920
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.
Marquess of Winchester Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-860103
Scope and contents note
The collection deals with the administration by the trustees of both of these inter-related estates: settling probate, the estate duty, buying of stocks, selling of property, distribution of monies, etc. There is much on the Winchester property in Southampton. There are 5 items signed by the 16th Marquess; 20 letters by Colonel Sir H. C. Legge; 14 letters by Lord Sandys; and several letters by Lord Harlech. There is considrable material regarding a 1901 legal suit, Gore v. Winchester,...
Dates:
1873 - 1986
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Another interesting document is the epitome of the marriage settlement, of which the 15th Marquess was a trustee, for Miss Mary Frances Seymour Dawson-Damer whose mother was Minnie Seymour, adopted daughter of Mrs.
OSS Oral History Project Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-220705
Scope and Contents
The OSS Oral History Project collection comprises the records of a Georgetown University-based project funded by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Center for the Study of Intelligence. In 1996 and 1997, under the leadership of Dr. Christof Mauch, a team of scholars conducted oral history interviews with over thirty former members of the Office of Strategic Services, a World War Two American intelligence agency. Interviewees included former CIA director Richard Helms, US Supreme Court Justice...
Dates:
1997 - 1998
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
During the war, OSS was active across multiple theaters, including Nazi-occupied France and Yugoslavia, North Africa, China, Thailand and Burma.
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS122
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren papers consist of one scrapbook intact, containing material dating from 1885 through 1888; a fragment of a scrapbook, containing material dating 1877 through 1879; and one tintype, possibly of the Irish statesman, Charles Stewart Parnell. The following description of this collection begins with the complete scrapbook, designated Scrapbook I. The fragmented Scrapbook II follows, with the tintype as the last item in the collection. Itemization of material within...
Dates:
1877-1888
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Dahlgren translated various foreign language works: 'Pius IX and France in 1849 and 1859' by Charles Forbes Rene de Tryon, Count of Montalembert (from French, 1861); 'Essay on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism Considered in Their Fundamental Principles,' bu Juan Donoso Cortes, Marquis of Valdegamas (from Spanish, 1862); and 'The Executive Power in the United States: A Study of Constitutional Law,' by Charles Adolphe de Pineton, marquis of Chambrun (from French, 1874).
James Percy Brown Journal
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS258
Scope and Contents
The journal of James Percy Brown documents the life of a wealthy young American living in Paris from 1834-1835 during the reign of Louis Philippe.
Dates:
1834-1835
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
As the nephew of noted senator James Brown, ambassador to France from 1823-1829, Percy Brown entered Paris as a well-connected socialite.
Thomas F. Mulledy, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS26
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers documenting the spiritual ministry and correspondence of Thomas Mulledy from the time of his entry in the Society of Jesus in 1815 until his death in 1860. The papers include sermons, 1829-1860; discourses, exercises, instructions, and lectures, 1834-1860; mass intentions, 1824-1860; and verses, 1817-1859. They also include two manuscripts: "Liber Manualis Sacerdotum" ("Priest's Manual"), 1815-1828, and "Vade Mecum" ("Go With Me"), 1815-1822....
Dates:
1815 - 1860; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1860
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Superior General assigned Mulledy to work with the English-speaking community in Nice, France. By November 1843, Mulledy returned to the US to become the first president of Holy Cross College in Worcester (Mass.).
McHarg Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS266
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 contain a small number of documents related to U.S. Civil War officer Horace Porter, financier and railroad president Henry K. McHarg, and Civil War assistant quartermaster of volunteers John McHarg. Porter married into the McHarg family during the Civil War. The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 further document the history of the Porter and McHarg families and supplement the McHarg Family Papers: Part 1 already preserved in the Georgetown University Library...
Dates:
1856 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1856 - 1928
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
From 1897 until 1905, Porter held the post of U.S. Ambassador to France. Documents and artifacts pertaining to Porter's career are preserved in the Horace Porter Collection in the Georgetown University Library Special Collections Division.
Ord Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS267
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ord Family Papers: Part 2 provide a wealth of documentary material on members of the distinguished Ord family, especially Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) and Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923). This collection fills in details about the career of American Civil War notable Edward Otho Cresap Ord and includes his letters from California in 1848 touching on the Mexican War and the gold rush; his correspondence to his brother Doctor James Lycurgus Ord between 1848 and 1873; some...
Dates:
1848 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1923
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Born in 1886 in Fort Lewis, Colorado, James Garesche Ord graduated from West Point in 1909, served as aide to the commander of the First Corps in France during World War I, administered Fort Washington in Maryland from 1934 to 1937, and led the 57th Regiment in the Philippines prior to World War II.
Martin F. Herz Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS134
Scope and Contents
This is the second acquisition of the Martin F. Herz Papers (see finding aid by Margaret H. McAleer, February 1984, for first acquisition). Material includes congratulatory correspondence to Ambassador Herz on his appointment as U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria (1974-77); a large series of lectures (including research notes and speech outlines) given as the director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (1978-83). ...
Dates:
1940-1983; Majority of material found within 1974-1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Over the years he was stationed at embassies in Austria, France, Cambodia, and Japan (see chronology following).
Cecil B. Lyon Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS147
Scope and Contents note
The Cecil B. Lyon Papers comprise a rich life-time's record of a career in the American Foreign Service. Moreover, the collection is replete with letters by and about almost everyone in the field; a list of the colleagues and acquaintances of Ambassador Lyon would read like a "Who's Who" of the Foreign Service.The material has been organized into 13 series, the first five of which consist of correspondence (alphabetical; carbons; commercial; invitations; and individuals). These...
Dates:
1930-1971
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In March 1958, the ambassador began a long mission in France, until 1964, serving as minister at the U.S. embassy in Paris.
Hilaire Belloc - Allison Family collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS203
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and the James Murray Allison family for the time period 1918-1941. Much of the correspondence in this collection has to do with the column Belloc contributed to "Land and Water," a periodical founded by James Murray Allison to cover aspects of the war efforts during WWI.
Dates:
1918-1941
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.
Francis B. Biddle Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS251
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the personal papers of former U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle. It is one of three portions comprising the larger collection of the Biddle Family papers that include the papers of his wife, Katherine Biddle and a series of family correspondence (see separate finding aids). Of interest are lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. attorney general...
Dates:
1912 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Biddle was born in Paris, France, on May 9, 1886. He attended Groton School in Massachusetts and Harvard University where he earned an A.B. in 1909 and LL.B. in 1911.
Jean Edward Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS234
Scope and Contents
The Jean Edward Smith Papers are housed in 10 boxes and span 7.35 cubic feet. Historian Jean Edward Smith amassed these materials for his full-length biography of Lucius D. Clay entitled "Lucius D. Clay: An America Life" (New York: Holt, 1990). Cooperating with his biographer on this project, Clay exchanged correspondence with Smith, recounted key events, agreed to take part in numerous oral history interviews, and provided access to key documents. The correspondence between Clay and Smith...
Dates:
1860 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1975
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Senator Alexander Stephens Clay and Frances (White) Clay, Lucius graduated in 1918 from the U.S.
Vaughan, Herbert Cardinal, Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS156
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Herbert Cardinal Vaughan Collection consists of original and transcribed material pertaining to St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart.
Dates:
1841 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1872 - 1877
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
After ordination, Vaughan spent some time traveling among seminaries in Italy, France and Germany. In autumn 1855, he accepted an appointment by Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman (then archbishop of Westminster) as vice-president for St.