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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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
John F. Stevens Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-910726
Scope and Contents
The John F. Stevens Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, news clippings, books, photographs, blueprints and maps collected by John F. Stevens. The Papers are arranged in 8 Series according to subject and material type, in 11 boxes and 1 map case drawer.
Dates:
1850 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Stevens during his career are honorary doctorates from Bates College (Maine), University of North Carolina, University of Michigan and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; honorary memberships in the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Franklin Institute; receipt of the John Fritz Medal and the Herbert Hoover Medal; and decorations from the United States, France, China, Japan and Czechoslovakia.
He married Harriett O'Brien Stevens of Boston on January 6, 1876 in Dallas Texas.
He married Harriett O'Brien Stevens of Boston on January 6, 1876 in Dallas Texas.
Antonia White - Carmen Callil Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-120607
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the personal files relating to British author Antonia White (1899-1980) maintained by Carmen Callil, founder and editor of Virago Press. Callil was also White's co-literary executor together with White's daughters Lyndall Hopkinson Passerini and Susan Chitty. The collection includes correspondence Callil exchanged with Passerini and White. Important series include copies of White's dream diaries, as well as files relating to her literary estate and related court...
Dates:
1926 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Callil left book publishing in 1994, and for some years divided her time between London and Caunes-Minervois in France. As a writer and critic, she has written reviews and features for many newspapers and journals, in addition to occasional radio and television work.
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.
Cornelius Van H. Engert Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS169
Scope and Contents
The Cornelius Van H. Engert Papers consist of correspondence, reports, photographs and printed materials created or collected by Cornelius Van Hemert Engert during and after his career as a U.S. diplomat from 1912 to 1945. The Papers comprise 18 linear feet of material, contained in 12 boxes, arranged in 930 folders. The collection is divided into 16 series, mainly according to the geographical assignments held by Engert at various times during his diplomatic career. The series focusing on...
Dates:
1896 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1960
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.
William F. Claire Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS409
Scope and Contents
The William F. Claire Papers consist of 12 autograph signed letters and 3 typed signed letters to and from William Claire. Of them, a majority discuss his writing on and analysis of the work of poet and writer Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle, entitled "The Unpredictable Bloom." The collection contains correspondence from the Academy of American Poets, as well as the "Southern Review", the quarterly literary magazine fo the Louisiana State University, in reference to Claire's publication...
Dates:
1959 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1966-1968
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
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****** Marie Leontine Graves Bullock, born Marie Leontine Graves in 1911, founded the Academy of American Poets in 1934 with her husband Hugh Bullock. She was schooled in France and corresponded with notable individuals such as Bernard Shaw and Walter de La Mare over her love and support of poetry.
****** Marie Leontine Graves Bullock, born Marie Leontine Graves in 1911, founded the Academy of American Poets in 1934 with her husband Hugh Bullock. She was schooled in France and corresponded with notable individuals such as Bernard Shaw and Walter de La Mare over her love and support of poetry.