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Anthony Cave Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-930701
Scope and Contents
The Anthony Cave Brown papers comprise the extensive research files of historian and author Anthony Cave Brown used for his numerous books about U.S. and British military intelligence. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, photocopied documents, internet printouts, printed matter, manuscripts of some of his books, audio cassettes, and some photographs. Documents pertaining to various figures in the intelligence field; including William Donovan, H. St. John B. Philby, and Kim...
Dates:
1930 - 2006
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1999, his book "Oil, God, and Gold: The Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings" appeared. Anthony Cave Brown died on July 14, 2006 in Warrenton, Virginia.
Patrick White in Periodicals Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS237
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Patrick White in Periodicals Collection contains a comprehensive run of journal and magazine publications from 1934 to 2015 by and about Patrick White, the noted Australian author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. Many of White's short and long stories, including "Miss Slatery and Her Demon Lover," "Clay," and "A Cheery Soul," appear in published form in this collection in periodicals such as "Australian Book Review," "Australian Literary Studies," "London Magazine,"...
Dates:
1934 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
After spending his childhood in New South Wales, Australia, White returned to England, where he received a B.A. in languages from King's College, Cambridge University. White served in the R.A.F. as an intelligence officer in the Middle East during World War II.
Eric Gill - H. Cotton Minchin Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS299
Scope and Contents
The Eric Gill - H. Cotton Minchin Collection consists of correspondence dated 1928 to 1929, mostly from Eric Gill to H. Cotton Minchin, concerning an engraving that Gill provided for "The Legion Book." That book was edited by Minchin and published in 1929, and contributions and illustrations were solicited from the leading writers and artists of the day, including Gill. In the letters, Gill discusses the details for the work to be done. One of the letters in the collection is from Gill to...
Dates:
1928 - 1929
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
(Arthur) Eric (Rowton) Gill (1882-1940), noted British sculptor, engraver, typographic designer, and writer, was born in Brighton, Sussex, England on February 22, 1882, the son of Arthur Tidman Gill and Cicely Rose King Gill. He studied for two years in art school in Chichester.
American Zionist Broadsides Collection
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 22 (Oversized): [Barcode: 39020030724515], Folder: 11
Identifier: GTM-0081
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three newsprint broadsides promoting Zionism in the United States, dating from 1943 and 1946. Two were produced by the Political Action Committee for Palestine and one by the New Zionist Organization of America, both operating out of New York City. Two of the broadsides feature statements by Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin. The broadsides were originally published as advertisements in the New York Times and the New York Post.
Dates:
1943 - 1946
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
George S. Rentz, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS434
Scope and Contents
The George S. Rentz, Jr. Papers contain the correspondence, photographs, journals, and collected printed materials of George S. Rentz, Jr., the noted Arabist who pioneered the Research and Translation division of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco). The collection provides primary and secondary source material for the history of the Arabian American Oil Company, U.S.-Saudi relations, the politics of oil, and the Palestinian revolution. Rentz's private notebooks and appointment diaries...
Dates:
1932 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1969
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In his final years, Rentz returned to Stanford to work on a book about King Ibn Sa'ud. After a long illness, Rentz died on December 22, 1987 in California.
Cyrus E. Woods Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS112
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The papers of Cyrus E. Woods (1861-1938), diplomat, lawyer, and politician, consist of .25 linear feet of correspondence (436 items in all). These papers, bound together in a single volume with a complete index at the front, cover the first year (1912) of Woods' term as minister to Portugal. They are his official papers with the in-coming correspondence as well as retained carbons of Woods' replies, the latter group all being signed by him. The incoming letters include from official...
Dates:
1912
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Woods became minister to Portugal at a critical time in that country's history. Four years previous, King Charles and the Crown Prince were assassinated in the streets of Lisbon.
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:
She was the translator of "A Commoner Married a King" and author of an autobiographical novel, "Life Makes Advances."
Byington Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS298
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Byington Family Papers: Part 2 contain postcards, letters, and printed material documenting the life and times of A. Homer Byington and other members of the Byington family. Of interest are postcards to and from A. Homer Byington from Naples, where he served as U.S. consul at the turn of the twentieth century. The postcards describe life in Naples, volcanic activity there, and even an occasion when the King off Italy took of his hat out of respect for an American flag flying over...
Dates:
1822 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1910
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The postcards describe life in Naples, volcanic activity there, and even an occasion when the King off Italy took of his hat out of respect for an American flag flying over Byington's residence.
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).
William H. Natcher Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS224
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This portion of the William H. Natcher Papers consists of 4.5 linear feet of materials, including correspondence, invitations, typed documents, and printed items accumulated during the professional career of William H. Natcher (1909-1994), a long-standing Democratic Congressman from the state of Kentucky. The bulk of its documents date to the years between 1972 and 1985, representing a slice of Congressional life in the 1970s and 1980s. Correspondence files comprise a large part of this...
Dates:
1949 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1972 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Cuomo, Wendell H. Ford, Edward J. King, Richard W. Riley, Charles S. Robb, John D.
Pierre Leroy - Constantin Kluge collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS154
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Constantin Kluge - Pierre Leroy collection consists of 34 personal, autograph signed letters from Father Leroy to his friend Constantin Kluge, in addition to first-hand background information provided by Kluge on his acquaintance with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and his circle (especially Pierre Leroy and Claude Riviere). A complete typed transcription of the 34 letters has been graciously provided by Mme. Solange Soulie, a close friend of Pierre Leroy.
Dates:
1976-1993
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Houdin GTMGamms176
Thomas King, S.J., GTM130716
Mary and Ellen Lukas GTM841023
Francoise Raphael GTM850212
Lucile Swan GTMGamms184
Janetta Warre GTM110506
Janetta Warre 2 GTMGamms308
Teilhard de Chardin Association Archives GTM070730
Leo W.
Harman Grisewood papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS255
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection comprises the second acquisition of the papers of Harman Grisewood (1906-1997). Included is a long run (Boxes 1 through 5) of correspondence from notable individuals such as W.H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Violet Bonham-Carter, Tom Burns (editor of "The Tablet”), Winston S. Churchill, historian Christopher Dawson, B.B.C. director general Hugh Greene, Vivien Greene (wife of writer Graham Greene), Deirdre and Rupert Hart-Davis, Sibyl Hathaway (Dame of Sark), Saunders Lewis, members...
Dates:
1926-1997; Majority of material found within 1950-1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Awards and honors held by Grisewood include the King Christian X Freedom Medal, 1946; Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1960; and Knight of the Order of Malta, 1960.
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:
She then established a bindery in Doughty Street, Bloomsbury where she got her first important commissions, such as the Gloucester Civic Bible for the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in 1935 which was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians.
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS97
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Sir Hall Caine Papers primarily consist of correspondence to Sir Hall Caine, comprising .5 linear feet of material arranged in 31 folders in 1 box. A majority of the correspondence in the collection involves Sir Hall's business affairs, including sales, advertisements and film and stage productions. There is a letter from Herbert Brenon regarding the filming of The Woman Thou Gavest Me in 1918 and a letter from Virginia Brooks, an actress in the stage production of the same work. Several...
Dates:
1895-1925
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
During the First World War Hall Caine devoted his energies to Allied propaganda in the United States . He also edited King Albert's Book (1914) for which he was made an officer of the Belgian Order of Leopold.
Margaret Bonds Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-130530
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of hundreds of pages of Margaret Bond's music manuscripts and manuscript fragments, letters and cards from Langston Hughes and others, photographs, programs, and ephemera.
See the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.
Dates:
1917-1971, 2020-2025; Majority of material found within 1930s-1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
They went on to collaborate on innumerable large and small projects, including “Ballad of the Brown King” and “Shakespeare in Harlem.” Bonds moved to New York City in 1939 and married William Richardson that same year.
Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Belloc collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS202
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Hilaire Belloc-Elizabeth Belloc CorrespondenceThis collection contains the correspondence sent by Hilaire Belloc to his
daughter Elizabeth over the period 1932-1944. Hilaire was 62 at the start
of this correspondence and entering the final stages of his career. He
was plagued increasingly with ill-health over the course of this
correspondence, and there is frequent reference to his suffering from flus, fatigue, and difficulties with his handwriting. In 1942 he suffered a...
Dates:
1934-1944
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
While Hilaire
maintained a schedule of constant travel, his letters were written
principally from the family home at King's Land or from his room at the
Reform Club in London.
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:
He was also the recipient of various honors and awards, ranging from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Paul Hume Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS228
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of music critic Paul Hume comprise this collection. Highlights include correspondence from luminaries of the music world such as Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Leonard Bernstein, Rudolph Bing, Nadia Boulanger, Antal Dorati, Alberto Ginastera, Serge Koussevitsky, John La Montaine, Lotte Lehmann, John Mauceri, Gian Carlo Menotti, Eugene Ormandy, Rosa Ponselle, Ned Rorem, Mstislav Rostropovich, Bidu Sayao, Beverly Sills, Gerard Souzay, George Szell, Virgil Thomson, Alan...
Dates:
1871 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Published works by Hume include "Catholic Church Music," (Dodd, 1956); "The Lion of Poland: the Story of Paderewski," co-authored with wife Ruth Hume (Hawthorne, 1962); "King of Song: the Story of John McCormack," co-authored with wife Ruth Hume (Hawthorne, 1964); "Verdi: the Man and his Music," (Dutton, 1977); and "Puccini: the Man and his Music," jointly with William Weaver (Dutton, 1977).
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:
Garesche Papers, the Helen King Boyer Collection, and the Ord Family Papers, among others.
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:
Hilaire Belloc died on 16 July 1953 at the Mount Alvernia Nursing Home, Guildford, Surrey, from shock and burns following a fall at King's Land when he was trying to put a log on a fire.