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Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230714
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials related to Pan African composers and musicians that was collected by Hildred Roach. It includes music scores from a variety of Black composers, Hildred Roach concert programs, and music recordings (phonograph records, compact discs, and open reel). The collection includes William Grant Still, Ulysses Kay, George Walker, and many others.
Please see the External Documents section below for preliminary inventories of the collection.
Dates:
1900 - 2023
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
Alexandra is also the author of Healing Light, Heavenly Order, and Beloved Spirit (Glitterati Inc.); Love and Wisdom and Love and Peace (D Giles Ltd.); Healing Courage, To Catch a Thought, and Reveries; and co-author of Catch a Happy Thought (Light of Healing Hope Foundation).
Michel Marsaudon Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS158
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Michel Marsaudon Papers primarily consist of correspondence to the young French merchant Michel Marsaudon trading in various ports in Haiti during the Haitian and French Revolutions. Also included are documents relating to Marsaudon's brief service in the artillery corps of his native Bordeaux, as well as other correspondence, official documents and receipts mostly relating to trade and society in Haiti in the early 1790's. The collection is arranged in 104 folders in one box....
Dates:
1788 - 1802
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The social and romantic sides of colonial Haiti also make strong showings in the collection of correspondence, as male friends exchange advice on wooing women on the island and several women profess their love for Michel Marsaudon, as well as their anger at being rejected.
Edwin W. Martin Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS164
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Edwin W. Martin Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and documents relating to Ambassador Martin's career with the U.S. Foreign Service and as an author and lecturer in the field of foreign affairs. The collection is 154 folders housed in 4 boxes and one oversized container.
The Edwin W. Martin Papers focus primarily on Edwin Martin's careers as diplomat and foreign policy scholar. The Correspondence Series primarily consists of correspondence relating...
Dates:
1931 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1991
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
During this period, he was the author of three books, 'Southeast Asia and China: The End of Containment' (1977), which covered the period after the end of the war in Vietnam; 'Divided Counsel: The Anglo-American Response to Communist Victory in China' (1986); and 'The Hubbards of Sivas: A Chronicle of Love and Faith' (1981), an account of his wife's grandparents' missionary years among the Armenians in Turkey.
Graham Greene - Anthony Bischoff, SJ Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS327
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection of letters and presentation editions from British novelist Graham Greene to Rev. Anthony D. Bischoff, S.J. is evidence of their friendship which spanned forty years. The correspondence contains mostly personal greetings, but also touches on literary and political issues. The first of the nine letters in the collection was written in 1950, a year after the two met. The last was written in 1984, seven years before Greene's death. The five presentation editions were given to Fr....
Dates:
1950 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1974 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In addition to Greene's signature, they all bear personal inscriptions such as "For Tony with love from Graham." Among the editions are The Revenge: An Autobiographical Fragment, privately printed in 1963, and a specially bound edition of The Return of A.J.
Martin J. Quigley Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS142
Scope and Contents
The Martin J. Quigley Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and related printed ephemera regarding Quigley Publications, the Production Code, and the Legion of Decency. The papers, dating from 1917 to 1970, comprise 4.5 linear feet of material, arranged into 4 boxes and 260 folders. The collection is organized into series as follows:Series 1. Individual Correspondence. Files of correspondence from individuals arranged alphabetically. Includes notables such as...
Dates:
1917 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Notable items in this series include a document identified as the original Production Code, as well as files relating to specific projects, "The Cardinal," "La Dolce Vita," "Lolita," and "Of Love and Desire," among many others. Material on Quigley Publications includes business files and correspondence relating to the publications "Motion Picture Daily," "Hollywood Herald," and "Exhibitors Herald."
Thomas Dilworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS295
Scope and Contents
The Thomas Dilworth Papers consist of correspondence sent to Dilworth regarding his research on artist and poet David Jones. A long run of letters from Harman Grisewood, author and friend of Jones, are included in the collection. Grisewood discusses with Dilworth various aspects of David Jones' life. Letters from Rene Hague, another contemporary of Jones, to Dilworth are also included. Rough drafts for Dilworth's edition of Jones' "Wedding Poems," together with correspondence between...
Dates:
1976 - 2003
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Hague met David Jones at Capel, and Hague fell in love with Gill's daughter, Joan. From 1924 to 1929, Hague worked in George Coldwell's second-hand bookshop in London.
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:
In that year she composed several Hughes songs including “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Love’s Runnin’ Riot” and “Winter Moon.” They went on to collaborate on innumerable large and small projects, including “Ballad of the Brown King” and “Shakespeare in Harlem.”
Collection of P.G. Wodehouse Letters to Angus Thuermer
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 5 (Letter): [Barcode: 39020030726437], Folder: 9
Identifier: GTM-20230523
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four letters from P.G. Wodehouse to journalist Angus Thuermer chiefly pertaining to Wodehouse's time in the Nazi concentration camp Tost in Poland and his present-day life in the New York City suburb of Remsenburg. The letters date from 1961 to 1975. Also included are twelve pieces of correspondence between Thuermer and others regarding his A.P. article on Wodehouse's incarceration in Tost first published in the "New York Times" in 1940 (1975-2008). A photograph of...
Dates:
1961 - 2008
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
I suppose I am one of the few internees who thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved being able to work on my novel without agents and people calling me up to ask how I was getting on and if I could rush the test of it a bit there might be a chance of a movie sale."
Mary O'Hara Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS166
Scope and Contents
A collection of manuscripts for various works by American author and screenwriter Mary O’Hara (1885-1980), including the novella and musical screenplay “The Catch Colt”, “The Wyngate Children”, as well as the complete manuscript for her autobiography “Flicka’s Friend.” Also included is sheet music for compositions by O’Hara: “Green Grass of Wyoming” (1946), and “The Wind Harp” (1954).
Dates:
1943-1985; Majority of material found within 1952-1978
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
., in 1960 (see Folder 1:1). Her great love for the piano also inspired Mary O'Hara to compose many pieces for that instrument including, “Esperan” (1943), “Green Grass of Wyoming” (1946), “May God Keep You” (1946), and “Wind Harp” (1954).
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:
In 1911, he published his first book of poems, "Summer of Love." Kilmer converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1913.
Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Pamphlets
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20200102
Scope and Contents
The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016).
The collection includes over 75 sub-collections of pamphlets and other small printed ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, history, and bibliography. The largest category, representing more than 300 pamphlets, are lectures produced by various universities worldwide, mainly in the United States and Great Britain, but also including...
Dates:
circa 1810-2012
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
But there was a catch - the emperor had no clothes, my lovely Newport library had no books! I was in despair!
Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20200101
Scope and Contents
The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016). The collection includes over 300 sub-collections of bound and loose manuscripts, documents, journals, correspondence, commonplace books, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, and history -- primarily of the 19th and early 20th century.
Highlights include:1. Letters...
Dates:
circa 1551-2015
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
But there was a catch - the emperor had no clothes, my lovely Newport library had no books! I was in despair!
Waldorf Astor journal
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS256
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Written in 1901 during his days as a student at New College, Oxford, the Journal of Waldorf Astor provides a brief, but interesting glimpse into the life of a young man who was born into immense wealth and would later devote himself to public service. This journal records Astor's social activities and personal interests, particularly his love of horses, which comes as no surprise given that he eventually built up one of the best known studs in Great Britain. Aside from his numerous entries...
Dates:
1901-1901; Majority of material found in 1901 - 1901
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
This journal records Astor's social activities and personal interests, particularly his love of horses, which comes as no surprise given that he eventually built up one of the best known studs in Great Britain.
Alexander Tremaine Wright - William John Carlton Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS305
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
"Happy are the dead and their biographers who have left materials for the building of their monuments"A.T.W. Alexander Tremaine Wright's correspondence (1909-1915) to William John Carlton offers a unique insight into research characteristic of a small English fraternity intrigued by the literature and history of shorthand. This practice of the educated, beginning with Englishman John Willis' alphabet-based system in 1640, remained the domain of writers and reporters until...
Dates:
1909 - 1915
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Carlton wrote "inspired by a love of Dickens and a fascination in tracing the continuity between what happened and what survives in recond". ( K.J.F., 1973) Among his works on important figures in the history of shorthand are the following books and manuscripts: Timothe Bright, doctor of physicke: a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" [London: Elliot Stock, 1911] A shorthand "inventor" of 300 years ago [Aylesbury: G.T.
William B. Cooper Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230202
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of music manuscripts created by William B. Cooper, dating from around 1945 to 1987. In addition to the music manuscripts, it also includes lyrics, a list of compositions by Cooper, abstracts of compositions, a manuscript on modern church music, programs, clippings, and other related documents. The collection includes one phonograph (LP) recording titled "We Praise Thee O Lord." It features music played by Cooper, William Farley Smith (conductor),...
Dates:
1945 - 1993
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Jan Philip Roothaan, SJ Archive
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS170
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Jan Philip Roothaan, S.J. Archive consists of correspondence, mainly from Jan Philip Roothaan, S.J. to his family in Amsterdam. The letters are arranged in 170 folders contained in three boxes. The letters contained in the Jan Philip Roothaan, S.J. Archive are of great interest to those investigating the personal and family life of the General of the Society of Jesus. A vast majority of the letters are from Jan Philip to his father, Mathias, and his brother, Albert, half in...
Dates:
1804 - 1852
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In addition, however, are numerous expressions regarding his taste in architecture (bemoaning the design of a new church in The Hague), his (and the Pope's) love of fine tobacco, and his requests for books on Egyptian antiquities printed in Holland.
Elizabeth Jennings papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS136
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Jennings papers 2, consists of manuscripts and notebooks of autograph first drafts of poems, dating from 1972 to 1983,by English poet Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001).
Dates:
1972-1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Long before her death, Elizabeth Jennings had become—in the words of Michael Schmidt, her publisher from 1975 onwards—”the most unconditionally loved writer” of her poetic generation (“New Collected Poems”, xix).
Elizabeth Jennings papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS173
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Note to the legacy print version of this finding aid.The Elizabeth Jennings papers 1 consists of correspondence sent and received by the poet. Correspondence is organized by individual name and arranged alphabetically. Also included is correspondence from cultural organizations, museums, and publishers, as well as fan letters. Notable correspondents include many contemporary poets and writers such as, John Betjeman, Charles Causley, Cecil Day-Lewis,...
Dates:
1957-1989; Majority of material found within 1969-1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Long before her death, Elizabeth Jennings had become—in the words of Michael Schmidt, her publisher from 1975 onwards—”the most unconditionally loved writer” of her poetic generation (“New Collected Poems”, xix).
Christopher Sykes Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS207
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The archives of the English novelist Christopher Sykes, friend and official biographer of Evelyn Waugh, include a large group of Waugh letters and comprehensive research files about him. In addition to the extensive family correspondence, with a charming series of rebus letters from his sister Angela Antrim, there are letters from a multitude of literary friends and acquaintances, including John Betjeman, Max Beerbohm, Ivy Compton-Burnett, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Harman Grisewood, Nancy...
Dates:
1945 - 1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Sykes was a most congenial man to meet, an excellent mimic, well mannered, and witty even in his cups, much loved by the young, to whom he was always pleasant and friendly.