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F. Don Nidiffer collection of Washington, D.C. legal documents

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS96
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...
Dates: 1817 - 1886

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

Journal of the Slave Ship Mary

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-170907
Scope and Contents This journal, a log book of the daily activities of the 232-ton slave ship Mary, documents in detail a voyage undertaken by ship owner and slave trader Cyprian Sterry. The ship set sail from Providence, Rhode Island, on November 22, 1795 and arrived on the west coast of Africa on December 24, 1795. Under the command of Captain Nathan Sterry, the crew acquired and then subdued African men, women, and children at several ports along the Senegambia, the Windward Coast, and Gold Coast. It...
Dates: 1795-11-22 - 1796-08-31

David M. Abshire Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-830701
Scope and Contents

The Abshire papers contain materials relating primarily to his service with the U.S. State Department in the 1970s with the Murphy Commission (Commission for Organization of Government for Conduct of Foreign Policy), and to the history and operations of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1974-1983, then connected with Georgetown University).

Dates: 1962 - 1982

William Franklin Sands Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20221007
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.The collection documents the career of William Franklin Sands, a U.S. diplomat best known for his work in Korea and Panama during the turn of the 20th century. It includes correspondence, diplomatic papers, journals, photographs, and...
Dates: 1814 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1940

John W. Blaney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230821
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the papers, photographs, digital files, and artifacts produced and collected by Ambassador John W. Blaney over the course of his career. These items include official memoranda, performance evaluations, photographs, notebooks and calendars, speaking notes, newspaper clippings, honors, and memorabilia. The collection spans the 1970s to 2024, covering subjects that include: Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, the US/USSR arms control and...
Dates: 1971 - 2023

Thomas A. Hughes, SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-200103
Scope and Contents

The Thomas A. Hughes, SJ Papers consist of unpublished drafts for a proposed third volume of A History of the Society of Jesus in North America, Colonial and Federal covering 1773 to 1829. Also included is a report by Fr. Hughes entitled "de abusibus" ("on abuses"), in which he discusses Jesuit issues with modernism and worldly affairs discovered throughout his research, as well as correspondence related to his research.

Dates: 1897 - 1933

Dave Barbor Collection on Alfred Hitchcock

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-0040
Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials related to Alfred Hitchcock that were collected by Dave Barbor. It includes the following:One letter written by Alfred Hitchcock to his assistant director, Herbert Coleman (1955). One letter written by Francois Truffaut to Alfred Hitchcock (circa 1966).Six letters from Patricia Hitchcock to Peter Halliday regarding "Strangers on a Train" and other matters, 1950-1956, 1983.Eight photographs, including three...
Dates: 1949 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1983

McHarg Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS248
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The McHarg Family Papers (1 box, 0.5 linear feet) contain some fifty substantial Civil War letters, dated 1861 to 1864, including a few penned by Union officer Horace Porter, exchanged among members of the McHarg family, in addition to five remarkable baseball letters, dated 1864, with lengthy discussion and even three detailed box scores concerning an amateur baseball club in Albany, New York. A small number of manuscripts, printed matter, and letters written after the Civil War rounds out...
Dates: 1861 - 1922; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864

Ned O'Gorman Papers 2

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS328
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ned O'Gorman Papers 2 consist primarily of correspondence, manuscripts, notes and diaries. In addition to personal correspondence and manuscripts, the collection contains material from three projects that O'Gorman undertook. The organization of the papers reflects this, as each of the projects is a separate series. In 1965, O'Gorman returned from a tour in South America and began work on a book for Random House that would be titled "Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on...
Dates: 1920 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2000

Peter J. Sullivan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS437
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Peter J. Sullivan Papers document the life and times of Peter J. Sullivan (1821-1883), who was a Union officer in the American Civil War and the U.S. Minister to Colombia from 1867 to 1869. While there are a limited number of documents concerning his Civil War career, the majority of the papers describe his work as U.S. Minister to Colombia. The papers include a large run of letters to and from U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward; U.S. Consul in Cartagena, Colombia Augustus S....
Dates: 1843 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1869

Earl of Normanton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-860102
Scope and Contents note The archives of James Charles Welbore Ellis Agar (1818 - 1896), 3rd Earl of Normanton, consisting of 3.0 linear feet of material, including correspondence, drawings, legal documents, and related printed items. This collection is of importance to art historians as well as to historians of English history and culture. It would be invaluable for any studies of the Agar family; 19th century London (especially the Victoria and Albert Museum and Kensingtron Park areas); English legal history; and...
Dates: 1840 - 1908

John Cheever - George McLoone collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS259
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection comprises correspondence between George McLoone, university professor and alumnus of Georgetown University, and John Cheever, the American writer. All of the correspondence takes place between the years of 1966-1974. Although most of the letters are brief in length, the correspondence between Cheever and McLoone are significant because of the insight they provide into the personal life of John Cheever. Many of the letters contain comments about Cheever's acquaintences and on...
Dates: 1966-1974

Ives Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS72
Collection-level scope and contents note The Ives family papers comprise correspondence by relatives of Rev. Levi Silliman Ives. In addition, the collection includes correspondence by Joseph Moss Ives, the brother of the renowned composer, Charles Edward Ives, and by the former's son, Walter Bigelow Ives. Levi Silliman Ives and Joseph Moss Ives were both descendants of William Ives who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, from London in 1635, and was one of the original settlers of Quinnipiac (New Haven), Connecticut, in...
Dates: 1874-1953

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

Robert Silvercruys Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-861231
Scope and contents note The papers of Baron Robert Silvercruys consist of letters, manuscripts, pamphlets and clippings mainly concerning the careers of Frantz Silvercruys (1859 - 1936), President of the Court of Cassation of Belgium and created Baron Silvercruys in 1929, and of his son, Robert Silvercruys (1893 - 1971), who was a Belgian Ambassador to the United States (1946 - 1959). The papers comprise 3.5 linear feet of materials, arranged in 56 folders in 7 boxes. The papers are divided into two series, one...
Dates: 1896 - 1968

Montague Summers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-110501
Scope and Contents The Montague Summers papers comprise the surviving collection of letters, manuscripts, and printed ephemera belonging to this popular author at the time of his death in 1948. A significant portion of the collection consists further of the papers of Summers' friend, the English author and literary biographer S.M. Ellis, which came into Summers' possession after Ellis' death in 1933 (Summers dedicated his 1933 anthology, Victorian Ghost Stories, to the memory of S.M.E.)....
Dates: 1845 - 1949; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945

Spanish Boundary Commission Report on Spanish and Portuguese Territory in South America and the Guarani War

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20131216
Scope and Contents The report is a 454 page bound manuscript written in Spanish in scribal hand, dated to approximately 1760.This collection has been digitized and is available to view online in DigitalGeorgetown. ...
Dates: circa 1760

Franklin B. Sanborn papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS229
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This is a collection of some 250 letters written to Franklin B. Sanborn from friends and relatives during his years as a student first at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts (circa 1852-55). Primarily containing domestic and social news about other family members and mutual friends, the letters include references to contemporary election politics of the 1850s with mention of numerous statesmen including John Bell, James...
Dates: 1850-1902; Majority of material found within 1850-1856

John S. Monagan - Anthony Powell Collection 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS165
Collection-level Scope and Content Note Prolific writers do not cease writing at the completion of the last chapter of a book. More often than not, they are also great writers of letters. Certainly, Anthony Powell proves the point with over two decades of correspondence exchanged with his American friend John S. Monagan, brought together in this collection. In addition to the letters, Mr. Monagan has also collected various magazine and newspaper articles relating to Anthony Powell. A highlight of the collection is the group of 46...
Dates: 1969 - 1994

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