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Newsclippings: Writers., 01/01/1955-12/31/1966

 File — Box 58: Series 1176; Series 1177, Folder: 54
Identifier: 74231
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

See also scrapbooks and scrapbook fragments in Series 7.

Dates: 01/01/1955-12/31/1966
Found in Notes:  Clippings of newspaper/journal articles re writers, including Rumer Godden, Dag Hammarskjold, Mary McCarthy, Thomas Mann, Katherine Anne Porter, Marcel Proust, Jacques Riviere, Edith Sitwell, Lytton Strachey & Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau, Edmund Wilson.

Allen Tate., 12/04/1962-08/20/1967

 File — Box 5: Series 1179, Folder: 28
Identifier: 74493
Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: 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: 12/04/1962-08/20/1967
Found in Notes:  .: Typed Letter Signed

PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE - REFERENCE BY TATE, ALLEN 1965: Typed Letter Signed

HEINZ, HELEN - MARRIAGE TO ALLEN TATE - REF.

Sterling Cup., 10/31/1896-10/31/1896

 File — Box 12: Series 1169, Folder: 7
Identifier: 71850
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

One series only.

Dates: 10/31/1896-10/31/1896
Found in Notes:  PORTER, HORACE - CUP (1896): Object

9/16/1865., 09/16/1865-09/16/1865

 File — Box 1: Series 1156; Series 1157; Series 1158, Folder: 33
Identifier: 71473
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Correspondence and military orders of Jackson McElmell. Arranged alphabetcially.

Dates: 09/16/1865-09/16/1865
Found in Notes:  Jenkins (1811-1873) to Jackson McElmell, ordering him to report to Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter (1813-1891) for duty as an assistant to Chief Engineer W.

Isabella Gardner., 04/02/1960-04/26/1960

 File — Box 27: Series 1170, Folder: 4
Identifier: 72870
Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The papers of Katherine Biddle are organized into nine series: 1. Individuals - Correspondence with notable individuals, including composers, musicians, poets and writers (see biographical note below for a list of names). 2. Alphabetical correspondence - Frequent correspondents, arranged by name. 3. Chronological correspondence - Arranged alphabetically by year. 4. Literary associations, publications and publishers - Related correspondence files. Of particular note are files relating to the...
Dates: 04/02/1960-04/26/1960
Found in Notes:  Reference also to visiting the home of Katherine Anne Porter.

Allen Tate., 01/13/1962-01/13/1962

 File — Box 22: Series 1170, Folder: 24
Identifier: 72724
Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The papers of Katherine Biddle are organized into nine series: 1. Individuals - Correspondence with notable individuals, including composers, musicians, poets and writers (see biographical note below for a list of names). 2. Alphabetical correspondence - Frequent correspondents, arranged by name. 3. Chronological correspondence - Arranged alphabetically by year. 4. Literary associations, publications and publishers - Related correspondence files. Of particular note are files relating to the...
Dates: 01/13/1962-01/13/1962
Found in Notes:  Reference to a recent review of Alexis Leger by Biddle; to Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer"; to Katherine Anne Porter; Archibald MacLeish; Iris Origo; and Matthew Josephson's "Life Among the Surrealists."

Allen Tate., 06/03/1967-06/03/1967

 File — Box 24: Series 1170, Folder: 5
Identifier: 72794
Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The papers of Katherine Biddle are organized into nine series: 1. Individuals - Correspondence with notable individuals, including composers, musicians, poets and writers (see biographical note below for a list of names). 2. Alphabetical correspondence - Frequent correspondents, arranged by name. 3. Chronological correspondence - Arranged alphabetically by year. 4. Literary associations, publications and publishers - Related correspondence files. Of particular note are files relating to the...
Dates: 06/03/1967-06/03/1967
Found in Notes:  Reference to John Ranson, John Hall Wheelock, Katherine Anne Porter, Truman Capote, George Biddle and Helene Sardeau at an awards ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.

Knox, Ronald A., August 5 1944 - ca. 1957

 File — Box 4, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Douglass Woodruff Papers are divided into seven series. The Correspondence Series comprises 12 boxes and includes separate sections of correspondence from Evelyn Waugh, Emily Hewett Woodruff (Woodruff's letters to his mother), Marie Immaculee Woodruff, and Mildred Woodruff Tschoeberle (Woodruff's letters to his sister). The letters in this Series contain discussion on a variety of topics, most notably Catholicism, the Tablet, literary endeavors of Woodruff and others, and news regarding...
Dates: August 5 1944 - ca. 1957
Found in Notes:  Contains 23 letters from Knox to Woodruff; an "Open Letter to Mgr Knox" from Cecil McCracken regarding the Bishop of Barchester; a letter from C.W. Porter to Woodruff; letters to Woodruff from Bobbie Speaight, L.E.

George Braziller., 12/18/1964-12/27/1964

 File — Box 1: Series 868, Folder: 61
Identifier: 59099
Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The John L. Brown Papers 2, consists of 271 folders of alphabetically arranged correspondence with prominent twentieth-century graphic and performing artists, composers, publishers and writers including Josephine Baker, George Braziller, John Cage, Albert Camus, Marc Chagall, Carlos Chavez, Henry Steele Commager, George Dillon, John Dos Passos, Angna Enters, Paul Flamand, Gaston Gallimard, Julien Green, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jose Limon, Andre Malraux, Jacques...
Dates: 12/18/1964-12/27/1964
Found in Notes:  References from Brown to Katherine Anne Porter, Sylvia Beach and Elizabeth Mann.

John William McHarg to Henry McHarg., 04/26/1862-04/26/1862

 File — Box 1: Series 1168, Folder: 21
Identifier: 71713
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This collection consists of one series. The documents are arranged in chronological order.

Dates: 04/26/1862-04/26/1862
Found in Notes:  Discussion of the taking of prisoners. Reference to Horace Porter and to the taking of Fort Pulaski, Georgia [4/10-11/1862].

Allen Tate., 12/04/1963-12/04/1963

 File — Box 22: Series 1170, Folder: 45
Identifier: 72745
Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The papers of Katherine Biddle are organized into nine series: 1. Individuals - Correspondence with notable individuals, including composers, musicians, poets and writers (see biographical note below for a list of names). 2. Alphabetical correspondence - Frequent correspondents, arranged by name. 3. Chronological correspondence - Arranged alphabetically by year. 4. Literary associations, publications and publishers - Related correspondence files. Of particular note are files relating to the...
Dates: 12/04/1963-12/04/1963
Found in Notes:  ; Herbert Read; and Katherine Anne Porter.

Condolence Letters: Gi-Go., 01/01/2002-12/31/2002

 File — Box 12: Series GAMMS422.4, Folder: 30
Identifier: GAMMS422.4.1187
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Condolence Letters. Written upon the death of Richard M. Helms, arranged alphabetically.

Dates: 01/01/2002-12/31/2002
Found in Notes:  Gilliland, P.H. and Nancy Gordon, and Porter and Mariel Goss.

Tape #21. "Surgeon in Charge.", 28 March 1978.

 Item — Box 40
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Richard D. Mudd Papers contain the extensive research files of Richard D. Mudd, whose grandfather, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, set the leg of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth as Booth attempted to escape the scene of the crime through southern Maryland. Samuel A. Mudd went to prison for setting Booth's leg, but Richard D. Mudd decades later contended that his grandfather was simply doing his duty as a medical doctor. Although he was released from prison by President Andrew Johnson,...
Dates: 28 March 1978.
Found in Notes:  Excerpts from "Surgeon in Charge" (Dr. George Loring Porter) by his daughter-in-law.

Typescript: "Panama Hattie", 1954

 File — Box GTM Shared Box 16: [Barcode: 39020030723756], Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Front label: "State Fair Musicals, 1954." Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva. Some pencil sketches among the pages.

Dates: 1954
Found in Notes:  Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva.

"Chichester Concert," ripieno primo parts for compilation of works from multiple composers, bound music manuscript, 66 pages, England, circa 1795-1800

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 39020031522355], Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Paper bears the watermarks of Porter & Bridges and J. Whatman, the latter dated 1794 (possibly 1791).
Composers include Cambini, Handel, Pleyel, Kammel, Martini, Abel, Haydn, Porpora, Geminiani, Hooke, Gyrovetz, Kozeluch, Stamitz
Contents:

Dates: circa 1795-1800
Found in Notes:  Paper bears the watermarks of Porter & Bridges and J. Whatman, the latter dated 1794 (possibly 1791).

undated., 01/01/1854-12/31/1906

 File — Box 1: Series 1156; Series 1157; Series 1158, Folder: 64
Identifier: 71504
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Correspondence and military orders of Jackson McElmell. Arranged alphabetcially.

Dates: 01/01/1854-12/31/1906
Found in Notes:  STEAMER - REFERENCE (UNDATED): Other Types

PORTER, DAVID DIXON - REFERENCE (UNDATED): Other Types

John McHarg to Rufus McHarg., 08/24/1862-08/24/1862

 File — Box 1: Series 1168, Folder: 27
Identifier: 71719
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This collection consists of one series. The documents are arranged in chronological order.

Dates: 08/24/1862-08/24/1862
Found in Notes:  Burnside, Alexandria (Virginia), Harrison's Landing, and Fitz-John Porter. Sent from Aquia Creek.

#1239 The D.C. Crime Law: Two Views. , 08/12/1970.

 Item
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection has been digitized and is available to view online in DigitalGeorgetown....
Dates: 08/12/1970.
Found in Notes:  Rezneck, Attorney, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C.

Miscellaneous Prose Pieces

 File — Box 2, Folder: 18
Scope and contents note From the Collection: The Breedin Family Papers, which include letters, manuscripts, and photographs, are comprised mainly of correspondence between various members of the Breedin and Singleton families from the 1850s to the 1870s. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to members of the family of Enoch C. Breedin (1797-1856) and Lucy Payne Singleton (1808-1860) of Winchester, Virginia. Lucy Singleton Breedin was the daughter of General James Singleton and Judith Throckmorton Ball (1776-1852) and the sister...
Dates: 1811-1976
Found in Notes:  Miscellaneous pieces of prose (four items) including "A Civil War Sketch of '63," M.W. of Jefferson County, West Virginia, concerns the advance of General Porter's federal troops from Maryland into Virginia.

Folder 8, undated

 File
Scope and Contents

African Reports: Memorandum on the Porter Hardy Committee Inquiry Into Angola Policy. n.d.

Dates: undated
Found in Notes:  African Reports: Memorandum on the Porter Hardy Committee Inquiry Into Angola Policy. n.d.