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Corresp. 9/1974., 09/16/1974-09/30/1974

 File — Box 13: Series 1556, Folder: 55
Identifier: 98605
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 3 consists of chronological correspondence of John L. Brown from 1932 through 1974. The correspondence is arranged in chronological order. In each folder, both correspondents writing to Brown and correspondents receiving letters from Brown are listed.

Dates: 09/16/1974-09/30/1974
Found in Notes:  FROM BROWN, JOHN L. (1974): Other Types

RILEY, RUTH - CORRESP. FROM BROWN, JOHN L. (1974): Other Types

DAVIS, WILLIAM B. - CORRESP.

Loyola Chicago 1955-1970., 8/4/1955-10/2/1970

 File — Box 4, Folder: 12
Found in Notes:  Includes a letter from Riley Hughes dated October 29, 1968 discussing the arrangements made to videotape the Pope for Georgetown’s 175th anniversary celebrations in 1963.

#686 College Cheating: How Much and Why? , 01/10/1960.

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Found in Notes:  Jerome Ellison, Author and Professor of Journalism, Indiana University; and Editor, Best Articles and Stories Magazine Dr. Riley Hughes, Professor of English, Georgetown University Dr.

#1022 Writing and Ideas. , 06/14/1966.

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Found in Notes:  Dr. Riley Hughes, University Editor and Director of the Seventh Annual Writers Conference of Georgetown University; Author of "Frontier Bishop" and "The Hills Were Liars" Lt.

#1073 "The Word is Still the Message"., 06/07/1967.

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Found in Notes:  Milton Lomask, Biographer; Author of "Andrew Johnson: President on Trial" and Seed Money: The Guggenheim Story" Dr. Riley Hughes, University Editor and Director of the Eighth Annual Writers Conference of Georgetown University; Author of "Frontier bishop" and "The Hills Were Liars"

Wright to Adelman, July - August 1961, 07/18/1961 - 08/01/1961

 File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Collection level scope note From the Collection: The Maurice Adelman, Jr. Papers consist of correspondence, pamphlets, and clippings by and about John Cardinal Wright. The collection comprises 1 linear foot of material and is arranged in 64 folders in 2 boxes. The collection holds about 150 personal letters from John Cardinal Wright to Maurice Adelman, along with correspondence between Adelman and some of Wright's friends concerning such issues as Wright's will and literary rights, the future writing of Wright's biography, as well as many...
Dates: 07/18/1961 - 08/01/1961
Found in Notes:  ., with discussion of politics and religion, including references to David Lawrence, Thomas J. Riley (Auxiliary Bishop of Boston), Drew Pearson, Ed Murray, and Father Drinan.

1985 Correspondence Rh-Ri., 03/01/1985-12/31/1985

 File — Box 1: Series 653, Folder: 71
Identifier: 47400
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

(Box 1, Folders 1-85; Box 2, Folders 1-33) This series consists of chronologically arranged correspondence received by Ambassador Wilson. Letters for each year are in alphabetical order. Most include copies of replies from the ambassador. @ Note: All correspondents are listed in the description sections of this finding aid. However, only those names that have been asterisked appear in the index.

Dates: 03/01/1985-12/31/1985
Found in Notes:  TO WILSON, WILLIAM A. 1985: Typed Letter Signed

RILEY, ROBERT - CORRES. TO WILSON, WILLIAM A. 1985: Typed Letter Signed

MAROIS, MAURICE - CORRES.

Corresp. 4/1970., 04/01/1970-04/13/1970

 File — Box 12: Series 1556, Folder: 18
Identifier: 98506
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 3 consists of chronological correspondence of John L. Brown from 1932 through 1974. The correspondence is arranged in chronological order. In each folder, both correspondents writing to Brown and correspondents receiving letters from Brown are listed.

Dates: 04/01/1970-04/13/1970
Found in Notes:  FROM BROWN, JOHN L. (1970): Other Types

RILEY, RUTH - CORRESP. FROM BROWN, JOHN L. (1970): Other Types

GALANTIERE, LEWIS - CORRESP.

280-6 Maryland., 01/01/1917-07/01/1968

 File — Box 2: Series 723; Series 724; Series 725, Folder: 6
Identifier: 58716
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains publications, clippings and correspondence re Georgetown, Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland history. Much relates to buildings or places and to Jesuit or Catholic history. Material about Maryland's celebration of its Tercentenary in 1934 is found in the Maryland section.

Dates: 01/01/1917-07/01/1968
Found in Notes:  Included: correspondence re tercentennial exercises in Gaston Hall, Nov. 23, 1933; booklet, "Maryland--The Pioneer of Religious Liberty" by Elihu S. Riley, 1917; booklet, "The Maryland Influence in American Catholicism" by Sarah Redwood Lee, 1930; and program from seventh annual celebration of the Founding of Maryland, March 25, 1930.

Commencement 1848., 07/25/1848-07/25/1848

 File — Box 1: Series 37, Folder: 37
Identifier: 19309
Found in Notes:  .- SPEECH AT COMMENCEMENT, 1848: Manuscript

RILEY, JOHN C.- SPEECH AT COMMENCEMENT, 1848: Manuscript

DUNCAN, JOHN & MIDDLETON, JAMES C.- SPEECH AT COMMENCEMENT, 1848: Manuscript

Honorary Master's Degree Correspondence., 12/31/1970-03/18/1971

 File — Box 1: Series 271, Folder: 44
Identifier: 26757
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This series consists of the correspondence of the Rev. Brian A. McGrath Papers.

Dates: 12/31/1970-03/18/1971
Found in Notes:  Also includes memo from Riley Hughes to BAM offering to look into Brown University's policy on same.

Circuit Court of Appeals Congratulations (R)., 01/01/1939-12/31/1939

 File — Box 7: Series 1182; Series 1183, Folder: 16
Identifier: 74637
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: 01/01/1939-12/31/1939
Found in Notes:  Howard Reber, David Riesman, M. Riley, Mona Robinson, Margaret Robinson, Bill Roehler (sp?)

116-5., 1969.

 File — Box 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains correspondence, clippings, announcements, publications, and other material re all aspects of campus life, including student events, elections, organizations, protests, and activism. Reference is made to civil rights activity, as well as to protests against the Vietnam War. Material relating to the National Student Strike of 1970 and the May Day demonstrations of 1971 is included.

Arranged chronologically.

Dates: 1969.
Found in Notes:  Nixon; material re Free University; flyers re candidacy of Bill Buckman, Jay Bat Siwek, Joe Collins, Scott Reardon, and Jerry Riley for Student Academic Committee; flyers re candidacy of Terrance Patrick Gravens, Marty Martinelli, and Robert Brown for Student Senate; Star clipping, September 17, 1969, “GU Gets a Look at New President”; flyer from Independent Committee for a Student Union asking for support for a petition to convert Healy Hall basement into a student center; clippings re scholarships for African American students from Washington, DC, high schools.

"Leonainie" Commonplace Book, Circa 1904

 File — Box 54: [Barcode: 39020031848057]
Scope and Contents A notebook of the early 20th century, quarter bound in brown leather with green fabric covers and the title “Leonaine” on the spine. The book contains materials related to the scandal surrounding the poem “Leonainie” by American writer James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), who originally published the work in the Kokomo Dispatch under a fictitious name, claiming it was a lost poem of Edgar Allan Poe. Included are 7 articles and news clippings, some complete and some partial, from a number of...
Dates: Circa 1904
Found in Notes:  The book contains materials related to the scandal surrounding the poem “Leonainie” by American writer James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), who originally published the work in the Kokomo Dispatch under a fictitious name, claiming it was a lost poem of Edgar Allan Poe.

Memoranda, Correspondence - Academic Vice President., 1966-1968.

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Found in Notes:  Correspondence between Riley Hughes and Thomas R. Fitzgerald, S.J. Memo of 09-11-1967 references office space in Car Barn.

List of Correspondence, Business Cards., 03/28/1940-10/02/1940

 File — Box 1: Series 383; Series 384; Series 385, Folder: 7
Identifier: 35062
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Includes material on the Kennedy/Wohlthat meeting in May 1939; Mooney's meetings with Franklin D. Roosevelt in December 1939 and January 1940; and interviews with Hitler and Goering in March 1940.

Dates: 03/28/1940-10/02/1940
Found in Notes:  1 handwritten page listing correspondence between JDM and others in 1940, including references to Riley, Osborn, Helmuth Wohlthat, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Emmi Goering, Arthur Purvis, William Wachtler and General Motors Overseas.

O'Connor, John Joseph - Correspondence., 12/02/1943-02/08/1956

 File — Box 49: Series GAMMS472.1, Folder: 27
Identifier: GAMMS472.1.3410
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

The Individual Authors Series contains correspondence, manuscripts, questionnaires from the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, photos, publications, and clippings relating to individual authors who were accepted or considered as members of the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors established by Sister Mary Joseph, S.L., in 1932. The series is arranged alphabetically by author. Boxes 1-66.

Dates: 12/02/1943-02/08/1956
Found in Notes:  10 TLS, 2 ALS, 1 ACS, and 2 Christmas Cards from John Joseph O'Connor, elected to the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors in 1943, to Sister Mary Joseph thank her for invitation to join the Gallery and refer to his mother's death, his son John's birth, his children, his writing, "Logistics," "Ordnance," Georgetown University, the Catholic Institute of Washington, the Hoey award for interracial justice, John Pick, Riley Hughes, Gallery business, and material sent to the Gallery.

Eugene Field, 1890s

 File — Box 49: [Barcode: 39020030758091], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents A collection of materials related to American poet and essayist Eugene Field. An original manuscript poem, “Ye Diuell: & Ye Miller Hys Wiffe”, in thirteen stanzas with marginal annotation in red. Bound in olive morocco with blind tooled decoration and title tooled in gilt. Bound in with the poem is an 1887 letter by Field addressed to George Ticknor ending with the exhortation “do not let the inclosed ballad get into print.” The collection also includes three other letters in Field’s...
Dates: 1890s
Found in Notes:  Also included is a photograph of Field with James Riley and Bill Nye, a card with Field’s signature, and a program from the 1892 Anniversary Diner of the Fellowship Club of Chicago, which includes a poem by Field.

White Marsh (3 of 26), 1671 - 1821

 File — Box 63: [Barcode: 39020030758836], Folder: 3
Identifier: 119_28_14
Scope and Contents Land records: Note inscribed on envelope provides brief history of Ashton/Duvall dispute; Three copies of survey of Wilsons Plaine; Courses of Howertons Range and the Plaine (Survey of 1671); Wilson's Plaine (Survey of 1671); Survey of Howerton, Wilson's Plaine, Tyler and Ridgeley; Duvall land survey (1800); Indenture (1796) between Mareen Howard Duvall and Mareen Duvall; Deed (1796) of Mareen Howard Duvall to Mareen Duvall; Bond of Mareen Duvall to Mareen Howard Duvall; Surveys...
Dates: 1671 - 1821
Found in Notes:  Land records:

Note inscribed on envelope provides brief history of Ashton/Duvall dispute; Three copies of survey of Wilsons Plaine; Courses of Howertons Range and the Plaine (Survey of 1671); Wilson's Plaine (Survey of 1671); Survey of Howerton, Wilson's Plaine, Tyler and Ridgeley; Duvall land survey (1800); Indenture (1796) between Mareen Howard Duvall and Mareen Duvall; Deed (1796) of Mareen Howard Duvall to Mareen Duvall; Bond of Mareen Duvall to Mareen Howard Duvall; Surveys of Howerton's Range, Parrotts Thicket and Bel Air [or Bellaire (sic)]; Surveys of James' Choice, Farmer's Choice (1715), Isaac's Discovery (1725), Farmer's Reserve (1714), Clark's Delight (1709) and Ryley's Range (1776); Depositions (1725) of Henry Fitch and Joseph Jacobs concern boundarys of James' Choice and Cheney's Adventure; Carrollsburg's extreme north boundary; Survey of Riley's Range; Opinions of Judge Luther Martin (1816) and Judge Augustus Taney (1821) concern the boundary of Riley's Range.