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R.C. Hutchinson, 1938 - 1940

 File — Box: 59, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents Eight letters in the hand of British novelist R.C. Hutchinson, addressed to his friend and fellow writer Eric Gillett between September of 1938, shortly following the publication of Hutchinson’s novel Testament, and March 1940. The letters are filled with literary references, discussions of his own and others’ work, and anecdotes from his working life, including a dinner at the Ivy with J.B. Priestly before the opening of their play "Last Train...
Dates: 1938 - 1940

Maine Highway Surveyor's Books, 1850 - 1899

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 1-3
Scope and Contents 23 Highway Surveyor’s booklets with notes by a variety of surveyors in the town of Harrison, Maine between 1850 and 1867. There is one outlier: a later booklet from the town of Somerville, Maine in 1899. Along with the lined pages for notes, each booklet contains a printed essay titled “The Power and Duty of Surveyors of Highway.” The booklets are bound with string and have covers in multiple colors including white, brown, blue, yellow, and red. Of particular note is the book created by...
Dates: 1850 - 1899

Eugene Field, 1890s

 File — Box: 49, 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

Henry Cuyler Bunner, 1883

 File — Box: 58, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents A single leaf of paper containing what appears to be a draft of the poem “For the First Page of the Album” by H.C. Bunner, later published in his Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere (1884). The poem is signed and dated September 10th, 1883 – a date that also appears in the printed edition. The text of the poem is identical to that found in Airs with the exception of the first line, which has some small differences. The paper, which...
Dates: 1883

John Joseph Coppinger, 1895 - 1897

 File — Box: 58, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents 8 letters written from Civil War officer John Joseph Coppinger to Lucy Ord Mason, daughter of the noted engineer and Army officer Edward Ord, dated between 1895 and 1897. The earliest letter responds to a request on the part of Mrs. Mason for help securing pension money from Congress to pay for the funeral expenses of her mother, Mary M. Ord, who appears to have been a friend of Coppinger’s. The rest of the letters deal with the problems and progress of the pension, with the exception of...
Dates: 1895 - 1897

Lady Caroline Stuart-Wortley, c. 1800-1815

 File — Box: 39, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents A commonplace book created by British aristocrat and artist Lady Caroline Elizabeth Mary Stuart-Wortley, Baroness Wharncliffe in the first quarter of the 19th century. The contents are a mix of verses and other short writings, some copied from other sources, accompanied by newsclippings and various ephemera that have been tipped into the volume, as well as several drawings and watercolors by Lady Caroline herself. There is an index at the end in Lady Caroline's hand. Quarter...
Dates: c. 1800-1815

Diary, 1904, 1904-08-01 - 1904-10-10

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 94004
Scope and Contents 1 Autograph Manuscript notebook dated circa 08/01/1904 to 10/10/1904, pp. 608 - 688, containing transcribed poems and other literary works, newspaper cuttings, and diary entries. The diary entries comprise a record of correspondence sent and received, book lists, descriptions of daily routines and publishing transactions, observations of his children and wife, and a dream record; these entries are interspersed with postal receipts, book advertisements, postcards, and numerous press cuttings...
Dates: 1904-08-01 - 1904-10-10

McNamara to Maynard., 12/13/1952-12/13/1952

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 116
Identifier: 97551
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Robert F. McNamara to Theodore Maynard.

Dates: 12/13/1952-12/13/1952

Greeley, Andrew M., 04/09/1971-08/26/1991

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 40
Identifier: 77098
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series includes correspondence with individuals.

Dates: 04/09/1971-08/26/1991

New Replevin Draft., 12/28/1979-12/28/1979

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: GAMMS410.3.158
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Dates: 12/28/1979-12/28/1979

Julian Hawthorne to Francis Bennoch., 12/16/1878-12/16/1878

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 69
Identifier: 94084
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Correspondence from Julian Hawthorne to Francis Bennoch, including several letters from others, one autographed poem, and one autographed book review.

Dates: 12/16/1878-12/16/1878

Julian Hawthorne to Francis Bennoch., 03/02/1879-03/02/1879

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 80
Identifier: 94097
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Correspondence from Julian Hawthorne to Francis Bennoch, including several letters from others, one autographed poem, and one autographed book review.

Dates: 03/02/1879-03/02/1879

General Personal Correspondence 1938., 03/31/1938-06/28/1938

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: 28485
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This series is composed primarily of personal messages from HLH's friends and colleagues. Correspondence is arranged chronologically and also by subject. The latter category includes correspondence to HLH re. social engagement items such as invitations to semi-official events, re. HLH's Distinguished Service Medal award, re. Grinnell College, re. resignation as Secretary of Commerce in 1940, and re. his final retirement from government service in 1945. (Box 4, Folders 1-13)

Dates: 03/31/1938-06/28/1938

Michael Richey from Shirley Hazzard., 03/25/1995-03/25/1995

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: GAMMS421.3.310
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Material relating to Michael Richey, mutual friend of Shirley Hazzard and Graham Greene. See also: the Michael Richey Papers and the Harman Grisewood Papers (Georgetown University Special Collections).

Dates: 03/25/1995-03/25/1995

Scrapbook - "Books and Authors" by Kathleen E. Dale., No date found in GAMMS

 File — Box: 79, Folder: 16
Identifier: GAMMS472.5.5602
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

The Oversized Series consists of oversized items such as photos of Gallery members, records by Gallery members, certificates presented to the Gallery or Sister Mary Joseph, Ralph Adams Cram's architectual plans, scrapbooks, honorary degrees and awards given to Sister Mary Joseph, and miscellaneous items including dolls donated by Doran Hurley. Boxes 77-84.

Dates: No date found in GAMMS

African Heritage March (for chorus and orchestra), undated

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 7 (Oversized), Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Incomplete draft in pencil on blank staff sheets taped or pasted together at the short side, making sheets around 2 feet from top to bottom. Stored in manuscripts shared box 7.

Dates: undated

Hilaire Belloc to Antoine Pescatore., 08/22/1914-08/22/1914

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: GAMMS404.2.182
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Hilaire Belloc to Antoine Pescatore

Dates: 08/22/1914-08/22/1914

John Moran, 1860s

 File — Box: 60, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents Four matted sepia-tone photographs, likely albumen, by pioneering Philadelphia-based photographer John Moran. Two of the prints are slightly smaller with curved upper corners, and have labels on the verso indicating they are views in a series called “Scenery in the Region of the Delaware Water Gap” by Moran & Storey – one is “The Gap, from Blockhead Mountain” (No. 578) and the other is “The Gap, from Table Rock” (No. 582). The other two prints are slightly larger with square corners and...
Dates: 1860s

Julian Hawthorne to Francis Bennoch., 07/15/1879-07/15/1879

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 87
Identifier: 94104
Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Correspondence from Julian Hawthorne to Francis Bennoch, including several letters from others, one autographed poem, and one autographed book review.

Dates: 07/15/1879-07/15/1879

Edwin Bjorkman, 1912 - 1923

 File — Box: 38, Folder: 12-23
Scope and Contents 13 letters written to Swedish-American journalist, critic, and translator Edwin Björkman from 12 different Scandinavian writers and other members of the intelligentsia in the first two decades of the 20th century. Correspondents are writer-dramatists Hjalmar Bergstrom (1868-1914), Gunnar Heiberg (1857-1929), Tor Harald Hedberg (1862-1931), Arthur Schnitzler (1861-1931), and Gustave Wied (1858-1914), writers and scholars Vilhelm Andersen (1864-1953), Johan Bojer (1872-1959), and Ludvig...
Dates: 1912 - 1923

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