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Ernesta Drinker Barlow Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-081118
Scope and Contents
A collection of the personal papers of Aimee Ernesta Drinker Barlow (1892-1981). Includes autograph memoir, travel diaries (from 1916 and early 1960s), correspondence received from husbands William C. Bullitt (1891-1967), former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union; and composer Samuel L.M. Barlow (1892-1982); as well as from admirers including the artist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). Of note is an almost complete run of mimeographed scripts of NBC Radio broadcasts by Barlow as "Commando Mary"...
Dates:
1910 - 1962
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Ord Family Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS146
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ord family papers consist of correspondence exchanged between, among others, three family members who were important American military figures. Namely, James Ord (c.1789-1873), an officer in the U.S. Navy for a short time, and later a lieutenant in the army during the War of 1812; his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883), a noted Civil War general; and his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923), who served in the Indian campaign in Texas in 1880, commanded the Seminole Indian...
Dates:
1840 - 1963; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1870
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Namely, James Ord (c.1789-1873), an officer in the U.S. Navy for a short time, and later a lieutenant in the army during the War of 1812; his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883), a noted Civil War general; and his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923), who served in the Indian campaign in Texas in 1880, commanded the Seminole Indian scouts in 1882, and served among the first troops to land in Cuba during the Spanish-American war in 1898.
Byington family papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS408
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection includes 8 letters to and from Aaron Homer Byington from 1844 to 1899. The majority of these are typed letters signed by John Addison Porter to Byington. The letters cover a broad range of topics including Washington Cabinet appointments, Connecticut Senatorial races, consular salaries, significant newspapers, the Republican Party, the Spanish-American War, and Byington's son, George. Also included in the collection is an autograph signed letter from Aaron Homer Byington to...
Dates:
1844-1899
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Byington married Harriet Sophia Richardson on November 8,1849, whose death in Naples shortly preceded his retirement from the Foreign Service in 1907.
William E. Mulligan Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS160
Scope and Contents
The William E. Mulligan Papers primarily consist of personal and official correspondence, reports, manuscripts and printed materials relating to Mulligan's career in the Government Affairs Department of Aramco (the Arabian American Oil Company) from 1946 to 1978. The material is arranged in just over 500 folders in 18 boxes. The William E. Mulligan Papers contain an extraordinary amount of highly unique primary and secondary source materials on the early years of Aramco and many...
Dates:
1930 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was involved with boundary work for the Saudi Arab government in the 1940's and early 1950's and was assigned to Tapline for short periods during the early construction phase of the pipeline.
Presidents’ Correspondence and Other Materials (Richards, Whitney, Daugherty)
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000010
Scope and Contents
Included are copies of outgoing letters from the tenures of three Georgetown University Presidents - J. Havens Richards (1888-1898), John D. Whitney (1898-1901) and Jerome Daugherty (1901-1905), as well as incoming correspondence received by Father Richards between 1888 and 1898. A volume listing major donations to Georgetown University, 1891-1898, is also present. The correspondence documents the work of Presidents Richards, Whitney and Daugherty during a period of major reform...
Dates:
1872 - 1904; Majority of material found within 1888 - 1898
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
His father Henry Richards, an ordained Episcopalian minister, converted to Catholicism shortly after his son's birth. Havens attended Boston College where he showed an aptitude for the sciences, especially physics.
Albert Nekimken Turkish Theater Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20220424
Scope and Contents
The Albert Nekimken Turkish Theater Collection comprises primary research material assembled by Nekimken in Turkey while working on his dissertation on the influence of German Marxist politics and Bertolt Brecht on modern theater in Turkey. The collection consists of 184 volumes of published plays (some banned, many now scarce or rare), as well as theater history and criticism, written mainly from 1960 to 1975, and 29 audio cassettes containing performances and interviews with actors,...
Dates:
1946 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Brien McMahon Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-870219
Scope and Contents note
The Brien McMahon Papers consist of correspondence, speeches, legal papers, newspaper clippings, honors and awards, photographs, and personal ephemera concerning the life of the late Senator and his family from circa 1930 to 1953. While the majority of the papers concern McMahon's career with the U.S. Department of Justice, there is also some material regarding his two Senate terms, his marriage to Rosemary Turner, his Presidential campaign in 1952, and his death.The collection...
Dates:
1930 - 1953
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The following morning Brien McMahon fell into a coma and died shortly thereafter.
His death weighed heavily upon his fellow members of Congress and on the many individuals who knew and respected his governing ability.
His death weighed heavily upon his fellow members of Congress and on the many individuals who knew and respected his governing ability.
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:
Brachygraphie, post-writt: or, the art of short-writing. Folkingham, W.; Wright, Alexander Tremain [London: s.n., 1898] Samuel Taylor, angler and stenographer...To which is appended a facsimilie reprint of the first American edition for Taylor's system [Boston, MA: Willis-Byrom Club, 1904-1905] "Mr.
Shirley Hazzard Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS421
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The focus of the collection is Hazzard's friendship with and writing on Graham Greene, particularly her reminiscent book, "Greene on Capri," (2000), which recalls the period from the 1960s through the 1980s when Hazzard and her husband, writer Francis Steegmuller, frequently sojourned on the island and spent many hours in the company of Greene, either at his home Il Rosario or at da Gemma's, a favorite cafe. Correspondence, from friends and literary associates, as well as publishers,...
Dates:
1941 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2000
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
During the period in Italy, Hazzard began to write short stories, with the first published in the New Yorker.
Earl J. Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS70
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection of papers from Earl J. Wilson consists of his files, maintained during his years with the U.S. Information Service, dealing with the development of democracy in U.S. foreign policy. Material includes the manuscript of an unpublished book by Mr. Wilson on the subject, entitled,'Fumbling with Democracy: Our Failure to Promote It Abroad.' There is also a quantity of information in the form of published and unpublished reports and correspondence concerning USIA's Citizenship...
Dates:
1940 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He wrote many articles, short stories and poetry about his experiences, and coauthored a book on the Tarawa campaign.
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:
It was in a tall town house next door to an identical house owned by the seer, Jeanne Dixon, and in short order it would became a second home to me, as I browsed for hours among the thousands of used books on its shelves.
John Kelly Liberia Mission Diary
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 38: [Barcode: 39020031368189], Folder: 12
Identifier: GTM-0060
Scope and Contents
A diary maintained by Rev. John Kelly during a portion of his Catholic missionary work in Cape Palmas, Liberia. He describes the struggles of Catholic missionaries in their largely unsuccessful efforts to proselytize to African-American colonists and the local Grebo people as well as the persistent health concerns for him and his fellow travelers. Note on Problematic Language Please be aware that this collection contains the use of outdated...
Dates:
1842
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
John Kelly (1802-1866) was born in Trillick, Tyrone County, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) and emigrated to the US in 1825. Shortly thereafter he entered Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg (1826) before joining the Jesuit novitiate in Frederick (1827-1828).
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS122
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren papers consist of one scrapbook intact, containing material dating from 1885 through 1888; a fragment of a scrapbook, containing material dating 1877 through 1879; and one tintype, possibly of the Irish statesman, Charles Stewart Parnell. The following description of this collection begins with the complete scrapbook, designated Scrapbook I. The fragmented Scrapbook II follows, with the tintype as the last item in the collection. Itemization of material within...
Dates:
1877-1888
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
She contributed many poems and short stories to the New York Tablet and other newspapers.
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:
By this time, after a short spell working in advertising, she had become an assistant at Oxford City Library, where she remained until 1958.
David Rankin Barbee Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS145
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the Barbee Papers concerns his research, accomplished primarily between the years 1928-1958. The Papers are organized according to provenance into seven series, out-lining his historical interests. The series are: I. Abraham Lincoln; II. Death of Lincoln; III. Lincoln and Booth; IV. John Wilkes Booth; V. Conspirators; VI. Rose O'Neil Greenhow; and VII. American History. Because the collection is largely subject-oriented, due to the inter-relatedness of topics the same subject...
Dates:
1886 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1956
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Also included in the Greenhow series are three photographs of Greenhow, including a carte-de-visite taken in London shortly before her death, a memorial card after her death, and a daguerreotype, date unknown.
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:
By this time, after a short spell working in advertising, she had become an assistant at Oxford City Library, where she remained until 1958.
Hilaire Belloc - Allison Family collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS203
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and the James Murray Allison family for the time period 1918-1941. Much of the correspondence in this collection has to do with the column Belloc contributed to "Land and Water," a periodical founded by James Murray Allison to cover aspects of the war efforts during WWI.
Dates:
1918-1941
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Mrs. Allison did remarry shortly after the death of her first husband. The name of her second husband is not known, and she is referred to by the processor as Elsie Allison throughout the correspondence.
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:
After some foreign reporting, notably for the Daily Mail during the Azerbaijan campaign in Iran, Sykes joined the BBC in 1948. Following a short spell as deputy controller of the Third Programme he joined the features department (1949–68), where he was suspected of having formed a Catholic mafia.
Graham Greene Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS325
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Graham Greene Papers Part 2 consists mainly of original correspondence and manuscripts. The collection also contains Greene's appointment diaries and two audio recordings. The correspondence includes a series of letters written by prominent authors in response to Greene's proposal of a mass resignation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in response to the war in Vietnam. The letters often contain the authors' views on the war and the opposition to it. Some of the authors...
Dates:
1944-2001; Majority of material found within 1967-1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Greene, a prolific writer, is best known as a novelist though he also wrote plays, short stories, and non-fiction. He was on staff at The Times from 1926-1930 and held the position of Literary Editor at The Spectator from 1940-1941.
Ned O'Gorman Papers 2
Collection
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
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
O'Gorman's work on the biography of Allen Tate was stopped short and never published.
The collection also contains personal materials such as correspondence, scrapbook items, photographs of O'Gorman and his son, Ricky, and diaries.
The collection also contains personal materials such as correspondence, scrapbook items, photographs of O'Gorman and his son, Ricky, and diaries.