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Richard T. Crane Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS99
Scope and Contents
The Richard T. Crane Papers, Part II primarily consists of correspondence, photographs and financial records arranged in 65 folders, placed in 4 boxes and 1 oversized container. This addition to the Richard Crane Papers consists mostly correspondence from the period that Crane was working in the State Department (1915-1918). An interesting theme in this addition is that of Russia and the Revolution of 1917, during which time Charles Crane was travelling in Russia. Charles Crane sent...
Dates:
1900 - 1922
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Crane and Cornelia W. Smith. His grandfather was Richard Teller Crane, who founded the Crane Company of Chicago in 1855.
William B. Cooper Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230202
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of music manuscripts created by William B. Cooper, dating from around 1945 to 1987. In addition to the music manuscripts, it also includes lyrics, a list of compositions by Cooper, abstracts of compositions, a manuscript on modern church music, programs, clippings, and other related documents. The collection includes one phonograph (LP) recording titled "We Praise Thee O Lord." It features music played by Cooper, William Farley Smith (conductor),...
Dates:
1945 - 1993
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
It features music played by Cooper, William Farley Smith (conductor), and the Congregation of Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Sheepshead Bay (1984).
Richard X. Evans collection 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-710101
Scope and contents note
The Richard X. Evans Collection consists of family papers of or relating to the Smith, Mills, Dimitry, and Evans families. The bulk of the earliest material deals with the professional and private life of Robert Mills (1781-1855), who was State Engineer and Architect of South Carolina (1820-1830), Architect of Public Buildings of the United States (1836-1851), and designer of many houses and monuments, among them the Washington monuments of Baltimore and the District of Columbia. Alexander...
Dates:
1752-1976
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Evans Collection consists of family papers of or relating to the Smith, Mills, Dimitry, and Evans families. The bulk of the earliest material deals with the professional and private life of Robert Mills (1781-1855), who was State Engineer and Architect of South Carolina (1820-1830), Architect of Public Buildings of the United States (1836-1851), and designer of many houses and monuments, among them the Washington monuments of Baltimore and the District of Columbia.
Patrick White - Elizabeth Forbes Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS187
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Patrick White/Elizabeth Forbes Collection consists of 67 signed autograph and typed letters from the author Patrick White to Elizabeth Forbes, a representative at G. Heywood Hill, Ltd., bookdealer in London. The correspondence relates to book orders made by White to the bookdealer.
Dates:
1965 - 1973
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
White's best known novels are, 'Voss' (1957) which won the Miles Franklin Award (1958) and the W.H. Smith & Son Literary Award (1959); 'Riders in the Chariot' (1961) which won the Miles Franklin Award (1962) and the National Conference of Christians and Jews brotherhood award (1962); 'A Fringe of Leaves,' (1976); and his plays, 'Big Toys' (1978), 'Signal Driver' (1983), and 'Netherwood' (1983).
Rudolf Allers Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS126
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Rudolf Allers papers consist of 51 copies of 25 pamphlets by Allers on psychiatry and philosophy arranged in 25 folders in one box.
Dates:
1900-1950; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
An American psychiatrist, Francis Braceland, took the initiative in interesting the procurator and rector of the Catholic University of America in the possibility of obtaining Allers for that institution. Fr. Ignatius Smith, O.P., dean of the School of Philosophy brought Allers and his family to America in 1938.
Alan Gabriel Barnsley Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS76
Scope and Contents
The Alan G. Barnsley Papers consist of eight letters from such prominent writers as Ian Fleming, C.S. Lewis, Muriel Spark and Stephen Spender.
Abbreviations used in this register include: ALS (autograph letter signed); TLS (typed letter signed).
Dates:
1954-1959; Majority of material found within 1954 - 1959
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1962, Barnsley was awarded the W.H. Smith Award for his novel, The Birthday King. In 1964, he won the Gold Medal of St.
William Harding Jackson Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-101014
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the personal papers of William Harding Jackson. Correspondents include President Eisenhower, Constantine FitzGibbon, Arthur Gardner, Gordon Gray, and Richard M. Nixon, among others. A run of letters regarding Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign is also included among the documents. Some typed manuscripts by Jackson, a few photographs of him, and a series of printed materials round out the collection.
Dates:
1938 - 1971
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
On August 18, 1950, General Walter Bedell Smith, Central Intelligence Agency Director designate, appointed William H.
John S. Monagan - Anthony Powell Collection 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS165
Scope and Contents
This collection contains over two decades of correspondence between writer Anthony Powell and his American friend John S. Monagan as well as various magazine and newspaper articles relating to Powell as collected by Monagan. Also within the collection are numerous photographs of Anthony and Violet Powell at their home, the Chantry in Somerset, England, mostly taken by Monagan during visits made with his wife Rosemary in 1981, 1987, and 1988.
Dates:
1969 - 1994
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Other awards and honors conferred on Powell include, Commander of Order of the British Empire (1956); Companion of Honor (1988); the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1958) for 'At Lady Molly's'; the W.H. Smith Fiction Award (1974) for 'Temporary Kings'; the Bennett Award from the 'Hudson Review'; and the T.S.
Causten Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS201
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the letters written by members of the Causten family over the period 1805-1820.
Dates:
1805 - 1820
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Preble's Boys: Commodore Preble and the Birth of American Sea Power (New York: William Sloane Associates, 1950). Smith, Myron J., Jr. The American Navy 1789-1860: A Bibliography, vol.
Huie, Reid and Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS226
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Huie, Reid and Company Collection consists of two series as described below: Series 1. Order Requests - Alphabetical (Folders 1-47) Consisting of 47 folders, this series contains 53 order requests received by Huie, Reid and Company from various individuals, including some members of prominent Virginia families. The orders are arranged alphabetically by customer. The individuals requested a relatively wide variety of goods, such as tobacco, sugar, salt, shoes, and linen. Series 2. Leaves...
Dates:
1787 - 1789
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Library of Congress also possesses a ledger and daybook dating between 1784 and 1796 of Smith, Huie, Alexander and Company, another eighteenth century merchant firm from Dumfries, Virginia.
Byington Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS298
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Byington Family Papers: Part 2 contain postcards, letters, and printed material documenting the life and times of A. Homer Byington and other members of the Byington family. Of interest are postcards to and from A. Homer Byington from Naples, where he served as U.S. consul at the turn of the twentieth century. The postcards describe life in Naples, volcanic activity there, and even an occasion when the King off Italy took of his hat out of respect for an American flag flying over...
Dates:
1822 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1910
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In Byington's childhood, the family returned to Norwalk, Connecticut. He attended the Amos Smith Collegiate School for Boys in New Haven. His father died when he was nine.
John S. Monagan - Anthony Powell Collection 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS341
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence between John Monagan and the Powell Family and correspondence between Monagan and others regarding Powell. Further, it includes manuscripts/articles on Powell written by Monagan and others; papers related to the Anthony Powell Society; photographs of the Powell family and related subjects; and materials from the Georgetown University Library exhibition and symposium celebrating the Anthony Powell centennial in 2005.
Dates:
1961 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1985 - 2005
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Other awards and honors conferred on Powell include, Commander of Order of the British Empire (1956); Companion of Honor (1988); the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1958) for 'At Lady Molly's'; the W.H. Smith Fiction Award (1974) for 'Temporary Kings'; the Bennett Award from the 'Hudson Review'; and the T.S.
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
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1853 Sanborn was engaged to Ariana Smith Walker whom he married shortly before her death from a long illness in the summer of 1854.
Julius P. Garesche papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS71
Scope and Contents
The material in this collection relates to Julius P. Garesche, a Georgetown University alumnus and chief of staff to William S. Rosecrans, a general during the Civil War. It includes manuscripts by Julius Garesche; correspondence about his death by fellow officers, including General Rosecrans; printed information about Garesche and some members of his family; and photographs of Garesche and the family tomb at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC.
Dates:
1836 - 1908; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1870
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
For the next three years, Julius and his brother Alexander attended an academy on Quaker Hill kept by Samuel Smith.
In September 1833, Julius entered Georgetown College, Washington, DC, at the age of twelve.
In September 1833, Julius entered Georgetown College, Washington, DC, at the age of twelve.
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS97
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Sir Hall Caine Papers primarily consist of correspondence to Sir Hall Caine, comprising .5 linear feet of material arranged in 31 folders in 1 box. A majority of the correspondence in the collection involves Sir Hall's business affairs, including sales, advertisements and film and stage productions. There is a letter from Herbert Brenon regarding the filming of The Woman Thou Gavest Me in 1918 and a letter from Virginia Brooks, an actress in the stage production of the same work. Several...
Dates:
1895-1925
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
British novelist, dramatist and critic Thomas Henry Hall Caine was born at Runcorn, Cheshire, 14 May 1853, the eldest son of John Caine, a ship's smith, of Ballaugh, Isle of Man. Much of Caine's childhood was spent between Liverpool and the Isle of Man.
Ruth M. McCabe WAVES Photograph Album
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030726577]
Identifier: GTM-20221108
Scope and Contents
Photograph album documenting Ruth M. McCabe’s training and service in the United States Women's Naval Reserve (popularly known as WAVES). There are 372 photographs in total, dating from 1942-1945. The images primarily depict McCabe and other WAVES officers posing in uniforms and civilian clothes, as well as McCabe’s family and male servicemen.The photographs depict a number of locations, including Duluth, Minnesota; Stillwater, Oklahoma; Oklahoma City; Washington...
Dates:
1942 - 1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Antonia White Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-180515
Scope and Contents
Letters, manuscripts and press clippings by and about British author Antonia White (1899-1980).
Dates:
1863 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
On 15 April 1925 Antonia married Eric Earnshaw Smith (1893–1972), a civil servant, with whom she had a deep platonic friendship.
Charles Constantine Pise Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS18
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of Charles Constantine Pise, a Jesuit who left the Society in 1821 and eventually became Senate Chaplain for the 22nd US Congress in 1832. Materials include correspondence, travel papers, writings, and miscellaneous documents.
Dates:
1818 - 1855
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
William McSherry, James Ryder, John Smith, Thomas Mulledy, and George Fenwick); by 1821, however, he had left the Society and returned to the US to care for his mother.
Todd Haines collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS79
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Todd Haines collection is a mixture of correspondence and printed material primarily by and concerning British author Anthony Powell (1905-2000). Material consists of original typed signed letters from Powell to bookseller Handasyde Buchanan, New Zealand author Patrick A. Lawlor, and to John Lelliott, an admirer of his novel series, 'A Dance to the Music of Time.' Other Powell material includes page proofs for two of his books, 'Books Do Furnish a Room' (1971) and 'Messengers of Day'...
Dates:
1864-1990; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Temporary Kings, the penultimate volume of the Music of Time, won the W. H. Smith award. Powell was made a Companion of Honour in 1988.
Bruce Marshall Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-840208
Scope and Contents
The Bruce Marshall Papers primarily consist of correspondence, manuscripts and news clippings, all tracing Burce Marshall's career as an author from 1924 until his death in 1987.The Bruce A. Marshall Papers are arranged in series according to subject. There is a Manuscript series, a Correspondence series, a Clippings series and a small Thesis series.The Manuscripts series comprises the first eight boxes of the collection. Contained in it are different drafts of...
Dates:
1924 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1979
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
., "The World, the Flesh & Father Smith" (1945), "A Threat of Scarlet" (1959), "Father Hilary's Holiday" (1965), "Month of the Falling Leaves" (1963)).