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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.
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)).
Konrad Wolff - Ilse Bing Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-160304
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, documents, sketches, drafts, photographs and music relating to the pianist and composer Konrad Wolff (1907-1989) and his wife, the distinguished photographer Ilse Bing (1899-1998). It also contains significant additional material relating to Wolff’s family members including his father, the distinguished German lawyer Martin Wolff, and his mother, Marguerite Wolff née Jolowicz, who was personally charged with documenting important aspects of...
Dates:
1873 - 1991
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Master classes were given at Smith College, New England Conservatory, University of the Pacific, Bradley University; and Wolff was engaged for a residency at the University of Texas just before his death.
American Committee on United Europe Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-780727
Scope and Contents note
The American Committee on United Europe collection contains correspondence, reports, photos, pamphlets, news clippings, minutes of meetings and related material. Box 1 is divided into 7 categories, the first of which is the "College of Europe." This college was founded for the purpose of training its students to become leaders of the inter-European organizations at that time. In the first folder is a report on the college by an American who had a fellowship from ACUE.The next...
Dates:
1948-1960; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Lehman, Walter Bedell Smith, William Green, Moss Hart, Robert Schuman and Paul-Henri Spaak.
Edgar E. Clark Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-790910
Scope Note
The Edgar E. Clark Collection documents the publication of the writings of Milovan Djilas, a noted Yugoslav communist who later became a vocal critic of communism. Most of the collection conecrns Djilas' book "The New Class," published in 1957. The collection includes correspondence dated 1956-1968 about Djilas' writings and the efforts to publish his works. Also present in this archive is an extensive series of reports by Edgar E. Clark and his wife Katharine J. Clark about Djilas and...
Dates:
1950 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1954 - 1968
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Born in New York City, Katharine graduated from the Madeira School and Smith College. Prior to World War II, she held several newspaper and radio jobs.
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 went to school at the Amos Smith Collegiate School for Boys in New Haven. When Byington was just nine his father died, and Byington went to work for the "Norwalk Gazette" as an office boy and then recorded proceedings of the General Assembly for the "New Haven Palladium".
John L. Brown Papers 5
Collection
Identifier: GTM-200113
Scope and Contents
Addendum to John L. Brown papers 1, 2, 3, 4. Includes research source materials (notes, newspaper/magazine articles), correspondence, family photographs, and Brown's journals.
Dates:
1950s-2002
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Department of State and at many American universities, including Harvard, Rutgers, Saint Louis University, Smith College, the University of Colorado, the University of the South, and Yale.
Sophy Burnham Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS129
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the papers of author Sophy Burnham, including manuscripts of her written works, correspondence related to her works (particuarly her books and articles on angels), her diaries, files related to publishing, and audiovisual and digital media.
Dates:
1906 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1964 - 2016
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Sophy Burnham grew up in Maryland, attended a private girls school, and graduated from Smith College in Northampton, MA with a degree in Italian Language and Literature.
John L. Brown Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS167
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The John L. Brown Papers 1, consist of 99 folders of correspondence from literary and artistic luminaries, including writers Sylvia Beach, John Dos Passos, Anne Fremantle, Katherine Anne Porter, Alice B. Toklas; philosopher Jacques Maritain; photographer Brassai; poets Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Giuseppe Ungaretti, and many more. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.
Dates:
1933 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Department of State and at many American universities, including Harvard, Rutgers, Saint Louis University, Smith College, the University of Colorado, the University of the South, and Yale.
John L. Brown Papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS253
Scope and Contents
The John L. Brown Papers 3, consists of correspondence with 20th century artists, scholars, and writers. Notables include artists Huseyin Halit, Loren McIver and her husband, poet Lloyd Frankenberg, Lilian Mckendrick, Irene Rice Pereira and Antoinette Schulte; art critic and historian Roger Avermaete; historian Henry Steele Commager; and writers Jacqueline Bernard, Faith Berry, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, Lewis Galantiere, Elsa Gress, poet James Laughlin, Boris Schreiber, Pierre Seghers,...
Dates:
1946 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1986
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Department of State and at many American universities, including Harvard, Rutgers, Saint Louis University, Smith College, the University of Colorado, the University of the South, and Yale.
F. Don Nidiffer collection of Washington, D.C. legal documents
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS96
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...
Dates:
1817 - 1886
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Murphey and Henry Reaver as Justices of the Peace or Notaries Public; and William Brent, John A. Smith, Nathaniel C. Towle and Frederick Douglass (noted Abolitionist) as Clerks of the Circuit Court or later as Recorders of Deeds.
Montague Summers Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-110501
Scope and Contents
The Montague Summers papers comprise the surviving collection of letters, manuscripts, and printed ephemera belonging to this popular author at the time of his death in 1948. A significant portion of the collection consists further of the papers of Summers' friend, the English author and literary biographer S.M. Ellis, which came into Summers' possession after Ellis' death in 1933 (Summers dedicated his 1933 anthology, Victorian Ghost Stories, to the memory of S.M.E.)....
Dates:
1845 - 1949; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The identification of letters and manuscripts was helped greatly by Timothy d'Arch Smith's A Bibliography of the Works of Montague Summers (Nicholas Vane: London, 1964), and by reference to the acknowledgments of the various longer works of Montague Summers and S.M.
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:
Sales of the latter (for which she received the W. H. Smith Award), were superseded by the posthumous “New Collected Poems” (2002).
William A. Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS148
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The William A. Wilson Papers are organized into 10 series of files, which are summarized in the Synopsis section. The largest series included the following: * Alphabetical Correspondence - general and official unclassified correspondence from various individuals, arranged chronologically by year, with 1984 containing primarily congratulatory messages regarding the ambassador's appointment; * Individual Correspondence - correspondence from frequent writers and notable individuals including...
Dates:
1980 - 1992
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His ham career began in the early thirties when his second cousin, Cal Smith, W6BRD, taught him the code. The latter was chief engineer of KFAC and later became president of that Los Angeles radio station.
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:
Sales of the latter (for which she received the W. H. Smith Award), were superseded by the posthumous “New Collected Poems” (2002).
John L. Brown Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS205
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
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:
1940 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Department of State and at many American universities, including Harvard, Rutgers, Saint Louis University, Smith College, the University of Colorado, the University of the South, and Yale.
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:
Letters include those from Peter Levi, Henry Miller, Huston Smith, Susan Sontag, and Mark Van Doren. Manuscripts for the essays are included with correspondence from the author or at the end of the series.
Richard T. Crane Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-800320
Scope and Contents
The Richard T. Crane Papers are divided into three series: the State Department Series (1915-1919), the Prague Series (1919-1922), and the Virginia Series (1922-1951), corresponding, respectively, to Richard Crane's years as private secretary to Secretary of State Robert Lansing; as the American ambassador to Czechoslovakia; and finally, as the owner of Westover Plantation in Virginia. There is also a quantity of photographs and other materials, filed separately.An addendum of...
Dates:
1915-1951
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.
Harry L. Hopkins Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-841102
Collection-level scope and contents note
The Harry L. Hopkins Papers, the personal archives of the man who was FDR's most trusted advisor, consist of 26 linear feet (62 archival boxes) of material. The Papers contain appointment books and diaries, drafts of Hopkins' speeches and memoranda, photographs and drawings, and extensive correspondence with the most prominent figures of the 20th century including FDR, the Winston Churchill Family, Averell Harriman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George C. Marshall, Harry S Truman,...
Dates:
1890 - 1946
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
While campaigning for the 1928 Democratic presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith, Hopkins met Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Governor Roosevelt liked him at once and Mrs.
John F. Stevens Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-910726
Scope and Contents
The John F. Stevens Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, news clippings, books, photographs, blueprints and maps collected by John F. Stevens. The Papers are arranged in 8 Series according to subject and material type, in 11 boxes and 1 map case drawer.
Dates:
1850 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Stevens was born on April 25, 1853 near West Gardiner, Maine, the son of John Smith Stevens and Harriet Leslie French. He was raised on a small farm and attended local schools.