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Bill of Sale of Enslaved Man Joseph Egiton from George W. Lowe to Hanson Dines

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 2 (Legal), Folder: 19
Identifier: GTM-20230629
Scope and Contents 1840 Bill of Sale of an enslaved man named Joseph Egiton. Egiton was sold from George W. Lowe (of South Carolina) to Hanson Dines (of Washington, DC) for $150. The transaction was witnessed by Thomas and Edward Mattingly, District of Columbia, Washington County. Materials on Slavery Please note: Our objective is to make collection material related to slavery and enslaved people as accessible as possible to researchers. Researchers may,...
Dates: 1840

Robert Southwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-871005
Scope and Contents note These papers consist primarily of correspondence, including one autograph letter signed by Antoine Arnauld to Robert Southwell; five contemporary copies of letters of Arnauld (Southwell's file copies); one autograph draft and 14 letters of Southwell's; a letter from Edward Coleman, a contemporary copy with a French translation; an autograph letter signed by William Blathwayt, Secretary of War; a letter of Henri Justel, Royal Librarian; and four miscellaneous items. Together, there are 29...
Dates: 1678 - 1685

Peter Attwood, SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20240102
Scope and Contents The papers of Peter Attwood, SJ contain bound volumes of treatises copied down by Attwood throughout his Jesuit formation. Some of the original authors are identified (e.g., James Gooden, Edward Slaughter, and Richard Vaughan) and topics covered include geometry, astronomy, and theology. There is also a treatise written by Attwood circa 1720 entitled “Liberty and Property,” in which he contends that British royal governors should have no say in the legislation or local affairs of Maryland...
Dates: 1709 - 1720

Lucile Swan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS184
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Lucile Swan papers consist of 4 series summarized as follows --1. Correspondence: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to Lucile Swan, 1932-1955. (Folders 1:1 - 2:104). Includes correspondence from Claude Cuenot to Lucile Swan (Folders 2:105-106). 2. Teilhard de Chardin Oeuvres: Consists of writings/essays (typescripts, mimeographs, reprints, and translations into English). (Folders 3:1 - 4:39). 3. Printed Material: Clippings from journals and newspapers about...
Dates: 1907 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1955

City of Philadelphia Indenture

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-0024
Scope and Contents

A 1733 indenture for property in the City of Philadelphia that involves the following individuals: Adam Lewis, Mary Lewis, John Martin, Thomas Chalkely, Ralph Jackson, John Michener, James Tucker, Mary Tucker, William Carter, and John Dixon.

See the External Documents section below for a transcript of the document.

Dates: 1733

French Military Treatise

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS451
Collection-level Scope and Content Note Dating to the period of the French Revolution and handwritten in French, this military treatise on French battle tactics is contained in 32 folders in one 0.25 linear-foot box. The text covers a wide variety of topics, such as encampment, mountain warfare, artillery, military reconnaissance, and attack and defensive tactics. The material includes references to Buonaparte, the Italian Campaign of 1796, the Cairo Campaign, Louis XVII, Le Duc de Castries, and Lord Camelford. This treatise is a...
Dates: 1786 - 1799

Acadia Institute Bioethics Interview Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-011
Abstract The collection consists of oral history interviews with prominent bioethicists and other individuals associated with the field conducted by Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey for the Acadia Institute's Project on Bioethics in American Society. In 1997, the Acadia Institute began a multi-year study of bioethics in American society. As part of this project, Renée C. Fox, a sociologist, and Judith P. Swazey, a historian, conducted interviews with a number of promiment bioethicists and other...
Dates: 1997 - 2000

John Fitzgerald Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-150601
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence and indenture documents relating to the affairs of Colonel John Fitzgerald that relate to local affairs in northern Virginia in the 1790s.

Dates: 1780-1820

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Janetta Warre Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-110506
Scope and Contents

Source material collected by Warre for her exhibitions on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. 18 folders. Items of note include:

1. Copies of typescripts of reminiscences and published articles by Thomas King, SJ; Pierre Leroy, SJ; Solange Soulie; Leo Zonneveld, and Warre, among others.

2. Warre, Janetta, "Travelling with Teilhard de Chardin in Britain." (No publication date.)

3. Teilhard de Chardin Centenary Exhibition catalog, 1983. Inscribed by Warre.

Dates: 1955 - 2010

John C. Bucknill papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-761214
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook containing photographs, correspondence, and drawings compiled by Sir John C. Bucknill (1817-1897), distinguished English physician who was most noted for his work with the insane. The scrapbook contains photographs of Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Huxley, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackery, among others. Correspondence includes letters from John Bright, J. A. Clarke, Sir John Duke Coleridge, and Edward A. Seymour.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1857-1877

William B. Ullathorne Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-801119
Scope and Contents Papers of William Bernard Ullathorne (1806-1889), Bishop of Birmingham from 1850-1889. Primarily consists of correspondence documenting changes in the Roman Catholic Church in England during the middle to late nineteenth century. Includes correspondence relating to Ullathorne's "Notes on the Education Question" (1857). Letters from John Moore Capes, Bishop Paul Cullen, Charles Langdale, Thomas William Marshall, George Talbot, and many from Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman.Click on...
Dates: 1848 - 1883

Eric F. Menke French Documents Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS105
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Eric F. Menke French Documents Collection consists of 24 vellum documents from seventeenth and eighteenth century France mainly consisting of contracts and deeds. Also includes a handwritten copy of court proceedings from Revolutionary Paris of a child sexual abuse case.

Dates: 1630 - 1791; Majority of material found within 1701 - 1791

James Percy Brown Journal

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS258
Scope and Contents

The journal of James Percy Brown documents the life of a wealthy young American living in Paris from 1834-1835 during the reign of Louis Philippe.

Dates: 1834-1835

Robert Silvercruys Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-861231
Scope and contents note The papers of Baron Robert Silvercruys consist of letters, manuscripts, pamphlets and clippings mainly concerning the careers of Frantz Silvercruys (1859 - 1936), President of the Court of Cassation of Belgium and created Baron Silvercruys in 1929, and of his son, Robert Silvercruys (1893 - 1971), who was a Belgian Ambassador to the United States (1946 - 1959). The papers comprise 3.5 linear feet of materials, arranged in 56 folders in 7 boxes. The papers are divided into two series, one...
Dates: 1896 - 1968

English Honors Theses

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTA-000931
Content Description Two bound volumes of English Honors Theses from 2013. Includes the following papers: "Incoherent Constructions: Forging the Female Identity in the Novels of Thomas Hardy" by Madeleine Collins, "The Chorus" by Madeline [sic] Collins, "One Is Two Is You Is" by Adam Greenberg, "Humoring Religion: How the Witty Women of Southern Literature Redefine Gender Orthodoxy" by Amelia Hall, "The Language of Insecurity in Wordsworth's London" by Madeleine...
Dates: 2013

Milton House Archives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-840716
Scope and Contents This collection, whose title derives from the house in England where its contents were maintained for almost 200 years, consists of significant portions of the papers of George Birkhead, Archpriest of England in the early seventeenth century, and of the Belson family, together with a miscellany of letters and documents pertaining in one way or another to English Catholic history between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. Among the more prominent authors of letters are Robert...
Dates: 1579 - 1760

Jackson McElmell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS241
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Jackson McElmell Papers document the career of a naval officer who entered the U.S. Navy in 1855 and earned the rank of Rear Admiral in 1906. Jackson McElmell (1834-1908) assisted with the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable in 1857, was a member of the Paraguayan expedition of 1858, saw some action during the Civil War, and was President of the Naval Engineers' Examining Board in Philadelphia. Dating from 1851 to 1908, the McElmell Papers contain mostly correspondence and military...
Dates: 1851 - 1908

Bernardin F. Wiget, SJ, Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS20
Scope and Contents

The Bernardin F. Wiget, SJ Papers contain one letter from Fr. Angelo Paresce (1852) and six bound volumes of school notes and lectures, mostly those of Fr. Joseph Duverney, taken by Fr. Wiget while at Georgetown (1847-1850).

Dates: 1847 - 1852

William Zimmerman Manuscripts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS152
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The William Zimmerman, Jr., Manuscripts Collection consists of two series of material. The first series is a collection of autograph materials such as correspondence by literary figures, intellectuals and politicians, including novelists R.D. Blackmore, Samuel Butler, Anatole France, Thomas Hughes, Edgar Lee Masters, and George McDonald; and statesman Harold Ickes. Photographs by Burton Holmes and Henry Greenwood Peabody are also included. Of special interest is a fragment of a sixteenth...
Dates: 1500 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1900

Donald Powell Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-800102
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Powell and writers, publishers, politicians and friends. Notable individuals include Dorothy Day, H.L. Mencken, Denver Lindley, Harry Sylvester, and George N. Shuster.

Additional ephemera added in Folder 24 (not included in 1986 finding aid).

Click on External Documents below to link to collection finding aid.

Dates: 1923 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1970

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Bechtel, F.S., S.J. 1
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Brown, Anthony Cave 1
Brown, James Percy 1
Brunini, John Gilland, 1899- 1
Buddy, Charles F. 1
Bunch, Joseph, S.V.D. 1
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Butler, Thomas P., S.J. 1
Byrne, Francis X., S.J. 1
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Campbell, Thos J., S.J. 1
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Chiappa, Vincent, S.J. 1
Claire, William F. 1
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Cooney, F. 1
Cooper, William B. (William Benjamin), 1920-1993 1
Corbett, John, 1869-1942 1
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Crimont, Joseph R., S.J. 1
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Dullea, Maurice V., S.J. 1
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