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Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS235
Scope and Contents
The Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers 2 consist predominantly of correspondence received during his ministry in Ridge, Maryland, from fellow Jesuits as well as his family members and friends/parishioners. Further, there is printed matter; photographs; and a series of files collected by Thomas E. Ambrose, SJ, Horaces' nephew.
Dates:
1900 - 1992
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Aloysius became a hub of social outreach, housing the St. Vincent de Paul Society--where community members could seek assistance--and hosting McKenna’s informal Sunday afternoon "coffee klatsch."
Ernest Dimnet - Anita Lawrence Simpson collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS339
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ernest Dimnet-Anita Lawrence Simpson collection consists mostly of letters written from noted French literary priest Ernest Dimnet to Anita Lawrence Simpson. The correspondence relates to their friendship, and it touches on some of Dimnet's works. The collection is contained in one small archival box (0.25 linear feet), and the documents are arranged in chronological order. * * * * * * * BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Abbe Ernest Dimnet was born at Trelon in the Ardennes...
Dates:
1925-1965; Majority of material found within 1925-1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Soon thereafter, in 1908, he wrote "Figures de Moines." In 1910, Abbe Dimnet produced "Les Soeurs Bronte."
John L. Brown Papers 4
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS353
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The John L. Brown Papers: Part 4 represent the extensive personal papers of author, poet, critic, diplomat, and man of letters John L. Brown, who served as U.S. cultural attache to Brussels (1954-1958), Rome (1958-1962), and Mexico City (1964-1968) and as a longtime professor of literature at the Catholic University of America. The massive collection contains correspondence with noted individuals, chronological correspondence, manuscripts by Brown, notebooks, materials for lectures and...
Dates:
1787 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2000
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Brown received the Grand Prix de la Critique in 1954 for his "Panorama de la Litterature Contemporaine aux Etats Unis."
Julie and Thomas Kernan papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS181
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Julie and Thomas Kernan papers are organized into 7 series: correspondence by notable individuals and friends who were frequent correspondents; files on Jacques and Raissa Maritain; correspondence by Julie and Thomas Kernan; subject files which include correspondence and material about the various organizations and miscellaneous business that the Kernans were involved with; manuscripts and published works by Julie and Thomas Kernan; a large collection of information and...
Dates:
1765-1988; Majority of material found within 1940-1975
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His various residences In Paris included the Place Vendome and the Rue de Marignac. He also bought and renovated a country house on the Rue de la Montaigne, St.
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:
Brown include Decorated Commander, Chevaliers du Tastevin (Burgundy, France), 1953; Grand Prix de la Critique from Syndicat des Critiques, 1954, for “Panorama de la Littérature Contemporaine aux Etats Unis”; and Le Grand Ordre des Coteaux (Champagne), 1973.
John F. Hurley, SJ Papers
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 35: [Barcode: 39020031367967], Folder: 10
Identifier: GTM-0055
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a typescript of Fr. John F. Hurley's experiences during the occupation of the Philippines (1941-1945) in which he was held at Santo Tomas Internment Camp. The account was written at the request of Fr. William C. Repetti, then Georgetown University Archivist, in 1964.
Dates:
1964 - 1965
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Hurley was confined to the Ateneo de Manila through January 1944 after which he was sent to Santo Tomas Internment Camp.
Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-941229
Scope and Contents
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
1804-1950
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
It also includes approximately 50 signed musical quotations by such composers as by Franz Abt, Michael William Balfe, Ole Bull, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Rudolph Ganz, Aleksandr Glazunov, José Iturbi, Joseph Joachim, Fritz Kreisler, Jan Kubelík, Pietro Mascagni, Jules Massenet, Pablo de Sarasate, John Philip Sousa, Arturo Toscanini, and an interesting example with signed quotations by both Theodor Kullak and Charles Wehle.
Stephen and Susan Decatur papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS245
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Donated to Georgetown College by Susan Decatur, the widow of the War of 1812 naval hero Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), the Stephen and Susan Decatur Papers consist of one letter book containing letters dated from 1812 to 1813 written to Commodore Decatur congratulating him on the victory of the U.S.S. "United States" against the H.M.S. "Macedonian," two letters dated 1812 to him from U.S. Navy Secretary Paul Hamilton, and 16 letters to Susan Decatur dated between 1831 and 1845. Contained in...
Dates:
1812 - 1845
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Bossuet, Jacques Benigne. "Exposition de la Doctrine de l'Eglise Catholique sur les Matieres de Controverse."
John S. Monagan - Horace B. McKenna, SJ Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-970507
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, drafts, and other ephemera related to the writing and publication John S. Monagan's biography of Fr. Horace B. McKenna entitled Horace, Priest of the Poor (1985). Also contains audio cassette recordings of interviews used by Monagan for the work, photographs of many interview subjects, and six interview transcripts.
Dates:
1978 - 1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Aloysius became a hub of social outreach, housing the St. Vincent de Paul Society--where community members could seek assistance--and hosting McKenna’s informal Sunday afternoon "coffee klatsch."
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:
Brown include Decorated Commander, Chevaliers du Tastevin (Burgundy, France), 1953; Grand Prix de la Critique from Syndicat des Critiques, 1954, for “Panorama de la Littérature Contemporaine aux Etats Unis”; and Le Grand Ordre des Coteaux (Champagne), 1973.
Photographs: Nursing School
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000351
Leo J. O'Donovan, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20241101
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of former Georgetown University President Fr. Leo O'Donovan (1934-) consist of his published and unpublished writings; teaching materials for classes at Fordham University, Union Theological Seminary, Weston School of Theology, and Woodstock College; and papers related to Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner.
Dates:
1961 - 2017
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He then went on to study at Georgetown University, earning a degree in English and philosophy in 1956, and the L’Universite de Lyon, where he was a Fullbright scholar (1956-1957).
Gregory T.S. Walker Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20250227
Scope and Contents
The collection contains digital files, including photographs of Gregory T.S. Walker and his father George Walker. Additionally, the collection contains an copy of the Minstrels and Minimoogs: New Virtuosity at the University of Colorado phonograph EP (released by Walker Productions in 1988).
Dates:
1988, 2009-2024
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His music has been performed by Poland's Filharmonia Sudecka, the Detroit Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, and the Encuentro Musical de los Americas in Cuba, as well as at Great Britain’s Lake District Music Festival, the Lamia Conservatoire in Greece, and the Cork Orchestral Society Concert Series in Ireland, the London Song Festival, and at the Chetana International Music Festival in Kerala, India.
Joseph P. Orme Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS317
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection contains eight autograph letters written by Georgetown College alumni to fellow alumus, Joseph P. Orme, between the years 1856 and 1860. The content of the letters range from catching up on news of friends and family to serious political debate. The opinions written by these young men display the divided state of the nation on the brink of civil war. Of the seven friends, at least three went on to fight in the war, two for the Union and one for the Confederacy.
Dates:
1856 - 1860
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He joined the Federal Service and was a Colonel and Aide-de-camp on the staff of the Governor of Maryland.
Washington Irving Letterbook
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS247
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Washington Irving Letterbook (1 box, 0.25 linear feet) consists of one bound letterbook containing handwritten copies of outgoing letters dated from 1842 to 1844 written by Irving (1783-1859) while he served as U.S. Minister to Spain (1842-1846). Although most of these letters were copied in the hand of Irving's secretary, a number of them seem to have been copied by Irving himself in his own hand. Irving's richly descriptive writing style shines through in these letters as he analyzes...
Dates:
1842 - 1844
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The inside front cover of this letterbook bears an original label: "Establecimiento de Papeles y Libros rayados E IMPRENTA. Calle del Arenal, numero 11.
Bailey K. Ashford Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-050102
Scope and Contents
The Bailey K. Ashford papers document the life and works of Bailey K. Ashford (1873-1934), an American medical official known for his work in combating hookworm and other tropical diseases in Puerto Rico. Some materials in the collection concern his family and early life. Other items relate to his experiences as a medical officer in the U.S. Army during World War I. The bulk of the collection covers his medical work in Puerto Rico. A few of Ashford's expeditions to other nations are also...
Dates:
1808 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1897 - 1934
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
[Source: "Ashford, Bailey K." Encyclopedia de Puerto Rico online].
Grant Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-781016
Scope and Contents
The Grant Richards Papers consist of correspondence, (Boxes 1 to 3), manuscripts (Box 4 and throughout individual correspondence files), printed materials (Box 5), photos and clippings (Box 5 and 6), all relating to Richards and to the various authors he published. Of note is correspondence between Lady Gregory and himself regarding proposed biographies of Sir Hugh Lane, who died on the "Lusitania." The collection would be of interest in the study of any of the writers represented to the...
Dates:
1889 - 1962
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1915, he married Maria Magdalena de Csanady, author of "Three Little Adventurers," illustrated by the well known Ruth Cobb.
Colour of Music Festival Collection
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 35: [Barcode: 39020031367967], Folder: 1-2
Identifier: GTM-20240622
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of programs and promotional materials for the Colour of Music Festival dating from 2022 to 2024. These include performances at Carnegie Hall; Charleston, SC; and Sacramento, CA.
Dates:
2022 - 2024
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Few classical music enthusiasts are aware of the tremendous contributions of Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an African-French composer whose opera and classical masterpieces equaled or far exceeded those of his 18th-century contemporaries.
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:
Sometime around 1861, John Evans' son Richard Joseph married Marie Anais Denise de Lagarde, a granddaughter of Alexander and Mary Mills Dimitry.
Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS332
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers: Part 2 contain correspondence and manuscripts of Bernard and Barbara Wall, two English Catholic intellectuals who had contact with the Pigotts Circle. Correspondents of the Walls include Tom Burns, Graham Greene, Vivien Greene, Harman Grisewood, Rene Hague, and Michael Richey. A manuscript by Bernard Wall entitled, "Aspects of Italian Civilisation" and manuscripts by Barbara Wall, such as her wartime diary dated 1940, her memoir of Rene Hague, and a draft...
Dates:
1556 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In addition, an English translation of a 1915-1916 journal by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is retained. The Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers comprise 1 linear foot of materials, and they are arranged in two archival boxes.