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Frederick W. Rolfe, Baron Corvo Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-141102.1
Content Description
Secondary works relating to Baron Corvo, including correspondence from collectors such as Donald Weeks, manuscripts of papers about Corvo by various authors (some photocopied), printed ephemera, and photographs.
Dates:
1929 - 2013
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Also known as Baron Corvo, he was associated with the "Yellow Book" circle and fin-de-siecle decadent culture. In 1889, while a student in Rome, he was adopted into the circle of the Duchess Sforza Cesarini (1818-1897), who became his patron.
La Pucelle d'Orleans Manuscript
Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 39020031848685]
Identifier: GTM-20140421
Scope and Contents
A manuscript copy of the 1762 "authorized" edition of Voltaire's La Pucelle d'Orleans including 47 interleavings on which the copyist has supplied ommitted passages considered too risque to print. The result is something like an early critical edition of the text. A date in the final quarter of the 18th century seems likely, at earliest post-1762.The text is written in a single neat cursive hand throughout, with additions marked by...
Dates:
18th century, after 1762
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Several additions and inscriptions are present, including two names on first original flyleaf: "Monsieur de Fourkowitch" and "Chale Damans" -- both likely 18th or early 19th century.
William W. Wright Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS178
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the four folios of General Wright's scrapbook which contains primarily news items relating to the proposed construction of the Panama Canal. Some letters, notes, and sketches by Wright are included, along with printed maps showing the different interoceanic routes that were considered. In addition, the scrapbook includes a letter from John A. Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, and several broadsides in Spanish citing Ferdinand de Lesseps and the canal...
Dates:
1857 - 1883; Majority of material found within 1879 - 1882
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1879 to 1880, Wright was invited to join the International Technical Commission formed by Ferdinand de Lesseps in Panama to investigate an interoceanic route across the isthmus.
Roger Bensky Collection of Samuel Beckett Letters
Collection
Identifier: GTM-181024
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three letters from Samuel Beckett to Roger Bensky (20 February, 22 April, and 5 November 1969); one letter from Geneviève Serreau to Bensky (26 June 1969), and copies of two articles written by Bensky (1969, 1974). The correspondence from Beckett resulted from Bensky's efforts to find publication for his article "La symbolique du mime dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett." Having been rejected by two academic journals, Bensky decided to write to Beckett...
Dates:
1969 - 1974
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Born in 1937 in Perth, Western Australia where he was raised and educated, Roger Daniel Bensky completed his M.A. in French at the University of West Australia and subsequently his Doctorat de l'Universite from the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris under the aegis of world-known authority on French drama Jacques Scherer.
Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-840301
Scope and Contents
The Horace B. McKenna, S.J. Papers 3 include correspondence with Jesuit Fathers Provincial, St. Aloysius Church, and the Archdiocese of Washington. Material about Dorothy Day (two notes) and John LaFarge is also preseved in this collection. Some printed materials and photographs are retained as well.
Dates:
1930 - 1974
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."
Nelson Algren Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-160405
Scope and Contents Note
The Nelson Algren Collection consists of some correspondence and two manuscripts of noted American writer Nelson Algren (1909-1981). Included is correspondence about Algren's books "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "Somebody in Boots." The primary correspondent is Ken McCormick, an editor with Doubleday and Company, Inc. Two typed manuscripts by Algren are also preserved in this collection: "The Door to Dingdong Daddyland" and "The Door to Pingpong Playboyland." A number of books that...
Dates:
1937 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1951
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Algren had a long-time relationship with French author Simone de Beauvoir. Nelson Algren died on May 9, 1981.
Sennep and Tim French Political Cartoons Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20240717
Scope and Contents
Collection of approximately 1,500 political cartoons that were published in three major Paris newspapers between 1959-1964 by Jean-Jacques Charles Pennès (Sennep) and Louis Mitelberg (Tim)The cartoons lampoon Cold War-era international relations of the early 1960s, often featuring political figures such as Charles De Gaulle, François Mitterand, Nikita Kruschev, Mao, Fidel Castro, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Topics include the French economic...
Dates:
1959 - 1965
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Collection of approximately 1,500 political cartoons that were published in three major Paris newspapers between 1959-1964 by Jean-Jacques Charles Pennès (Sennep) and Louis Mitelberg (Tim)
The cartoons lampoon Cold War-era international relations of the early 1960s, often featuring political figures such as Charles De Gaulle, François Mitterand, Nikita Kruschev, Mao, Fidel Castro, Dwight D.
The cartoons lampoon Cold War-era international relations of the early 1960s, often featuring political figures such as Charles De Gaulle, François Mitterand, Nikita Kruschev, Mao, Fidel Castro, Dwight D.
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."
Horace B. McKenna, SJ Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-130312
Scope and Contents
Consists of drafts and notes relating to a project on Fr. Horace B. McKenna undertaken by Joseph K. Hines in the 1980s. It also includes a copy of "Christ is with the Poor: Stories and Sayings of Horace McKenna, S.J." (eds. Dear and Hines, 1989), a collection of anecdotes based on interviews done by Hines, and three related VHS tapes.
Dates:
1979 - 1989
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."
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."
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."
Photographs: Nursing School
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000351
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.
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.