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Marquess of Winchester Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-860103
Scope and contents note
The collection deals with the administration by the trustees of both of these inter-related estates: settling probate, the estate duty, buying of stocks, selling of property, distribution of monies, etc. There is much on the Winchester property in Southampton. There are 5 items signed by the 16th Marquess; 20 letters by Colonel Sir H. C. Legge; 14 letters by Lord Sandys; and several letters by Lord Harlech. There is considrable material regarding a 1901 legal suit, Gore v. Winchester,...
Dates:
1873 - 1986
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In Hall's history of the Coldstream Guards he relates the following: "When the late Marquess fell at the battle of Magersfontein, having displayed 'almost reckless valour,' his body was brought home to the churchyard of that Amport which preserves in its suffix, though the fact has been forgotten, the name of his Norman ancestor, the Hugh de Port of the Conquest."
The trustees for the estate of Lord William Paulet were Augustus Frederick Arthur (1840 - 1904), 6th Baron Sandys of Ombersley; Colonel Hon.
The trustees for the estate of Lord William Paulet were Augustus Frederick Arthur (1840 - 1904), 6th Baron Sandys of Ombersley; Colonel Hon.
OSS Oral History Project Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-220705
Scope and Contents
The OSS Oral History Project collection comprises the records of a Georgetown University-based project funded by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Center for the Study of Intelligence. In 1996 and 1997, under the leadership of Dr. Christof Mauch, a team of scholars conducted oral history interviews with over thirty former members of the Office of Strategic Services, a World War Two American intelligence agency. Interviewees included former CIA director Richard Helms, US Supreme Court Justice...
Dates:
1997 - 1998
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Mauch studied History, Religion, Theology, Philosophy, Drama, and Languages as an Undergraduate and Graduate student at the University of Tübingen, King’s College London, Leo Baack College London, and the Universidad de Salamanca. He received a doctorate in Modern Literature from the University of Tübingen in 1990, and habilitated in Modern history at the University of Cologne in 1998.
David Rankin Barbee Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS145
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the Barbee Papers concerns his research, accomplished primarily between the years 1928-1958. The Papers are organized according to provenance into seven series, out-lining his historical interests. The series are: I. Abraham Lincoln; II. Death of Lincoln; III. Lincoln and Booth; IV. John Wilkes Booth; V. Conspirators; VI. Rose O'Neil Greenhow; and VII. American History. Because the collection is largely subject-oriented, due to the inter-relatedness of topics the same subject...
Dates:
1886 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1956
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Also included in the Greenhow series are three photographs of Greenhow, including a carte-de-visite taken in London shortly before her death, a memorial card after her death, and a daguerreotype, date unknown.
Cecil B. Lyon Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS147
Scope and Contents note
The Cecil B. Lyon Papers comprise a rich life-time's record of a career in the American Foreign Service. Moreover, the collection is replete with letters by and about almost everyone in the field; a list of the colleagues and acquaintances of Ambassador Lyon would read like a "Who's Who" of the Foreign Service.The material has been organized into 13 series, the first five of which consist of correspondence (alphabetical; carbons; commercial; invitations; and individuals). These...
Dates:
1930-1971
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
From 1946 to 1947 he was assigned back to Washington where he was successively, special assistant to the assistant secretary for political affairs and then adviser to the U.S. delegation at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security, held in Rio de Janeiro, 1947.
Ambassador Lyon was posted to Warsaw, Poland, from 1948 to 1950, where he served as first secretary.
Ambassador Lyon was posted to Warsaw, Poland, from 1948 to 1950, where he served as first secretary.
Jan Philip Roothaan, SJ Archive
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS170
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Jan Philip Roothaan, S.J. Archive consists of correspondence, mainly from Jan Philip Roothaan, S.J. to his family in Amsterdam. The letters are arranged in 170 folders contained in three boxes. The letters contained in the Jan Philip Roothaan, S.J. Archive are of great interest to those investigating the personal and family life of the General of the Society of Jesus. A vast majority of the letters are from Jan Philip to his father, Mathias, and his brother, Albert, half in...
Dates:
1804 - 1852
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
It should also be stated that three letters are on loan at De Krijberg in Amsterdam and Special Collections at Georgetown University only has a photocopy and a handwritten transcription of each.
Christopher Sykes Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS207
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The archives of the English novelist Christopher Sykes, friend and official biographer of Evelyn Waugh, include a large group of Waugh letters and comprehensive research files about him. In addition to the extensive family correspondence, with a charming series of rebus letters from his sister Angela Antrim, there are letters from a multitude of literary friends and acquaintances, including John Betjeman, Max Beerbohm, Ivy Compton-Burnett, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Harman Grisewood, Nancy...
Dates:
1945 - 1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Transferring to the 2nd battalion of the Special Air Service, he worked with the French resistance and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
Many of these experiences came together in what will probably be seen as Sykes's masterpiece, Four Studies in Loyalty (1946), incorporating elements of biography and autobiography.
Many of these experiences came together in what will probably be seen as Sykes's masterpiece, Four Studies in Loyalty (1946), incorporating elements of biography and autobiography.
McHarg Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS248
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The McHarg Family Papers (1 box, 0.5 linear feet) contain some fifty substantial Civil War letters, dated 1861 to 1864, including a few penned by Union officer Horace Porter, exchanged among members of the McHarg family, in addition to five remarkable baseball letters, dated 1864, with lengthy discussion and even three detailed box scores concerning an amateur baseball club in Albany, New York. A small number of manuscripts, printed matter, and letters written after the Civil War rounds out...
Dates:
1861 - 1922; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
After impressing Grant during the Chattanooga Campaign, Porter joined Grant's staff as Aide de Camp on April 4, 1864. He was breveted for Fort Pulaski, the Wilderness, New Market Heights, and war service (Brigadier General).
Francis B. Biddle Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS251
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the personal papers of former U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle. It is one of three portions comprising the larger collection of the Biddle Family papers that include the papers of his wife, Katherine Biddle and a series of family correspondence (see separate finding aids). Of interest are lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. attorney general...
Dates:
1912 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Notable correspondents include, among many others, Dean Acheson, Conrad Aiken, Thurman Arnold, Bernard Berenson, Henry Beston, Norman Birkett, Alain Bosquet, Van Wyck Brooks, Stimson Bullitt, Roy Basler, William Rose Benet, Richard Crowder, Agnes de Mille, Gertrude Ely, T.S. Eliot, Abe Fortas, Felix Frankfurter, Learned Hand, Oscar Hammerstein, August Heckscher, J.
McHarg Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS266
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 contain a small number of documents related to U.S. Civil War officer Horace Porter, financier and railroad president Henry K. McHarg, and Civil War assistant quartermaster of volunteers John McHarg. Porter married into the McHarg family during the Civil War. The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 further document the history of the Porter and McHarg families and supplement the McHarg Family Papers: Part 1 already preserved in the Georgetown University Library...
Dates:
1856 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1856 - 1928
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
After impressing Grant during the Chattanooga Campaign, Porter joined Grant's staff as aide de camp on April 4, 1864. He was breveted for Fort Pulaski, the Wilderness, New Market Heights, and war service (Brigadier General).
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:
Ned O'Gorman was born Edward Charles O'Gorman on September 26, 1929 in New York City to Annette de Bouthillier-Chavigny O'Gorman and Samuel Franklin Engs O'Gorman.
Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20200101
Scope and Contents
The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016). The collection includes over 300 sub-collections of bound and loose manuscripts, documents, journals, correspondence, commonplace books, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, and history -- primarily of the 19th and early 20th century.
Highlights include:1. Letters...
Dates:
circa 1551-2015
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Letters and other materials from prominent poets, historians, journalists, and members of the aristocracy, including correspondence from Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood member Thomas Woolner, noted poet Walter de la Mare, author Sir Caine Hall, Cincinnati-based publishers Robert Clarke & Company, and the Earls of Minto.
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Stephen S. Remak Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS268
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Written between the years of 1859-1861, the Stephen S. Remak Papers consist of one bound letter book containing the official outgoing correspondence of Remak during his term as United States Consul at Trieste, an Italian port city on the Adriatic. Perhaps of the most value for researchers in this collection is the extensive research Remak carried out on the contemporary state and history of Austrian currency, which he included in his correspondence to officials at the United...
Dates:
1859 - 1861
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
While in Paris, he wrote a book entitled, La Paix en Amerique. He returned to Philadelphia on July 23, 1867, and resumed legal practice less than two months later.
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:
During these six years, the collapse of the Czarist government occurred and he was forced to be de facto manager of a vast network of railways which extended throughout Russia, in a milieu of revolution, anarchy and international intrigue.
Vaughan, Herbert Cardinal, Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS156
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Herbert Cardinal Vaughan Collection consists of original and transcribed material pertaining to St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart.
Dates:
1841 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1872 - 1877
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
There he shared lodgings with the Irish poet Aubrey de Vere (1814-1902). Three years later, on October 28, 1854, he was ordained at Lucca, at the age of twenty-two.
Thomas F. Meehan Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS213
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Thomas F. Meehan Papers consist of correspondence received or acquired by Mr. Meehan for the years 1859-1920. Correspondents include figures from the U.S. Catholic Church hierarchy such as Cardinal John M. Farley, Abp. Michael A. Corrigan, Bp. James McFaul, and Bp. Charles McDonnell, as well as from leading political figures in both Irish and American politics, including Michael Davitt, Alexander M. Sullivan, Perry Belmont, Patrick A. Collins, and Samuel Sullivan Cox. The content of the...
Dates:
1859 - 1920; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1915
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Over the years, he would contribute to a number of other regional papers, including the Philadelphia 'Public Ledger,' the Richmond 'Times,' and Rotterdam's Catholic weekly 'de Maasbode.' He also acted as special contributor for several local
newspapers, including the New York 'Sun' and the Brooklyn 'Eagle,' as well as serving as an editor at the New York 'Herald.'
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 27.75 cubic feet (63 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...
Dates:
1890 - 1946
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Marshall, Harry S Truman, Edward Stettinius, Jr., Charles De Gaulle, Senator Claude Pepper, Robert Sherwood, Philip Barry, Helen Keller, John Vassos, Anthony Eden, Harold Ickes, James Farley, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Selwa Roosevelt Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-981201
Scope and Contents note
Papers of Ambassador Selwa Roosevelt, U.S. Chief of Protocol under President Ronald Reagan, including photographs (mostly in photo albums) of state occasions and visits organized by Roosevelt, formal invitation cards, souvenir programs for events, clippings, and printed materials. A run of correspondence of Selwa Roosevelt with authors, celebrities, international correspondents, Reagan Administration officials, and friends is also retained.
Dates:
1949 - 2019
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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
John Gilmary Shea Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS269
Scope and Contents
The preeminent American Catholic historian of his day, John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) amassed an extraordinary collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials. The John Gilmary Shea Papers preserved in the Georgetown University Library Special Collections Division provide valuable documentation of both American History in general and American Catholic History in particular. Along with a small amount of outgoing correspondence from Shea, most of which was sent to Edmond...
Dates:
1600 - 1892; Majority of material found within 1700 - 1890
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Harry Sylvester Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS220
Scope and Contents
The major portions of the Harry Sylvester Papers consist of correspondence and manuscripts for his published novel, “Moon Gaffney”; and an unpublished work, “A Watch in the Night.” Notable correspondents include writers, publishers, scholars, political and religious leaders, such as Harry L. Binsse, Paul Beecher Blanshard, Harvey Breit, Dorothy Day, William A.S. Dollard, Waldo Frank, John Farrar, Brendan Gill, Matthew Hoehn, Nathan I. Hentoff, Stanley J. Kunitz, Eugene J. and...
Dates:
1930 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Foreign Service officer, initially entitled, “De Gloria,” and later, “A Watch in the Night.”