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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."
First Quarter Century: Women of Georgetown College
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000196
Scope and Contents
Booklet includes text of honorary degree citation for Dorothy Quincy Thomas, text of address by Dorothy Quincy Thomas at commencement 1995, and recollections of Georgetown experiences and subsequent careers by Mary Averil Riley (Perkins), Susan M. Cardinal (Porreco), Jo Ann Tierney (Berretta), Colette K. Bohatch, Donnis J. de Camp, Joan Coughlin (Kane), Mary K. Connor (Nolan), Mary Anne Farrell, Joann C. Carpenter (Kaczmarek), Carol-Mae F. Campion (Sack), Margaret M. Crocco (Smith), Mary T....
Dates:
Spring 1995
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Crocco (Smith), Mary T. de Andrade (Smith), Janne Florino (Volpe), Barbara A.
Edward A. Drake papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS85
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Edward A. Drake Papers are primarily comprised of correspondence by officials of the Panama Railroad Company (mostly dating from 1905 through 1927), and by notable Panamanian politicians and government ministers (total of 62 folders). Content is personal with some references to Panamanian political events of the time, as well as to the railroad business. An additional eight folders include a few personal letters by Edward Drake; condolence letters written to Drake's wife, Jeanette...
Dates:
1852-1981; Majority of material found within 1905-1927
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Drake in honor of Drake after his death, and finally, a music score entitled, 'Himno National de la Republica de Panama' signed by Juan Domingo de Obaldia, president of Panama (1907, 1908-1910).
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.
Marie Therese Dubalen Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-110114a
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of postcards and photographs collected by Dubalen, a friend of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ.
Dates:
circa 1940s-1950s
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
See also the Marie Therese Dubalen - Nancy Corson Carter Collection on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (GTM-GAMMS303)
Spanish Jesuits Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS113
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Spanish Jesuits Collection consists of 1 linear foot of manuscripts and correspondence by and about Spanish Jesuits from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The material is arranged in ten folders in 2 boxes. The Spanish Jesuits Collection contains a special series, The Jose de Francisco de Isla Series, which consists of bound manuscripts and correspondence by and about Isla. Most of the material centers around Isla's Historia del Famoso Predicador Fray Gerundio de...
Dates:
1750 - 1850
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Spanish Jesuits Collection contains a special series, The Jose de Francisco de Isla Series, which consists of bound manuscripts and correspondence by and about Isla.
Sodality and Other Devotional Societies
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000817
Scope and Contents
Common Rules of the Sodality and Membership Register, 1810-1825.Rules and Membership Register, 1831-1837 (Includes accounts from 1875).Membership Register, 1837-1848.Journal of the Sodality, March 17, 1838-October 28, 1844.Sodality Journal, 1849-1868.Sodality Varia, 1850-1898 (with gaps).Sodality Roll Call, 1855-1874.Indulgence, 1857.Sodality Librarian, 1865.Journal of the Sodality of...
Dates:
1810-1963
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1889-1898.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1898-1905.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1898-1905.
Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Greenhill collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS403
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Greenhill Collection (1 box, .25 linear feet) contains 10 letters from historian and writer Hilaire Belloc to his bookbinder, Elizabeth Greenhill, dated between January 1938 and May 1940. Of the Belloc - Greenhill Papers, seven are typed signed letters and three are handwritten. Belloc discusses a number of books and correspondences he was working on or having bound at the time, such as "The County of Sussex", "The Old Road", "Verses", and "The Path to Rome."...
Dates:
1938-1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Greenhill worked with Walter de la Mare, Hilaire Belloc, and other notable authors before beginning work on the restorations of rare books in Florence after the flood of the Arno in 1966.
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.
James Brown Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-660503
Scope and Contents
The papers of James Brown Scott (1866-1945), authority in international law, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, documents, minutes, printed material, manuscripts of articles and addresses, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Included is material from Scott's activities as Solicitor (1906-1910) and Special Advisor (1914-1917) for the State Department, as delegate to the Second Hague Conference (1907) and Paris Peace Conference (1919), his membership and offices in the Carnegie...
Dates:
1891 - 1967
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He also was the champion of the Spanish school of international law of the 16th century, claiming that writers like Francisco de Vitoria and Suarez had already said about that department of the law what about a century later was stated by Hugo de Groot in his De iure belli ac pacis (About the law of war and peace).
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000623
Scope and Contents
Publications and printed material. Includes: Prospects for Continued OPEC Control of Oil Prices by Henry de Vries and Christopher A. Gebelein, 1976; Two-Sector Model of Capital Requirements Visions of Social Reality in the Contemporary Aran Novel by Halim Barakat, 1977; Precarious Republic Revisited: Reflections on the Collapse of Pluralist Politics in Lebanon By Michael Hudson, 1977; Arabs and the Peace Process: Constraints and Options by Michael C. Hudson, 1977; Tensions in Islamic...
Dates:
1976-1995
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Includes: Prospects for Continued OPEC Control of Oil Prices by Henry de Vries and Christopher A. Gebelein, 1976; Two-Sector Model of Capital Requirements Visions of Social Reality in the Contemporary Aran Novel by Halim Barakat, 1977; Precarious Republic Revisited: Reflections on the Collapse of Pluralist Politics in Lebanon By Michael Hudson, 1977; Arabs and the Peace Process: Constraints and Options by Michael C.
Carina Benjamin Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-661214
Content Description
Letters written to the Countess Rachele Maria Carolina Toussaint de St. Seigne (b.1875 - d.1954). Correspondents include Amleto Giovanni, Cicognani Elia Cardinal Dalla Costa, Giovanni Battista Montini (Pope Paul VI), Francis Cardinal Spellman, and Domenico Tardini.
See External Documents below for folder list. Added folder #11 contains biographical information re Mary A. Benjamin and Walter R. Benjamin.
Dates:
1937-1953
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Rachele Maria Caroline Toussaint "Carina" de St. Seigne was born in Italy on January 28, 1875.
John F. Parr - D. Harrison Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS103
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Parr-Smith Collection consists primarily of correspondence, clippings, medals and photographs collected by D. Harrison Smith and John F. Parr, most relating to their friendship with Edmund S. Walsh, S.J. and their connections with Georgetown University. The collection consists of 1 linear foot of material arranged in 24 folders in 2 boxes. The Smith-Parr Archives contain correspondence relating to John F. Parr's tenure at Georgetown University. Manuscripts by Parr and Smith are also in...
Dates:
1940-1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Harrison Smith then moved to the Villa de la Grangette in Lens-Lestang, France. Donald Harrison Smith was also born in 1917 and began attending Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1935 with John F.
John P. Adams Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-140116
Scope and content note
This collection consists of the letters and legal documents of John Popkin Adams (1812-1856), his wife, and daughters. The material relates to Adams' work as U.S. consul at La Guaira, Venezuela, his efforts to establish an inter-oceanic railroad on the ithsmus of Panama, land speculation in the U.S., and his pursuit of monetary claims against Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador related to privateering during the Spanish American wars of independence. Letters are arranged chronologically from...
Dates:
1822 - 1898
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Appointed by President John Tyler to the office of U.S. consul at La Guaira, Venezuela, he served in that position from 1843 to 1850, during which time Adams took an active role as an agent for American investors seeking to build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama.
Ayse binti Hasan's Greco-Turkish Settlement Document
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 40: [Barcode: 39020030728011], Folder: 23
Identifier: GTM-20250519
Scope and Contents
A settlement document of a Turkish female emigre who settled in Turkey from Gumulcine (Komotini) in 1930.Description below provided by Khalkedon Rare Books at the time of purchase:Neuvieme Sous-Commission Mixte Pour l'Echange: Certificat d'Etabli de Non-Echangeabilite, Komotini, 1930.Original manuscript document which is partly printed bilingual titles in Greek & French “Neuvieme Sous-Commission Mixte Pour l'Echange: Certificat d'Etabli de...
Dates:
1930
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Description below provided by Khalkedon Rare Books at the time of purchase:
Neuvieme Sous-Commission Mixte Pour l'Echange: Certificat d'Etabli de Non-Echangeabilite, Komotini, 1930.
Original manuscript document which is partly printed bilingual titles in Greek & French “Neuvieme Sous-Commission Mixte Pour l'Echange: Certificat d'Etabli de non-Echangeabilite” [i.e., Ninth Joint Subcommittee for Exchange: Certificate of Establishment of Non-Exchangeability]. 27 x 20 cm.
Neuvieme Sous-Commission Mixte Pour l'Echange: Certificat d'Etabli de Non-Echangeabilite, Komotini, 1930.
Original manuscript document which is partly printed bilingual titles in Greek & French “Neuvieme Sous-Commission Mixte Pour l'Echange: Certificat d'Etabli de non-Echangeabilite” [i.e., Ninth Joint Subcommittee for Exchange: Certificate of Establishment of Non-Exchangeability]. 27 x 20 cm.
J. Revin's Plan for Completing the Panama Canal
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 24: [Barcode: 39020030754892], Folder: 2
Identifier: GTM-20141104
Scope and Contents
Printed plan for completing the Panama Canal by J. Revin, dated April 1891 with two sheets of "improvements" dated November 1891. Revin proposes using inclined planes, instead of locks, to complete the canal. Written in French and includes some technical drawings.
Dates:
1891
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Purchased from Hugues de Latude, November 2014.
Dave Barbor Collection on Alfred Hitchcock
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030756137]
Identifier: GTM-0040
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials related to Alfred Hitchcock that were collected by Dave Barbor. It includes the following:One letter written by Alfred Hitchcock to his assistant director, Herbert Coleman (1955). One letter written by Francois Truffaut to Alfred Hitchcock (circa 1966).Six letters from Patricia Hitchcock to Peter Halliday regarding "Strangers on a Train" and other matters, 1950-1956, 1983.Eight photographs, including three...
Dates:
1949 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1983
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
J’avais vécu plus de quatre ans avec et comme il s’agit de vos propos et de vos Idées sur le cinéma, je peux dire qu’il s’agit la, pour moi, du meilleur livre de cinéma avec les écrits d’Eisenstein.”
Charles Augustus Strong Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-100415
Content Description
The papers of Charles Augustus Strong (1862-1940), American psychologist and philosopher, comprise materials, in addition to Strong's library, transferred from various locations including the Villa La Balze in Fiesole, Italy and the Georgetown University Office of International Programs. All of the material in the collection originated at the Villa, where it had been gathered by the time of Strong's death. The papers include letters, manuscripts, published material, and photographs, arranged...
Dates:
1875 - 1930
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The papers of Charles Augustus Strong (1862-1940), American psychologist and philosopher, comprise materials, in addition to Strong's library, transferred from various locations including the Villa La Balze in Fiesole, Italy and the Georgetown University Office of International Programs.
Walter Shewring Papers
Item
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS190
Collection level scope and contents note
The Walter Shewring Papers is a small collection of letters, essays and manuscripts by Shewring. The most notable item is the full autograph manuscript of Shewring's translation of Homer's "Odyssey," published by the Oxford University Press (1980). The collection includes some correspondence and printed articles by such distinguished acquaintances as Walter de la Mare, Eric Gill, David Jones, and Arthur Waley.
Dates:
1930 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The collection includes some correspondence and printed articles by such distinguished acquaintances as Walter de la Mare, Eric Gill, David Jones, and Arthur Waley.
Edgar L. Prochnik Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-730730
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts of various works by Edgar L. Prochnik, including: "La Question d'Orient," "The Diplomatic History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Part IV," and "The Prime Ministers and Governments of England." Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the box inventory for the collection.
Dates:
1938 - 1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Manuscripts of various works by Edgar L. Prochnik, including: "La Question d'Orient," "The Diplomatic History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Part IV," and "The Prime Ministers and Governments of England."