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Seumas MacManus Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130118
Scope and Contents Note The Seumas MacManus Family Collection contains letters and manuscripts by and about Seumas MacManus (1869-1960), a prominent Irish author of folktales who lectured extensively throughout the United States and published widely. These materials document fascinating aspects of MacManus' writing career, and they provide primary source materials about his family.The collection includes a small number of letters from notables to Seumas MacManus, including Theodore Dreiser, Maud Gonne,...
Dates: 1855 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1960
Found in Notes:  She edited the magazine "The Shan Van Vocht" from 1896 to 1899. Her poetry and prose were published widely in various Irish periodicals.

Susan Decatur letter

 Item
Identifier: GTM-140117
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed to Stephen Van Rensselaer. Georgetown [District of Columbia]: 21 February 1828, small 4to, 2 pp.

Dates: 1828
Found in Notes:  Autograph letter signed to Stephen Van Rensselaer. Georgetown [District of Columbia]: 21 February 1828, small 4to, 2 pp.

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

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection 4

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-090701
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection 4 consists of letters and documents by and about notable individuals in history, literature, religion, government, and other fields. The items in these collections are gifts and purchases.

Dates: 1700 - 1988

Katherine Biddle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS250
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The papers of Katherine Biddle are organized into nine series: 1. Individuals - Correspondence with notable individuals, including composers, musicians, poets and writers (see biographical note below for a list of names). 2. Alphabetical correspondence - Frequent correspondents, arranged by name. 3. Chronological correspondence - Arranged alphabetically by year. 4. Literary associations, publications and publishers - Related correspondence files. Of particular note are files relating to the...
Dates: 1855 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1969
Found in Notes:  She was the daughter of Lindley Hoffman Chapin and Cornelia Garrison Van Auken, whose daughter from a previous marriage was Marguerite Caetani, wife of Roffredo Prince Di Bassiano, Duke of Sermoneta.

John C. Fitzpatrick papers

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Identifier: GTM-810909
Collection level scope and contents note The John C. Fitzpatrick Papers consist mainly of the correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and sketches of John Clement Fitzpatrick (1876 - 1940) together with genealogical material about the Fitzpatrick and Combs families, including clippings, family journals, and a large number of photographs. The genealogical portion of the collection was put together in part by Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Gerrety, the only child of John C. Fitzpatrick. Included in the collection are also sets of her...
Dates: 1804-1980
Found in Notes:  Fitzpatrick also edited and compiled many collections held by the Lirbary of Congress for their publication including Washington's Expenses as Commander in Chief, Calendars of Washington Manuscripts, Correspondence with the Continental Congress, Correspondence with the Military, List of Early Washington Papers, Franklin Manuscripts, Vernon-Wagner Navy Papers, Autobiography of Martin Van Buren (1920), and the Diaries of George Washington (1925).

Cynthia P. Schneider Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-011221
Scope and Contents A professor and scholar of seventeenth-century Dutch art, Dr. Cynthia P. Schneider was appointed by President Clinton in 1998 as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, where she served until 2001. The papers consist of correspondence, daily schedules, notebooks, printed items, and subject files, recording in detail her posting there. It includes letters from Jozias van Aartsen, Jimmy Carter, Wesley K. Clark, her father Anthony L. Perrin, Thomas R. Pickering, and Strobe Talbot, among others....
Dates: 1998 - 2001
Found in Notes:  It includes letters from Jozias van Aartsen, Jimmy Carter, Wesley K. Clark, her father Anthony L.

Fulton Oursler Memorial Collection

 File
Identifier: GTM-820330
Scope and Contents Manuscripts by Fulton Oursler, Grace Perkins Oursler, and others; correspondence to/from the Ourslers; other related manuscript and printed items, and rolls of photographic negatives taken by/of Fulton Oursler. Of major interest are correspondence and other files relating to Fulton Oursler's editorial work for Liberty and The Reader's Digest. Correspondents include: Franklin D. Roosevelt (long series); Soong Mei-ling, or Madame Chiang Kai-shek (long series); H.L. Mencken (long series); and...
Dates: 1881-1954; Majority of material found within 1925-1950
Found in Notes:  He also published under the pseudonym, Anthony Abbot, while writing for his Thatcher Colt detective stories, a character which combined the attributes of Gardner's Perry Mason and S.S. Van Dine's Philo Vance. Fulton Oursler was married twice: (1) in Baltimore, Md., in 1911 to Rose Karger whom he divorced, (2) in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, in 1925 to Grace Perkins of New York City.

Paul Hume Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS228
Scope and Contents The personal papers of music critic Paul Hume comprise this collection. Highlights include correspondence from luminaries of the music world such as Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Leonard Bernstein, Rudolph Bing, Nadia Boulanger, Antal Dorati, Alberto Ginastera, Serge Koussevitsky, John La Montaine, Lotte Lehmann, John Mauceri, Gian Carlo Menotti, Eugene Ormandy, Rosa Ponselle, Ned Rorem, Mstislav Rostropovich, Bidu Sayao, Beverly Sills, Gerard Souzay, George Szell, Virgil Thomson, Alan...
Dates: 1871 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1990
Found in Notes:  The collection includes an impressive series of remarkable black-and-white publicity stills, with photographs of many of the foregoing, as well as Samuel Barber, Daniel Barenboim, Maria Callas, Pablo Casals, Van Cliburn, Vladimir Horowitz, Charles Ives, Riccardo Muti, Itzhak Perlman, Andre Previn, Leontyne Price, Rosa Raissa, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Artur Rubinstein and Arnold Schoenberg.

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 Notes:  Basler, Otto Eisenschiml, Lyon G. Tyler, Philip Van Doren Stern, Henry Steele Commager, Emmanuel Hetz, Archibald Henderson, and Albert J.

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 Notes:  Jan Philip showed great talent as a young student, graduating from the gymnasium of Amsterdam before he was sixteen and then continuing on with great success at the Athenaeum Illustre in that city, where he studied the Classics under the well-known scholar, Professor David van Lennep. At the end of his studies, Jan Philip decided to enter the Society of Jesus, which at that time was surviving only in White Russia.

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 Notes:  Letters include those from Peter Levi, Henry Miller, Huston Smith, Susan Sontag, and Mark Van Doren. Manuscripts for the essays are included with correspondence from the author or at the end of the series.

Theodore Maynard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS329
Scope and Contents The Theodore Maynard Papers consist of the manuscripts of Theodore Maynard and his correspondence with publishers, family members, and numerous literary figures. The collection also includes the manuscripts of Sara Casey Maynard and the original artwork and manuscripts she gathered for a projected children's magazine. A few photographs, newspaper clippings and printed items are also contained in the collection. Included with the collection are over one hundred letters written by literary...
Dates: 1910 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1955
Found in Notes:  Included with the collection are over one hundred letters written by literary critic Van Wyck Brooks. Other notable pieces of correspondence are letters by Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Padriac and Mary Colum, Ruth Pitter, Ridgeley Torrence, William Butler Yeats and Aldous Huxley.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Ethics Advisory Board Records

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-002
Abstract

The collection consists of records of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Ethics Advisory Board, which existed from 1978 to 1979.

Dates: Existence: 1978 - 1979

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 Notes:  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 "Appassionata," a previously unknown work for solo piano by Franz Liszt, a full set of handwritten parts for Robert Schumann’s String Quartet in A minor op. 41 no. 1 (heavily edited by the composer, the first edition of the work was printed from this set), and unpublished works by Ignaz Moscheles.

Arnaud and Alexandra de Borchgrave Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-151008
Scope and Contents The Arnaud and Alexandra de Borchgrave Papers comprise the personal and professional papers of the journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave and his wife, photographer Alexandra de Borchgrave. Included are country files, family photographs and documents, chronological files, "Newsweek" materials, subject files, photographs, biographical information, speaking engagement files, invitations and other documents from social occasions, scrapbooks, travel itineraries, and audiovisual materials. Of particular...
Dates: 1889 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1990
Found in Notes:  His reporting included seven tours of duty in Vietnam—from the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 through the fall of Saigon in 1975—and ground-breaking interviews including Charles De Gaulle, Pham van Dong, the Shah of Iran, Lee Kuan Yew, President Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Benazir Bhutto, and Muammar Gaddafi.

Clare Boothe Luce Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS265
Collection-level Scope and Content Note A testament to the eventful and extraordinary life of one of the most accomplished career women of the 20th century, the Clare Boothe Luce Photographic Collection is comprised of personal and professional photographs taken throughout the life of Clare Boothe Luce. Always in the public eye and internationally known, Luce was constantly photographed and featured in magazines, especially those of her husband, Henry Robinson Luce, co-founder of Time Inc. Quite aware of her own good looks, Luce...
Dates: 1805 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1970
Found in Notes:  Quite aware of her own good looks, Luce herself frequently commissioned renowned photographers and artists, such as Alfred Eisenstaedt, Carl Van Vechten, and Edward Steichen, to capture her likeness, many of which are found in this archive.

Anthony Cave Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-930701
Scope and Contents The Anthony Cave Brown papers comprise the extensive research files of historian and author Anthony Cave Brown used for his numerous books about U.S. and British military intelligence. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, photocopied documents, internet printouts, printed matter, manuscripts of some of his books, audio cassettes, and some photographs. Documents pertaining to various figures in the intelligence field; including William Donovan, H. St. John B. Philby, and Kim...
Dates: 1930 - 2006

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 Notes:  Powers, Thomas Sugrue, Mark and Irita Van Doren, Stanley Vestal (a.k.a. Walter Stanley Campbell), and Leo Louis Ward.

Michael Richey Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS223
Scope and Contents The Michael Richey papers 1, consist of original correspondence from personal friends who also comprise the notable circle of artists who congregated at the home of English sculptor Eric Gill (1882-1940), on Pigotts farm in Buckinghamshire. Together with Gill, these included Anthony Foster, Rene Hague, David Jones, Walter Shewring, and Denis Tegetmeier. Correspondence is also included from other well-known acquaintances (many of whom were related or closely associated to the...
Dates: 1930 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in Notes:  During his years at Downside, Richey became interested in the work of English sculpto Eric Gill (1882-1940), having first been much impressed with a book by Gill on sculpture recommended by Dom Hubert Van Zeller, a monk in the community. When Dom Hubert left Downside to try his vocation as a Carthusian, he presented Richey with a number of his own works including a drawing for a crucifix which Richey hoped Gill might carve.

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