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Michael Richey Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS321
Scope and Contents
The Michael Richey papers 2, consists of original correspondence from personal friends and members of the Richey family; as well as printed material including clippings, journals, and magazines featuring articles by and about Michael Richey. A portion of the correspondence is from the notable circle of artists who congregated at the home of English sculptor Eric Gill, (1882-1940), on Pigotts Farm in Buckinghamshire. These include Gill, Anthony Foster, and Rene Hague. Additional...
Dates:
1897 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1940 - 2000
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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.
Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000119
Scope and Contents
The Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus covers the period from 1630-2004; the bulk of the materials date from 1800-1875. The collection documents the establishment of the Jesuit order, and of the Catholic Church more broadly, in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Also referred to as the Maryland Province Archives (MPA), it consists of the organizational records and papers of the Province in its various iterations: the Mission of Maryland (1634-1773), the...
Dates:
1630 - 2004
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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 26 linear feet (62 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 Truman,...
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.
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.'
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
Lisa Sergio radio broadcast transcripts
Collection
Identifier: GTM-170411
Content Description
Typescripts of WQXR New York, radio broadcasts by Lisa Sergio.
Dates:
1939-1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
These include: writers such as Stringfellow Barr, Katherine Drinker Bowen, Vera Brittain, Ernest Dimnet, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Victoria Ocampo, Lowell Thomas, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Margaret Widdemer, Dorothy Thompson; feminists such as Carrie Chapman Catt and Lena Madesin Phillips; and other eminent individuals such as Welthy Fisher, president of World Education Inc., whose special interest was literacy in India; Lise Meitner, the Austrian atomic physicist; and the great Italian tragedian Alexander Moissi whose close associate and benefactor was Max Reinhardt.
Lisa Sergio Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS172
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Lisa Sergio Papers span the career of this eminent woman. The bulk of the material dates from 1937 to 1988. Material includes correspondence, manuscripts of books and articles, transcripts for lectures, addresses, and radio broadcasts. Files cover a wide range of subjects that interested Ms. Sergio, as well as organizations in which she participated. A photographs series includes Ms. Sergio and her many contacts with notable individuals. An audio-visual series includes recordings of...
Dates:
1900-1989; Majority of material found within 1937-1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
These include: writers such as Stringfellow Barr, Katherine Drinker Bowen, Vera Brittain, Ernest Dimnet, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Victoria Ocampo, Lowell Thomas, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Margaret Widdemer, Dorothy Thompson; feminists such as Carrie Chapman Catt and Lena Madesin Phillips; and other eminent individuals such as Welthy Fisher, president of World Education Inc., whose special interest was literacy in India; Lise Meitner, the Austrian atomic physicist; and the great Italian tragedian Alexander Moissi whose close associate and benefactor was Max Reinhardt.
Wilfrid Parsons, SJ Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS433
Scope and Contents
The Wilfrid Parsons, SJ Papers 2 consist primarily of letters sent to Parsons, an editor for America, from Annie Christitch. Christitch's letters to Fr. Parsons document in detail the role of Catholicism in Yugoslavia during the 1920s and 1930s. Her letters also touch on the subject of Catholicism in Czechoslovakia during that same period. In her correspondence, Christitch discusses many significant individuals, including King Alexander of Yugoslavia, Antun...
Dates:
1919 - 1965
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Masaryk, Benito Mussolini, Stjepan Raditch, and Eamon de Valera. Furthermore, Christitch describes her work for various international women's organizations.
Gerard Mannion Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20220623
Scope and Contents
The collections contains the papers of Catholic scholar Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), who served as a professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University from 2004 until his death in 2019. The collection includes materials from his studies at Oxford and Cambridge, as well as his teaching materials from Georgetown University, the University of Tubingen, Liverpool Hope University, the University of Leeds, and San Diego University. Many of Mannion's research...
Dates:
1987 - 2019
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
Now, here’s a pretty prize, indeed,
On which De Vinne’s art is lavished;
Harkee! the bonny, dainty thing
Is simply waiting to be ravished!
Philip Barry Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS128
Scope and Contents
The Philip Barry Papers consist of correspondence from friends and associates to Philip and Ellen Barry. Some well known individuals include, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet; Katherine Bregy (Catholic author); William C. Bullitt (US ambassador); writers Henry W. Clune, Edsel Ford, Brendan Gill, Morris Hadley, John O'Hara, Joseph Verner Reed, Robert Sherwood; actresses Lillian Gish and Katherine Hepburn; producers/directors Joseph Mankiewicz and Robert Sinclair.
The collection...
Dates:
1921 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The play was produced and directed posthumously by Alfred de Liagre, and co produced by Barry's son, Philip S.
Patrick F. Healy, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS57
Scope and Contents
The Patrick F. Healy, SJ Papers consist of diaries, academic notebooks, correspondence, photographs, newsclippings, and other personal papers written by or concerning Healy and his family. The materials cover the period from 1841-1983; the bulk of the materials date from 1877-1906.The twelve diaries in the collection primarily record appointments. The correspondence consists of a single folder of materials written by Healy (1871-1903), as well as two folders of correspondence...
Dates:
1841 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1877 - 1906
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
This includes references to L'Abbe de Bourbourg, John Peter Secchi, S.J., and Georgetown University
LeRoy Walters Papers
Collection
Identifier: BRL-036
Abstract
The collection consists of Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) records that were created and/or maintained by LeRoy Walters. Walters joined the KIE as one of its first scholars, served as Director of the Bioethics Center from 1971 to 1993, and as Director of KIE from 1996 to 2000. The records primarily document establisment and development of the KIE, its library, and various bioethics information retrieval projects over the years. The collection also includes some of Walters teaching files,...
Dates:
1969 - 2021
Found in:
Bioethics Research Library Archives
Earl of Shrewsbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-871231
Scope and Contents note
The Earl of Shrewsbury Papers, which concern the estate of Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot (1803 - 1868), the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford, and 3rd Earl Talbot of Hensol, consists of 3.0 linear feet of material, including correspondence, documents, deeds, accounts, drawings and related printed material.The Papers deal with various trusts that had been set up by the 18th Earl for his widow and younger children, the siblings of the 19th Earl, namely:I - Admiral Hon....
Dates:
1856 - 1888
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
attended Christ Church Oxford, and married the Hon. Emily Augusta Louisa de Grey, daughter of the 5th Baron Walsingham.
Dave Barbor Collection on Vladimir Nabokov
Collection
Identifier: GTM-0041
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials related to Vladimir Nabokov that were collected by Dave Barbor. It includes letters written by Nabokov (1946-1964), his father (1906), and his cousin, Nicolas Nabokov (to Misia Sert, 1932). It also includes letters written by Véra Nabokov to Irving P. Lazar (1971), a letter from Véra Nabokov to Dave Barbor (1986), and a letter written from Dmitri Nabokov to Dave Barbor (1986). It also includes newsclippings (1929-1973), a typescript of a musical version...
Dates:
1907 - 1986
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
I imagine those translations, many published in deluxe “tirage de tete” editions on special paper, have his fingerprints all over them.
Lawrence Gilman Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS232
Scope and Contents
Comprising seven boxes, eleven linear feet of material, the Lawrence Gilman Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed matter relating to the life and career of Lawrence Gilman (1878-1939). The grandnephew of Johns Hopkins' University's first president Daniel Coit Gilman, Lawrence Gilman was a noted music critic for the "New York Herald-Tribune," annotator of orchestral programs for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and radio...
Dates:
1807 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1937
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Arnold Lunn Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS143
Scope and Contents
The Arnold Lunn Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks and related printed ephemera regarding the life and works of Sir Arnold Lunn (1888 - 1974). The papers, dating from 1896 to 1978, comprise 21 linear feet of material, arranged in fourteen boxes, consisting of five hundred and thirty-two folders.The papers are arranged in series according to subjects. There are five correspondence series, namely World War I Correspondence, Ski...
Dates:
1896 - 1978
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Includes correspondence from good friends Daphne Acton, Count Aldo and Countess Etta Bonacossa, William Buckley, Alfonso and Beatrice De Orleans-Borbon, Joseph and Gina of Liechtenstein, Douglas and Mia Woodruff and Countess Susie Lippens, among others.
Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Pamphlets
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20200102
Scope and Contents
The personal collection of former Georgetown University Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas B. Scheetz (1952-2016).
The collection includes over 75 sub-collections of pamphlets and other small printed ephemera reflecting Scheetz's interest in Anglo-American literature, politics, history, and bibliography. The largest category, representing more than 300 pamphlets, are lectures produced by various universities worldwide, mainly in the United States and Great Britain, but also including...
Dates:
circa 1810-2012
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Now, here’s a pretty prize, indeed,
On which De Vinne’s art is lavished; Harkee! the bonny, dainty thing
Is simply waiting to be ravished!
On which De Vinne’s art is lavished; Harkee! the bonny, dainty thing
Is simply waiting to be ravished!