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Elizabeth Iddesleigh - Susan Lowndes Marques collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-800101
Content Description
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Countess of Iddesleigh and sister Susan Lowndes, the daughters of writer Marie Belloc Lowndes. Includes letters from English Catholic writers Isabel Clarke; Martin d'Arcy, SJ; Arnold Lunn; Archbishop David Mathew; as well as more than 130 letters by C.C. Martindale, SJ, many written during internment in Denmark during World War II.
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Dates:
1928-1973
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Horace Porter Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS249
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Horace Porter Collection consists of 13.0 linear feet of photographs, manuscripts, letters, clippings, prints, and printed ephemera, together with a large assortment of valuable artifacts connected with General Porter's career. Porter, best known for his role as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was a noted soldier, railroad executive, diplomat, and son of Governor David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) of Pennsylvania. The collection includes a variety of...
Dates:
1855 - 1921
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Porter, best known for his role as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was a noted soldier, railroad executive, diplomat, and son of Governor David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) of Pennsylvania.
Robert Silvercruys Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-861231
Scope and contents note
The papers of Baron Robert Silvercruys consist of letters, manuscripts, pamphlets and clippings mainly concerning the careers of Frantz Silvercruys (1859 - 1936), President of the Court of Cassation of Belgium and created Baron Silvercruys in 1929, and of his son, Robert Silvercruys (1893 - 1971), who was a Belgian Ambassador to the United States (1946 - 1959). The papers comprise 3.5 linear feet of materials, arranged in 56 folders in 7 boxes. The papers are divided into two series, one...
Dates:
1896 - 1968
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1882 Silvercruys was accepted into the Barreau de Bruxelles, the equivalent to a bar association in the U.S.
Ord Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS267
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ord Family Papers: Part 2 provide a wealth of documentary material on members of the distinguished Ord family, especially Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) and Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923). This collection fills in details about the career of American Civil War notable Edward Otho Cresap Ord and includes his letters from California in 1848 touching on the Mexican War and the gold rush; his correspondence to his brother Doctor James Lycurgus Ord between 1848 and 1873; some...
Dates:
1848 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1923
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
A good source for brief biographical information about Mexican military figure Geronimo Trevino, who married Edward Otho Cresap Ord's daughter Roberta Augusta Ord in 1880, is the following: "Encyclopedia de Mexico." Tomo 13. Ciudad de Mexico: Enciclopedia de Mexico: Secretaria de Education Publica, 1987-1988, p. 7832-7833.
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Auden, Roy Basler, William Rose Benet, Bernard Berenson, Elizabeth Bishop, Alain Bosquet, Anna Hempstead Branch; Cleanth Brooks, Struthers Burt, Witter Bynner, Paul and Nina Chachavadze, Padraic Colum, Rachel Crothers, Walter de la Mare, Max Eastman, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Robert Frost, Isabella Gardner, Robert Graves, Barbara Guest, Emmet Lavery, Alexis and Dorothy Leger, Robert Lowell, Archibald Macleish, Marion Merrell (a.k.a., Clinch Calkins), Mary Owings Miller, Marianne Moore, Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo, Iris Origo, Katherine Anne Porter, Kathleen Raine, Isidore Lawrence Salomon, Delmore Schwartz, William Jay Smith, Stephen Spender, Herbert Steiner, Genevieve Taggard, Allen Tate, Mark Van Doren, Harold Vinal, Robert Penn Warren, John Hall Wheelock, Reed Whittemore, Thornton Wilder, Oscar Williams, William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, Anne Winslow, Owen Wister, and William Zorach.
Lady Bronwen Astor papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS323
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of materials regarding Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the associations that formed to continue his legacy. The papers were collected by Lady Bronwen Astor, a long-standing council member of The Teilhard Association of Great Britain and Ireland. Consisting of original correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes, reports, announcements, conference information, and a few manuscripts, the papers have been left in their original chronological order so that the history of the...
Dates:
1966-1984; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The collection consists of materials regarding Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the associations that formed to continue his legacy.
Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000339
Scope and Contents
Includes black-and-white and color postcards, most unsent. Box 1 consists of images of campus and building exteriors and interiors.Some sets are present. Included are: Exterior:
Aerial Shots (14);
Lateral View from Potomac (16);
Observatory Hill (3);
School of Nursing (St. Mary's) (1);
Medical Dental Building (1);
Old Medical School (10);
Front Gates (Old-5/First Remodel-5/New-3);
Georgetown University Hospital (New-3, Old-2);
Old North (6);
Dahlgren Chapel...
Dates:
ca. 1909-1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Peter’s Catholic Church;
Wheeling-Mount de Chantal Academy.
Wyoming: Wheatland-City Hall; Wheatland-Gilcrest Avenue.
Wyoming: Wheatland-City Hall; Wheatland-Gilcrest Avenue.
Mimika Farish Frith Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-19470101
Content Description
Collection of correspondence, journals, documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning the family of Mimika Farish Frith. Included is correspondence (9 letters, 1779-1781) from Baron von Steuben to his aide-de-campe Pierre Etienne Du Ponceau and two letters (1781) from Du Ponceau to von Steuben. Also included is a bound journal kept by Du Ponceau from 1794-1820 which served as a family register, diary and account book. Also included is correspondence and documents from the...
Dates:
1779 - 1932; Majority of material found within 1794-1800s
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Included is correspondence (9 letters, 1779-1781) from Baron von Steuben to his aide-de-campe Pierre Etienne Du Ponceau and two letters (1781) from Du Ponceau to von Steuben.
Breedin family papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-800422
Scope and contents note
The Breedin Family Papers, which include letters, manuscripts, and photographs, are comprised mainly of correspondence between various members of the Breedin and Singleton families from the 1850s to the 1870s. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to members of the family of Enoch C. Breedin (1797-1856) and Lucy Payne Singleton (1808-1860) of Winchester, Virginia. Lucy Singleton Breedin was the daughter of General James Singleton and Judith Throckmorton Ball (1776-1852) and the sister...
Dates:
1811-1976
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Also if interest is a long run of correspondence from Rosaline Van Wyck describing local events and people in Oakland, California (1859-1873).
Davidson Black - William Diller Matthew collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-931227
Scope and Contents note
The Black-Matthew Collection consists of 19 transcribed letters between Davidson Black and William Diller Matthew, with 1 letter from Black to Herbert M. Evans regarding the above letters, from 1929 to 1932. The letters are arranged in 20 folders and contained in one box.Much of the correspondence between Black and Matthew regards contemporary theories surrounding Java Man, Sinanthropus, and Piltdown man, including Matthew's theores of how climate may have affected early man's...
Dates:
1929-31
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
References are made to many noted anthropologists of the day, including Roy Chapman Andrews, Birgir Bohlin, Ales Hrdlicka, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Rev. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., and Grafton Elliot Smith.
Joseph A. Mulry, SJ Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-851101
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence from Joseph A. Mulry, SJ to his nephew and niece as well as Advent conferences given while interned in Los Baños, Philippines. Also included are writings regarding his social action work in Manila and correspondence/reminiscences of Mulry after his death in 1945. Further, there are postcards of Philippine scenes collected by Mulry and several photographs of the priest.
Dates:
1918 - 1987
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He then spent the next two decades as a professor for the Ateneo de Manila (Philippines, 1924-1944), with a brief sabbatical back in the US in 1934.
Michel Chevalier papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS108
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The material in this collection reflects the consultation Michel Chevalier was requesting from a Minister, probably in Paris or a nearby capital, as to how he should approach Chamorro. This Minister was probably a Central American diplomat in Europe, possibly Peralta. The letter which Chevalier eventually sent to Chamorro is also in the collection. It seems clear that Chevalier's claims were so weak by the time of this correspondence that he would not receive his concession, which was...
Dates:
1863-1876
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1840 he was named 'Conseiller d'Etat' and Professeur of Political Economics at the College de France. After losing both posts in the revolution of 1848, he was reinstated by the Prince-President Louis-Napoleon in 1852.
Pieter H. G. Verhoog Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS186
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection is oriented around Commodore Verhoog's special interest in Christopher Columbus, specifically, the latter's first landfall in the Caribbean Islands in 1492. Of interest, regarding the subject, is correspondence between Comm. Verhoog and Columbus scholars and naval historians such as K.W.L. Bezemer, Ludovic Kennedy, Carlos Sanz, E.M. Shilstone, P.V.H. Weems, and geologist Clifford Kaye. Also included are offprints of papers written by the foregoing about the Columbus landfall....
Dates:
1543 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1953
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
On graduation from the Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart (naval training academy) in Amsterdam, Comm.
Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-821201
Scope and Contents
The Rev. Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers are comprised of files kept by Father McKenna at the time of his death. Consequently, they date primarily from the 1960's and 1970's and concern his activities as assistant pastor of St. Aloysius Church and his involvement in numerous projects. Father McKenna was a major force in the adoption of innovative social action programs to combat problems encountered in the inner-city. The papers contain files on his work with the St. Vincent De Paul Society, as...
Dates:
1899 - 2001
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 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS253
Scope and Contents
The John L. Brown Papers 3, consists of correspondence with 20th century artists, scholars, and writers. Notables include artists Huseyin Halit, Loren McIver and her husband, poet Lloyd Frankenberg, Lilian Mckendrick, Irene Rice Pereira and Antoinette Schulte; art critic and historian Roger Avermaete; historian Henry Steele Commager; and writers Jacqueline Bernard, Faith Berry, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, Lewis Galantiere, Elsa Gress, poet James Laughlin, Boris Schreiber, Pierre Seghers,...
Dates:
1946 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1986
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 P. J. Murphy Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS118
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The James P. J. Murphy Papers primarily consist of correspondence and signed photographs of well-known artists, musicians, authors and stage figures of the 1930's and 1940's. The papers are arranged in 845 folders in 9 boxes. James P. J. Murphy had a good eye for art and chose materials wisely, and at a meager cost, he amassed an enormous autograph collection. He began in the early 1930's, mainly trying to get signed photographs of musicians and stage personalities, including...
Dates:
1930 - 1965
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Photographs from this period include Prentiss Taylor (by Carl Van Vechten), George M. Cohan, Milton Avery, Robert Casadesus, Walter Gropius, Robert Frost, Flora Robson, Leopold Stokowski, and Eugene Ormandy.
Robert Woods Bliss collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-761028
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, printed documents, transcripts, maps, and newspaper clippings assembled by Robert Woods Bliss. The material pertains chiefly to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, with a number of the documents dealing specifically with Russia. Bliss (1875-1962), career diplomat, was stationed at the American embassy in Paris as secretary and counselor from 1912-1920.
Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the finding aid for the collection.
Dates:
1914-1921
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Campus Ministry
Collection
Identifier: GTA-130708
French Military Treatise
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS451
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Dating to the period of the French Revolution and handwritten in French, this military treatise on French battle tactics is contained in 32 folders in one 0.25 linear-foot box. The text covers a wide variety of topics, such as encampment, mountain warfare, artillery, military reconnaissance, and attack and defensive tactics. The material includes references to Buonaparte, the Italian Campaign of 1796, the Cairo Campaign, Louis XVII, Le Duc de Castries, and Lord Camelford. This treatise is a...
Dates:
1786 - 1799
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Folder 1 suggests that this treatise, or at least part of it, was dedicated to Le Duc de Castries. A page in folder 32 bears the name of Lord Camelford.
Gozos Devotional Broadsides Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-140708
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of gozos (also known as gosos or goigs) and other religious devotional printed pieces from the Catalan region of Spain, dating from 1776 to 1982. Many of the gozos relate to Mary, mother of Jesus.It includes:Single folio volume, bound in contemporary tree calf (scuffed) with “Collecion/de/Gozos” stamped on cover. This volume contains 310 separately printed single-sided illustrated broadsides, each with a woodcut (and usually some other...
Dates:
Creation: 1776 - 1982
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
It includes:
Single folio volume, bound in contemporary tree calf (scuffed) with “Collecion/de/Gozos” stamped on cover. This volume contains 310 separately printed single-sided illustrated broadsides, each with a woodcut (and usually some other decorative elements) as well as text.
Single folio volume, bound in contemporary tree calf (scuffed) with “Collecion/de/Gozos” stamped on cover. This volume contains 310 separately printed single-sided illustrated broadsides, each with a woodcut (and usually some other decorative elements) as well as text.