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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
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.
Stephens, John L. - Chauncey, Henry Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-850621
Content Description
John L. Stephens (1805 - 1852), with Henry Chauncey and William H. Aspinwall, played a crucial role in the planning, financing and promotion of the Panama Railroad, the first commercial link between the Atlantic and Pacific that traversed the Isthmus of Panama. An attorney by profession, Stephens tired of his legal career and, using health as an excuse, began a two-year voyage in 1834 to Europe and the Mediterranean. Beginning in 1837, Stephens published accounts of his travels:...
Dates:
1848 - 1851
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Because of the popularity of these travelogues, Stephens gained the title "the American Traveler."
In 1839 President van Buren sent stephens on a confidential diplomatic mission to Central America, during which he explored extensively the Mayan ruins.
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
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
Collection
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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.
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
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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
Found in:
Bioethics Research Library Archives
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:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
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.