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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 / Michel Chevalier papers

Evelyn Waugh - Leonard Russell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS144
Scope and Contents The Waugh-Russell Collection consists of a series of postcards and letters from Waugh to Leonard Russell (1906-1974), assistant director and literary editor of the Sunday Times since 1944. The collection describes their business relationship between 1952 and 1965, when Waugh wrote literary reviews and articles for the paper. In turn, Russell published selections of Waugh's books. As a case in point, the collection includes a typed manuscript (carbon) and the corrected proofs of four...
Dates: 1952 - 1965
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Evelyn Waugh - Leonard Russell Collection

James H. Bailey papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS402
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The papers of James H. Bailey comprise this collection. The first series is made up of alphabetically listed correspondence between Bailey and a number of scholars, associates, friends, and publishers. In particular there are numerous letters between Bailey and author Charles C. Tansill. He also corresponds with Peter Ireton, the Bishop of Richmond, and Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Many of the letters discuss Bailey's dissertation work or job positions...
Dates: 1945-1989; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1989
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / James H. Bailey papers

Historical Manuscripts Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-700101
Scope and Contents The Historical Manuscripts collection contains documents generated by significant individuals and groups. The collection includes correspondence, handwritten documents, and bound manuscripts. Notable people and organizations include John Barrymore, the Brooke family, Bernard U. Campbell, the Columbia Debating Society, E. Street Baptist Church, Fells Point Hebrew School, Cuthbert Fenwick, Francis Kenrick, John Neumann, and the Population Society. The materials were most likely drawn from...
Dates: 1790 - 1900
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Historical Manuscripts Collection

Loughborough Family Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS274
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Loughborough Family Papers: Part 2 document the history of the Loughboroughs, a prominent nineteenth century family with connections to the neighborhood of Georgetown and Georgetown University. Of note are documents by and about early U.S. Comptroller of the Treasury Nathan Loughborough, U.S. Congressman John Randolph of Roanoke, Hamilton Loughborough, Confederate officer James Henry Loughborough, artist Margaret M. Loughborough, and others. Representing a large bulk of the family's...
Dates: 1796 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1800 - 1880
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Loughborough Family Papers 2

Maurice Adelman, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-940101
Collection level scope note The Maurice Adelman, Jr. Papers consist of correspondence, pamphlets, and clippings by and about John Cardinal Wright. The collection comprises 1 linear foot of material and is arranged in 64 folders in 2 boxes. The collection holds about 150 personal letters from John Cardinal Wright to Maurice Adelman, along with correspondence between Adelman and some of Wright's friends concerning such issues as Wright's will and literary rights, the future writing of Wright's biography, as well as many...
Dates: 1957-1990
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Maurice Adelman, Jr. papers

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 / Horace Porter Collection

Booth Family Center Philatelic Collection

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 25, Folder: 9
Identifier: GTM-0027
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three philatelic items that were removed from other collections. It includes a United States 1893 Columbian Exposition Issue's 1-dollar stamp (Queen Isabella) on an auction card which was sent from H.R. Harmer to Virginia Murrary Bacon in 1946. The item was purchased by Robert Low Bacon.It also includes a postcard, franked with a United States $1.30 Graf Zeppelin stamp, sent to Robert F. Wagner by O.J. Butler depicting an airship over the...
Dates: 1893 - 1957
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Booth Family Center Philatelic Collection

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 / LeRoy Walters Papers

William Franklin Sands Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20221007
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.The collection documents the career of William Franklin Sands, a U.S. diplomat best known for his work in Korea and Panama during the turn of the 20th century. It includes correspondence, diplomatic papers, journals, photographs, and...
Dates: 1814 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1940
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / William Franklin Sands Papers

Francisco Enriquez y Giron collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS260
Collection level scope and content note The Francisco Enriquez y Giron Papers date from the beginning of the 19th century. As a leading Spanish official in Manila, with the title Delegate General of the Royal Lands, Colonel of Infantry, and Quartermaster General and Superintendent, Francisco Enriquez y Giron was exposed to the corrupt and inefficient practices of the colonial government. He witnessed first hand the impact that increased commercialization had on the islands and on Spanish control. His frustration with inept...
Dates: 1824-1831
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Francisco Enriquez y Giron collection

J. Havens Richards, S.J., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-20211201
Scope and Contents The J. Havens Richards, S.J. papers consist of 1 linear foot of materials for sermons and addresses, correspondence, and other documents, dating from 1872, whilst Richards was a student at Boston College, to several decades after his death in 1923. The majority of the papers consist of outlines and notes for sermons, addresses, and lectures. Most of these date from 1899-1923, the period after Richards’ presidency, during which he served as spiritual father and minister at several...
Dates: 1872 - 1957
Found in: Georgetown University Archives / J. Havens Richards, S.J., Papers

Alexander Ward Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-850101
Scope and Contents The Alexander Ward Papers comprise fifteen autograph diaries of Alexander Ward from 1870 to 1889. The diaries begin while Ward is eighteen and trace his development from a wealthy youth working part-time in a factory to a wealthy land owner doing local magistracy work. The diaries offer us an interesting perspective on the day to day life of a country squire during his early years before his marriage in 1895. The entries are written in a "matter-of-fact" style, often with little commentary....
Dates: 1870 - 1889
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Alexander Ward Papers

Alexander Hill Everett Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS246
Collection-level Scope and Content Note Diplomat, author, political insider and brother of Edward Everett, Alexander Hill Everett (1790-1847) shaped American politics both abroad and at home. The Alexander Hill Everett Collection provides documentation of four important and diverse topics: life as charge d'affaires to The Hague in 1822 and 1823, analysis of the U.S. presidential election of 1824 before the final result was formalized, discussion of population theories, and expenses of the U.S. minister to Spain between 1825 and...
Dates: 1822 - 1829
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Alexander Hill Everett Papers

Isaiah Garrett, Jr. Letters

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-141219
Collection-level Scope and Contents note The Isaiah Garrett, Jr. Letters is comprised of 41 autograph letters written by Isaiah Garrett Jr. between February 19th, 1859 and December 14th, 1865. Twenty-five of the letters are addressed to his older brother, Frank, fifteen are addressed to his parents, and one is addressed to his sister, Sarah. Thirty-seven of the forty-one letters were written while Garrett was a student at Georgetown University on the eve of the American Civil War, one was written in Baton Rogue, LA in 1859, two...
Dates: 1859 - 1865
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Isaiah Garrett, Jr. Letters

Mary O'Hara Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS166
Scope and Contents

A collection of manuscripts for various works by American author and screenwriter Mary O’Hara (1885-1980), including the novella and musical screenplay “The Catch Colt”, “The Wyngate Children”, as well as the complete manuscript for her autobiography “Flicka’s Friend.” Also included is sheet music for compositions by O’Hara: “Green Grass of Wyoming” (1946), and “The Wind Harp” (1954).

Dates: 1943-1985; Majority of material found within 1952-1978
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Mary O'Hara Papers

Edwin Emerson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-761103
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and manuscripts (including an autobiography) of Edwin Emerson, journalist and miscellaneous writer, touching on his experiences in the Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, and First World Wars. Includes photographic materials.

Dates: 1898-1952
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Edwin Emerson Papers

Bert Seal ARAMCO Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS314
Scope and Contents The collection consists of 94 photographs taken in Saudi Arabia between the years of 1955 and 1960. The photos have been left in their original order as they were received from Bert Seal, ARAMCO Public Relations Department Photographer. The prints were made by Seal from copy negatives from 8x10 prints he brought back from Saudi Arabia. The Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) was organized to carry out oil operations in Saudi Arabia under a concession agreement with that country's...
Dates: 1955 - 1959
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Bert Seal ARAMCO Photographic Collection

Jean Baptiste Brunet Papers

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Identifier: GTM-860527
Scope and Contents The Brunet Papers consist of 1 box of letters and documents from the period 1802 - 1803, during which time the French were waging war against the Haitians in Haiti (or Saint Domingue). The majority of items are letters from Brunet, a French Division General, to the General en Chef, Donatien Rochambeau. Other tiems consist of letters from Brunet to Rochambeau's predecessor, Victor Leclerc, letters to Brunet from his subordinates, and some miscellaneous documents, including the transcript of...
Dates: 1802 - 1803
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Jean Baptiste Brunet Papers

F. Don Nidiffer collection of Washington, D.C. legal documents

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS96
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...
Dates: 1817 - 1886
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / F. Don Nidiffer collection of Washington, D.C. legal documents

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