Newman Collections
A virtually complete run of first editions of the works of Cardinal Newman (gift of Martin S. Quigley), including such rarities as the first edition of the Apologia pro vita sua in the original parts, balances two important groups of Newman's letters: more than 350 written over many years to the author's lifelong friend, Henry William Wilberforce, touching on a great variety of topics (gift of the Most Rev. Jeremiah F. Minihan), and a series of 33, written between 1855 and 1865, to Dr. Thomas Hayden, largely relating to the affairs of the Catholic University of Ireland.
Rev. John Bannister Tabb Collection
The Tabb Collection includes more than 40
letters, cards, and manuscripts sent by Tabb to Dr. Thomas R. Price and members
of his family. It is supplemented by Tabb letters and manuscripts in a number
of other manuscript collections.
Gift of Fordham University Library
1882-1909 * 0.25 linear foot
Thomas F. Meehan Papers
The papers of Thomas F. Meehan, editor of the
Irish-American, consist of letters from noted politicians of both
Ireland and the United States as well as leading figures in the Catholic
Church. Major correspondents include Archbishop Michael A. Corrigan, Samuel S.
Cox, Charles A. Dana, Michael Davitt, Charles G. Herbermann, Bishop Charles E.
McDonnell, John Boyle O'Reilly, and T.D. Sullivan.
Gift of Mr. Meehan
1859-1920 * 0.50 linear foot
Riedel Collection
Among the nearly 2,000 volumes in the collection formed by Carroll Riedel, O.S.V., are virtually complete runs of first editions of the works of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, as well as substantial holdings of works by Eric Gill, Msgr. Ronald Knox, and Bruce Marshall. The Belloc firsts are supplemented by two lengthy runs of first editions and presentation copies (gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. and of the estate of Mrs. Leo Codd), and the Knox materials are amply supplemented by the gift of Maurice Adelman, Jr. To the collection's limited number of letters and manuscripts by Chesterton, Belloc, and Gill can be added substantial materials found elsewhere, such as Belloc's letters to his daughter Elizabeth, his friend Archibald Marshall, and his publisher James Murray Allison, as well as his extensive correspondences with Douglas Woodruff and Arnold Lunn.
Gallery of Living Catholic Authors
The collection formed by the Gallery, founded in
1932 by Sister Mary Joseph, S.L., was transferred in 1980 from its original
home at Webster College in St. Louis to Georgetown. It consists of manuscripts,
letters, and photographs by and about more than 600 British, American,
European, and Asian Catholic authors of the twentieth century, including such
writers as Hugh de Blacam, Roy Campbell, Wilfrid Rowland Childe, August
Derleth, Julian Green, Mary Lavin, Claude McKay, Alfred Noyes, Daniel Sargent,
and Frank H. Spearman. The strength of the collection is as an indicator of the
breadth and depth of the Catholic literary movement, although it also contains
a number of highly important and attractive individual items, from a leaf of
the holograph manuscript of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage
(1956) to the corrected typescript of Hilaire Belloc's The Crisis of
Civilization (1937) to the manuscript of Josephine Ward's last novel,
Tudor Sunset (1932). Appended to the main portion of the
collection are extensive files of Daniel Lord, S.J., and a series of
architectural sketches by Ralph Adams Cram for a proposed Gallery building.
Gift of Webster College
ca. 1920-1960 * ca. 150.00 linear feet
The papers contain much of the slender surviving
correspondence of poet Joyce Kilmer, including his final letters home from
France in World War I and letters written to his wife during their courtship.
These are joined by a number of his manuscripts, together with other family
material, particularly correspondence to his wife, poet Aline Kilmer, from
James J. Daly, S.J., and Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C.
Gift of Kenton Kilmer
ca. 1907-1980 * 2.00 linear feet
Theodore Maynard Papers
The papers include Maynard's manuscripts,
diaries, and correspondence with numerous literary figures, including Van Wyck
Brooks, Mary and Padraic Colum, Ruth Pitter, Ridgeley Torrence, and Louis
Eilshemius. In addition, substantial segments of journals kept by Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, are present, as are
manuscripts and original drawings pertaining to a children's magazine projected
by Maynard's first wife, Sara Casey Maynard. From Maynard's library come not
only runs of his own works, but also inscribed volumes from Van Wyck Brooks and
Edwin Arlington Robinson and an extensive range of literary firsts ranging from
Coventry Patmore and the Meynells to Charles Williams. Supplementing the
collection are letters from Theodore and Kathleen Maynard to Rev. Robert
McNamara (gift of Father McNamara).
Papers of Sister Miriam, R.S.M.
Primarily letters received by this well-known
Catholic poet from other Catholic authors, including Theodore Maynard and John
G. Brunini. Of particular note, however, are long series of letters from H. L.
Mencken (64 letters, dating from 1937 to 1943) and Odell Shepard (47 letters,
dating from 1933 to 1945).
Correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs
make up the papers of this American Catholic editor. Besides extensive
correspondence from the French philosopher Jacques Maritain (much of it used in
her book, Our Friend Jacques Maritain), there are letters from
André Maurois, Emmett Lavery, and a lengthy series from her brother, the
journalist Thomas D. Kernan, whose papers are also included in the
collection.
The papers of this novelist and short story
writer include numerous manuscripts, ranging from the original of his noted
1947 novel Moon Gaffney to
drafts of the unpublished A Watch in the Night. There is also
voluminous correspondence with a variety of writers, editors, and publishers,
including Waldo Frank, Brendan Gill, J.G.E. Hopkins, Denver Lindley, Haniel
Long, T.S. Matthews, Eugene and Abigail McCarthy, John Pick, and J.F. Power.
Although he was for many years an editor at
Scribner's, Joseph Hopkins' papers primarily concern his own writings, and in
particular his novels on the American Revolution: Patriot's Progress
(1961), Retreat and Recall (1966), and The Price of
Liberty (1976). Besides the manuscripts of these, there is
correspondence from historians, publishers, and friends, among them Wayne
Andrews, Dee Brown, Michael Glazier, Dumas Malone, Howard Mott, Allan Nevins,
Charles Scribner, and Walter Muir Whitehill. A run of Hopkins' own works and a
large group of books presented to him complement the papers.
Anna M. Brady Papers
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries and
photographs fully document the career of Anna Brady, a Catholic journalist who
for many years was the dean of the Vatican press corps, covering synods, papal
conclaves, and the Second Vatican Council. There is much about those events as
well as about the American Center Pro Deo, which she founded, and the related
Catholic International Press. Frequent correspondents include John Cardinal
Wright and Felix A. Morlion, O.P. Portions of the archive are restricted.
Edward Rice Papers
Rice's career as author, photographer, and
traveller is well chronicled in this archive; it also covers his role as
founder, publisher, and editor of Jubilee, the influential
Catholic magazine. Besides photo and editorial files, the papers contain
research materials for many of Rice's books, in particular for The Man in
the Sycamore Tree: The Good Times and Hard Life of Thomas Merton
(1970). Merton's superb letters to Rice, his godfather (acquired
through the generosity of James V. Kimsey), begin in 1940 and continue
until his death in 1968. This material is supplemented by letters from Merton
to A. Reza Arasteh (gift of Dr. Arasteh) and to John Pauker.
Frederick and Maria Shrady Papers
The archives of author Maria Shrady and her
husband, sculptor Frederick Shrady, contain correspondence from leading
Catholic writers and theologians, including A.J. Cronin, Robert Fitzgerald,
Anne Fremantle, Paul Horgan, Bernard Lonergan, S.J., John Courtney Murray,
S.J., and John Cardinal Wright. Central to the collection are 400 letters from
their close friend, Martin C. D'Arcy, S.J., which document the last 20 years of
his life.
The archives of this American poet and educator
consist for the most part of manuscripts and letters, with significant
correspondence from a wide range of literary figures, including Anne Fremantle,
Freya Stark, Mark Van Doren, and Robert Penn Warren. In addition to his poetry,
the papers deal with his lifelong educational venture, The Children's
Storefront school in Harlem, and his work for Jubilee magazine.
Russell Shaw Papers
The papers of Russell Shaw, Catholic journalist
and author, contain the manuscripts of many of his works, including
Beyond the New Morality (1974), Church and State
(1979), and Signs of the Times (1986). Especially important is
the extensive correspondence to him as director of public information for
the Knights of Columbus regarding a host of contemporary Catholic issues.
Douglas Woodruff Papers
The extensive papers of Douglas Woodruff,
longtime editor of The Tablet, include correspondence with most
of the major English Catholic writers of his generation as well as other
prominent public and ecclesiastical figures. Of particular significance are
long series of letters from Evelyn Waugh, Hilaire Belloc, Christopher Hollis,
Msgr. Ronald Knox, and Arnold Lunn. The collection also includes substantial
manuscript materials by Arnold Toynbee, Christopher Dawson, Alick Dru, Robert
Speaight, and Rebecca West, among others. One also finds many of the editorial
files of The Tablet for the period of Woodruff's editorship,
together with Woodruff's research files on the state of Catholicism in Europe
and on the Tichborne trial, the latter resulting in his book The
Tichborne Claimant (1957). Supplementing the collection are two
important series of Woodruff letters: one to his sister, Mildred Tschoeberle,
and the other to his lifetime friend, economist Roy Harrod.
A portion of the papers of English journalist
and author, Count Michael de la Bedoyere, mostly about his editorship of the
Catholic Herald. Bernard Bassett, S.J., Douglas Hyde, Bede
Griffiths, O.S.B., and Edward I. Watkin are a few of the correspondents.
The Leslie Papers provide a detailed look at all
aspects of this author's life and literary career. Besides his own manuscripts
and corrected galleys, there is a very large correspondence between Leslie, his
family and friends. Frequent correspondents include John Quinn, Vyvyan Holland,
Claire Sheridan, and Wilfrid Meynell; among others are Lord Alfred Douglas,
Winston Churchill, and George Bernard Shaw. The collection also contains
substantial runs of the author's diaries, small groups of historical documents
(especially concerning the era of George IV), and a multitude of research notes
covering a wide range of subjects from ghosts to Cardinal Gasquet, with some
special emphasis on "The Irish Question."
Lunn's triple career as author, ski pioneer, and
controversialist is well documented in this extensive archive of diaries,
manuscripts, and correspondence. There is considerable material on skiing and
mountaineering, Switzerland, Catholic apologetics, Lunn's school (Harrow), and
internment camps in World War I. Among the correspondents are J. R. Ackerley,
Daphne Acton, Hilaire Belloc, Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley, Jr.,
Brevoort Coolidge, C. E. M. Joad, Hugh Kingsmill, Msgr. Ronald Knox, Alec
Waugh, Mia Woodruff, and Geoffrey Winthrop Young, as well as various European
royalties. A small portion of the papers of Lunn's father, Sir Henry Lunn, is
also included in the collection.
Iddesleigh-Marques Papers
Correspondence to Elizabeth Iddesleigh and Susan
Lowndes Marques, daughters of writer Marie Belloc Lowndes, from various English
Catholic writers, including Martin C. D'Arcy, S.J., Isabel Clarke, Arnold Lunn,
and Archbishop David Mathew. Of special importance are the more than 130
letters by C. C. Martindale, S.J., many written while he was interned in
Denmark during World War II.
Bruce Marshall Papers
Manuscripts, correspondence, and press cutting
albums comprise the papers of this prolific British novelist. Among the
manuscripts are those of Father Malachy's Miracle (1931) and
The White Rabbit (1952), the latter a biography of World War II
British resistance fighter F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas. Among the major correspondents
are H. E. Bates, Tom Burns, A. J. Cronin, Madelaine Duke, John Howard Griffin,
Paul Scott, Evelyn Waugh, and René Raymond (who wrote as James Hadley
Chase). A convert to Catholicism, Marshall was actively involved in Catholic
issues and organizations such as the Latin Mass Society, all of which are
reflected in his extensive correspondence with Church members.
Barbara Ward Papers
Through her many books and lectures, and as an
adviser to statesmen, British economist Barbara Ward (later Baroness Jackson of
Lodsworth) influenced the thinking of a generation in such matters as aid to
underdeveloped countries, the global environment, and the plight of the
world's poor. Her papers deal with these and similar concerns, and consist of
correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts, including those of Only One
Earth (1972) and Progress for a Small Planet (1979).
Besides letters by Willy Brandt, Indira Gandhi, Philip Noel-Baker, and Malcolm
Muggeridge, the most significant ones are by Ward herself, consisting of some
700 written to her mother over a 40-year period. The collection also contains
numerous letters to her from her husband, Comdr. Sir Robert Jackson.
The papers of Harman Grisewood, author and BBC
broadcaster, consist of lengthy correspondences with three close friends:
René Hague, David Jones, and Christopher Sykes (his papers described
elsewhere). It also includes an important David Jones research archive with
letters from Kenneth Clark, Douglas Cleverdon, H.S. Ede, T.S. Eliot, Nicolete
Gray, Philip Hagreen, and Saunders Lewis, among others.
Sailor and navigator Michael Richey spent three
years with Eric Gill's community at Pigotts learning lettering and stone
carving. His papers include letters from various members of the Gill circle:
Tom Burns, Harman Grisewood, René Hague (a long series), David Jones,
Prudence Pelham, Walter Shewring, Denis Tegetmeier, and Bernard Wall. Graham
Greene and Shirley Hazzard are other correspondents.
Manuscripts and correspondence constitute the
papers of this British poet, classicist, and educator, who has long been
associated with Ampleforth College. Besides letters from Eric Gill, David Jones
(an important series), and Vincent McNabb, O.P., there are a variety of
manuscripts, including that of his acclaimed translation of the
Odyssey (1980), and the corrected proofs of his recent book of
poetry, Late Verses and Earlier (1988).
The Colby-Shewring Collection consists of 15 letters, 13 of which were written by Walter Shewring, sent to Gina Thompson (Colby) between 1986 and 1990.
As an American student studying at Oxford University, Gina Thompson met and befriended the classics scholar Shewring in 1986.
David Jones Collections
The library is especially interested in the work
of British poet and artist David Jones, and letters and manuscripts by him
are found in the papers of Harman Grisewood, Michael Richey, and Walter
Shewring. There are two other collections containing material of interest to
the researcher:
the Jones-Cleverdon Collection: various drafts of
Words and Images IV (1972), the catalogue of a Jones exhibition,
with eight letters to Douglas Cleverdon who helped mount the exhibition.
Bernard and Barbara Wall Papers
These papers primarily consist of manuscripts
and correspondence, some relating to her novels, others about his editorship of
The Colosseum and The Changing World. There are
letters from Tom Burns, Thomas Derrick, Vivien Greene, Harman Grisewood, Manya
Harari, René Hague, Kathleen Raine, Michael Richey, Brocard Sewell,
Robert Speaight, Philip Toynbee, Edward I. Watkin, and a touching series from
her grandfather, Wilfrid Meynell. Of great interest is Bernard Wall's
unpublished English translation of Teilhard de Chardin's World War I journal.
Bernard Bergonzi Papers
The papers of this professor of English
literature include typescripts of his several books of criticism as well as
drafts and galley proofs of his first novel, The Roman Persuasion
(1981). In addition, there is correspondence from publishers and fellow
authors, among them Malcolm Bradbury, Malcolm Cowley, Donald Davie, and John
Fuller.
The archives of this English Catholic poet,
closely associated with The Movement poets, include a large group of poetry
notebooks together with a smaller amount of correspondence. There are letters
from Cecil Day-Lewis, Roy Fuller, Stephen Spender, John Wain, and C. V.
Wedgewood, as well as from John Gielgud and Alec Guinness. Of particular
interest is the unpublished manuscript of Jennings' autobiography, As I
Am.
Evelyn Waugh Collections
In addition to the extensive correspondence and
short manuscripts found in, among others, the papers of Graham Greene, Douglas
Woodruff, and Christopher Sykes, the library has two smaller collections that
focus entirely on Waugh:
the Waugh-Russell Collection: some 18 letters and
cards from Waugh to Leonard Russell, then literary editor of the Sunday
Times, together with a corrected carbon typescript of Waugh's
autobiography, A Little Learning (1964), and corrected proofs of
the initial four installments of the book as it first appeared in the
Sunday Times.
Christopher Sykes Papers
The archives of the English novelist Christopher
Sykes, friend and official biographer of Evelyn Waugh, include a large group of
Waugh letters and comprehensive research files about him. In addition to the
extensive family correspondence, with a charming series of rebus letters from
his sister Angela Antrim, there are letters from a multitude of literary
friends and acquaintances, including John Betjeman, Max Beerbohm, Ivy
Compton-Burnett, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Harman Grisewood, Nancy Mitford,
Harold Nicolson, Anthony Powell, Osbert Sitwell, and Stephen Spender. The
collection also includes considerable research material about Nancy Astor,
Robert Byron, and Adam von Trott, subjects of other books by Sykes.
Graham Greene Papers
This collection includes the manuscripts and
corrected typescripts of several later works by Greene: Monsignor
Quixote (1982), For Whom the Bell Chimes (1983),
Getting to Know the General (1984), and The Captain and the
Enemy (1988), and of numerous shorter pieces, such as "Waiting for a
War" (gift of the author). Various drafts of The Tenth Man
(1985) are also present, even the rare mimeograph version (gift of Samuel
Marx). The papers also include appointment books; "travel diaries" kept for
over 30 years, recording Greene's impressions of places throughout the world;
and letters from John Hayward, Violet Hunt, Edith Sitwell, Antonia White, and
Evelyn Waugh, the latter an extremely important series. The papers are further
supplemented by letters from Greene to various recipients, including Anthony
Bertram, Nicholas Dennys, James Greene, Vivien Greene (gift of Mrs.
Greene), B. H. Huebsch, Sam Lawrence, and Sir James Marchibanks. Most
important are the more than 250 letters to his brother, Sir Hugh Greene, and a
series of more than 50 to Joseph and Jeannine Jeffs. Portions of the collection
are restricted at the present time.
This extraordinary collection is crucial for any
study of Graham Greene's creative middle years. Not only does it contain 1,200
letters to Catherine Walston, some of the most powerful he ever wrote, but also
the original manuscripts of the two great novels she helped inspire: The
Heart of the Matter (1948) and The End of the Affair
(1951). The autograph manuscripts of The Third Man (1949),
Loser Takes All (1955) and The Complaisant Lover
(1959) are present, as well as heavily corrected typescripts of The
Living Room (1953), The Quiet American (1955) and A
Burnt-Out Case (1961). There is a vast assortment of other Greene
material: manuscripts of poems and short stories; corrected proofs of novels;
his Mexican diary for 1938; and a rich array of photographs and ephemera, such
as his 1925 Communist Party membership card.
Walston Collection of Graham Greene
As one might imagine from the above, the
collection of Graham Greene's works formerly owned by Catherine Walston is one
of the finest extant. It consists of over 1,000 volumes: a nearly complete run
of English first editions before 1979, including such rarities as After
Two Years (1949) and For Christmas (1951); a voluminous
assemblage of Greene in translation; numerous association volumes; and a large
group of books from Greene's own library. What sets this collection apart is
that Greene himself helped in its formation: the bulk of the first editions are
presentation copies to Lady Walston, often with intimate inscriptions and
lengthy annotations.
Jeffs Collection of Graham Greene
An important collection of English and American
first editions, many with presentation inscriptions from the author to his
American friends, Joseph and Jeannine Jeffs. Besides containing such rarities
as his first book, Babbling April (1925), the collection includes
numerous annotated volumes from Greene's own library. The books are
supplemented by the series of over 50 letters to Mr. and Mrs. Jeffs mentioned
previously. This collection, together with the Walston and the library's other
Greene holdings, helps make up a remarkably complete collection of the
novelist's published work.
The research files of Graham Greene's
bibliographer, Alan Redway, consist of drafts of his work and includes some 25
letters by Greene as well as numerous letters about Greene from other
bibliographers, writers, and scholars such as Neil Brennan, Rupert Hart-Davis,
John Hayward, Norman Sherry, and Stephen Spender.
Shusaku Endo Collection
Part of the collection relates to English
translations of The Samurai (1980) and Stained Glass
Elegies (1985), both by the Japanese Catholic novelist, Shusaku Endo,
with extensive correspondence between the translator, Van Gessel, and the
British publishing house of Peter Owen Limited. It complements the library's
other important Endo holdings: the original manuscript (in Japanese) of
The Samurai as well as the autograph manuscripts and drafts of
Scandal (1988) and of Deep River (the last two the
gift of Dr. Endo).
Other Catholic Literary Holdings
Besides the major collections noted above, the
library holds extensive smaller groups of material that include significant
Catholic literary resources. Among those are such obvious items as manuscript
poems by Rev. Abram J. Ryan (gift of Thomas F. O'Rourke); the autograph
manuscript of Katherine Tynan's Fraulein; a manuscript notebook
by Rev. H. E. G. Rope (gift of John C. Hirsh); the incomplete holograph
manuscript of the autobiographical novel Fernando (1919) by "John
Ayscough" (Msgr. Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew) together with his genealogical
notebook (gift of Frederick B. Scheetz); the autograph manuscript of
Rumer Godden's Holly and Ivy (1958); manuscript poems by Neville
Braybrooke; and a remarkable scrapbook kept by Madeline Vinton Dahlgren. But
important materials also may be found in each of the following:
papers of English journalist Edward O'Dowd, gift
of Marguerite Horrigan;
papers of Msgr. Bruno Scott James, English author
and educator, with letters by Patrick McLaughlin and Bishop William Gordon
Wheeler, gift of Richard Wells;
papers of novelist Alan G. Barnsley, who wrote
as Gabriel Fielding, with numerous letters from Muriel Spark;
papers of French poet H. A. Jules-Bois, gift of
Emmet M. Greene;
papers of poet James Ryder Randall, including a
manuscript copy of his "Maryland, My Maryland" and letters from Paul Hamilton
Hayne, gift of Ruth Robinson;
papers of American journalist Scannel O'Neill,
gift of the estate of Mr. O'Neill;
papers of John G. Brunini, longtime editor of
Spirit, gift of Mrs. John J. Meng, and material about his
Whereon to Stand, gift of the Diocese of Jackson;
papers of writer John Deedy concerning Teilhard de
Chardin, gift of Mr. Deedy;
papers of Maurice Adelman, Jr., with important
letters by and about John Cardinal Wright, gift of Mr. Adelman
(restricted);
papers of Donald Powell, with extensive
correspondence from Dorothy Day and Harry Sylvester, gift of Mr.
Powell;
papers of historian James H. Bailey, gift of Dr.
Bailey;
papers of Australian historian George Russo, with
letters by Thomas Keneally, among others, together with a number of first
editions by Australian authors, gift of the Embassy of Australia; and
papers of Irish poet Desmond Egan, comprising
correspondence and manuscripts of his poems and translations, as well as a
lengthy run of his published works. Second accession described separately.
ENGLISH LITERATURE
The Brady Gift
Georgetown's special collections in English
literature began with the donation by Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady in 1934 of the
literary manuscripts and first editions collected by her late husband. Among
those gifts were numbered two extraordinary literary manuscripts: the "Crewe"
manuscript, textually the most important extant, of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's
The School for Scandal, and the holograph manuscript of Mark
Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among the most important
surviving manuscripts in the field of nineteenth century American letters.
These were buttressed by an imposing group of printed books: first editions and
association copies of works by Johnson, Boswell, and their circle, and
extensive runs of first editions of the works of Keats and Shelley.
The English Romantics
To Mrs. Brady's benefactions the library has
added almost all of the first editions of Sir Walter Scott (largely the gift
of Matthew Baird III) and many of those of Byron (in large part the
gifts of Edith S. Mayfield and Jerry Wnuck), Coleridge, Lamb,
Wordsworth, and Godwin (in part the gift of Patrick J. Sheehy).
Manuscript holdings include fragmentary manuscripts on literary topics by De
Quincey; more than a dozen unpublished letters by Wordsworth; and a number
of letters by his nephew Christopher Wordsworth (gift of Paul F. Betz).
Efforts have been made to secure American and Continental, as well as
English, editions of works by all of the major Romantic authors.
Ziegler Dickens Collection
The product of more than two decades of
dedicated effort by a private collector, Arnold U. Ziegler, the Dickens
Collection counts among its more than 2,000 items virtually all of Dickens'
first editions; very nearly all pre-1970 biographical or critical monographic
studies devoted to Dickens; more than a shelf of volumes from Dickens' library;
autograph letters by Dickens and members of his circle; original illustrations
of Dickens' works by Cruikshank, Charles Green, "Kyd," and others; and a wealth
of supporting material in many different formats. Later acquisitions have
included many of the first American editions of Dickens' works, as well as an
important manuscript by Mark Lemon for a play on which he collaborated with
Dickens, Mr. Nightingale's Diary.
Mayfield Collection of A. C. Swinburne
Over a 40-year period, John S. and Edith S.
Mayfield formed an extensive and textually important collection of works by and
about the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne. Of particular interest are
numerous autograph manuscripts, including a notebook from the poet's youth with
original poems and dramatic scenes. In addition, there is an extensive series
of Swinburne correspondence with such figures as Edmund Gosse, Victor Hugo,
John Ruskin, and Theodore Watts- Dunton. To complement the collection the
library has acquired additional Swinburne printed and manuscript materials,
ranging from the short autograph poem "Babyhood" (gift of Joseph E. and
Jeannine Jeffs), to the complete manuscript of "The Murder of Rizzio," to,
most recently, Swinburne's copy of the first English edition of Ralph Waldo
Emerson's Poems.
Grant Richards Papers
A portion of the papers of the English author
and publisher containing correspondence from a wide range of literary figures,
including his cousin Grant Allen, Frank Harris, David Low, T. Sturge Moore, and
Lady Gregory, with whom Richards was associated in handling the estate and
proposed biographies of the Irish philanthropist and collector Sir Hugh Lane.
The Frank Harris material is supplemented by holdings in a number of other
collections.
Frank Kurt Cylke Collection of Arthur
Ransome
Again the product of the dedication of a private
collector, the Arthur Ransome collection boasts a nearly complete run of first
editions (many present in variant forms) of works by the English critic,
traveler, and children's author (Swallows and Amazons and many
others) among its nearly 200 volumes, together with a wealth of additional
manuscript material, recordings, and films.
C. S. Forester Collection
The Forester Collection is one of the most
complete assemblages of books, periodical appearances, and other items by and
relating to the literary career of the author of The African
Queen and creator of the legendary "Horatio Hornblower." All first
English and American editions are present in the collection, as are numerous
Canadian and Continental editions in English; a large number of signed and
presentation copies of individual books; movie posters and lobby cards; and
tape recordings and radio scripts. A recent acquisition has been the autograph
manuscript of the short story "The Eleven Deckchairs" (1944). see the online exhibition:
C. S. Forester & Horatio Hornblower - A Centenary Exhibit.
Dame Edith Sitwell Collection
Besides the long correspondence to Graham Greene
(described elsewhere), there are two other significant groups of Sitwell
letters: 30 letters to composer Humphrey Searle, including autograph drafts of
her poem "The Road to Thebes," and 17 letters to broadcaster John M. Cohen.
Letters by her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, are also found in these and
other collections.
James Laver Papers
The papers consist largely of correspondence
received by Laver, the author and curator, and his actress wife Veronica from a
broad cross-section of English and Irish literary figures. Among frequent
correspondents are Nicolas Bentley, Violet Clifton, Desmond MacCarthy, Francis
Meynell, Kate O'Brien, Dorothy Sayers, A. J. A. Symons, Enid Starkie, and Alec
Waugh.
Anthony Powell Collection
An extensive run of English and American first
editions by this noted British author, including a fine set of his famous
sequenceof 12 novels, A Dance to the Music of Time, with
presentation inscriptions to bookseller Handasyde Buchanan. The collection also
consists of Powell magazine appearances, contributions to books, proof copies,
and important reprints as well as Powell's letters to Buchanan. These are
supported by a large correspondence found in the papers of Christopher Sykes
and a remarkable series of more than 100 letters from Powell to his American
friend, John S. Monagan, written over a 30-year period (gift of
Representative Monagan).
Australian novelist Patrick White, author of
Voss (1957) and Riders in the Chariot (1961), won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. This is a virtually complete
collection of his first editions, including his rare book of college verse
The Ploughman and Other Poems (1935). In addition, the collection
contains a comprehensive run of White magazine appearances as well as numerous
biographical studies about him. Printed materials are supplemented by a series
of letters to Elizabeth Forbes of Heywood Hill bookshop.
P. E. N. Archives
A segment of the archives of this international
association of writers, based in London, composed primarily of correspondence,
manuscripts, and photographs. There are diplomatic files regarding contacts
with some 40 London embassies as well as material about the annual P. E. N.
Congress which failed to take place in Iran in 1963. Among the correspondents
are Cleanth Brooks, David Carver, Edgar Johnson, Arthur Miller, Leonard Mosley,
Herman Ould, and Alec Waugh.
Other English Literature Holdings
The library holds a large number of significant
literary first editions; on occasion these encompass so large a percentage of
the work of any given author as to constitute the beginnings of a strong
collection, as is the case with D. H. Lawrence and Robert Louis Stevenson
(gifts of Gerard Previn Meyer, Eugene Meyer, and Deborah Meyer DeWan). A
number of these holdings derive from the collections donated by Ruth Baer in
memory of David A. Baer and by Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Simmons. Among the
authors best represented are W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Joseph
Conrad, John Galsworthy, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Rose
Macaulay (gift of Todd Haines), George Bernard Shaw, John Sparrow
(gift of John C. Hirsh) and Thomas J. Wise (gift of Paul F.
Betz). The library has also a variety of single or small groups of
individual letters and manuscripts by an almost equally great range of authors,
including Robert Browning, Samuel Butler, W.E. Henley, D. H. Lawrence (gift
of Virginia Moore), Haldane MacFall, and Alfred Tennyson. Pertinent smaller
manuscript collections, each generally containing some correspondence of
potential value for research, include:
papers of author Stephen Massett, gift of the
estate of John D. Crimmins;
papers of novelist and biographer Ralph Straus;
papers of Sir Hall Caine, including manuscripts and
letters from family, friends and publishers, gift of John C.
Hirsh;
papers of Max Reinhardt, with letters by George
Bernard Shaw;
papers of W. H. Chesson, consisting of the
extensive diaries of this eccentric and man of letters; and
William Zimmerman Collection, gift of Mrs.
Zimmerman.
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Irving Levy Collection
The Levy Collection brings together strong to
comprehensive collections of first editions of 14 distinguished nineteenth
century American authors. The works of William Cullen Bryant, Samuel L.
Clemens, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and John
Greenleaf Whittier are held in great strength; of lesser extent are collections
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, and Henry David Thoreau; holdings of
Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman, while significant, are not yet at a research
level. The nearly 1,000 titles in the collection include a significant number
of variant issues and English and Continental first editions.
Edwin H. Cady Collection
The scholarly library of Professor Cady, a
specialist in American literature, complements the Levy Collection with a wide
array of important critical and bibliographical works as well as numerous first
editions and a significant number of critical editions of American authors. The
collection is divided between the Special Collections Division and the main
stacks.
Hawthorne-Bennoch Collection
The journals of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop in the
Maynard papers (described elsewhere) are strengthened by the presence at
Georgetown of the long series of letters written by her brother, the writer
Julian Hawthorne, to his early English patron, Francis Bennoch. The letters
outline in sad detail the young novelist's continual financial miseries, not
alleviated by his prolific publishing.
This is a collection of some 250 letters written to Franklin B. Sanborn from friends and relatives during his years as a student first at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hamshire and then at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts (circa 1852-55).
Includes discussion of the politics of the day, such as the slavery issue with letters referring to affairs of the Kansas Free State and to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854, as well as to prominent abolitionists and reformers such as William H. Furness, William Lloyd Garrison, Amos A. Lawrence, Rev. Theodore Parker, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, and Lucy Stone.
Letters from Stephen Barker discuss at length popular beliefs in spiritualism and mesmerism. Many of Sanborn's friends and cousins mention reading the works of or attending local appearances and lectures by luminaries of Concord, New Hampshire, including Transcendentalist writers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthone, and Henry David Thoreau.
Finally, the correspondence affords insight into the lives of young, educated men and women of nineteenth-century New England.
George Santayana Collection
In 1980 Georgetown received as a gift the
2,800-volume library of the late Dr. Charles Augustus Strong. These books were
housed at the Villa le Balze, Fiesole, which had itself been donated to the
university in the previous year. Among the volumes at Villa le Balze were a
group of more than 120 titles from the library of George Santayana. These
volumes, many of them very heavily annotated, have been transferred from
Fiesole to the Special Collections Division, where they are augmented by a
number of his first editions, by Santayana's own copies of several of his
works, and by a small but distinguished group of Santayana manuscript
materials.
Ames W. Williams Papers
This collection primarily deals with the life of
novelist Stephen Crane whose bibliography Williams, along with Vincent
Starrett, compiled in 1948. Besides correspondence with Starrett, the papers
consist of letters from collectors, scholars, and friends of Crane, including
John Berryman, Edwin Emerson (whose papers are described elsewhere), Lillian B.
Gilkes, Henry P. Taber, and Louis Zara. Portions of the papers also relate to
American military fortifications and local Washington railroads.
Flaccus-Masters Archive
The archive consists of the extensive
correspondence and research files developed by poet Kimball Flaccus in the
course of writing a biography (as yet unpublished) of Edgar Lee Masters.
Besides letters from Masters himself and from virtually everyone who knew
Masters, the collection includes letters by a number of writers distinguished
in their own right, including Witter Bynner, John Crowe Ransom, Upton Sinclair,
August Derleth, John Dos Passos, and the widows of Vachel Lindsay and Sherwood
Anderson. The collection is complemented by both strong holdings of books by
and about Masters and a number of his letters in other collections, as, for
example, his correspondence with Milton Cushing (gift of Mrs. Bigelow
Crocker). The collection also contains a smaller group of research
materials about the novelist Thomas Wolfe.
Fulton Oursler Memorial Collection
The Oursler collection includes a large number
of drafts of many of Oursler's writings, particularly mystery stories published
under the pseudonym "Anthony Abbot," editorial drafts from his tenure
(1944-1952) as senior editor of Reader's Digest, and various
manuscript drafts of his The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Besides these, however, there are lengthy and important series of letters to
Oursler from H. L. Mencken, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Upton Sinclair, and
these are supplemented by letters from numerous other authors, many of whom
Oursler knew through his editorship of Liberty (1933-1942). Among
these are Margery Allingham, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, Richard
Le Gallienne, Eugene O'Neill, George Bernard Shaw, Immanuel Velikovsky, George
Sylvester Viereck, H. G. Wells, and Thomas J. Wise. The collection also
includes papers of Oursler's wife, Grace Perkins Oursler, among which is an
extensive correspondence with her colleague, Rev. Norman Vincent Peale. Oursler
converted to Catholicism in 1944.
H. L. Mencken Collection
The library holds well over 100 letters from
Mencken to Fulton Oursler and to Sister Miriam, R.S.M.; in addition, there are
a good series to Ernest and Madeline Boyd, single letters or small groups of
letters to a variety of other recipients, and a growing collection of his
printed works.
Murray Marshall Collection
The Marshall Collection has two major
components. Marshall's papers proper include the editorial files, business
records, manuscripts received for publication, and a complete file of the
30-year run of his poetry magazine, Sonnet Sequences (1928-1958).
Related to these, and dating from the same time span as Sonnet
Sequences, are a large number of works by minor poets, including a
presentation copy of Jesse Stuart's virtually unobtainable first book,
Harvest of Youth (1930), and the more than 3,500 issues of other
American literary "little magazines," many of them of the most ephemeral
nature, which Mr. Marshall assembled by means of purchase or exchange.
Marguerite Tjader Harris Papers
With the backing of Theodore Dreiser, Mrs.
Harris founded and edited Direction (1937-1945), a magazine
devoted to new and significant writers and artists. Among the editorial files
and correspondence are typescripts by Erskine Caldwell, John Dos Passos,
Langston Hughes, Sherwood Anderson, and others. The papers also include the
manuscripts of Mrs. Harris's own books and related correspondence.
The archive of this noted American playwright,
author of The Philadelphia Story, consists primarily of
correspondence and manuscripts. In the former category are letters by Stephen
Vincent Benet, John O'Hara, Katherine Hepburn, and Gerald Murphy; in the
latter, drafts of Here Come the Clowns, Second
Threshold, and Hotel Universe, as well as the holograph
manuscript of his early play, A Man of Taste.
Biddle Collection
The library's holdings in twentieth century
American poetry were greatly strengthened by the addition of the noted book
collection of poet Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle and her husband, former U.
S. attorney general Francis Biddle. Among the more than 700 volumes added to
the rare book collections were numerous association and presentation copies
from such authors as W. H. Auden, Max Eastman, Allen Tate, and St.-John Perse,
as well as important first editions of such black writers as Zora Neale Hurston
and Langston Hughes. Complementing the collection are the extensive personal
papers of the Biddles, with scores of letters from a wide variety of literary
and musical figures, including Bernard Berenson, Conrad Aiken, Isabella
Gardner, Alain Locke, Archibald MacLeish, William Grant Still, and more than
140 from Allen Tate. The collection is supplemented by a group of letters from
Mrs. Biddle to Frederick R. Goff (gift of Mr. Goff).
The archives of this author, editor, translator,
educator, and diplomat contain a rich trove of letters from a variety of
American and European artists, writers, and friends, including Josephine Baker,
Sylvia Beach, Brassaï, David Bruce, Marguerite Caetani, Albert Camus,
Gilbert Cesbron, Marc Chagall, H.S. Commager, John Dos Passos, Claire Goll,
Julian Green, Paul Horgan, Baladine Klossowska, Blanche Knopf, Loren MacIver,
Jacques Maritain, Carson McCullers, Marianne Moore, Walter J. Ong, S.J.,
Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, James Purdy, Virgil Thomson, Giuseppe
Ungaretti, and Alice B. Toklas, the latter an especially important
correspondence vividly documenting the last decade of her life.
This archive of manuscripts, letters, and
research notes well documents Dr. Joost's career as author, editor, and
educator. There are considerable files regarding the journals Poetry
and The Dial (the latter used in his several books on the
subject), as well as extensive correspondence from a variety of writers and
friends, among them John Deedy, Wallace Fowlie, George Dillon, John Gardner,
Alyse Gregory, Laura Riding Jackson, Marianne Moore, Russell Kirk, Gilbert
Seldes, and Karl Shapiro.
Best known as the author of My Friend
Flicka (1941) and Green Grass of Wyoming (1946), this
collection primarily contains the manuscripts of later works by Mary O'Hara:
The Son of Adam Wyngate (1952), musical and novella versions of
The Catch Colt (1964), and the autobiographical Flicka's
Friend (1982). Complementing the collection is a good assemblage of
O'Hara's works in translation.
William Peter Blatty Papers
The papers contain manuscript and typescript
drafts of novels and screenplays written by Blatty, a Georgetown alumnus and
writer best known for his novel The Exorcist. The papers are
supplemented by a group of Blatty's undergraduate literature examination papers
preserved by one of his English professors at Georgetown (gift of Bernard M.
Wagner).
This archive reveals much about the affairs of
Reader's Digest where Fulton Oursler, Jr., was the book editor
for many years. There are letters and manuscripts by a variety of noted
writers, including Ray Bradbury, John Hersey, Eric Hoffer, Cornelius Ryan, Leon
Uris, Barbara Ward, and Theodore H. White. James A. Michener is a major
correspondent as well as Alex Haley, about whose Roots (1976)
there is a good deal of important material.
The papers of writer Sophy Burnham consist of
manuscripts, correspondence, research files, and production materials relating
to her recent books: A Book of Angels, Angel Letters,
Revelations, and A President's Angel. A unique aspect of
the collection are the many letters received from people who have read her
books; almost all contain accounts of personal experiences with angels or other
paranormal phenomena. (Restricted.)
Kenneth Aguillard Atchity Collection
Letters, manuscripts, scripts, scrapbooks, and
video tapes comprise the extensive papers of this author, editor, educator, and
film producer. There is considerable personal and professional correspondence
with poets, writers, and academics such as Thomas Bergin, Malcolm Boyd, Norman
Cousins, Umberto Eco, John Gardner, Laurence Ferlinghetti, Ursula K. LeGuin,
Denise Levertov, Lowry Nelson, and Camille Paglia. Much of the collection
concerns Atchity's film development and production company, L/A House, and his
editorship of various journals such as Dreamworks. A portion of
the collection is restricted.
Gerard Previn Meyer Collection
This gift of more than 20,000 volumes, now
divided between the main stacks and the rare books section, is rich in
nineteenth and twentieth century American and English literature of all genres,
and especially strong in first editions of such American writers as Erskine
Caldwell, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox
Ford, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, John O'Hara, William Carlos Williams, and
Louis Zukofsky. Presentation and association volumes are numerous, including
items from Richard Eberhart, Anthony Hecht, and Kenneth Patchen, among others.
Other American Literature Holdings
The library's holdings in American literary
firsts range from a copy of the very rare anonymous novel The Cavern of
Strozzi (New York, 1801) to strong representations of Theodore Dreiser
(in large part the gift of Michael Mooney), Paul Engle, William Everson
(Brother Antoninus), Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers (to a great extent the
gift of Edith S. Mayfield), Larry McMurtry (gifts of Patricia G.
England and John C. Hirsh), Marianne Moore, Eugene O'Neill, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, William Jay Smith (gift of Joseph E. and Jeannine Jeffs), John
Steinbeck, and Edith Wharton (gift of John C. Hirsh). Scattered through
a number of collections are letters and fragmentary manuscripts by such authors
as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Walter Van Tilburg Clark (gift of Mrs.
Ralph Stimson), Hart Crane (gift of Bernard M. Wagner), Archibald
Rutledge (gift of Mr. Rutledge), and Denise Levertov. Additional
material of American literary interest may also be found in the following
smaller collections:
papers of author William B. Northrop, gift of
Mr. Northrop;
papers of playwright Mercedes de Acosta, gift of
Marion Parks;
Leonard Reed Collection, consisting of mimeographed
typescripts of plays, as prepared for production, by Eugene O'Neill and Arthur
Miller, among others, gift of Mr. Reed;
papers of author Michael Mooney, gift of Mr.
Mooney; and
papers of scholar William K. Wimsatt, gift of
Mrs. Wimsatt.
CONTINENTAL LITERATURE
Baron Robert Silvercruys Collection
The library of Robert Silvercruys, poet and
former Belgian ambassador to the United States, is rich in the fields of
Belgian history, law, and literature, with important holdings of the works of
Edmond Picard, Thomas Braun, and Marcel Thiry. Silvercruys' literary papers,
consisting of manuscripts and correspondence, are also part of the collection
as is a small portion of the archives of his father, Baron Franz Silvercruys,
President of the Belgian Cour de cassation. Of particular interest is
the original manuscript of Robert Silvercruys' Suite Nocturne and
a remarkable diary kept by his father while visiting America in 1926. Oliver
Wendell Holmes and William Howard Taft, as well as Picard, Braun, and Thiry
number among the significant correspondents.
St.-John Perse Collection
The library holds an extensive collection of
first and other important editions of the works of the French scholar-diplomat.
Printed books are supplemented by autograph manuscript materials, letters, and
related files in the Biddle Collection (described above).
Other Continental Literary Holdings
While the library historically has not placed
great emphasis on developing research collections in the various continental
literatures, it has acquired, over time, a number of collections and individual
items of importance, including:
the library of the American poet, critic, and
Spanish scholar, Thomas Walsh, with particular strength in turn-of-the-century
Hispanic poetry, in the library's general stacks, gift of Edward M. Walsh
and Lorna Gill Walsh;
the original manuscript, as sent, of Alessandro
Manzoni's 1823 letter to d'Azeglio "sulla Romantisme" (in the Woodstock College
Archives);
numerous letters written by Jacques Maritain to
Julie Kernan (described elsewhere), together with other letters and first
editions of his published works, including a series presented to John U. Nef
(gift of Nicholas B. Scheetz), in several different collections;
a long run of first and other important editions of
works by C. F. Ramuz, the Swiss novelist and Nobel Prize winner, including
presentation copies and a leaf of autograph manuscript, gift of Esther Tyler
Campbell;
the holograph manuscript of Eugène Ionesco's
play Le Maître, together with a group of letters by
him, the latter the gift of Roger D. Bensky;
a run of first editions of works by the German
novelist Jean Paul, gift of Sarah M. Bekker; and
the autograph manuscript of "Kaiser Karls
Rechtspruch," an apparently unpublished ballad by Friedrich Rueckert, gift
of Edith S. Mayfield.
JOURNALISM
Roscoe Drummond Papers
Correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, and
other materials comprise the papers of this famous syndicated Washington
columnist for (at various times) Christian Science Monitor,
New York Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times.
The collection includes, in the form of clippings, a substantial number of
Drummond's columns, together with correspondence from W. Averell Harriman,
J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Alf Landon, Dean Rusk, and Wendell Willkie,
among others.
Michael Amrine Papers
The Amrine papers contain a wealth of material
about his work on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in the
early days of the atomic era, together with extensive supplemental files
relating to his interest in urban affairs and mental health, and additional
material about his own writings, in particular his book on Lyndon Johnson,
This Awesome Challenge. The papers are supported by a group of 40
tape recordings of historic events and interviews.
All aspects of the career of this noted
broadcast journalist are documented in these papers. They consist of television
and radio scripts, research files, photographs, and extensive correspondence,
much of it viewer response to his television commentaries on ABC. Subjects
covered include elections, the American space effort, the attempted
assassination of Ronald Reagan, and many aspects of contemporary problems in
the Middle East.
André Visson Papers
Visson's career as an international
correspondent for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including
Reader's Digest, is well detailed in this large collection of
manuscripts and correspondence. The San Francisco meetings that produced the
United Nations are among the many subjects covered. Background material for
Visson's two significant books, The Coming Struggle for Peace
(1944) and As Others See Us (1948), is included, as are letters
from such correspondents as Sumner Welles, Brien McMahon, Michel Junot, Paul
Mellon, Paul-Henri Spaak, and Vladimir Dukelsky ("Vernon Duke").
A family friend, Count Guglielmo Marconi,
invited Lisa Sergio to be the first woman broadcaster in Europe, where she
became known as the "Golden Voice of Rome." This collection of correspondence,
manuscripts, and research files documents her eventful career as author,
translator, and broadcaster both in Italy and America. Included are letters by
Ernest Dimnet, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Coretta Scott King, Guglielmo Marconi,
Lise Meitner, Victoria Ocampo, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Dorothy Thompson, among
many others.
Other Journalism Holdings
Besides the papers of Anna M. Brady, Fulton
Oursler, Edwin Emerson, Richard Billings, Thomas Kernan, Russell Shaw and
others mentioned elsewhere, papers of the following individuals have particular
importance in this field:
LINGUISTICS
American Indian Languages
Among the library's collections are a variety of
historical manuscripts and printed books important to the study of American
Indian languages. Manuscripts range from a few prayers written in Piscataway
(Conoy) by Andrew White, S.J., about 1640--the only known manuscript in that
language--to a broad range of seventeenth to nineteenth century items in the
papers of John Gilmary Shea. The library's earliest book printed in America
(Molina's Vocabulario, Mexico, 1571) is embellished with
manuscript translations into an as yet unidentified Indian language, and among
Shea's library are more than 200 volumes (many, of course, portions of
Scripture) in several dozen Native American languages and a wealth of
nineteenth century printed material concerning Native American languages and
linguistics.
Arabic Script Manuscript Collection
The earliest Arabic script manuscript to have
come to Georgetown is a small Koran (in a local Joseph Milligan binding), a
gift of Susan Wheeler Decatur, said to have been acquired by her
husband, Stephen Decatur, while fighting in Tripoli. Among the more than a
dozen other manuscripts, in both Arabic and Persian, are several nineteenth
century Korans (in part the gifts of Charles Jackson Friedlander and of
August Velletri); a nineteenth century manuscript of Muhammad al-Gharnati's
Kitab Tuhfat al-Albab wa-Tahiyyat al-A'jab wa-'Aja'ib al-Dunya
(gift of Edward M. Walsh and Lorna Gill Walsh); a manuscript of Jalal
Al-Din Rumi's Masnavi (gift of A. Reza Arasteh); a
manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa (gift of Roderick M.
Engert); and a fine manuscript of the eighteenth century, illustrated with
miniatures: the Jami' al-tavarikh of historian Rashid al-Din
Tabib, the gift of Archibald Roosevelt, Jr. Additional Arabic script
manuscripts, including several of naval interest, are found in the Nicholas
Cleary Collection (gift of Mr. Cleary).
Zalles Celtic Collection
The main thrust of this collection housed in the
library's general stacks, consisting of over 1,000 books and journals and
incorporating the distinguished Celtic library of Robert T. Meyer, is Irish
language, history, and culture. But important subsets of the collection relate
to other Celtic languages such as Breton, Cornish, Scots Gaelic, and Welsh. The
collection has some special strength in the publications of a number of the
learned societies which have specialized in Celtic culture and linguistics.
Oriental Language Manuscripts
The library's holdings include a number of
manuscripts in various Oriental and Asian languages, ranging from a Batak text
on tree bark (gift of Ernest L. Prior) to a nineteenth century Japanese
script for the Noh narrative Yôkyohu (gift of Edward T.
Jemison), to a Burmese palm leaf manuscript of the Ava period (gift of
Ralph Katrosh). Among others are three nineteenth century Thai manuscripts,
including a text of the epic Phra 'Aphai Mani (gift of Anne
Lee Stewart), and a seventeenth century scroll in Japanese of the
Amidakyo, a Buddhist sutra of the Pure Land School. Japanese script
manuscripts by the novelist Shusaku Endo are noted elsewhere.
Albert Marckwardt Papers
The papers consist primarily of Marckwardt's
research notes, drafts of his various writings and speeches on linguistics and
linguistic education, and professional correspondence. Professor Marckwardt's
private library, added to the general collections, included such important
items as a complete set of The Linguistic Atlas of New England.
Other Linguistics Holdings
The major collections enumerated above are
supplemented by a variety of others, including extensive documentation of
Georgetown's own "Machine Translation Project," a pioneering effort in its
field; records of the Center for Applied Linguistics' LINCS projects, of an
urban language study, and of work done on contract for the Defense Language
Institute, all three gifts of the Center; research materials concerning a
Syrian Arabic grammar (gift of Wallace M. Erwin); the Easby-Smith
Collection of Greek lyric poetry (gift of James S. Easby-Smith); and
papers of Robert Stein, chiefly questionnaires (ca. 1910) regarding
possibilities for a "universal language."
Gift (papers) of the estate of Kathleen Maynard, through
the auspices of Rosemary Sheehan
ca. 1903-1956 * 18.00 linear feet
Gift of Sister Miriam, R.S.M.
1933-1945 * 0.25 linear foot
Gift of Miss Kernan, through the auspices of Margaret
Sullivan
1923-1987 * 4.50 linear feet
Gift of John Sylvester, Anne Sylvester, Joan Sylvester
Wise, and Clare Sylvester Strickler
ca. 1935-1985 * 15.00 linear feet
Gift of Mr. Hopkins in memory of Vincent Hopkins,
S.J.
ca. 1928-1992 * 6.00 linear feet
Gift of Mrs. Brady and Sister Mary Brady, R.S.C.J.
ca. 1940-1982 * 22.00 linear feet
Gift (in part) of Mr. Rice
1940-1991 * 30.00 linear feet
Gift of Mrs. Shrady
1951-1992 * 2.50 linear feet
ca. 1950-1982 * 4.50 linear feet
Gift of Mr. Shaw
ca. 1959-1995 * 10.50 linear feet
ca. 1850-1982 * 25.75 linear feet
1929-1960 * 0.50 linear foot
ca. 1820-1971 * 40.25 linear feet
ca. 1896-1974 * 21.00 linear feet
ca. 1928-1973 * 0.75 linear foot
Gift of Mr. Marshall, through the auspices of Sheila
Ferrar
ca. 1925-1987 * 21.00 linear feet
Gift of the Hon. Robert Jackson
ca. 1929-1981 * 20.25 linear feet
1928-1989 * 6.00 linear feet
1936-1992 * 0.50 linear foot
ca. 1935-1988 * 1.00 linear foot
Gift of Gina (Thompson) Colby, February 19, 1998.
1986-1990 * 0.25 linear foot
ca. 1929-1991 * 1.75 linear feet
ca. 1963-1981 * 1.50 linear feet
(Second section of the finding aid)
ca. 1957-1993 * 17.50 linear feet
Altogether, the library holds more than 400 original Waugh
letters. These are complemented by a very extensive and growing collection of
first and other significant editions of Waugh's published works.
ca. 1945-1981 * 18.00 linear feet
ca. 1935-1990 * 9.75 linear feet
1925-1978 * 21.75 linear feet
1925-1978 * ca. 1,100 items
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jeffs
1925-1988 * ca. 250 items
(Finding aid for addendum to the original gift)
ca. 1949-1983 * 2.00 linear feet
1980-1993 * 2.25 linear feet
Gift of Mrs. Brady
Gift of Mary Ziegler Fockler
Gift of Edith S. Mayfield
ca. 1856-1909 * 7.50 linear feet (papers only)
1889-1962 * 2.50 linear feet
Gift of Mr. Cylke
1904- * ca. 200 items
Gift of George M. and Penelope C. Barringer
1924- * ca. 1,000 items
ca. 1923-1964 * 1.00 linear foot
1918-1977 * 1.50 linear feet
see also the gift of Todd Haines
1930- * ca. 400 items
Gift of Henry I. Nowik
1935- * ca. 300 items
Gift of Frederick B. Scheetz and Nicholas B. Scheetz
1939-1967 * 3.00 linear feet
Gift of Mr. Cady
ca. 1790-1988 * ca. 4,600 volumes
1872-1890 * 0.25 linear foot
1850-1856 * 1.5 linear feet
Gift of the Marquesa Margaret Strong de Cuevas de
Larrain
Gift of Mr. Williams
ca. 1943-1982 * 1.50 linear feet
ca. 1938-1975 * 8.75 linear feet
Gift of Fulton Oursler, Jr.
1922-1955 * 39.50 linear feet
Gift of Hazel Marshall Seebode
ca. 1920-1958 * 28.50 linear feet (papers
only)
ca. 1930-1968 * 2.50 linear feet
Gift of Ellen Barry
1930-1949 * 6.00 linear feet
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph Biddle
ca. 1916-1980 * ca. 40 linear feet (papers
only)
see also the second accession.
1933-1991 * 2.25 linear feet
Gift of Laura Joost
ca. 1950-1980 * 15.00 linear feet
Gift of Col. and Mrs. Kent K. Parrot
1943-1985 * 6.50 linear feet
Gift of Mr. Blatty
ca. 1949-1970 * 3.00 linear feet
Gift of Mr. Oursler
ca. 1950-1990 * 7.50 linear feet
Gift of Ms. Burnham
1980-1994 * 16.50 linear feet
Gift of Mr. Atchity
ca. 1962-1994 * ca. 60.00 linear feet
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer, Eugene Meyer, and Deborah Meyer
DeWan
Gift of Patricia McMahon Fox
ca. 1885-1976 * 3.00 linear feet (papers only)
Gift of Carol Cramer Drummond
1909-1983 * 11.00 linear feet
Gift of Renée Amrine
1933-1974 * 45.00 linear feet
Gift of Mrs. Frank Reynolds
1965-1983 * 24.00 linear feet
Gift of Assia Visson
1936-1964 * 30.00 linear feet
Bequest of Miss Sergio
1937-1988 * 28.50 linear feet
ca. 1544-1900 * 0.75 linear foot
Gift of Rose Maguire Willoughby Saul Zalles
ca. 1688-1900 * 1.50 linear feet
Gift of Maybelle Marckwardt
ca. 1948-1975 * 22.50 linear feet
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