Box: 1 Fold: 1 Early Life (1889-1925) Box: 1 Fold: 2 Inauguration as Pres. of Georgetown Box: 1 Fold: 3 Inauguration as Pres. of Georgetown Box: 1 Fold: 4 Inauguration as Pres. of Georgetown Box: 1 Fold: 5 Retreat Correspondence, 1928-1935 Box: 1 Fold: 6 General Correspondence, 1929
Box: 1 Fold: 7 General Correspondence, 1930
Box: 1 Fold: 8 General Correspondence, 1930 Box: 1 Fold: 9 Correspondence Re Other Educational Institutions, 1930 Box: 1 Fold: 10 General Correspondence, 1930
Box: 1 Fold: 11 Articles & Correspondence Re Vergil & S. Bolivar Box: 1 Fold: 12 General Correspondence, 1931 Box: 2 Fold: 1 Correspondence Re Other Educational Institutions, 1931 Box: 2 Fold: 2 General Correspondence, 1932 Box: 2 Fold: 3 Correspondence Re Other Educational Institutions, 1932 Box: 2 Fold: 4 General Correspondence, 1932 Box: 2 Fold: 5 Correspondence Re Other Educational Institutions, 1933 Box: 2 Fold: 6 General Correspondence, 1933 Box: 2 Fold: 7 General Correspondence, 1934 Box: 2 Fold: 8 General Correspondence, 1934 Box: 2 Fold: 9 General Correspondence, 1935-1936 Box: 2 Fold: 10 Correspondence Re Other Educational Institutions Box: 3 Fold: 1 "Through Japan and the Orient" Box: 3 Fold: 2 "Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice, and Milan" Box: 3 Fold: 3 Correspondence Re World Travel Box: 3 Fold: 4 Correspondence, 1935 Box: 3 Fold: 5 Draft of MS, Part I Box: 3 Fold: 6 Draft of MS, Part II Box: 3 Fold: 7 "Through Japan and the Orient," 2nd copy Box: 3 Fold: 8 Drafts and MS Fragments Box: 3 Fold: 9 Foreign Government Decorations Box: 4 Fold: 1 Scrapbook Re Fr. Miguel Pro Juarez in Mexico, 1927 Box: 4 Fold: 2 Washington Social Life, 1930-1935 Box: 4 Fold: 3 U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors, 1934 and 1935 Box: 4 Fold: 4 U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors, 1935 Box: 4 Fold: 5 Leaving Georgetown University, 1934-1935
Box: 4 Fold: 6 MS of Re Horace for National Geographic, 1935 Box: 4 Fold: 7 New York, 1935-1939 Box: 4 Fold: 8 Travel to Caribbean on S.S. America, 1940 Box: 4 Fold: 9 New York, 1939-1941 Box: 4 Fold: 10 Georgetown, Scranton, and NYC, 1942-1955 Box: 4 Fold: 11 Death -Regarding Box: 5 Fold: 1 George Washington Birthday Celebrations Box: 5 Fold: 2 George Washington Birthday Celebrations Box: 5 Fold: 3 George Washington Birthday Celebrations Box: 5 Fold: 4 George Washington Birthday Celebrations Box: 5 Fold: 5 George Washington Birthday Celebrations Box: 5 Fold: 6 Relief for Jesuits in Poland, 1939-1941 Box: 5 Fold: 7 Relief for Jesuits in Poland, 1941 Box: 6 Fold: 1 List of Buyers of "Miniatures of Georgetown," 1935-1937 Box: 6 Fold: 2 Galleys, Chaps. 1-6, "Miniatures of Georgetown"
DATE SPAN: 06/23/1889 - 08/26/1924
DESCRIPTION: First communion certificate, scattered correspondence, verses, and copies of newspaper clippings.
DATE SPAN: 10/06/1928 - 01/14/1929
DESCRIPTION: Congratulation letters and telegrams upon announcement of appointment as president of Georgetown; invitations to event; copies of clippings; poems; misc. photos.
DATE SPAN: 10/27/1928 - 10/27/1928
DESCRIPTION: Program, invitation, instructions to delegates, and published addresses.
DATE SPAN: 01/08/1928 - 10/27/1928
DESCRIPTION: Letters and telegrams of congratulation; clippings; menu.
DATE SPAN: 09/13/1928 - 09/21/1935
DESCRIPTION: Letters, incoming and outgoing, concerning retreats in which Nevils participated or conducted.
DATE SPAN: 01/08/1929 - 12/25/1929
DESCRIPTION: Letters incoming and outgoing, 1929
DATE SPAN: 01/03/1930 - 05/16/1930
DESCRIPTION: Letters received and sent, January - May 1930
DATE SPAN: 01/03/1930 - 05/16/1930
DESCRIPTION: General correspondence and miscellany, 1930.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1930 - 11/04/1930
DESCRIPTION: Letters received and send to personal acquaintances, generally those involved in higher education in the U.S. and Europe.
DATE SPAN: 06/14/1930 - 12/31/1930
DESCRIPTION: Letters and telegrams sent and received, clippings, and certificates, last half of 1930.
DATE SPAN: 03/01/1810 - 01/05/1931
DESCRIPTION: Offprints of "National Geographic" (journal) article on Vergil, and "America" (journal) article on Simon Bolivar, both 1930.
DATE SPAN: 01/05/1931 - 12/26/1931
DESCRIPTION: Letters received and sent; certificates, documents, and forms.
DATE SPAN: 01/05/1931 - 12/13/1931
DESCRIPTION: Letters received and sent to friends and acquaintances at other institutions.
DATE SPAN: 01/04/1932 - 04/28/1932
DESCRIPTION: Letters sent and received, clippings, membership cards and certificates, Jan - Apr 1932.
DATE SPAN: 01/06/1932 - 10/12/1932
DESCRIPTION: Personal correspondence relating to other educational institutions.
DATE SPAN: 12/26/1931 - 12/31/1932
DESCRIPTION: General correspondence and miscellany.
DATE SPAN: 01/06/1933 - 11/15/1933
DESCRIPTION: Personal correspondence relating to other educational institutions.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1933 - 12/18/1933
DESCRIPTION: General correspondence and miscellany.
DATE SPAN: 01/17/1934 - 04/27/1934
DESCRIPTION: General correspondence and miscellany.
DATE SPAN: 05/06/1934 - 12/29/1934
DESCRIPTION: General correspondence and miscellany.
DATE SPAN: 01/10/1935 - 11/21/1936
DESCRIPTION: General correspondence and miscellany.
DATE SPAN: 02/17/1934 - 06/09/1936
DESCRIPTION: Personal correspondence relating to other educational institutions.
DATE SPAN: 10/01/1934 - 03/01/1935
DESCRIPTION: Typewritten MS of 103 pp. Called "Vol. I" of the written description of the trip. The MS has some of the traits of travel writing, but with a strong travel-diary flavor.
DATE SPAN: 11/01/1934 - 01/01/1935
DESCRIPTION: Approximately 100 page typescript describing author's travels in Italy, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, and across the Atlantic to New York. He had never been to Europe before and thus his first major journey was around the world, visiting Asia first.
DATE SPAN: 06/06/1934 - 12/26/1934
DESCRIPTION: Letters announcing that WCN will go to Tokyo for the International Red Cross Conference. Mementoes of the trip, programs of the conference.
DATE SPAN: 01/07/1935 - 03/18/1935
DESCRIPTION: Stories published, letters sent and received just after completion of round-the-world trip in early 1935.
DATE SPAN: 11/01/1934 - 01/15/1935
DESCRIPTION: First draft, apparently typed by Nevils on ship, of MS covering trip from Japan to Naples on Japanese ship.
DATE SPAN: 11/10/1934 - 03/01/1935
DESCRIPTION: Draft of MSS entitled through Japan and the Orient, and the one on Naples, Rome, Flkorence, Venice, and Milan.
DATE SPAN: 11/01/1934 - 03/01/1935
DESCRIPTION: MS "Through Japan and the Orient," second copy.
DATE SPAN: 11/01/1934 - 03/01/1935
DESCRIPTION: Draft and partial copies of round-the-world MS.
DATE SPAN: 10/21/1930 - 03/17/1954
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence, clippings, recollections, and miscellany concerning the half-dozen decorations bestowed upon Nevils by foreign governments, largely during this time as president of Georgetown.
DATE SPAN: 11/23/1927 - 07/01/1942
DESCRIPTION: Small notebook converted into a scrapbook carrying several photos and a confused description of the execution of three men in Mexico, D.F. on 23 Nov 1927 for the attempt on the life of Pres. Obregon. Sent to Fr. Nevils, "Archivist of Georgetown University," by Mary D. Kenna of New York City in 1942 in gratitude for his rectorship of St. Ignatius Loyola High School in that city.
DATE SPAN: 01/07/1930 - 04/30/1935
DESCRIPTION: Clippings, invitations, social notes, and calling cards concerning Washington social life, largely in the international community, during Nevils's last five years as Georgetown president.
DATE SPAN: 02/16/1934 - 04/30/1935
DESCRIPTION: Printed materials, letters, programs, and misc. pertaining to Rev. Nevils's two years of service on the Naval Academy Board of visitors. The Board met in Annapolis, conducted an inspection for one week each spring beginning in late April, and issued a report.
DATE SPAN: 05/02/1935 - 10/10/1935
DESCRIPTION: U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors, 1935.
DATE SPAN: 06/11/1934 - 08/14/1935
DESCRIPTION: Petitions, letters, clippings, and misc. pertaining to Nevils's publicized transfer from Georgetown after the usual six-years to another post. Referring to difficulties caused by the Depression, some alumni urged Nevil's retention.
DATE SPAN: 03/01/1935 - 03/10/1936
DESCRIPTION: Typed MS of, and several letters referring to, an article on Horace that Nevils wrote which was published in the National Geographic magazine ca. December 1935.
DATE SPAN: 12/27/1935 - 07/17/1939
DESCRIPTION: Letters, clippings, and misc. pertaining to Nevils's first years after Georgetown, as pastor in New York and rector of two schools.
DATE SPAN: 11/18/1940 - 12/04/1940
DESCRIPTION: Letters, brochures, and hand-outs pertaining to Nevils' cruise as a Chaplain on the S.S. America of the United States Lines on a cruise New York--Caribbean--New York in December 1940. While Pres. of Georgetown he had declined a similar offer by another company to cruise to the North Cape, pleading the press of duty.
DATE SPAN: 12/25/1939 - 12/25/1941
DESCRIPTION: Cards, letters, programs, and miscellany from Nevils's last three years in New York before his brief return to Georgetown as archivist and director of libraries.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1942 - 07/15/1955
DESCRIPTION: Letters, clippings, and misc. from brief period back in Washington as archivist at Georgetown, president of Univ. of Scranton (1942-1947), and final years at Campion House in New York until his death in 1955.
DATE SPAN: 10/12/1955 - 07/15/1964
DESCRIPTION: Telegrams and letters pertaining to death of Fr. Nevils and memorials and gifts for him.
DATE SPAN: 01/15/1925 - 11/15/1928
DESCRIPTION: Although in Nevils's Papers, he is not mentioned in this material. This folder holds information on the several years of background on the Washington bicentennial celebration of 1932. Circulars, news bulletins, invitations, and some letters of transmission to Georgetown's president comprise the bulk of the material. The celebrations were promoted and conducted by the traditional patriotic organizations.
DATE SPAN: 01/09/1929 - 12/28/1931
DESCRIPTION: This material covers the last of the series of annual Washington birthday celebrations dating from the late 1920s, and began to focus on the celebration of the bicentennial of his birth in 1932. Nevils's was involved mostly as president of Georgetown, but apparently was not much interested in this project. Material mailed from the organizers comprise the bulk of the folder; there are few answers from Georgetown.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1932 - 07/01/1932
DESCRIPTION: Printed souvenir materials pertaining to Geo Washington bicentennial birthday, 1932, in Wash DC. Included are copies of a G.U. leaflet of its "Bicentennial Exhibit" of colonial and Washington material. A certain amount of hucksterism is evident in this material.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1932 - 07/01/1932
DESCRIPTION: Printed materials that appeared as a part of the Washington bicentennial birthday celebration. Hucksterism is in evidence here.
DATE SPAN: 01/01/1932 - 01/12/1934
DESCRIPTION: Invitations, lists, letters, cards, and misc. pertaining to Nevils's activities with the 1932 George Washington bicentennial birthday celebration. Commercialism prominently evident in this event.
DATE SPAN: 11/12/1939 - 03/19/1941
DESCRIPTION: Nevils was active in obtaining and having sent to Poland various kinds of relief, esp. for Jesuits, from the time part of the country was occupied by Germany until U.S. entry into World War II. Documents concern commercial supliers of relief packages, the American Assistancy of the Society of Jesus, correspondence with Rome, and information on contributions.
DATE SPAN: 04/02/1941 - 01/09/1942
DESCRIPTION: Material concerning the 1941 effort to relieve the Jesuits in Poland.
DATE SPAN: 02/20/1935 - 09/27/1937
DESCRIPTION: A ledger listing those who bought, or were given, the library ed. of "Miniatures"; 1,014 copies were disposed of.
DATE SPAN: 07/01/1934 - 03/01/1935
DESCRIPTION: Galleys of first 6 chaps., used for proofing and indexing.
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