GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY L IBRARY SJi,S SQCIATES N E w 5 L E T T E R FALL 2002-NEWSLETTER 65 UPCOMING EVENTS THE JESUITS, PRO AND CON NOVEMBER 13 NewYork,NY NE OF THE RECENT SUCCESS STORIES IN THE RARE BOOK MARKET IS Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark Othe surge in the value of books relating to the Society of Jesus. When John Mellin Suspense Writing: was working in London around 1960, the same books that command impressive prices It's All in the Family The Metropolitan Club today were available for little indeed, perfect matches for a Jesuit-educated but not overly wealthy new collector. This July Mr. Mellin, at the urging of his son Dan (C'74), generously presented the library with more than 60 volumes, including some very rare Alice McDermott titles, in honor of Father Walter J. Burghardt, S. J. One the rarest is the anonymous Effigies et nomina quorundam e societate Iesu qui pro fide vel pietate sun iter facti ab anno 1549 ad annum 1607 (Rome, 1608), a very early if not the first Jesuit martyrology. A DECEMBER 5 poignant reminder of the Spanish Washington D.C. settlement of Florida in the 16th century is Alice McDermott Fiction as Parable the large number of Jesuits who died for ICC Auditorium the faith there, the first being Pedro Georgetown University Martinez, S.J., killed and "thrown into the DECEMBER 10 sea" on September 24, 1566. But Mr. Mellin Washington D.C. 2002 Holiday Party also collected items which portrayed the Georgetown University Jesuits in a less flattering light, and one of Riggs Library these, the Arcana societatis Iesu publico bono vulgata cum appendicibus utilissimis IN THIS ISSUE (No place, 1635), ranks among the black My Name is Red ...................... 2 tulips of anti-Jesuit literature. Builders of Monuments .......... 3 Gift of Wine ............................. 3 Closer to home, the collection The Phenomenon includes a far from pretty, but complete of Teilhard .... .. ... ...................... 4 and usable, copy of one of the rarities of MA.~TfINEZ .n.u ..Mc >..Jr~ ""L The Library Goes Wireless ..... 4 S(Je ..M su iff Fhrir/a }trtJ Chrijlrj"ilr 18th century Catholic Americana, Patrick In Memoriam ....... ................... 4 CPllMtd I!t l i t nldrc a't-irtws. 2_+. Infrequently Asked Smyth's The Present State of the Catholic Questions ....................... .. .. ..... 5 Mission, Conducted by the Ex-Jesuits in The first Jesuit martyr in North America, Riggs in the 1930s ....... ........... 5 North-America (Dublin, 1788), a scathing from Effigies, 1608 From the Vault ....................... 6 attack on the Jesuit reliance on farms for Exhibits .. .... .... ......... ..... ........ .. 6 Visions in Copper and Wood .. 7 their support and on their principal spokesman, John Carroll, in particular. In passing, WRLC ...................................... 7 Smyth (an Irish priest) provides a great deal of information about the Catholic settlers A Note of Appreciation ..... ... ... 8 around Frederick, Maryland, in the course of a long interview with their priest, the GOCard and Photocopying ..... 8 German ex-Jesuit James Frambach. ,., What If! Want to Contribute? ..................... .... 8 From the University Librarian T he Georgetown University Library Associates Newsletter My NAME IS RED is issued four times a year. It is distributed to all Library This September I had the opportunity to join all our entering freshmen in reading Orhan Associates, members of the Pamuk's My Name is Red. Thanks to a grant from the Watson Foundation,* the Association of Research University sponsored the First Year Student Academic Workshop in which all freshmen Libraries (ARL), members of participated, and I was invited to lead one ofthe group discussions on the book. the Georgetown University Board of Directors, Board of Orhan Pamuk, award-winning fiction writer from Istanbul and an artist in his own Regents, Board of Governors, right, was on campus to take part in the workshop. His complex and absorbing book about and selected others. murder, intrigue, love, jealousies, philosophy, BENiM culture and religion is set in the world of 16th­ century Turkish miniaturist painters and Chair of the Library illustrators for the Ottoman court. Pamuk's dense Advisory Council and detailed writing offers evocative "word David J. Walsh (C '58) paintings" and "parables," which serve as a guide to the Eastern and Islamic ideals in art and culture. University Librarian Written entirely in the first person, each chapter is Artemis Kirk narrated by a different character, including even a dog and a tree. Mter a good discussion with "my" students, Editor during which we explored what each of us took away Stephanie Hughes from the novel, we convened in Gaston Hall to hear the author himself discuss how and why he wrote Arts Editor My Name is Red. Georgetown students, ever gifted, David C. Alan asked Pamuk impressive questions, one of which made the author wish that he had incorporated the student's idea in his book. Contributors David C. Alan Orhan Pamuk, trained in Western art techniques, wanted specifically to write a Marty Barringer fictional chronicle of the lives of the incredible artists and their genuine pursuit of truth Marji Bayers through Eastern art. But Pam uk told his audience that he, raised in a secular family, Heather Bourk didn't know much about Islamic art and miniaturist artists. He therefore spent many Abby Drivdahl months in careful and thorough research, using the resources of art museums and Caroline Griswold libraries. The resulting richness of the book is testament to the role that libraries play Stephanie Hughes even in fiction. Pamuk's own persistence in pursuit of the truth that would enable him to Mark Jacobs write fiction renewed my appreciation for libraries as both curators of cultural heritage Artemis Kirk and as inspiration for the creation of new knowledge. Jodie Roussell A student should be able to sate her curiosity about any topic of My Name is Red-or Scott Taylor indeed of any subject, just as Pamuk did-by exploring our library's many materials, in a LuLen Walker variety of formats. Georgetown's library will continue to collect broadly and deeply, so that future creators may be enlightened and encouraged in creativity. Collecting is, and will Designer remain, an important element of our mission. You can view the archive of Orhan Pamuk's Laurie L. England first session talk at http://webcast.georgetown.edU/. t.. ..; Printed on recycled paper If you have any comments, Artemis G. Kirk suggestions, criticisms, or University Librarian compliments about this Newsletter, please contact the *In memory of Kathleen Watson Adams (1917-1997) and Arthur Harvey Adams (1916-1999), Library Associates Editor at parents of Kathy Adams Baczko (SLL '68) and Judith Adams Halter (CAS '80). (202) 687-9459 or via e-mail at [email protected]. 2 LIBRARY ASSOCIATES · Fall 2002 BUILDERS OF MONUMENTS "WINE IS SUNLIGHT, "Happy are the dead and their biographers who have left materials for the building of HELD TOGETHER their monument." Thus observed Alexander Tremaine Wright to William John By WATER." Carlton. Happily too, the Wright portion of their 1909-1915 correspondence has survived - GAll LEO GAll LEI to be donated to Special Collections by Nicholas B. Scheetz C'74. Wright's letters reveal that they shared a grand passion - the history and bibliography of shorthand. The correspondence gives a glimpse into the small English fraternity of researchers active in the field at the beginning of the century. C(l",,~U.L&W·'t;"r .!.' //"",,, '7 J,,,,, II ( (;"Ollf"~"() """"t.I'I$. Throughout the letters, references are made to .;-/f. ¥_"/f-////..2. significant figures in shorthand's history, among them Jeremiah Rich, William Addy, Julius Ensign Rockwell, Christian Johnen, John Willis and Lawrence Steel; auctions are discussed, publications commented on, and even researches detailed. Years later, William John Carlton (1886- T he Library would like to 1960) gained renown for his extensive thank Robert M. Wagner collection of some 15,000 works in shorthand, F'48 for his generous donation of 40 cases of which rivaled in breadth and depth the New Georgetown University York Public Library's collection and that of the Chardonnay and Cabernet Stenographisches Landesamt in Dresden. A Sauvignon to the Library long article in the Times Literary Supplement Associates program. describes its generous donation to the The wine was delivered to University of London in 1960. Carlton was also us through the good offices a noted Dickensian. His research and writings, of Billy Thomassen, son of particularly on Charles Dickens' youth and Mr. Wagner's Georgetown early career as a shorthand reporter in classmate George the courts of London, illuminate the least Thomassen F'48, in time to known phases of that author's life. Both Carlton's Charles Dickens, Shorthand Writer: be enjoyed at the first of this year's Library Associates The Prentice Days of a Master Craftsman (1926) and Links with Dickens in the Isle events. of Man (1958) are found in the library's famed Ziegler-Dickens Collection. Moreover, the correspondence is a happy complement to the large collection of shorthand books Mr. Wagner says he "did this because of Paul formed by the late Adolph Gerstenzang, donated to Special Collections by his nephew, Anthony 8'64," who ja, Doug Gersten. approached him on the subject at the John Carroll A wards Weekend in Paris in P AMUK SPEAKS AT GEORGETOWN April, 2002, and because "reading is the key to "A novel is something like a food, or a dish, that I can say that I cooked it; I put in some knowledge, and knowledge is onions, some tomatoes, some olive oil, this or that. And I can tell you what my intentions the key to success." were when I was cooking this dish, but I cannot tell you how it tastes.