Nancy Pearn papers
Scope and Contents
The papers of Nancy Pearn, a literary agent in the magazine department of the London office of Curtis Brown, Ltd., consists of incoming letters and cards spanning the dates 1922 - 1951 from a variety of literary and scientific figures. The collection contains four letters from Curtis Brown, including his letter of June 26, 1922, in which he offers Pearn a position in his agency. Other correspondents include physical scientists James Hopwood Jeans and Arthur Stanley Eddington; philosophers and theologians such as W.R. Inge, Gerald Heard and Malcolm Muggeridge; and biographers, novelists, and playwrights such as Cynthia Asquith, Naomi Mitchison, Marghanita Laski, May Sinclair, Ellen Cicely Wilkinson, Clemence Dane, Somerset de Chair, Ronald Duncan, Susan Ertz, Kate O'Brien, Clare Sheridan, and R.C. Sherriff. The collection contains thirty autograph letters, eight typescript letters, five postcards, and two greeting cards, all of which are signed. Autograph notes, apparently in the hand of Nancy Pearn, appear on some of the letters. The letters in each folder are arranged chronologically.
Dates
- Creation: 1922-1951
Creator
- Pearn, Nancy (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research
Conditions Governing Use
Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, http://library.udel.edu/spec/askspec/
Extent
.33 linear foot
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The papers of Nancy Pearn, a literary agent in the magazine department of the London office of Curtis Brown, Ltd., consists of letters and cards from a variety of literary and scientific figures. The collection contains thirty autograph letters, eight typescript letters, five postcards, and two greeting cards, all of which are signed. Autograph notes, apparently in the hand of Nancy Pearn, appear on some of the letters. Also contained within are four letters from Curtis Brown, including his letter of June 26, 1922, in which he offers Pearn a position in his agency.
OCLC Number
Processing Information
Finding aid encoding by Lauren Connolly, May 2016.
- Title
- Finding aid for Nancy Pearn papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2016-05-23
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository