Series 5 - Writing Compositions and Letters to the Press


Date Range1920 - 2007
Quantity25.2 cm, 18 Files
ProvenanceNancye Enid Kent Perry
Description

Series 5 contains a small quantity of material pertaining to Nancye Kent Perry's diverse writing projects and activities. It includes items of correspondence, which she wrote from a young age, as well as poetry.

Many of the records in Series 5 date from Nancye Perry's early life, in particular the 1930s-1950s period. There are also three files of working papers from Child of the 'Twenties: Girl of the 'Thirties, Nancye Perry's memoir of her youth, which was published in 2001.


Inventory Listing

PERR00092 News Clippings and Photos addressed to Mrs. Palmer Kent, 1946-1950
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1946 - 1950    Quantity 3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier PERR00092 Series Box Number 20 Series 5
PERR00093 Correspondence and News Clippings to Mrs Palmer Kent, 1947-1951
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1947 - 1951    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier PERR00093 Series Box Number 20 Series 5
PERR00094 'Photocopies of Treasured Letters and Related Press Clippings, etc, 1930-84'
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1930 - 1984    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier PERR00094 Series Box Number 20 Series 5
PERR00097 Photocopies of News Clippings and Diary Notes, 1936-1998
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1936 - 1998    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier PERR00097 Series Box Number 20 Series 5
PERR00116 Lawn Tennis Championships, 1950 and other material
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1948 - 1950    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier PERR00116 Series Box Number 20 Series 5
PERR00117 Box Containing Correspondence - Nancy Kent Christmas 1934
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1927 - 1938    Quantity 4.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier PERR00117 Series Box Number 20 Series 5
PERR00119 Correspondence and News Clippings Relating to N. K. P's garden party at Buckingham Palace and with the Governer General of Victoria
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1946 - 1958    Quantity 2.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier PERR00119 Series Box Number 20 Series 5
PERR00133 'N.K.P's Letters to the Press, 1936-'
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1956 - 1994, Includes photocopy of record dated 1936    Quantity 3.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier PERR00133 Series Box Number 20 Series 5
PERR00414 'Abbotsleigh - Donations'
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1985 - 2005    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier PERR00414 Series Box Number 45 Series 5
PERR00440 Newspaper Clipping on Language 'Bright Sparcs'
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range c. 2005    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier PERR00440 Series Box Number 21 Series 5
PERR00441 'National Anthem'
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1973    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier PERR00441 Series Box Number 21 Series 5
PERR00442 'Liberal Party of Australia'
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1993    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier PERR00442 Series Box Number 21 Series 5
PERR00645 'Riverina Drought and Other Verses by Nancye Kent' and other Papers
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1927 - 2007    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier PERR00645 Series Box Number 21 Series 5
PERR00651 Politics
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1993?    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier PERR00651 Series Box Number 21 Series 5
PERR00678 'Nancye Kent Perry Journal 1992-'
Includes draft chapter of autobiography
Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1992 - 2001    Quantity 1 cm, 1 File
Inventory Identifier PERR00678 Series Box Number 21 Series 5
PERR00898 Child of the 'Twenties: Girl of the 'Thirties, Nancye Kent Perry - Working Papers
Contains 'Handbook for Victorian Writers' and Copies of Photographs

This inventory item includes the following papers:
- 'Handbook for Victorian Writers', revised and edited by Bev Roberts and Kristin Henry, published in 1990 by the Victorian Writers' Centre Inc. Annotated copy. Includes Nancye Kent Perry's bookplate, pasted into inside front cover. The Victorian Writers' Centre was established in 1989 to support writers;
- Photocopied photographs of Nancye Kent Perry, her family, her dogs etc. Includes photographs of Nancye and her sister Pauline as children. Working copies. For preservation reasons, these papers have been removed from the unlabelled envelope and folder in which they were originally housed.

The contents of this inventory item were originally housed in the front pocket of the satchel located in Inventory Item PERR00901 in Series 1 of the Perry Collection.

Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1920s - 1990    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 Folder
Formats General Publications and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PERR00898 Series Box Number 89 Series 5
PERR00899 Child of the 'Twenties: Girl of the 'Thirties, Nancye Kent Perry - Working Papers
Includes Research Notes and Copied Extracts About Writing Practices

This inventory item contains the following papers:
- Handwritten notes that begin 'CAE [Centre for Adult Education?] - Nial [sic] Brennan - 13/9/82'. Notes appear to describe possible source materials, titles, key biographical events and other subjects relevant to Nancye Kent Perry's autobiographical project;
- Published extracts from books about writing and writers. Books include Writing Fiction by G. Disher, and The Writing Book by Kate Grenville;
- Photocopied photographs. Photographs look to be of Nancye and her sister Pauline, c.1920s;
- Annotated diagram of a human figure. Annotations begin 'Who am I? from the inside - Who is he/she from the 'outside'';
- And other similar papers.

For preservation reasons, these papers have been removed from the unlabelled envelope in which they were originally housed. The contents of this inventory item were originally housed in the front pocket of the satchel located in Inventory Item PERR00901 in Series 1 of the Perry Collection.

Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1920s - 1991    Quantity 1 cm, 1 Folder
Formats Diagrams, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier PERR00899 Series Box Number 89 Series 5
PERR00900 Child of the 'Twenties: Girl of the 'Thirties, Nancye Kent Perry - Working Papers
Includes Research Notes and Writing Samples

This inventory item contains the following papers:
- 'CAE [Centre for Adult Education] - Mary Manning - 13.10.92'. This inventory item includes assorted notes from writing courses;
- Draft fragment, in Nancye Kent Perry's hand, that begins 'Alternative opening'. Single notepad sheet;
- 'Memories of what makes childhood', The Age, Wednesday 22 January 1992;
A Membership Application form for the Victorian Writers' Centre;
- '"The Blooding of Lawford Harvery," by Lady Paula Howard, (copyright) P.O. Box 307, Toorak Village, Australia 3142. Typescript, four pages;
- And other similar records.

For preservation reasons, these papers have been removed from the folder inscribed 'N. E. K. Perry' in which they were originally housed. The contents of this inventory item were originally housed in the middle pocket of the satchel located in Inventory Item PERR00901 in Series 1 of the Perry Collection.

Creator Nancye Enid Kent Perry
Date range 1992    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 Folder
Formats Drafts, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Photocopied Documents and Forms
Inventory Identifier PERR00900 Series Box Number 89 Series 5

Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre, March 2010
Listed by Anne Holloway, Michael Jones, Gavan McCarthy, Ailie Smith, Jenny Smith, Rachel Tropea and Ann McCarthy
HTML edition
Updated 19 December 2012
http://www.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/perr/PERS005.htm

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