Nancy Price Correspondence, 1860-1966 (mostly 1900-1955)

The collection consists of about 1500 letters to Price relating to her career as an actress and as founder and manager of the People's National Theatre (London). Represented in the collection are nobility, royalty, and people in theater, film, the world of letters, music, art, the professions, government, and the armed services. Correspondents include Clement R. Attlee, Sir Frank Benson, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Lord Dunsany, Sir Edward Elgar, W. E. Gladstone, H. B. Irving, Queen Mary, Eden Phillpotts, Sir Arthur W. Pinero, Bernard Shaw, members of the Terry family, and W. B. Yeats. In addition, there are some photographs, poems by Lord Dunsany and Eden Phillpotts, and several letters to persons other than Price including four by Jenny Lind, the grandmother of Charles Maude, Price's husband, to her friend Catherine Winkworth, an advocate of higher education for women, discussing concert schedules and English tastes in music.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

Collection Creator Biography:

Price

Nancy Price was an English stage and film actress and author. Additionally, Price founded and managed the People's National Theatre (London).

Acquisition:: Purchased from David Polmes in 1988.
Appraisal: No appraisal information is available.

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Nancy Price Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-6

Related Materials: West Sussex Record Office (England) holds a substantial collection of archives and ephemera relating to Nancy Price, her work and her various interests, including a full set of the People's National Theatre Magazine (later Pedlar's Pack: West Sussex Record Office, County Hall, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1RN, England.
Subject Terms:: Actors -- England. -- Correspondence
Actresses -- England. -- Correspondence
Authors, English. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Cabinet officers -- Great Britain. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Clergy -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Critics -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Dramatists, English. -- Correspondence
Lawyers -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Musicians -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Nobility -- Great Britain. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Novelists, English. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Painters -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Physicians -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Poets, English. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Politicians -- Great Britain. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Queens -- Great Britain. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Sculptors -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Singers -- Sweden. -- 19th century -- Correspondence
Soldiers -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Theater -- England -- History. -- 20th century
Theater critics -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Theater management -- England -- London. -- 20th century
Theatrical managers -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Theatrical producers and directors -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Names:: People's National Theatre
Waller, Lewis (1860-1915)
Places:: Great Britain -- Queens. -- 20th century -- Correspondence