Reference code: GB-0033-CSU-D15
Title: Nancy Pollard Brown Papers
Dates of creation: 1923-2015
Extent: 20 boxes
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Nancy Pollard Brown (1921-2015)
Language:
English
Nancy Pollard-Brown (née Grose) was a pioneer in the literary studies of recusant history and, especially, the poet and Jesuit priest, St Robert Southwell (1561-1595). Born in Newton Abbot, Devon, she took her BA and MA degrees at Westcott
College, University of London, developing an interest in recusant history after completing her MA thesis on the life and work of the author and Catholic priest, Richard Stanihurst. Her first professional role after postgraduate studies was teaching
at Cheltenham Ladies' College, after which she took up a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University. She taught at Trinity College, Washington University, for the rest of her working life (1959-1986). Nancy developed a reputation as an inspiring
educator, receiving a national award for her teaching from the Danforth Foundation in 1966 and an honorary professorship on her retirement. Her publications were modest but influential. Her first major monograph was
The poems of Robert Southwell, published in 1967, followed six years later by
Two Letters and Short Rules of a Good Life. Her most innovative work was the article
“Paperchase: the dissemination of Catholic texts in Elizabethan England”, published in the inaugural issue of
English Manuscript Studies in 1989, which tracked the dissemination of
Catholic texts via the paper that was used for them. She spent her later years in Oxford, developing a friendship with her neighbour, T. A. Birrell, who was also a distinguished scholar of recusant history. She died in 2015.
Papers of Nancy Pollard Brown, including correspondence relating to her research with notable academics including Professor Danilo Aguzzi-Barbagli, Professor Tom A. Birrell, Dr Vincent B. Leitch, Fr Cyprian Lynch, and Professor Louis L. Martz;
draft manuscripts of her monographs and articles; transcripts of lectures and conference papers; working papers including full transcriptions of documents relating to Robert Southwell; notes and card indexes on various aspects of recusant history;
photographs (mostly personal); and other personal papers.
Donated by Bob Grose, June 2016, with a further donation, January 2019
Open for consultation.
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1. Correspondence
(a) By Correspondent
(b) By Subject
(c) Other Correspondence
2. Trinity College Papers
3. Draft Publications
(a) Monographs
(b) Articles by NPB
(c) Articles by Others
(d) Book Chapters
4. Lectures and Conference Papers
5. Working Papers
(a) Document Transcriptions
(b) Research Papers
(c) Card Indexes
6. Photographs
7. Personal Papers
8. Printed Material
Clean duplicates have been removed.
A series of notebooks of Nancy's poetry are expected in due course
Shell, Alison, and Davidson, Peter, “Nancy Pollard Brown (1921–2015)”,
British Catholic History, vol. 33(1), pp. 9-11 (2016)
1. Correspondence(a) By Correspondent
Arranged alphabetically by surname
D15/A1/1 10 January 1978 – 30 December 1988
Correspondence between Nancy Pollard Brown (NPB) and Professor Danilo Aguzzi-Barbagli (Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, University of British Columbia): research trips and enquiries, mostly on source material for her projected
book on the prose of Robert Southwell
1 file
D15/A1/2 27 January 1986 – 11 May 1991
Correspondence between NPB and Peter Beal (Sotheby's): research and publication of an article on the dissemination of Catholic manuscripts for the journal
English Manuscript Studies
Also includes correspondence with Rt Rev Michael J. Kirkham (Rector of Oscott College)
1 file
D15/A1/3 26 November 2005 – 2011
Letters from Professor Tom A. Birrell (editor of
English Studies) to NPB: mostly photocopies of his articles and obituaries of Birrell following his death in 2011
1 file
D15/A1/4 7 October 1993 – 29 May 2000
Correspondence between NPB and others with Vittorio F. Cavalli: mostly concerning a research enquiry on Robert Southwell’s translation of Diego de Estella’s
Hundred meditations on the love of God
Includes NPB’s research notes on the subject
1 file
D15/A1/5 3, 16 August & 16 December 1955
Letters from Rev Christopher Devlin (Roehampton) to NPB: mostly on the publication of his work
The Life of Robert Southwell: poet and martyr (1956)
3 letters
D15/A1/6 24 October 1968 – 14 April 1970
Correspondence between NPB and Jan M. Dyroff: research enquiries, including on the subject of Richard Stanihurst
1 file
D15/A1/7 26 September 1981 – 2010
Letters to NPB from Ilona E. Ellinger: mostly of a personal nature with detailed descriptions of her life
2 files
D15/A1/8 26 April 1997 – 11 August 1998
Letters from Ralph A. Hack to NPB, with photocopies of articles and newspaper cuttings: his work on Sir Robert Southwell
1 file
D15/A1/9 27 September 1979 – 25 July 1980
Letters from Geoffrey Hall to NPB: his article entitled
“The absolute reasonableness of Robert Southwell”
1 file
D15/A1/10 13 December 1976 – 13 July 1980
Letters from Bob Grose (NPB’s nephew) to NPB: mostly of a personal nature with family news
1 file
D15/A1/11 26 March 2000 – October 2003
Correspondence between NPB and Gerard Kilroy: feedback on his thesis on Edward Campion
Includes copy of chapter 3 of the thesis
1 file
D15/A1/12 17 March & 4 April 1974
Letter from Dr Vincent B. Leitch (Department of English, Mercer University): his paper on
“Robert Southwell: poet of spiritual desolation”
2 letters
D15/A1/13 5 January 1961 – 3 November 2000
Correspondence between NPB and Fr Cyprian Lynch, O.F.M. (Franciscan scholar): mostly research enquiries on Robert Southwell and spirituality
1 file
D15/A1/14 25 March 1958 – 28 December 1961
Correspondence between NPB and Professor Louis L. Martz (Department of English, Yale University), as well as letters to others: mostly asking for advice for NPB’s book on Southwell’s poems
1 file
D15/A1/15 26 February 1990 – 13 November 2002
Correspondence between NPB and Thomas McCoog, S.J.: mostly research enquiries on Robert Southwell
1 file
D15/A1/16 20 August 1981 – 3 July 2012
Correspondence between NPB and Tessa B. Mehalek: mostly letters of a personal nature
2 files
D15/A1/17 3 May 1990
Letter from Iain Moir (Senior Editor of Gregg Publishing) to NPB: sending a catalogue of recusant history works
1 letter
D15/A1/18 December 2013 – 14 March 2014
Sr Anne O’Donnell to NPB: two personal letters and a book review
1 file
D15/A1/19 21 January – 13 October 1980
Correspondence between NPB and Brian Oxley (Department of English, University of St. Andrews): NPB’s projected work on the prose of Robert Southwell and his article (extant) on St Peter’s Complaint
1 file
D15/A1/20 21 January 1954 – 26 July 1973
Correspondence between NPB and Dr Louis B. Wright (Folger Shakespeare Library): mostly on sources in the Folger Library on Southwell, as well as a transcript of the after-dinner speech by NPB on the occasion of Louis Wright’s retirement in
1968
1 file
(b) By SubjectD15/A2/1 14 May 1952 – 20 April 1981
Correspondence between NPB and libraries and archives in England, mostly on her research on Robert Southwell, including the Public Record Office, University of Southampton Library, Lambeth Palace Library, Archives of the English Province of the
Society of Jesus, University of Cambridge Library, John Rylands Library, University of Durham Library, All Souls College Library, York Minster Library, and others
1 file
D15/A2/2 23 November 1957 – 19 November 1988
General correspondence file on NPB’s research on Robert Southwell, including correspondence with Richard Loomis, Rev Philip S. Moore, the Countess of Iveagh, Rev Joseph D. Scallon, Dr Owen Chadwick, John J. Dermott, and others
1 file
D15/A2/3 12 January - 13 May 1971
Papers relating to NPB’s application for a Huntington Library research grant, including correspondence, notes, draft applications, and promotional information
1 file
D15/A2/4 11 April 1972 – 15 December 1989
Correspondence between NPB and other organisations concerning publication permissions, including the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Gonville and Caius College, Folger Shakespeare Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities
1 file
D15/A2/5 5 May 1981 – 18 June 1982
Correspondence between NPB and libraries and archives in Rome concerning a research trip for research into Robert Southwell, including Archivo della Compagnia di Gesu, and Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
1 file
D15/A2/6 4 September 1987 – 2 September 2005
Correspondence between NPB and other researchers, mostly answering research enquiries on Robert Southwell
1 file
D15/A2/7 28 March & 5 April 1995
Letters from Dr Judith Champ (Department of Theology and Religion, King’s College London) to NPB and NPB to Rev Ian Dickie (Westminster Diocesan Archives) on the organisation of an event to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Robert Southwell’s
death
2 letters
c) Other CorrespondenceD15/A3 26 December 1967 – 2013
Papers and correspondence between NPB and friends, mostly Christmas/birthday cards, newsletters, and other correspondence of a personal/trivial nature:
File 1: 26 December 1967 – 27 December 1989
File 2: 1 January 1990 – December 1993
File 3: 14 January 1994 – December 1996
File 4: 8 January 1997 – December 1999
File 5: 20 January 2000 – 24 December 2005
File 6: 1 January 2006 – 23 December 2013
Files 7-8: undated [1967 – 2013]
8 files
2. Trinity College PapersD15/B1 February 1965 – 21 February 1973
Papers, including correspondence and newspaper cuttings, concerning the awarding of the E. Harris Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching, sponsored by the Danforth Foundation, to NPB
1 file
D15/B2 1965 - 2001
Other papers of NPB’s Trinity College career, including press cuttings, photographs, correspondence, and other personal papers, on NPB’s involvement in the life of the college
1 file and 2 envelopes
D15/B3 25 April 1973 – 31 January 1974
Papers relating to NPB’s report entitled ‘Effective College Teaching’ submitted for the Center for Higher Education project on techniques and actions employed by effective college teachers, including correspondence and a copy of the report
1 file
3. Draft Publications(a) MonographsD15/C1/1 1967 - 1969
Reviews of James H. MacDonald and Nancy Pollard Brown,
The Poems of Robert Southwell S.J. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), including some associated correspondence
1 file
D15/C1/2 16 June 1971 – 20 November 1986
Correspondence between NPB and others, including Princeton University Press, Clarendon Press, and Oxford University Press, on
The Poems of Robert Southwell S.J., including distribution, royalties, further editions and the possibility of publishing a two-volume work on Robert Southwell’s prose
1 file
D15/C1/3 28 June 1972 – December 1975
Correspondence between NPB and others concerning the publication of NPB (ed.)
Two letters and Short rules of a good life (University Press of Virginia, 1973)
1 file
D15/C1/4 1973 – 1976
Reviews of
Two letters and Short rules of a good life (University Press of Virginia, 1973)
1 file
D15/C1/5 1973
Draft typescript by NPB (ed.)
Two letters and Short rules of a good life (University Press of Virginia, 1973). Also includes her working notes
3 files
D15/C1/6 1975
Draft typescript by NPB of a reprint of Robert Southwell’s
Mary Magdalene’s funeral tears, originally published in 1591, with working papers and research notes
1 box
(b) Articles by NPBD15/C2/1 July 1953
Photocopy of an article by NPB,
“A note on the imagery of Donne’s “Loves growth””, Modern languages review, vol. XLVIII, no. 3 (July 1953)
pp. 324-327
D15/C2/2 9 September 1954 – 23 May 1955
Draft manuscript of a review of
An humble supplication to Her Majestie, edited by R. C. Bald (Cambridge University Press, 1955)
Review published in
Church History, v. 23 no.24 (December 1954), pp. 370-371
With correspondence between NPB and Professor J. R. Nichols on its publication
1 file
D15/C2/3 [1960?]
Typescript drafts of an unpublished article entitled
“A sheathed sword: letter of Robert Southwell S.J. to Robert Cecil, 1593”, including NPB’s notes
Enclosed memorandum dated 1960
1 file
D15/C2/4 1963 - 1966
Papers relating to the publication of NPB’s article
“The structure of Southwell’s “Saint Peter’s complaint””, Modern Languages Review, vol. LXI, no. 1 (January 1966), pp. 3-11
Including offprint and correspondence on its publication
1 file
D15/C2/5 [?1970]
Papers, including draft manuscripts and rough notes, of an article by NPB on
Moeoniæ. or, certaine excellent poems and spirituall hymnes (London, 1595)
1 file
D15/C2/6 10 June 1971
Typescript draft of a reader’s report of a manuscript by Henry G. Fairbanks, subsequently published as
Louise Imogen Guiney, (New York: Twayne Publishers Inc., 1975)
3 pages
D15/C2/7 [1972]
Typescript draft of an article by NPB entitled
“The tragic castle”, perhaps linked to a publication by the Folger Library of a facsimile of texts of morality plays including Castles of Perseverance (enclosed)
1 file
D15/C2/8 [?1980]
Papers, including draft manuscripts and rough notes, of an unpublished article by NPB entitled
“The early printing history of Southwell’s Moeniae and the triumphs of death”
1 file
D15/C2/9 [?1980]
Papers, including draft manuscripts, transcripts and rough notes, of an unpublished article on Robert Southwell’s
An humble supplication in answere to the late proclamation (1591)
2 files
D15/C2/10 11 July 1996
Typescript draft of an article by NPB for the Friends of the Ashmolean Visit to Baddesley Clinton describing priest holes in the house and a near escape of several Catholics, including Robert Southwell in 1591
1 sheet
D15/C2/11 2010
Typescript drafts of an article by NPB, entitled
“A shorte rule of good life: a handbook for the English Mission”, Recusant History, vol. 30 no. 1 (2010), 47-59
1 file
D15/C2/12 2012
Typescript article subsequently published as
“Robert Southwell’s Mary Magdalen”, Recusant History, v.31, no.1 (May 2012), pp.1-11
Includes correspondence on its publication
1 file
(c) Articles by OthersD15/C3/1 8 November 1979
Typescript draft of an article by Geoffrey Hall entitled
“The absolute reasonableness of Robert Southwell”
26, [7] pages
D15/C3/2 [1980]
Typescript draft of J. W. Martin,
“Miles Hogarde: artisan and aspiring author in sixteenth century England”, subsequently published in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, 1981, pp. 359–383
20, 7 pages
D15/C3/3 March 1992
Correspondence with reader’s report by NPB for Recusant History of an article by Vitorrio F. Cavalli, later published as
“ St Robert Southwell, S.J.: a selective bibliographic supplement to the studies of Pierre Janelle and James H. McDonald”, Renaissance History, 21.3 (1993), pp. 297–304
Includes a typescript copy of the article
1 file
D15/C3/4 1993
Word processed draft manuscript of an article by Thomas M. McCoog, subsequently published as
“The letters of Robert Southwell S.J.”, in Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 63, (Jan 1, 1994): pp. 101-124.
Includes a letter from McCoog to NPB, with a reply from NPB
1 file
D15/C3/5 5 September 1998
Word processed dissertation by John Stirling Watkins entitled
“The ministry of a missionary priest: historical and theological aspects of the life and written works of Robert Southwell, SJ (1561-1595)”
Submitted for the B.Th. Hons for St John’s Seminary, Wonersh, Guildford
pp. 1-37
(d) Book ChaptersD15/C4/1 1979
Typed copies of selected Southwell poems for inclusion in a book by Mr Merchant, with associated correspondence
1 file
D15/C4/2 1986
Draft typescript of a biography on Robert Southwell, probably used in A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave (eds),
A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of English books printed abroad 1475–1640, second edition (London: The Bibliographical Society. Vol. I (A–H) (1986)
1 file
D15/C4/3 1989
Manuscript drafts and photographs of plates, subsequently published as
“Paperchase: the dissemination of Catholic texts in Elizabethan England”, Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths (eds), English manuscript studies 1100-1700 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989),
pp. 120-143
Includes correspondence between NPB and Peter Beal
1 file
D15/C4/4 1996
Papers relating to the publication of NPB’s article
“Robert Southwell: The mission of the written word”, in McCoog (ed.), The reckoned expense: Edmund Campion and the early English Jesuits, (London: Boydell Press, 1996), pp. 193–214
Includes proof copy, draft manuscript and correspondence
1 file
D15/C4/5 [2014?]
Typescript draft, originally planned as part of the introduction to
A Variorum commentary on the poems of John Milton, vol. VI (never published)
pp. 1-27
4. Lectures and Conference PapersD15/D1 5 May 1959 – 13 November 1961
Correspondence relating to a presentation by NPB at the 1959 MLA conference, including conference programme
Transcript of presentation not extant
1 file
D15/D2 3 November 1960 – 4 January 1961
Transcript of a paper by NPB presented to the American Catholic Historical Association Conference (28-30 December 1960) entitled
“The contemplative element in Robert Southwell”, with associated letters, conference programme etc.
1 file
D15/D3 1961
Draft and notes of a talk given to parents of Trinity College students entitled
“Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J., 1561-1961: the fourth centenary of an English Martyr”
1 file
D15/D4 1964
Draft typescript of a paper presented to [?Trinity] on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth
1 file
D15/D5 15 December 1967
Manuscript report by a student on a lecture by NPB on Robert Southwell at McKinley University
1 report
D15/D6 1969
Correspondence concerning NPB’s presentation at the Tudor and Stuart Club, possibly titled
“Richard Stanihurst: scholar, conspirator, king’s physician”. Also includes a transcript of a lecture to the club by Louis B. Wright, Director Emeritus of Folger Shakespeare Library, entitled
“Science and the Humanities in the Renaissance”
1 file
D15/D7 1972
Typescript paper by NPB entitled
“Figures in a landscape: the need for perspective” given at the American Association for Higher Education Conference in Chicago, with the conference programme
1 file
D15/D8 16 October 1973
Draft transcripts of a lecture given by NPB at Trinity College, Washington D.C., entitled
“"Commending unto you my bounden duty”: the correspondence of Robert Southwell S.J.”
1 file
D15/D9 1974
Draft typescript transcript of a paper by Vincent B. Leitch, entitled
“Robert Southwell: poet of spiritual desolation”
Read at the Central Renaissance Conference at the University of Missouri
11 pages
D15/D10 [?1980]
Transcript of a lecture with notes by NPB entitled
“Robert Southwell, the Countess of Arundel, and the East Anglian connection”
1 file
D15/D11 [?1980]
Transcript of a lecture by Eamon Duffy entitled
“England’s Counter-Revolution? Jesuits and Seculars in seventeenth century England”
pp. 1-22, i-ii
D15/D12 [?1980]
Transcript of a lecture by NPB entitled
“A family portrait”
pp. 1-13
D15/D13 [?1980]
Notes and working drafts of a paper entitled
“Mary Madeleine: medieval meditations to baroque literature”’, probably for a presentation by NPB at a “Midday Musings” session at the Folger Library
1 file
D15/D14 [?1980]
Typescript draft with notes of a paper by NPB on Robert Southwell
1 file
D15/D15 [?1980]
Notes by NPB for a paper on the editing process
1 file
D15/D16 19 May 1980 – 29 April 1981
Transcript of a paper by NPB presented to the Thomas More Society of America entitled
“The fox, the ass, and the wolf” for the “A man for this season” symposium, Georgetown University Law School, Washington D.C., 21 March 1981. Includes correspondence on its
publication and an additional transcript of a lecture for the 1980 symposium entitled “Thomas More’s significance for our times” by Abbe Germain Marc’Hadour
1 file
D15/D17 December 1981 - January 1982
Notes by NPB, probably for a Forde Lecture on Scarisbrick
1 file
D15/D18 [1986]
Notes by NPB for lectures on the Bishop of Ely and Anglican Orders
1 file
D15/D19 1988
Transcript of a paper by NPB entitled
“The rediscovery of an autograph manuscript”, presented at the Catholic Records Society Conference, 27 July 1988
pp. 1-10
D15/D20 [?1990]
Paper by NPB entitled
“Connections between English and Anglo-Irish Catholics in the early Counter-Reformation”, presented at the Catholic Record Society Conference
pp. 1-24
D15/D21 31 July 1995
Transcript of a paper by NPB and Ian Dickie, probably presented to the Catholic Record Society conference, entitled
“Robert Southwell: a celebration”
pp. 1-20
D15/D22 24 April 2008
Typescript notes for a paper entitled
“Mary Magdalene: the evolution of the Funeral Tears”, given at the “Robert Southwell: new perspectives” symposium at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, including associated
correspondence and notes from other papers
1 file
5. Working Papers(a) Document TranscriptionsD15/E1/1 [?1980]
Draft typescript transcriptions entitled
“Poema de Assumptione B.V.M.” and other Latin poems by Robert Southwell, Stonyhurst MS A.V.4
With NPB’s notes
1 file
D15/E1/2 [?1980]
Language: Italian
Draft typescript transcriptions (in Italian) entitled
“Meditation on Mary Magdalen at the sepulchre of Christ”, Stonyhurst MS B.VI.II
With correspondence and NPB’s notes
1 file
D15/E1/3 [?1980]
Draft typescript transcriptions entitled
“The triumphs over death”, Robert Southwell’s The triumphs over death: Or, a consolatory epistle for afflicted minds, in the affects of dying friends (London, 1506)
With NPB’s notes on the text and photocopies of various printed editions
1 file
D15/E1/4 [?1980]
Draft typescript transcription of a Robert Southwell poem
“The prodigall childs soule wracke”, taken from the commonplace book of Constantia Fowler, Huntington Library MS HM 904
With NPB’s notes on the text
1 file
D15/E1/5 [?1980]
Draft typescript transcriptions of various editions of Robert Southwell’s,
A short rule of good life, as well as a commentary by NPB
4 files
D15/E1/6 [?1980]
Draft typescript transcription of Robert Southwell’s
An epistle of comfort, to the reuerend priestes, & to the honorable, worshipful, & other of the laye sort restrayned in durance for the Catholicke faith (Paris, i.e. London, 1587)
With NPB’s notes on the text
2 files (324 pages)
D15/E1/7a-c [?1980]
Microfilms of primary sources, probably transcriptions:
3 microfilms
D15/E1/7a [?1980]
“Garnet on Equivocation”
1 microfilm
D15/E1/7b [?1980]
“ MMFT 02” (i.e. Mary Magdalene’s Funeral Tears)
1 microfilm
D15/E1/7c [?1980]
“Horsham St Faith’s (Plan)”
1 microfilm
(b) Research Papers
NPB’s notes, photocopies and extracts from primary and secondary sources, and correspondence with librarians, archivists and other academics, on a variety of subjects relating to her research
D15/E2/1 [later 20th century]
Various: St Edmund Campion, S.J.; Sir Robert Spiller; Throckmorton papers; Welsh recusants; and Arthur Blyncoe
1 file
D15/E2/2 [later 20th century]
Consolatory literature
1 file
D15/E2/3 [later 20th century]
Watermarks
1 file
D15/E2/4 [later 20th century]
Horsham St Faith’s (Robert Southwell’s family home)
1 file
D15/E2/5 [later 20th century]
Various: early modern antiquarians; Lady Anne Southwell; recusant’s view of Queen Elizabeth; Boethias,
De consolatione philosophiae; the philosophical problem of suffering; Erasmus and religious thought; Sarum missals; P. Mornay, A discourse of life and death; and colonial justice
1 file
D15/E2/6 [later 20th century]
Correspondence between Owen Hughes and Robert Southwell
1 file
D15/E2/7 [later 20th century]
Notebooks of Robert Southwell
1 file
D15/E2/8 [later 20th century]
Robert Southwell’s entries in STC
1 file
D15/E2/9 [later 20th century]
Robert Southwell’s entry in
Index of literary manuscripts
1 file
D15/E2/10 [later 20th century]
Various: Christopher Marlowe; and Philip Howard
1 file
D15/E2/11 [later 20th century]
Robert Southwell,
Short rule of a good life
1 file
D15/E2/12 [later 20th century]
Robert Southwell,
Quotations from the Fathers of the Epistles
1 file
D15/E2/13 [later 20th century]
Robert Southwell,
Meditations on the Love of God
1 file
D15/E2/14 [later 20th century]
Letters of Robert Southwell
1 file
D15/E2/15 [later 20th century]
Photocopies of extracts from Public Record Office documents S.P. 12/235 (Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, Elizabeth I)
1 rolled
D15/E2/16 [later 20th century]
Various: distribution of books; Puritan anti-Catholic writing; dedications (Southwell family); Fr Thomas Wright; James Roberts; John Wolffe/John Windet; printing; later editions (Southwell); Nicholas Breton; William Evans; Gervaise Markham
1 file
D15/E2/17 [later 20th century]
Life of Edward Throckmorton
1 file
D15/E2/18 [later 20th century]
Jesuits (miscellaneous)
1 file
D15/E2/19 [later 20th century]
Various: St. Augustine; Samuel Rowlands; Clerkenwell and Spitalfields; Henry Garnet; Stephen Vaughan; Vaux family; Plato; William Shakespeare (
Consolatio in exile); and Giacomo Cardano (Cardanus comforte)
1 file
D15/E2/20 [later 20th century]
Various: Southwell biographies; medieval Latin verse; lives of Jesus Christ; St. Bernard his meditations; medieval iconography; Collingwood MSS; Charles Cavendish; Southwell entries in Alison and Rogers; Louis de Granada; Skinner family; Thomas,
earl of Arundel
1 file
D15/E2/21 [later 20th century]
Dorothy Arundel
1 file
D15/E2/22 [later 20th century]
Vincenzo Bruno
1 file
D15/E2/23 [later 20th century]
Rudolph of Saxony
1 file
D15/E2/24 [later 20th century]
Waldegrave family
1 file
D15/E2/25 [later 20th century]
Gordon MS of the poems of Robert Southwell
1 file
D15/E2/26 [later 20th century]
Jesuit Archives, Rome
1 file
D15/E2/27 [later 20th century]
Spiritual guides
1 file
D15/E2/28 [later 20th century]
Peter Mowle
1 file
D15/E2/29 [later 20th century]
A poeme declaring the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar (Douay, 1606)
1 file
D15/E2/30 [later 20th century]
Notes on Bodleian MS Eng Poet B5 and correspondence with Dr MacKay
1 file
D15/E2/31 [later 20th century]
Various: section of MS V.a.421 (photocopy with annotations); notes from documents in Norfolk Record Office on recusancy; Thornborough miscellany; Southwell’s prose; Jesuit mission instructions; notes on BM Add MS 10422; notes on the Yelverton
Manuscripts at the British Museum; abbreviations; Sir Michael Blount; Bellamys of Luxenden; history of printing homilies; and Viscountess Montague
1 file
D15/E2/32 [later 20th century]
Transcript and notes of a section of a manuscript from the collection of the Marquis of Cholmondeley in Cambridge University Library
1 file
D15/E2/33 [later 20th century]
Kitson family of Hengrave Hall
1 file
D15/E2/34 [later 20th century]
Southwell family history
1 file
D15/E2/35 [later 20th century]
Sir Thomas Cornwallis
1 file
D15/E2/36 [later 20th century]
Notes on equivocation
1 file
D15/E2/37 [later 20th century]
Daniello Bartoli
1 file
D15/E2/38 [later 20th century]
Southwell miscellany
1 file
D15/E2/39 [later 20th century]
Thomas Reade
1 file
D15/E2/40 [later 20th century]
Southwell’s trial and execution
1 file
D15/E2/41 [later 20th century]
Notes on
S. Bonaventure’s Meditationes Vitae Christi
1 file
D15/E2/42 [later 20th century]
Franciscan studies, including sermon literature and spirituality
1 file
D15/E2/43 [later 20th century]
Valentine Simmes
1 file
D15/E2/44 [later 20th century]
William Carter
1 file
D15/E2/45 [later 20th century]
Catholic printing
1 file
D15/E2/46 [later 20th century]
Jesuit spirituality
1 file
D15/E2/47 [later 20th century]
Petitions
1 file
D15/E2/48 [later 20th century]
Various: toleration; Catholic political loyalty; recusant lists; Jesuits in the Renaissance; Fairhurst Papers in Lambeth Palace Library; and Richard Verstegan
1 file
D15/E2/49 [later 20th century]
Henry Owen
1 file
D15/E2/50 [later 20th century]
Pronunciation
1 file
(c) Card IndexesD15/E3/1 [later 20th century]
Subject card index entitled
“Mary Magdalene’s Funeral Tears”
1 metal card index box
D15/E3/2 [later 20th century]
Subject card index entitled
“Prose”, probably for NPB’s projected book on the prose of Robert Southwell
1 shoe box
D15/E3/3 [later 20th century]
Subject card index entitled
“Bibliography”
1 metal card index box
D15/E3/4-8 [later 20th century]
Unidentified subject and name card indexes relating to NPB’s research
5 metal card index boxes and 2 shoe boxes
6. PhotographsD15/F1 [1922 x 1935]
Photographs of NPB as a child, including portrait photographs of NPB, family and friends, as well as scenic photographs taken on family holidays including the Scilly Isles
Detached from a photograph album
78 BW prints & 3 negatives
D15/F2 1948
Portrait photo of NPB in her graduation gown, probably receiving her English MA at the University of London
1 BW print
D15/F3 [?1950]
NPB and Samuel Brown on their wedding day
8 BW prints
D15/F4 [?1950]
NPB and Samuel’s new home (12 Greenknoll’s Place, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA)
4 BW prints
D15/F5 1983
NPB and K. M. Grose visiting Bob Grose in Jabel, Yemen
2 colour prints
D15/F6 September 1983
NPB at the Tennyson Monument, Isle of Wight
1 colour print
D15/F7 [?2000]
[?Birdwatching sanctuary]
2 colour prints
7. Personal PapersD15/G1/1-10 11 April 1921 – 30 September 2004
Miscellaneous personal items:
1 file
D15/G1/1 17 March 1921
The Western Morning News, including the announcement of the birth of NPB
1 newspaper
D15/G1/2 11 April 1921
NPB’s birth certificate (photocopy)
1 certificate
D15/G1/3 4 October 1922
Letter (written on NPB’s behalf) to her aunt: thanking her for the cream she sent
1 letter
D15/G1/4 [?1950]
Account statement from the executors of the estate of the late Mary Grose
4 pages
D15/G1/5 14 June 1952
Letter from W. H. Davison (War Office Records) to NPB: enclosing NPB’s statement of military service
1 letter
D15/G1/6 30 June 1952
Marriage certificate for NPB and Samuel Ernest Brown
1 certificate
D15/G1/7 1975
Language: Russian
Illustrated prints commemorating the Red Army’s victory over the German Army in 1945
16 prints
D15/G1/8 [?1990]
Typescript transcript of a eulogy of Samuel Ernest Brown, probably read at his funeral
3 pages
D15/G1/9-10 1998 & 2004
Invitations:
(1) From the Mother General and Tyburn Community of Benedictine nuns inviting NPB to attend the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the Tyburn martyrs
(2) From the vice-chancellor of Oxford University inviting NPB to a celebration of the publication of the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2 invitations
D15/G2 11 May 1950 – 7 May 1987
Papers, including correspondence, relating to NPB’s applications for fellowships and other academic posts, as well as copies of her curriculum vitae
1 file
D15/G3 1955 – 1970
Personal papers extracted from a scrapbook, including poems, letters, drawings and other ephemera
1 file
D15/G4 [1960] – 2008
Personal diaries and notebooks of NPB, mostly lists, appointments and very brief descriptions of daily events including holidays:
(1) [1960] – [1976]
(2) [1972] – [1979]
(3) [1978] – [1998]
(4) [1980] – [2011]
(5) [1987] – [2008]
(6) [1999]
(7) [2000]
7 notebooks
D15/G5 7 September 1979 – 21 February 1986
Legal papers relating to NPB’s divorce from her husband, Samuel E. Brown
1 file
D15/G6 18 August 2015
Order of service and transcript of Bob Grose’s eulogy at NPB’s memorial service
2 items
8. Printed Material
For catalogue descriptions of printed material in this collection, search “Nancy Pollard Brown Papers” in the Durham University Library printed catalogue (https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/)
