Jean Overton Fuller, 1943 - 1972
Scope and Contents
31 letters and postcards written to British author Jean Overton Fuller from author Joan Grant Beatty, philosopher Henry Habberley Price, and Joan Haywood. The contents of the letters pertain largely to Jean’s interest in the occult and especially to issues of parapsychology, extrasensory perception, and reincarnation. The collection also includes an inscribed pamphlet of poems by noted British poet Peter Redgrove dated 1972. A curatorial file from Scheetz containing receipts, customs declarations, and information about the collection is also included.
Dates
- 1943 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Jean Overton Fuller (7 March 1915-8 April 2009) was a British writer most famous for her book Madeleine (1952), which tells the story of her friend and former neighbor, British Special Operations Executive agent Noor Inayat Khan. In addition to this work, Fuller was a published poet and wrote a number of biographies of poets including Percy Bysshe Shelley, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Victor Benjamin Neuberg, as well as author and politician Sir Francis Bacon. She also had a keen interest in theosophy, spiritualism and the occult: in the 1980s Fuller penned a biography of the occultist and co-founder of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and she was a regular contributor to the “Theosophical History” journal. Like her mother, Fuller was a trained artist, and both exhibited work and published as a book illustrator.
Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
From the Collection: Spanish
From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu