PEN Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-890630
A segment of the archives of the London-based international association of poets, essayists and novelists, known as PEN. Comprised of correspondence, manuscripts and some photographs. Includes files regarding contacts with some 40 London embassies; material about the annual PEN Congress which failed to take place in Iran in 1963; and manuscript submissions for a short story contest (circa 1961).
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PEN was founded in 1921 by Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (1865-1934). Scott was an English writer, playwright and poet. Later in life she became a keen spiritualist. Information about PEN can be found at pen.org.
6.25 Cubic Feet (7 boxes)
English
Gift of Frederick B. Scheetz and Nicholas B. Scheetz, circa 1989.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository