Correspondence between Richard Seddon and Margaret Nash, includes four letters from Marjorie Broadbent, Personal Assistant to Richard Seddon on his behalf, and two replies from Margaret.

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 70 TGA 7050/3284-3334
  • Dates of Creation
      [c 1946 - 1949]
  • Physical Description
      58 pieces

Scope and Content

The letters cover a variety of topics and regulaly refer to health and social arrangements. Other topics include a donation of Paul Nash's books to Reading University (TGA 7050/3284-5, 3288, 3331-2); 'Outline' Paul Nash's autobiography (TGA 7050/3285, 3288, 3332, 3334); Margaret's loan of Nash works for an Arts Council Midlands Regional Office exhibition (TGA 7050/3286-8 includes catalogue); Paul Nash during the war (TGA 7050/3288); the Paul Nash Memorial Volume (TGA 7050/3288, 3290, 3297, 3299), exhibition (TGA 7050/3288, 3290, 3297, 3300-06, 3310, 3314-15, 3322 includes catalogue and presscuttings for touring version in Sheffield), and concert (TGA 7050/3290, 3295, 3297, 3300); articles by Richard Seddon for 'The Studio' and reproductions of Nash works (TGA 7050/3288-95, 3300, 3302); Margaret's trustees (TGA 7050/3296, 3232); Richard Seddon's new job as Director, Sheffield City Art Galleries (TGA 7050/3298); Paul Nash and the Royal Academy (TGA 7050/3302); sales of 'Aerial Flowers' (brochure by Paul Nash) (TGA 7050/3310-12, 3315, 3320-21, 3324-5); Margaret's pension (TGA 7050/3284-85); Margaret's proposed Paul Nash loan collection (TGA 7050/3323, 3332); Nash works in the British Council Exhibition in Black Hall, Oxford (TGA 7050/3332); and sales/proposed sales of 'Landscape of the Megaliths' (TGA 7050/3303), 'The Tower' (TGA 7050/3308), 'Totems', 'The Order of Five', 'Night Landscape', 'Lunar Rainbow', 'The Archer Overthrown', 'Voyages of the Moon' and 'Snow Sunrise' (TGA 7050/3310, 3312, 3317-20, 3324-5), and Paul Nash's paints (TGA 7050/3303). TGA 7050/3333 features annotations on the reverse by Margaret Nash.