Mabel Pakenham-Walsh Papers,

Papers relating to Mabel Pakenham-Walsh, 1937-1998, including family correspondence, 1937-1987; general correspondence, [c. 1962]-1998, from other artists and friends including Martin Leman, Maeve Peake, Lord Snowdon, Jean Coggan, wife of Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Tom Stoppard, the author Andrew Roberts and Malcolm Yorke; papers relating to exhibitions and sales, 1959-1992; correspondence with the Crafts Advisory Committee, 1972-1979, Design Council, 1973-1976, Crafts Council, 1973-1990, and Contemporary Applied Arts, 1974-1991; papers concerning her employment at Pinewood and Shepperton Film Studios, 1960-1961, and other miscellaneous items; and a photograph of a speech day at St Hildas School, Hickleton Hall, with Lord and Lady Halifax as guests, 1949.

Mabel Pakenham-Walsh is a painter and sculptor based in mid-Wales. She attended St Hildas School, Hickleton Hall for a short period. From 1960-1961 she was employed at Pinewood and Shepperton Film Studios. Since then she has concentrated on exhibiting and selling her artistic works. One of her oil-paintings is called "The Evening Student". She has corresponded widely with other artists, writers, organisations and individuals connected with the arts and crafts.

Arranged into the following: family correspondence; letters, cards and general correspondence; correspondence with institutions; miscellaneous papers; and additional correspondence and papers.

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Donated by Mabel Pakenham-Walsh, 1993, 1994 and 1998.

Mabel Pakenham-Walsh is a painter and sculptor based in mid-Wales. She attended St Hildas School, Hickleton Hall for a short period. From 1960-1961 she was employed at Pinewood and Shepperton Film Studios. Since then she has concentrated on exhibiting and selling her artistic works. One of her oil-paintings is called "The Evening Student". She has corresponded widely with other artists, writers, organisations and individuals connected with the arts and crafts.

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A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Minor Lists and Summaries 1993, p. 82, and 1999, p. 80, at the National Library of Wales. The catalogue can be accessed online.

November 2004

Compiled by Annette Strauch for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Minor Lists and Summaries 1993; 1999.

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