THE POET, THE ARTIST AND THE SCIENTIST

Date Posted: 5th September 2014

There is a very small exhibition of Percy Kelly letters at the Cumbria Archive Centre in Scotch Street Whitehaven at the moment. It contains 7 table top panels telling the story of Kelly’s life specifically in relation to the letters he wrote to his friend Joan David, a scientist, who supported him in the last ten years of his life and his friend the poet Norman Nicholson. There are three small display cases of his original illustrated letters to them both.
The material was deposited in the Archive Centre by her son and daughter after her death in 2000 aged eighty. It will be in Whitehaven until 3rd October; in Carlisle from 7th October until mid-November and will go on to Barrow in Furness early in 2015.