Person in the county’s record
1914–2006 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 works about Henry Pearson are indexed here, as are 4 works by Pearson.
Works about or by Henry Pearson. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Seamus Heaney wrote this autograph letter signed to Henry Pearson on 3 January, dating it 1995 when the year was in fact 1996, as the cataloger notes. Part of the Henry C. Pearson Collection in the Rare Book Collection at UNC. The correspondence also concerns Nobel Prizes and postage stamps.
An autograph letter signed, dated 26 May 1996, from the Irish writer Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) to Henry Pearson (1914-2006). It forms part of the Henry C. Pearson Collection in the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
An article profiling the three recipients of honorary degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill commencement on May 12, 1996: Billy Graham, the poet Seamus Heaney and the chemist Rudolph A. Marcus, with biographical detail on Heaney. A companion piece by John Adcock covers Henry Pearson, whose donations to the Rare Book Collection and friendship with Heaney it describes.
Dated 25 July 1995, this is another autograph letter signed from Seamus Heaney to Henry Pearson, part of the Henry C. Pearson Collection in the Rare Book Collection at UNC. The letter concerns travel and description of Asturias in Spain, the Galley Press, and two of Heaney's own works, '10 Irish poets in the Abbey' and 'North'.
Exhibition booklet from the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published in 1996, recording the benefactors whose gifts built the collection and the items they gave. The cover reads Selections from the Rare Book Collection, and Henry Pearson, 1914 to 2006, is among the people it covers. 32 pages with illustrations.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Pearson, Henry, 1914-2006.
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