Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Processing History
Biography
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: Wallace and Corry Nethery Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS.2007.017
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
4 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1931-2000
Abstract: This collection contains material created and collected by Wallace and Corry Nethery. Correspondence, drafts, research notes,
and ephemera are included for a number of Nethery's books. Materials related to Nethery's work as a librarian at the University
of Southern California are included as well. Photocopies of letters to, from, and about Elisabeth Jungmann are numerous. The
subject matter for most of the books and papers relate to Max Beerbohm, Charles and Mary Lamb, Elisabeth Jungmann, and miniature
books. Materials are in English, German, and Dutch.
Physical Location: This collection is stored at the Southern Regional Library Facility. Please contact Clark Library staff at least 2 weeks
in advance if you would like to view the materials in this collection.
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts or printed items must be submitted in writing to the Clark Librarian. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Wallace and Corry Nethery Papers, MS.2007.017, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University
of California, Los Angeles.
Acquisition Information
Gift, Corry Nethery, 2007.
Processing History
Processed and described by Jamie Henricks, August 2009. Title and front matter revised December 19, 2022 by Rebecca Fenning
Marschall.
Biography
Wallace Nethery born December 29, 1910 on his grandfather's farm outside the town of Gravity, Iowa. He received his Bachelor
of Arts in English from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1934. He served in the Navy during World War II on the USS Enterprise,
stationed in the Pacific. He worked as the librarian at the Hoose Library of
Philosophy at USC until his retirement in 1976. He married a fellow USC Library employee, Corry Sprangers, in 1975.
Corry Sprangers Nethery was born March 28, 1921 in the Netherlands, and moved permanently to the Unites States in 1956.
Corry and Wallace worked together on many printing projects, which Wallace printed on his Kelsey Co. miniature press bought
in 1955. Over the course of nearly 40 years, the Netherys printed approximately 51 books and pamphlets. Most of the books
were miniature books printed personally, and sold at Dawson's Book Shop. Nethery was friends with Saul and Lillian Marks of
the Plantin Press, as well as Glen Dawson of Dawson's Book Shop.
In addition to printing, the Netherys also wrote and collected the artist and writer Max Beerbohm. Corry Nethery wrote a biography
of Beerbohm's second wife Elisabeth Jungmann in 1987.
Wallace died in Los Angeles in 1996, in the middle of printing his last miniature book "Pastorale," which Corry later completed.
Scope and Content
This collection contains material created and collected by Wallace and Corry Nethery, primarily related to their various book
printing projects, and includes correspondence, drafts, research notes, newspaper clippings, and advertisements.
There is also a significant amount of material related to Corry Nethery's 1987 biography of Elisabeth Jungmann (
The Second Lady Beerbohm). These papers consist of both research photocopies and correspondence, some of it in German. Other research files and correspondence
on Charles Lamb and Max Beerbohm are also collected here.
This collection also contains offprints ofjournal and magazine articles, as well as papers, letters, certificates, and ephemera
related to Wallace Nethery's work at USC. Personal correspondence, including letters written in English, German and Dutch,
are also included.
Arrangement
The collection remains in original order.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Letters -- California -- 20th century
Ephemera -- California -- 20th century
Clippings -- 20th century
Printers -- California -- 20th century
Miniature books -- California -- 20th century
Librarians -- California -- 20th century
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956