| Description | Includes correpondence of a personal nature concerning arrangements to meet; stay at each other's houses and holiday together; children and mutual friends; physical and mental health; their friendship' Toynbee's writing & buying books.
Of particular note:
-letter, dated 19 January 1970, concerning Nicolson's appearance in the BBC's Omnibus documentary about Virginia Woolf 'A night's darkness, a day's sail'
-two letters, dated 28 July & 27 August 1970, concerning a request to use Nicolson's memories of his time in Palestine during the Second World War as the basis for the next volume of Toynbee's book 'Pantaloon'
-letter, dated 2 May 1973, concerning Toynbee's opinion of Nicolson's book 'Courbet: the Studio of a painter'
-letter, dated 29 June 1973, concerning disagreements regarding receipt of each other's published output; Nicolson's expectations of his daughter, Vanessa; Nicolson's opinion on the contemporary generation and Toynbee's insistence he avoid becoming an 'old fogey'
Also includes three letters exchanged between Toynbee and Nigel Nicolson, concerning Nicolson's state of health & suggesting that he might be very ill. |