| Description | Includes correspondence received by Nicolson & Luisa Vertova on the announcement of their marriage, and notes accompanying gifts given to the couple at their wedding from the following individuals:
-A_, A- (2 letters) -Agnes [?](2 letters) -Anglesey, Shirley Marchioness of -Anna [?] [in Italian] -Anrep, Alda (3 letters & 1 telegram, letters concern Alda Nrep's advice that the couple marry immediately, in order to avoid difficulties with Luisa's former lover, P.F) -Bagnold, Enid -Barbara [?] -Bebe [?] [in Italian] -Berenson, Bernard -Berlin, Isaiah -Bonham Carter, Charlotte -Brugeres, Juliana [in Italian] -C_, Hubert -Campbell, Mary -Carlo [?] [in Italian] -Cary, Anne & Roger -Cicola, Antonino Emilio [in Italian] -Cini, Vittorio [in Italian] -Colin, [?] -Constable, W.G -Cooper, Douglas -Coucherli, Maira [in Italian] -Crivelli, Kitty -Davenport, Jenette B -Davenport, Olga -David [?] -David [?] -Draper, Ruth -Elly, [?] -Elvira, [?] -Faber, Jennifer -Forster, Mary -Francis (?) -G., Francesca P [in Italian] -Gawthorne-Hardy, Bob (2 letters, one concerning his gift of a painting by Thomas Churchyard, 1798-1865) -Gowing, Lawrence & Julia (Strachey) -Guiliana [in Italian] -Haig, George Alexander Eugene Douglas 'Dawyck' (2nd Earl) (2 letters) -Hamilton, Blanche -Henry, (? Cleveland Museum of Art) -Hill, Derek (2 letters) -Hoffman, Edith -Howard, Brian -Hugh [an Xandra?] -Hulbert-Powell, Philippa (neé St Aubyn) -Hutchinson, Mary -Hutchinson, Jeremy -Ian [?] -Jaffé, Michael -Katui [?], Amir [?] -Koppel, Jessica (neé St Aubyn) -Lamont, Edie (also includes a note about John Minton) -Lauder, Alice Dick (2 letters) -Lewis, Katie (1 letter, 1 card) -Lindsay, David & Mary, 28th Earl of Crawford -Maria [?] -Mario [?] [in Italian] -Mary [?] [in Italian] -Massimo [?] [in Italian] -Merrill[?], James -Millar, Oliver -Mita [?] -Moroni, Paula [in Italian] -Mortimer, Raymond -Nell [?] -Nicholson, Molly (2 letters including one from Nicholson to Luisa Vertova's parents) -Nicolson, Harold (1 telegram & 2 letters, one dated 12 August 1955 & containing a summary of activities undertaken by Harold & Vita following the wedding) -Nicolson, Nigel -Olivia [?] -P, Emile -Patrick [?] -Penelope[?] -Philippa [?] -Pinkie [?] -Pope Hennessy, John -Preston, Stuart -Richardson, John (concerning an article on cubism for the Burlington and Douglas Cooper) -Ridley, Cressida -Roberts, Mrs Humphrey -Rourier, (?) -Rutherston, Marjorie -Sackville-West, Charlie -Sackville-West, Eddy -Salter, Ethel -Sanminiatelli, Donato (also concerns his thesis and the 'Mells' picture) -Sgielli, Gemma [in Italian] -Sparrow, John -St Aubyn, Gwen (2 letters, one concerning religious considerations given Vertova's Catholic faith) -Stark, Freya [2 letters, in Italian, 1 postcard] -Stuart [?] -Stuart, Arabella -Sylvia [?] also concerns the marrigea of Lyndall Hopkinson and Bobbie Birch and Percy Lubbock -Toynbee, Philip -Tua, Elena -Urquhart, Alfreda (neé Huntington) -'V' -Vertova -Watson, Francis (2 letters, including a letter from various Art Historian friends who have purchased a selection of joint wedding gifts from Colnaghi's) -Waugh, Evelyn -Westcent, Rariora -Wilde, A -Winkworth, Billy -Wollheim, Anne (2 letters, once concerning a holiday with Douglas Cooper, and a dinner with Picasso, Cocteau and Isaiah Berlin)
-Unidentified (2 letters)
Also includes a list of 'wedding presents received' written by Luisa Vertova; wedding announcement card; press-cuttings announcing the marriage |