| Description | Includes:
-two letters from Evelyn Antal, dated 17 June [?] & 16 April 1954, concerning a visit to Italy; the death of her husband, Freiderich Antal, and arrangements for his unpublished manuscript on Hogarth, and his obituary
-letter from Kenneth [Bru], dated 2 July 1936, concerning Nicolson's departure from Balliol College and wishing him well for the future
-letter from Anthony [Blunt], undated [post 1974], congratulating Nicolson on the publication of his book on George de La Tour and thanking him for the dedication
-letter from John Betjeman, dated 31 January 1952, thanking Nicolson for writing a review of Wyndham Lewis for 'Time and Tide'
-four letters from Maurice Bowra, dated 1930s, concerning visits to Oxford and arrangements to meet. Also includes a printed copy of an address delivered by Isaiah Berlin at the memorial service for Bowra held on 17 July 1971
-four letters from Christopher [Davies?], dated August-December 1935, concerning a stay at Les Avrins, studying French with Madame Pepin; mutual friends; his views on solitude; his efforts to write a book; and a failed venture to publish a paper ('Panorama') [see also LBN/1/7, entry for 22 August]
-Christmas card from Costa
-letter, from M. D'Arcy, dated 1 November 1935, explaining that he has made a faux pas with regard to some gossip about Nicolson's father (Harold Nicolson)
-letter from John Davenport, dated 6 December 1952, concerning an article by Nicolson on Denton Welch published in the New Statesman
-two letters from Olga Davenport, undated, concerning her relationship with Jocelyn Baines
-four letters from Christopher [Davies?], dated August-December 1935, concerning a stay at Les Avrins, studying French with Madame Pepin; mutual friends; his views on solitude; his efforts to write a book; and a failed venture to publish a paper ('Panorama')
-letter from David [?], dated 16 January 1974, concerning social arrangements and an invitation to write a book on medieval architecture in Auvergne
-letter from G Ellen Easdale, undated, sent to Mrs Nicolson, concerning Nicolson's article on Denton Welch in the New Statesmen and Mark Rutherford 'a wonderful old friend of mine'
-letter from Gerhard Ewald, dated 24 November 1964, concerning a small festschrift to be compiled in honour of Professor Hermann Voss' eightieth birthday
-three letters from Ernst Gombrich, dated 17 May 1953 - 6 March 1977, concerning his views on the sociological and 'institutional framework' approaches to art; his view that the history of art could do with 'another leavening with ideas'; his historical philosophy that the distinction between 'right' and 'left' collapsed at the moment when a grinning Stalin shook hands with a smirking Ribbentrop in August 1939'; his opinion on politics of the first half of the twentieth century; and the an invitation to celebrate Nicolson's 30 years as editor of the Burlington Magazine [Digital copies of two of these letters can be found below]
-three letters from Duncan Grant, undated [1935], concerning an invitation to speak at the Florentine Club; and an appeal to purchase a painting by Cezanne for the National Gallery
-letter from Jo Grimond, dated 15 August 1938, concerning an invitation for Nicolson to stay with his family in St Andrew's
-letter from Carmen Gronan, dated 23 January 1951, concerning the death of or her husband, Hans Gronan
-letter from Renato Guttuso, dated 20 March 1955, concerning his thoughts on a dialogue between Nicolson & [John] Berger [in Italian] |
| Image Caption | Letter from Ernst Gombrich to Nicolson, dated 17 May 1953, concerning his views on the sociological and 'institutional framework' approaches to art (4pp) |
| Letter from Ernst Gombrich to Nicolson, dated 2 April 1957, concerning his historical philosophy concerning the distinction between 'right' and 'left' (2pp) |