| 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 |