| Description | Includes correspondence of a personal nature concerning domestic matters; arrangements for travel; news of their daughter, Vanessa. Also includes references to art historical matters including their respective research interests; work for the Burlington; collection of photographs etc. Also includes friends. Writing less frequently because married - usually when away travelling on art historical business
-two letters, dated 28 and 31 May 1956, concerning visit to Berlin, East Germany with Clifford Roe and Maurice Rickards. Writes about his impressions of communism and German art.
-letter, dated 15 February 1957, concerning an evening with Luli Abdel-Huda and attending the wedding of Jeremy Sandford and Nell Dunn
-letter, dated 8 November 1957, concerning Russian space travel and the English reaction to sending a dog (Laika), into space
-letter, dated 25 June 1958, concerning George Weidenfeld's impending divorce; a dinner party attended by, amongst others, Anita Brookner and Francis Haskell; and lunching with Michael Jaffé
-letter, dated 10 August 1958, concerning plans for their daughter, Vanessa's, second birthday |