| 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.
-letter, dated 1 June 1959, concerning Denis Mahon and Francis Haskell
-letter, dated 5 June 1959, concerning Denis Mahon and an exhibition of 17th Century Italian pictures at Burlington House. Also concerns a conversation with W.G. Constable and Martin Davies in which they discuss the new edition of Bernard Berenson's lists
-letter, dated 15 June 1959, concerning an evening looking at photographs with Vitale Bloch and Victor Waddington. Writes that 'this is the only way to learn, by quarelling amicably and treating photographs like playing cards'
-letter, dated 26 May 1960, concerning an opportunity for Nicolson to spend a year as visiting professor at the University of Washington
-letter, dated 26 June [1960], concerning a presentation made to Johannes Wilde by Anthony Blunt
-two letters, dated 15 & 29 October 1960, concerning the forthcoming trial of Penguin under the Obscene Publications Act, for publication of the unexpergated version of Lady Chatterly's Lover. Also concerns Philip Hendy's purchase of a work by Giorgione for the National Gallery
-four letters, dated 12 June-7 July 1961, concerning Nicolson's travel to 'provincial' museums in preparation for an exhibition he is organising with Kenneth Garlick, because 'I find it no use relying on my memory, I have got to see them again'
-letter, dated 5 April 1972, concerning a Zampetti review written by Vertova for the Burlington magazine
Also includes:
- a letter, dated 27 July 1962, from Professor Ulrich Middeldorf, Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institute Florenz, to Luisa Vertova concerning a visit to England.
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