NICHOLSON
(Norman, 1914-1987, Poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom)
Typed Letter Signed with autograph amendments to Michael CULLUP
(born 1934, Author) thanking him for sending him "a copy of your poems ... I've not yet read them all - though Andrew Young used to say that you should never thank anyone for a book until you'd read it! - but I've sampled enough to enjoy their precision and shapeliness, often indeed, elegance. They show, one again, Carcanet's sense for the real thing ... I've visited Norfolk a number of times - the last, five years ago, in the Buxton-North Walsham area, on what was to be the last holiday with my wife. She fell ill just after our return, and died a year later, of cancer, so that East Anglia has a poignancy ... which seems to suit its landscape ..." with a postscript about gatecrashing a party at George Macbeth's Old Vicarage with Anthony Thwaite, 2 sides oblong 8vo., 14 St George's Tce, Millon, 24th February
Item Date:
1986
Stock No:
39579
£75
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BEAVERBROOK IS “INDEED A STRANGE CHARACTER”
NICOLSON
(Sir Harold, 1886-1968, Diplomatist, Author & Critic, husband of Vita SACKVILLE-WEST)
Typed letter signed ‘Harold Nicolson’ to Mr McCORMICK
(Donald, 1911-1998, Author and Journalist) thanking him “for letting me know about the progress of your work on Lloyd George. Of course I consent to the publication of the quotations that you mention. I am sorry that you have had difficulty with Lord Beaverbrook who is indeed a strange character. I look forward to reading your book with the greatest interest...”, 1 side oblong 8vo., C1, The Albany, Piccadilly, 21st May
Item Date:
1963
Stock No:
42291
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NICOLSON
(Sir Harold, 1886-1968, Diplomatist, Author & Critic, husband of Vita SACKVILLE-WEST)
Typed letter signed to historian Geoffrey F.A. Best, b. 1928,
editor of the 'Cambridge Review', later Professor at Edinburgh and Sussex, saying "it is very kind of you to suggest that I should review Mr Mack Smith's book on Cavour and Garibaldi", but he has "a sort of gentleman's agreement with the Observer ... Moreover, I am not in the least an authority on the period and would feel rather diffident ... in any case", 1 side 5" x 8", C.1., Albany, Piccadilly, W.1., 11th May
Item Date:
1954
Stock No:
53538
£65
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NICOLSON
(Sir Harold, 1886-1968, Diplomatist, Author & Critic, husband of Vita SACKVILLE-WEST)
Typed letter signed to Mr Hopkins
thanking him for his letter and saying that he fears "that my 'Terminal Essay' is somewhat out of date and I have long been contemplating something else. The affairs of the world move so quickly nowadays that anything one writes is outdated in a few weeks ...", 1 side oblong 4to., 4 King's Bench Walk, EC4, 17th March
Item Date:
1938
Stock No:
39315
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HE HAS "ABANDONED MY BOOK ON THE ROMANTICS WHICH I CANNOT MANAGE"
NICOLSON
(Sir Harold, 1886-1968, Diplomatist, Author & Critic, husband of Vita SACKVILLE-WEST)
Typed letter signed H. Nicolson to Miss Kelly
saying it was "nice to have a letter from you and I hope you will see me when you come to England. You have got such extraordinary enterprise that I feel you will be able to save enough money to return eventually. Your Spanish trip sounds lovely and I am glad you spent a weekend with Edie and her partridges and pomegranates. I am glad the school is not such a nightmare as I had expected. i am sure the way to learn is to teach, and I wish I had learnt more. I have been rather ill lately, and have abandoned my book on the Romantics which I cannot manage ...", 1 side airletter form with address on the verso, C1, Albany, Piccadilly, 8th July
Item Date:
1963
Stock No:
41509
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