IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL444
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Sackville-West, Vita (Lady Nicholson): letter (1957)
Date(s): 1957
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 leaf
Name of creator(s): West | Victoria Mary | Sackville- | 1892-1962 | afterwards Nicholson | writer and gardener x West | Vita | Sackville- x Sackville-West | Vita x Nicholson | Lady | Vita
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West (known throughout her life as Vita) was born at Knole, Kent, and educated at home and in London. She wrote both prose and poetry extensively from an early age. Sackville-West kept her own surname on her marriage to Harold George Nicholson (later Sir Harold) in 1913; the marriage was successful and lasted until her death, in spite of her many female lovers (including Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf). She continued to write throughout her life, alongside her long-running project to restore the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letter from Vita Sackville-West onbaord the SS Reina del Mar, [docked at] Havana, Cuba to [J H P] Pafford, Goldsmiths' Librarian, University of London Library, 19 Dec 1957. Replying to some queries he had sent on behalf of a student [Jean Muriel Wines] who was prepapring a bibilography of Sackville-West's works. Autograph, with signature.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
See hard copy catalogue
Conditions governing access:
Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to individual items in Senate House Library archives collections may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
See archivist
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Goldsmiths' Librarian's files, 1970.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Presumably, Miss Treadwell retained the original letters after relinquishing these copies; the current whereabouts of the original letters is unknown.
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008