Sackville-West, Vita (Lady Nicholson): letter (1957)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 AL444
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: Sackville-West, Vita (Lady Nicholson): letter (1957)
Date(s)	: 1957
Level of description	: fonds
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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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Finding aids:

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Archival Information

Archival history:

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Goldsmiths' Librarian's files, 1970.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 2008