LevelSubsubseries
TitleExtensive series of personal correspondence, enclosures and press cuttings
DescriptionReceived by Edith Maud Olivier during the period circa. 1890 to 1948. Some of the enclosures are photographs. Undated letters have been placed at the end of the series under the reference 982/177.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CORRESPONDENCE HAS BEEN LISTED IN DETAIL BY A VOLUNTEER AND THAT LIST IS NOW BEING GRADUALLY TYPED UP AND ADDED INTO OUR DATABASE. PLEASE ORDER INDIVIDUAL LETTERS USING THE REFERENCE FOR THE ENTIRE BUNDLE IN QUESTION EG 982/176.

Below is an incomplete list of correspondents from the literary and artistic world who feature in the series:-

Beaton, [Sir 1972] Cecil Walter Hardy
Benet, William Rose
Betjeman, [Sir 1969] John
Byron, Robert
Cecil, Lord David
Day-Lewis, Cecil
De La Mare, Richard Herbert Ingpen
De Selincourt, Anne Douglas
De Selincourt, Basil
Fry, Charles D
Fry, Malcolm
Grey, Lady Pamela
Grigg, Lady Gertrude Charlotte
Henn, Thomas Rice
Lamb, Henry
Leigh, Vivien
Lynn, Olga
Maraini, Yoi,
Martin, Gertrude
Moberly, C Anne E
Morrell, Lady Ottoline
Newbolt, Sir Henry John
Nicholson, Sir Charles A
Olivier, [Sir 1947] Laurence Kerr
Roberts, R Ellis
Sackville-West, Hon Victoria [Vita] Mary
Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine
Secker, Martin
Sedgwick, Alice
Sitwell, Edith
Sitwell, Osbert
Sitwell, Sacheverell
Tennant, Hon Stephen James Napier
Walton, [Sir 1951] William Turner
Whistler, Laurence
Whistler, Rex
Wilson, Mona
Woolley, [Sir 1935] Charles Leonard
Wylie, Elinor
Young, George Malcolm
Datec.1890-1948
Related Material To try and identify an individual correspondent the list should be used in conjunction with the list of 'Characters' contained in the biography 'Edith Olivier. From her Journals 1924-1948' by Penelope Middleboe, Local Studies Library shelf reference XOL.927, and the index to correspondents shown under the reference 982/177A. The latter index is electronic only and does not appear in the paper catalogue.
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