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Nisbet, Hugh Ulric Swinscow, 1897-1987 (write pseudonyms Hugh Callaway and Pierre Saint Vaast)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1897 - 1987

Biography

Hugh Ulric Swinscow Nisbet was the author of Thoughts on the purpose of art (1934), Spread no wings (1937) and Old school tie: recollections of Marlborough before the First World War (1964), and, under the pseudonym Hugh Callaway, Bridge to world man (1960), Super-sense: a beginning (1967) and The new consciousness (alternative to chaos) (1971). He also published under the name Pierre Saint Vaast.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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Letter from H. Ulric S. Nisbet, author, (London), to Siegfried Sassoon, 12 Apr. 1942

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8889/1/37
Scope and Contents

Thanks for Siegfried Sassoon's letter, state of mind induced by the war, fate of western civilization, sends essay [''The park of Jean-Jacques Rousseau'', 1934, CCC.39.80].

Dates: 12 Apr. 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Ulric Nisbet: Diaries

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8430
Scope and Contents

1. Typescript forewords to 'Bridge of years' and 'Return to Ithaca'. 2-10. 'Bridge of years', vols I-VI, and 'Return to Ithaca', nos 1 and 2, typescript 'diaries of an untaught mystic', 1932-1962, with inserted photographs. 11. Hugh Callaway, The new consciousness (alternative to chaos) (1971), printed.

Dates: 1932-1971
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).