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West, Victoria Mary Sackville -, 1892-1962 (afterwards Nicolson, poet, novelist and biographer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1892 - 1962

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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Chairman's remarks at a poetry reading by Vita Sackville-West (1951), 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B59/31
Scope and Contents

Original typescript draft with ms. alterations and one final carbon copy.

Dates: 1951
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).
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Correspondence, 1944-1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B20/1
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include the editors, Charles Batey, Rupert Hart-Davis, Vita Sackville-West (who wrote the introduction to the volume), Reynolds Stone, and the publisher Jonathan Cape. At the end of the sequence are letters of thanks from recipients of presentation copies. The correspondence includes each editor's choices of essays and poems for inclusion.

Dates: 1944-1950
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).
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Correspondence, 1960-1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B46/2
Scope and Contents

Chiefly letters of appreciation from listeners, including Jane Bacon, Viola Dallyn, Vita Sackville-West, and Olivia Sowerby. Other correspondence is with the producer Douglas Cleverdon (including an audience research report), and Queen's Gate School (Margaret See).

Dates: 1960-1964
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).
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Nightingale, 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B61/23
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, typescripts, clippings from the original publication in The Observer (1947). With these is correspondence with Manlio de Veroli and Vita Sackville-West.

Dates: 1947
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).
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University Printer: Correspondence with West, V. Sackville-, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/PRESS 3/1/3/4061
Scope and Contents

2 carbon typed letters.

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
 Fonds

Virginia Woolf: On Being Ill

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8472
Scope and Contents

'On being ill', a holograph manuscript of 24 October 1925. There are accompanying letters by Virginia and Leonard Woolf and V. Sackville-West, 1936-1966, and an extract from a sale catalogue of 25 July 1978, concerning letters of Virginia Woolf.

Dates: 1925-1978
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).

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