Correspondence

Series II. consists of two groupings: outgoing correspondence from and incoming correspondence to Beverley Nichols, reflecting the arrangement of the series as received by the University of Delaware Library. The first grouping consists of outgoing correspondence, arranged alphabetically by correspondent's surname; one file has been created for letters collectively addressed to members of Nichols's family. Significant correspondents include Nichols's close friend and confidante Cornelia Thorne and members of his family, with whom he shared details of his travels in Greece, Australia, the United States, and France. The second grouping is comprised of incoming correspondence, sub-arranged alphabetically by the surname of the correspondent or by the first letter of a business's name and then chronologically. Significant correspondents include English writer Rebecca West; English photographer and designer Cecil Beaton; English poet John Betjeman; Winston S. Churchill, grandson of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill; and English author W. Somerset Maugham. Miscellaneous correspondence includes a circa 1922 letter from English travel writer Freya Stark to Jean Connolly, the wife of English literary critic Cyril Connolly, and one letter responding to Nichols biographer Bryan Connon's newspaper advertisement for information concerning Nichols, which includes a photocopy of a 1981 letter from Nichols to a Mrs. Dele concerning Nichols's battle with cancer toward the end of his life.