Miscellaneous letters

Miscellaneous letters, [?1912]-2017 (mostly [?1912]-1969), collected by Tristan de Vere Cole and relating mostly to the John family.
They include letters from Augustus John to Horace de Vere Cole, November 1927 (ff. 1-3), and Poppet John, [29 November 1928] (f. 4, beginning lost, sent from Boston, Massachusetts); letters to Augustus John from Arthur Symons, [?1912] (ff. 6-7), Francis Macnamara, [?1915] (ff. 8-23, incomplete), the Duke of Alba, 3 January 1945 (f. 30, partly in Caló), Jan [Sliwinski], 12 June 1945 (f. 31), and Genevieve [Banchet], [1940s] (f. 33, French); letters to Dorelia McNeill from Lytton Strachey, 12 March [1912x1916], 10 May 1918 (ff. 41-42), Michael Holroyd, 1966-1969 (ff. 43, 45-63), and Juliette [de Bairacli Levy], 19 December 1967 (f.44); letters from Henry John to Poppet John, [1927] (ff. 64-71), Romilly John to Dr [Aubrey Thomas] Westlake, 31 January 1964 (f. 73), Michael Holroyd to Tristan de Vere Cole (ff. 74-75, 77), Mavis de Vere Cole (f. 76), and Romilly John (f. 78), 1968-1969, and Meg O'Malley to [Oskar] Kokoschka, 2 February 1939 (f. 72). Also included are miscellaneous items, 1928-[?1961], in the hand of Augustus John (ff. 34-40), including poetry in English, 1928, and French, [1940s] (ff. 34-35); a photocopy of the Nettleship family tree (ff. 79-80); a photocopy, [?2000s], of a photograph published in Nova, February 1970, pp. 36-37, showing members of the John family and others (c. 1928) (ff. 81-84); cuttings, [1992], 2008, relating to Oskar Kokoschka (ff. 85-87, see also f. 72; and an anecdote regarding Augustus John, written by Lucilla van den Bogaerde, dated 12 December 2017 (f. 88).

Arranged at NLW as follows: letters from Augustus John; letters to Augustus John; miscellaneous Augustus John papers; letters to Dorelia McNeill; other letters; miscellaneous items.

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 24010D.

Folios 64-71: A photocopy of Henry John's letter to Poppet John is in NLW, Michael Holroyd (Augustus John) Research Papers, 3/6.
Folios 79-80: Further photocopies of the Nettleship family tree are in NLW ex 2297.

Letters to Dorelia John from Lytton Strachey and Michael Holroyd (ff. 41-43, 45-63) were given by her co-executor Romilly John to Brigit Marnier and were subsequently given to the vendor by Brigit's son Tobias Marnier; the Romilly John letter to Dr Westlake (f. 73) was found inside a copy of John's novel Death by Request in a sale of his property in 1987.

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