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Correspondents include his parents A.J. Nicholson and Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, his children and grandchildren, George Alfred Kolkhorst, Leonard Smith, Alex Lawson, James Ramsay, Roger Kynaston, Noel Stevens and other various relatives and friends. Topics are largely personal and social in nature, though there may be some research or business-related correspondence as well.

For the correspondence between Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson, please see Subseries 2.1.1. above.

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Includes a B&W photo postcard: "A Brood of Young Peregrine Falcons."

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Includes 7 small B&W photos of Ramsay with others, outside and on a rooftop; a brown paper envelope inside another envelope labelled "snapshots of James" with negative; an envelope labelled "scraps connected with James" by previous archivist includes newspaper clippings and obituaries, among other things.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Correspondents include his parents A.J. Nicholson and Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, his children and grandchildren, George Alfred Kolkhorst, Leonard Smith, Alex Lawson, James Ramsay, Roger Kynaston, Noel Stevens and other various relatives and friends. Topics are largely personal and social in nature, though there may be some research or business-related correspondence as well.

For the correspondence between Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson, please see Subseries 2.1.1. above.

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From B.D.:"George Alfred Kolkhorst, known affectionately by his students and friends as 'G'ug' and later 'the Colonel' because he was so little like one, was a Reader of Spanish at Oxford University from 1931 until a few months before his death in 1958. In his obituary of Kolkhorst John Betjeman describes him as 'one of the most beloved Oxford figures."

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Letters between Hedley Hope-Nicholson and LS. It is supposed that the two men might have had a homosexual relationship, about which there are many allusions in these letters.

Scope and Contents 76 books total. 2 of which are financial records instead of diaries; Years not represented: 1898-1905, 1954, 1956-62; a 1944 notebook has been badly damaged by a rodent; tiny leather-bound 1918 diary is unused, as is a small faux marble journal, probably from the 1950s or 60s. Box 32:15 small notebooks from 1963-1967; 2 are undated and contain handwritten recipes, one of which includes the date 7/31/1914. Box 49/Folder 6:A small flowered notebook, pages blank, containing numerous postcards,...

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A notebook belonging to James Ramsay, close friend of Hedley Hope-Nicholson, for visitors to sign. A clipped newspaper obituary describes him as "James Surtees Maule Ramsay, Lieutenant, Scots Guards, killed in Hoolland, Oct. 26, 1944, aged 21."

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A notebook containing scraps of paper and a long letter to a "Lady Ramsay" (presumably's JR's mother) by Hedley Hope-Nicholson memorializing JR.