Scope and Contents Alex Lawson (who signs most of his letters "Alexis," after St. Alexis, who "became a holy beggar after having run from home rather than marry") was a close friend of Hedley Hope-Nicholson. From B.D.:"Lawson, who died in 1966, was in 1926 a curate at St. Paul's in Oxford, a notably high Anglican church, famous for its processions." Lawson may have had a homosexual relationship with the vicar at St. Paul's - Roger Wodehouse, cousin of P.G. Wodehouse; AL shared Hedley Hope-Nicholson's interest...

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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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Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Wodehouse, companion to his friend Alex Lawson and Reginald Hastings, identity unknown.

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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These letters, like most of Hedley Hope-Nicholson's, are not always in chronological order.