Evelyn Irons, Scottish writer, editor and foreign correspondent for several British newspapers, including the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.

Vita Sackville-West, English novelist and poet.

Collection contains correspondence between Evelyn Irons and Vita Sackville-West, dating from their first meeting through the course of their relationship. Several of the letters from Irons contain enclosures written by Irons' companion, Olive Rinder. The correspondence describes Sackville-West's life at Long Barn and the renovation of Sissinghurst Castle, her writing, particularly her novel Family History, her relationship Olive Rinder (referred to as "Olga"), her husband Harold Nicolson, her cousin Edward Sackville-West, Irons' life in London and her job at the Daily Mail, and many of their friends and acquaintances, including Enid Bagnold, Hilda Matheson and Dorothy Wellesley (both referred to as the "Sicilian Expedition"), Ethel Smyth, and Virginia Woolf.

Also included are one letter by Harold Nicolson and one by Edward Sackville-West to Irons regarding Vita Sackville-West's death, holograph and typescript poems by Sackville-West sent to Irons, photographs taken by Irons of Sackville-West at Sissinghurst in 1931, and typescript notes about Irons' life and career.

Authors, English > 20th century.