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Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: More House Archive
Identifier/Call Number: MS.2013.020
Physical Description:
175 Linear Feet
213 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1587-1997
Date (bulk): 1870-1945
Abstract: The More House Archive consists of the family archive of the Hope-Nicholson family, who lived at More House at 52 Tite Street
in London for a century, beginning in 1892. The house was first purchased by Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge and the house
archive contains materials produced by them, their daughter and son-in-law Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson, and grandchildren
(particularly Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster and Felix Hope-Nicholson), as well as other members of their extended Troubridge,
Hope, Gurney, Nicholson and Cleghorn families. Materials comprise correspondence, diaries, photographs, literary manuscripts,
original art and business papers, dating from the early 17th century to late 1990s.
Physical Location: Clark Library
Language of Material:
English
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This archive was originally compiled by the Hope-Nicholson family of More House, Chelsea. Some materials did not originate
at More House and were collected by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster in the 1990s from other family members and added to the collection.
After the sale of More House, the art and museum objects from the family's collection were largely sold and parts of the archive
dispersed amongst the surviving family.
The collection was purchased in 2013 by the Clark Library.
This collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of
the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
This collection is organized into 6 series:
- Series 1.
- Laura Troubridge Hope and Adrian Hope, 1868-1933
- Series 2.
- Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson, 1899-1968
- Series 3.
- Hedley Hope-Nicholson, 1897-1969
- Series 4.
- Troubridge and Gurney family, 1817-1958
- Series 5.
- Hope and Hope-Nicholson family, 1762-1995
- Series 6.
- Nicholson and Cleghorn family, 1587-1924
The More House Archive consists of the family archive of the Hope-Nicholson family, who lived at More House at 52 Tite Street
in London for a century beginning in 1892. The house was purchased by Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge and the house archive
contains materials produced by them, their daughter and son-in-law Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson, and grandchildren
(particularly Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster and Felix Hope-Nicholson), as well as other members of their extended Troubridge,
Hope, Gurney, Nicholson and Cleghorn families. Materials comprise correspondence, diaries, photographs, literary manuscripts,
original art and business papers, dating from the early 17th century to late 1990, though the bulk of material dates from
the 1870s to the 1940s. The Troubridge, Hope, Gurney and Hope-Nicholson families were very well-connected across a variety
of disparate social circles and fields. As such, materials relate to a large number of topics including Pre-Raphaelite and
aesthetic arts, diplomacy and the military (particularly the Crimean War), royalty, politics, the gay and lesbian avant garde,
religious figures, journalism, country life, amateur and professional theater, interior decoration and education.
Family members well-represented here include Laura Troubridge Hope, Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson, Hedley Hope-Nicholson, Marie-Jaqueline
Lancaster, Felix Hope-Nicholson, Una Taylor Troubridge, Alfred John Nicholson, Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, Amy Troubridge, Helen
Troubridge Bate, Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham and Thomas W. Allen. Correspondents and friends of the family circle represented
in the collection include Oscar Wilde, Cyril and Vyvyan Holland, John Betjeman, George Kolkhorst, Queen Victoria and the Royal
Family, Radclyffe Hall, Trelawny Dayrell Reed, C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, Lord Alfred Douglas, Edward Burne-Jones and family, the
de Bunsen family, John Millais and family, Edward Scott-Snell, Harold Nicolson and Ada Leverson, to name only a few.
Many of the original housings and containers in which this archive was stored have been retained in the More House Archive
at the Clark. Normally, most original boxes and containers would be discarded during processing, but in the case of this
archive, the Clark staff decided that the way the archive was collected, curated and stored was an important part of its overall
story. The collecting habits of the Troubridge-Hope-Nicholson's are a very significant part of the provenance of the archive,
and it was deemed important to keep some record and evidence of how they curated the archive when it was in their posession.
A family tree of the Troubridge, Hope, Gurney and Nicholson families is
viewable online .
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Letters--England--19th century
Letters -- England -- 20th century
Family papers--England