Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson, 1899-1968
- Scope and content:
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This series comprises correspondence, notebooks, diaries, photographs and research and business papers of Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson. Correspondents include a large number of relatives, friends prominent in academic and artistic circles, servants and former lodgers. Materials related to her interests in heraldry, history and genealogy are also included here.
- Biographical / historical:
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Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson was the eldest daughter of Laura Troubridge Hope and Adrian Hope. Born in 1889, she married Hedley Nicholson in 1916 and they joined their last names by deed-poll. Jaqueline was passionate about history, theater (both professional and amateur), heraldry and genealogy; she was also an inveterate list-maker and chronicler, compiling lists of wildflowers, fancy dress outfits and dolls, to name a few. She was well-known for organizing and staging historical pageants and making costumes for them; she formed the company Esperanza to faciliate this.
- Arrangement:
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This collection is arranged in 4 subseries:
- Subseries 2.1.
- Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson Correspondence, 1899-1968
- Subseries 2.2.
- Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson notebooks, photographs, and lists, 1915-1954
- Subseries 2.3.
- Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson history, historical pageants and genealogy materials, 1750-1954
- Subseries 2.4.
- Old Place files and photographs, about 1920-1938
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Access and use
- Parent restrictions:
- This collection is open for research.
- Parent terms of access:
- The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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2520 Cimarron StreetLos Angeles, CA 90018, US
- Contact:
- (310) 794-5155