Correspondence from Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1936-1938

Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) is best known as a hostess and patron of the arts who brought together some of the most important writers and artists of her day. Her circle of friends included Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell and Augustus John. Her husband, Philip Morrell, was a Liberal member of the British Parliament, and their home served as a refuge for conscientious objectors during World War I.

There are three autograph letters from Lady Morrell to Hope Mirrlees in this series. The letters were written in the later years of Lady Morrell's life and discuss mutual acquaintances, Ireland and Philip Morrell's illness. They are arranged chronologically.