Malcolm Hassels Nicolson

Indian Love features a poetic dedication to Hope's recently deceased husband, Malcolm Hassels Nicolson . In it she says that she never made public any verse inspired by him, Lest strangers' lips should carelessly rehearse...

Adela Cory (who later published as LH ) married Malcolm Hassels Nicolson , a colonel in the British Armed Forces (either the Bengal Army or the Bombay Army) in India.

Malcolm Hassels Nicolson (husband of LH ) died following a prostrate operation in Madras, India.

One of these warmly admired men was Malcolm Nicolson of the Indian Army , who later married Adela Florence Cory . FAS 's biographer suggests that she was not fond of this woman (known after...

Malcolm Hassels Nicolson became Commanding Officer of the Western Command of the Indian Army , and he and his wife (who was soon to be publishing as the poet LH ) moved to Mhow in Indore.

Their financial prospects uncertain, LH and her husband set out to return to India from England.

While living at Mhow in Indore, Hope began to write poetry once more, giving her work to friends or publishing it anonymously in the journals of local clubs. It was here that she wrote...

The Nicolsons found themselves in financial difficulty after Malcolm Hassels Nicolson 's appointment in Mhow ended without the certainty of a future position. They considered alternative opportunities for investment and occupation. One was to embark...