In Nigel Nicolson's book Portrait of a Marriage here he describes the marriage of his parents, Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West. After his mother died in 1962, as executor, he went through her papers in her sitting-room at Sissinghurst, (Kent, England). In a locked Gladstone bag he (eventually) opened and found a notebook in which the sixth page was headed "July 23rd, 1920". It was her narrative in the first person which continued for 80 pages - her autobiography. This forms 'the portrait' in the book, but the book is about these 2 people "who married for love and whose love deepened with every passing year, although each was constantly and by mutual consent unfaithful to the other."Having just finished reading No Signposts in the Sea here I was intrigued to run across this anniversary date.
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