Publicity Photograph--Sir John Gielgud, by Vivienne, London, circa 1948

The Paley Family Collection consists of letters, correspondence, poetry, photographs, portraits, sketches and books related to the lives of Olga, Vladimir, Natalie and Irina Paley. The collection holds sketches and portraits by Cecil Beaton, correspondence between Erich Maria Remarque and Natalie Paley, correspondence between Natalie Paley and Jean Cocteau, and portrait photos of Natalie by well-known photographers George Hoyningen-Heune, Horst P. Horst and John Alfred Piver. Also of note are letters written in exile by Olga Paley, unpublished poetry by Vladimir Paley, and books containing intimate inscriptions and correspondence between Irina Paley and her second husband Count Hubert de Monbrison.