Article submitted to The Times but not published. Typescript draft with manuscript revisions; letter (Oct 1927) from Nicholson to G.G. Dawson, Editor of The Times, regarding the article.

Typescript draft with manuscript revisions, with 2pp manuscript tables of results, inscribed '?Article for Discovery' on first page.

The material was found together. Some of the pages probably relate to Nicholson's letter on bird migration published in Discovery, Vol. VIII, No.94, Oct 1927. One page is titled 'The Mystery of Bird Migration'; another is dated 1927. A few pages of rough manuscript notes are included.

'Bird-counting from the Train', Discovery, Vol. IX, No.104, Aug 1928. Manuscript draft of the beginning of the article; 17pp typescript draft, possibly incomplete, with manuscript revisions; offprint.

Manuscript draft titled 'Willow Tit'; 5pp typescript revised draft titled 'Marsh and Willow Tits' with manuscript revisions; letter from The Field, Apr 1928 declining publication of the article and suggesting cuts to the text. The outcome with respect to the attempted publication is unknown.

Brief correspondence with H.F. Witherby, Editor of British Birds, regarding publication of one or both of Nicholson's 1937 articles and other matters; Nicholson's manuscript and typescript notes on Willow Tit distribution, probably relating to the aforementioned articles.

The material from these years probably relates to Nicholson's 1932 British Ornithological Club paper. The 1985 correspondence is with R.S.R. Fitter. Included is a short typescript by Nicholson, possibly published, titled 'Marsh and Willow Tits in the Border Area' (1935 or later).

Almost complete typescript draft with manuscript revisions.

Incomplete manuscript draft (untitled); various pages of manuscript notes, mostly by Nicholson, relating to the 1928 census and earlier ideas on bird censuses. Included are notes on a fragment of a letter from The Spectator regarding the US Bird Census. This fragment was found in an envelope inscribed in Nicholson's hand as follows: 'A MS on a Spectator receipt [sic] probably the earliest note on US Bird Census leading to EMN's Census development in…

Letters to Nicholson from H.F. Witherby regarding publication, 1929; various newspaper cuttings concerning the Census and the published Report (including printed letter to Country Life by Nicholson).

Typescript by Nicholson titled 'Editorial Notes on David Lack's 'The Stability of the Heron Population', ?1934; 2pp typescript notes headed 'Summary of Heron & Grebe Censuses', 1931 or later.

This article by Nicholson appertains to a census of heronries carried out in 1954. 2 typescript drafts (2pp and 3pp) with manuscript revisions; letters from the British Trust for Ornithology regarding a meeting on heron studies (Jan 1955) at which Nicholson (as Chair) was to give an introductory speech.

Incomplete 16pp typescript draft, with manuscript revisions, titled 'Museums, Static & Dynamic'. A typescript list of Nicholson's articles on 'Public Affairs' (photocopy of relevant page included) gives the title of this article as 'Dynamic Museums'.