Campden Hill Square connection

[DeanChurch]

I understand that Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and her boys moved into 23 Campden Hill Square at the end of 1907. A little earlier that year another house in the Square, number 50, was occupied by the author Evelyn Underhill, who was to become a distinguished Anglican writer on mysticism. She and her husband were recently married, and in the house she began work on her big book Mysticism (still a classic study). Her house is marked by a blue plaque which calls her, not quite adequately, a Christian Philosopher. If Nico continued to live in the Square into the 1930s he may well have known her as Mrs Stuart Moore. (The Square appears to have been a reasonably neighbourly place.) In 1940, partly because of her poor health and partly because of WWII air raids, Evelyn Underhill and her husband went to stay with friends in Hampstead, where she died on June 15th, 1941. She is buried in Hampstead churchyard, half a minute's walk from the grave of her Campden Hill Square neighbours, the Llewelyn Davies family.