World War, Huxley was a broadcaster for the BBC. In 1960, Huxley was appointed an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (the Monckton Commission). Although she was initially an advocate of continued colonial rule, she later called for the independence of African nations. In the 1960s, she served as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. Huxley was a friend of Joy Adamson, the author of Born Free, and is mentioned in the biography of Joy and George Adamson entitled The Great Safari. Huxley wrote the foreword to Joy's autobiography The Searching Spirit. Personal life She married Gervas Huxley, the son of doctor Henry Huxley (1865–1946) in 1931. They had one son, Charles, who was born in February 1944. Death and legacy Huxley died on 10 January 1997 aged 89, in a nursing home at Tetbury in Gloucestershire, England. A collection of twelve boxes of photographs, prints, negatives, contact prints and slides is held at Bristol Archives in the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection. Most of the photographs were taken by Huxley, with the rest collected by her. The collection covers Huxley's whole career (1896-1981) and subject matter includes Kenyan safari landscapes and local people (specifically the Kikuyu people), the Mau Mau uprising, white settlers, Edwardian Mombasa, and a transcript of an oral history interview taken by the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (Ref. 1995/076) (online catalogue). Other collections related to Huxley can be found at the Bodleian Library and Cambridge University Library Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. Christine S. Nicholls wrote Elspeth Huxley: A Biography, published by Harper Collins in 2002. Honours Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1962. Works Fiction Murder at Government House (1937) Murder on Safari (1938) Death of an Aryan (U.S.:The African Poison Murders) (1939) Red Strangers (1939) The Walled City (1948) A Thing to Love (1954) The Red Rock Wilderness (1957) The Merry Hippo (U.S.: The Incident at the Merry Hippo) (1963) A Man from Nowhere (1964) The Prince Buys the Manor (1982) Non-fiction White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya (1935) EAST AFRICA (1941) Atlantic Ordeal: The Story of Mary Cornish (1941) African Dilemmas (1948) Settlers of Kenya (1948) The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Journey Through Africa (1948) I Don't Mind If I Do (1950) Four Guineas: A Journey Through West Africa (1954) No Easy