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Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1889 - 1967

Biography

Helen Patuffa Hood (1889-1967) was the daughter of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. She had married John Charles Fulton Hood - the Rev. Canon John Charles Fulton Hood - in 1920. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and her daughter Patuffa used to present the mother's collected songs in recitals which took them to New York, London and Berlin in the 1920s.

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous items, Part 1, 2, & 3, 1891-1928

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Scope and Contents Miscellaneous items, Part 1, 2, & 3. ‘General’, bundle of miscellaneous notes, wrapped in ‘Songs of the Hebrides (Ancient Scots Minstrelsie). From the Western Isles of Scotland’, Music Hall, Edinburgh, 21 January 1913, recital programme, containing various lecture notes, notes, excerpts, etc., in no particular order, manuscripts. & typescripts, texts often on reverses of...
Dates: 1891-1928

Music: printed or mss. [manuscripts], various items, c 1910-1920

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Scope and Contents Music: printed or mss. [manuscripts], various items. ‘Marjory and Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser with Margaret Kennedy and Hugh Mackay (Arts League of Service), Songs of the Hebrides, Edinburgh Recital, 19th February, Usher Hall, London Recital 24th February, Queen’s Hall’, programme, no year. ‘Songs of the Hebrides’, leaflet, multiple copies,...
Dates: c 1910-1920

Photographs of young dark-haired woman in a dramatic pose, c 1910-1930

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Photographs of young dark-haired woman in a dramatic pose. Two identical copies of photograph of a young dark-haired woman in a dramatic pose, wearing a loose-fitting archaic white robe and a flower garland in her hair, b/w, 29.5 x 18 cm, both copies mounted on stiff cardboard, one copy marked ‘Mrs Patuffa Hood ?’ on reverse.

Dates: c 1910-1930

Recital programmes and publicity leaflets, c 1916-c 1931

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Scope and Contents Recital programmes and publicity leaflets. Publicity leaflet, with photograph of Marjory and Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser (at the harp), ‘Songs of the Hebrides, Folk Songs from the Scottish Isles’, [1916], New York. Leaflet/advert, unknown publication, [New York], with photograph of Marjory and Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser (at the harp), ‘Mrs. Kennedy-Fraser, Miss Patuffa...
Dates: c 1916-c 1931

‘Songs of the Hebrides, manuscript, including “Original copies of Notes & Tunes Hebridean”’, 1927-1930

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Scope and Contents ‘Songs of the Hebrides, manuscript, including “Original copies of Notes & Tunes Hebridean”’. ‘Songs of the Hebrides, ms. [manuscript], incl. [including] “Original copies of Notes & Tunes Hebridean”’. ‘Original copies of Notes & Tunes Hebridean’: several sheets with fragments of songs, noted by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser in Barra, August 1927, from Bean Shomhairle bhìg, Mrs...
Dates: 1927-1930

The Seal-woman, c 1906-c 1924

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Scope and Contents The Seal-woman. Different sets of proofs of vocal score of The Seal Woman, also of libretto, all corrected and amended by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, one vocal score copy includes Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s rehearsal notes from her creating the Cailleach’s part on stage. Original drawing of vocal score cover,...
Dates: c 1906-c 1924

Two notebooks, c 1910-1930

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Scope and Contents Two notebooks. Softbound, black, 14x24 cm, 34 (32+2) pages, cover embossed ‘Music’, marked ‘Helen P. Kennedy-Fraser, 3 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh’, manuscript, contains several Gaelic songs, arranged for voice and harp by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser; softbound, cover missing, 14.5x23.5 cm, 86 pages, also one loose sheet, manuscript, contains several Scots and Gaelic songs, arranged for voice and harp by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, most arrangements include printed cuttings of text...
Dates: c 1910-1930

Various Marjory Kennedy-Fraser manuscripts, deposited in 1962, c 1907-17 March 1962

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Various Marjory Kennedy-Fraser manuscripts, deposited in 1962. ‘From Kennedy-Fraser, 6 Castle Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Hood’, envelope, marked ‘from Mrs Patuffa K. F. [Kennedy-Fraser] Hood, Battel [sic.] Lodge, Hastings Road, Battle, Sussex, Deposited by Miss Daphne K-F [Kennedy-Fraser]. 17/3/1962 [17 March 1962], D.20276, in Gen. 287’, containing various Songs of the Hebrides arrangements, for voice and harp, manuscripts.

Dates: c 1907-17 March 1962

Various Publications, c 1910-c 1920

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Scope and Contents Various publications. Winter Journey/Die Winterreise, by Franz Schubert, ed. by E. Pauer, London: Augener & Co., [n.d.], softbound, binding broken, some leaves missing, various leaves from a different copy appended, also loose leaves from other song collections. Programme, Boston Symphony Orchestra,...
Dates: c 1910-c 1920