Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist)
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
Music: printed or mss. [manuscripts], various items, c 1910-1920
Photographs of young dark-haired woman in a dramatic pose, c 1910-1930
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.
Recital programmes and publicity leaflets, c 1916-c 1931
‘Songs of the Hebrides, manuscript, including “Original copies of Notes & Tunes Hebridean”’, 1927-1930
The Seal-woman, c 1906-c 1924
Two notebooks, c 1910-1930
Various Marjory Kennedy-Fraser manuscripts, deposited in 1962, c 1907-17 March 1962
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.