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Book, medals, and printed ephemera relating to Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy Fraser
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1978
Content Description
This collection includes a printed book with two enclosures, printed ephemera, and two medals related to harpist Helen Patuffa Hood and her mother Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Scottish musician and folk-song collector.
The printed book is a signed copy of The Road to the Isles (Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, 1927) by Kenneth Macleod given by the author himself to Patuffa...
Dates:
1889; 1925-1928; 1946
Letters of Henry Holiday to Helen Patuffa Hood
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1558
Scope and Contents
All three letters are on the letterhead of 'Wansfell', 18 Chesterfield Gardens, Hampstead NW 3, and dated 17 January 1921, 8 February 1921, and 17 February 1922. Each open with the salutation, 'My dear Patuffa'. The letter of 17 January 1921 begins, 'I have just found, to my much delight, Mrs Kennedy Fraser's invitation to your wedding, wh. reached me at Betty-Fold, our house at the Lakes'. Holiday had hoped to attend, 'but when I unpacked the invitation had disappeared'. He...
Dates:
1921-1922
Musical manuscripts, artwork, and photographs relating to Helen Patuffa Hood
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1102
Identifier: Coll-1393
Scope and Contents
This fonds contains paper documents such as correspondence to Helen Patuffa Hood, concerts programmes and other printed materials; artworks by Helen Patuffa Hood; and material related to the book Songs of the Hebrides. In the out-sized box are some photographs of Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.
Dates:
1909-1938