Musical manuscripts, artwork, and photographs relating to Helen Patuffa Hood
- Reference:GB 237 Coll-1393
- Dates of Creation:1909-1938
- Name of Creator:
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:2 boxes
Scope and Content
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.
Administrative / Biographical History
Helen Patuffa Hood (born 1889) 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.
Access Information
Open.
Acquisition Information
Material purchased September 2012. Accession no: E2012.23.
Archivist's Note
Top-level description created by Graeme D. Eddie 01 February 2013. Lower-level descriptions created by Angèle Liotard in June-July 2019.
Related Material
Also within Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library, are other similar or related materials with association to Helen Patuffa Hood:
- Coll-1036 - Papers of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.
- Coll-1407 - Material relating to Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Helen Patuffa Hood (uncatalogued).
- Coll-1433 - Correspondence relating to Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, A. Y. Fraser, and others (uncatalogued).
- Coll-1558: Letters of Henry Holiday to Helen Patuffa Hood 1921-1922.
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