Musical manuscripts, artwork, and photographs relating to Helen Patuffa Hood

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.

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