Scope and Contents This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...

Scope and Contents Edith Simon [Mrs Edith Reeve] and Dr Joan Basden were housed at Mortonhall House, Edinburgh, with their husbands, Dr Eric Reeve and Eric Basden, who were attached to the National Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organisation in the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. The folder contains five 'paper-cut' Christmas cards, 1967-1969 and n.d., handmade by Edith Simon for Joan Basden and her family; letter, 30 August 1957, on the occasion of Joan and Eric...

Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...