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 Basden's fourth child, Nicholas; and two photographs, 1948, of Mortonhall House and of 'Edith Reeve and Joan Basden at Roslin', near Edinburgh; with an explanatory note by Nicholas Basden.