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Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
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...
Dates:
Circa 1925-2014.
Letter and Christmas cards of Edith Simon to Dr Joan Basden, with two photographs.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14192
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...
Dates:
1948-1969.