Unmounted slide of Ruth Pitter, Elizabeth Hodson and Haro Hodson

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Scope & content: Unmounted medium format colour slide (from left to right) of cartoonist Haro Hodson (1923-2021), author Elizabeth Hodson (nee Mavor) (1927-2013), poet Ruth Pitter (1897-1992) and Chris Cruckeshead at Waterperry. Ink inscription on sleeve on recto: 'In the collection there is a photo of Ruth Pitter in her potting shed x'; R to L Chris Cruckeshead Ruth Pitter gt gardener & poet Mrs H Hodson authoress Haro Hodson artist at Waterperry'; '593'. Ink on recto crossed out: '582'. Address supplied. Full names: Emma Thomas Ruth Pitter, known as Ruth Pitter; Elizabeth Osborne Hodson. Ruth Pitter wrote 'The Rude Potato' a collection of poems about gardens and gardeners in 1941. Beatrix Havergal took over the lease of Waterperry estate from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1932, and eventually bought it in 1948. She ran the estate as the Waterperry Horticultural School for ladies as headmistress until her retirement in 1971. Valerie Finnis attended as a student from 1942 and stayed on to teach until her marriage to Sir David Scott in 1970. The school closed and the estate was purchased by the School of Philosophy and Economic Science who continue to run it today as a retreat for student residential courses. The gardens are also open to visitors and Waterperry is known for its five orchards, broad variety of snowdrops and two collections of saxifrages accredited with Plant Heritage

Physical description: 60 (h) mm x 60 (w) mm, (medium format); 88 (h) mm x 67 (h) mm (sleeve). Image: Square. acetate film. transparency