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D O HILL CORRESPONDENCE PROJECT
In 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund gave a grant to SSHoP, under the ‘Awards for All’ scheme, to survey and list the correspondence of D O Hill. With the support of the National Galleries of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Academy, the National Library of Scotland and Glasgow University, the survey was designed to assess and evaluate the extent of the correspondence which still exists, and where it is located. The project was undertaken by Monica Thorp and was based on the work of Dr Sara Stevenson (the world authority on Hill) for the National Galleries of Scotland, which holds the world’s largest collection of Hill and Adamson’s photographs. It is hoped that the survey, now completed, will pave the way for a much larger project, in which the correspondence will be transcribed and made available on the Internet. A complete edition of the correspondence would not only provide more information about the life and times of one half of Scotland’s greatest pioneering photographic partnership but also give a comprehensive insight into the wider artistic and cultural activities of nineteenth-century Scotland.
SSHoP gratefully acknowledges the generous collaboration of collections holding the original letters, principally the Royal Scottish Academy, the National Library of Scotland and the University of Glasgow, and the practical support and advice of Dr Joanna Soden, Archivist of the Royal Scottish Academy, Dr A D Morrison-Low of the National Museums of Scotland, the Convenor of the Society, David Bruce, and Professor Nigel Thorp and Graeme Cannon of Glasgow University. The Society is grateful to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland for permission to reproduce images of letters in the collections.
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