Accession Number

2023.003.021.002a-b

Description

One two-page brown paper copy of a typewritten letter dated December 22, 1960.

Narrative

This is one of four documents related to John Samuel "Sam" Henry Matson and the Estate of the late Mary Jean Dunsmuir (Mrs. Mary Croft), the fifth daughter of Robert and Joan Olive Dunsmuir. They also relate to Emily Ellen Dunsmuir (Mrs. Henry Burroughes), Jessie Sophia Dunsmuir (Mrs. Richard Musgrave), Henrietta Maud Dunsmuir (Mrs. Reginald Chaplin), Annie Euphemia "Effie" Dunsmuir, Joan Olive Dunsmuir, John William Bryden, Lucy Lenore Bryden, Elizabeth Joan Bryden, and Robert Oliver Dunsmuir Harvey. 

History of Use

This document and the other three related to it were used by Margaret Joan Harvey, and her daughter Georgiana Holme-Sumner (Mrs. Robert Dunlop Stewart), a great granddaughter of Robert and Joan Olive Dunsmuir, at her home in Britain. It was next used by her son, who kept them at his home in Scotland until donating them to Craigdarroch in 2023.

Date

December 22 1960

Dimensions

26.3 x 21.3 cm

Material

Paper