MS 447 03

MS 447 03

L. H. Myers: Photographs

Series

L. H. Myers, British author, son of F. W. H. Myers, writer and founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and Eveleen Tennant Myers, photographer. Leopold Hamilton Myers attended Eton, where he was in A. C. Benson's house, and met his future wife Elsie Palmer of Colorado Springs while travelling in the United States.

1886-1924

1 box

Photograph album of family pictures and 9 loose photographs. There are six photographs of L. H. Myers as a young boy by Hills & Saunders, J. E. Bliss, H. S. Mendelssohn, and Frederick Hollyer; there are two photographs of L. H. and Elsie Myers in 1924, and one of Anne de Selincourt by E. O. Hoppé. The photograph album contains 239 images recording L. H. Myers's life through to his trip to the United States with his mother in 1901-1902. There are seven images by Eveleen Tennant Myers: two of L. H. Myers in the garden at Leckhampton, one of F. W. H. and L. H. Myers, another of L. H., Silvia, and Harold Myers on horseback at Leckhampton, two portraits of L. H. Myers at the age of 10, and one of a very young Harold Myers as St. John. In addition, there are informal snapshots of the family that may have been taken by Eveleen. There are images of Eton College buildings, A. C. Benson's house photographs, portraits of classmates and teachers, including George Lyttleton, Aubrey Herbert, Percy Lubbock and Arthur Christopher Benson as well as a few informal snapshots, two images of Queen Victoria in a carriage by the Long Walk when she visited during the Diamond Jubilee, photos from Cambridge, Biarritz, Guernsey, and locations in the United States, including Glen Eyrie, Elsie Palmer's house in Colorado Springs.

Acquired by purchase.