The Moodie Book (Includes family letters, photographs and ephemera)

132p. Black and white photographs. Fold-out family tree of Moodie family. Limited to 150 copies. The book belonged to Agnes Manica Harmer, the first European girl to be born in Manicaland in the former Rhodesia, daughter of Mr and Mrs JB Moodie. She married James Harmer in 1922.

Contains a photograph of Agnes nee Moodie and Ian and Janet Smith at a garden party held for descendants of the Pioneers on 12 September 1967. Also cuttings from the newspaper regarding Agnes Moodie, her death at the age of 79. There are two additional colour photographs of Agnes taken later in life, no details on the back.

Plus three letters; one is addressed to Margaret, daughter of Agnes, expressing condolences on her mother's passing. The second is from Thomas Kent, photographer and photographic publisher based in Kirkwall and addressed to Walter Grant Esq, dated 26th May 1925. It reads "I am enclosing the Moodie book as desired and will report later on price. The specimen album of birds and nests which you also desired is rather shabby and shopworn. I am taking the liberty of making a new album of Orkney natural history subjects which will be much nicer for you to possess; but there will necessarily be some delay as I am presently in the middle of 'flitting'. Trusting that you will not be inconvenienced through unavoidable delay." I am yours faithfully Thos. Kent.

Third is a handwritten page detailing the family and the farm Claremont in the Highlands of Southern Rhodesia. It lists the remaining members of the family.