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University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Penkill Castle
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Penkill collection

  • RBSC-ARC-1433
  • Fonds
  • 1852-1895

The Penkill collection consists of records of William Bell Scott, Alice Boyd and Margaret Courtenay. The collection includes five hundred letters from Scott to Alice Boyd, and a large number of letters to Scott and Boyd from other artists and writers. Also in the collection are the letters from Arthur Hughes and letters concerning the 1872 illness of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The collection also includes the diaries of W.B. Scott, Alice Boyd and Margaret Courtenay.

Edward Nudelman Pre-Raphaelite collection

  • RBSC-ARC-1815
  • Collection
  • 1858-[1897]

Collection consists of materials pertaining to Pre-Raphaelite artists Christina Rosetti, her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alice Boyd, and others associated with them, and include poetry broadsides, correspondence, photographs, personal papers (such as a notebook, an address book, and other textual records), and a framed silk embroidered panel. The contents of this collection were purchased from bookseller Edward Nudelman.

Alice Boyd Personal Document Box from Penkill Castle

File consists of a leather bound box and its contents, which include an address book belonging to Alice Boyd, a pocket diary belonging to Alice Boyd, a notebook containing handwritten copies of poems (creator unknown), the last Will and Testament of Boyd family patriarch William Losh, and an assortment of fragments from letters and calling cards. The box and the personal belongings therein were originally located at Penkill Castle, UK, Alice Boyd (a British Pre-Raphaelite painter) was the 14th Laird of Penkill. She died in 1897.

Boyd, Alice