Cropped image from a black photograph album page showing a black and white photograph of Cornish poet and writer Jack Clemo leaning over a light-coloured Pomeranian in the foreground. The dog looks majestic, but his eyes look slightly alarmed! In the background is the cottage Goonamarris. The typed caption underneath reads: 'JACK CLEMO WITH SPARK Goonamarris August 25, 1950'.
Colour photograph of a large ginger tabby cat (belonging to Cornish poet Charles Causley) lying in bright sunshine in a flowerbed. His tail is hooked around a small plant. He is looking towards the photographer with his eyes half closed. The photograph has been mounted on card with a brown border around the photograph.
Colour photograph a beautiful brown horse with artist Rose Marie and poet, writer and librettist Ronald Duncan, who are both wearing riding dress.
Black and white photograph showing a nun - Sister Mary Peter - wearing the Bridgettine habit and standing in a field with two happy and mischievous-looking goats on either side of her. In the bottom left hand corner is typed: 'The Farm Syon Abbey'.
Tomorrow is International Pet Day!
You can find plenty of records of beloved pets within our archives. Whether dogs, cats, horses, goats, or tortoises, we have you covered!
📷 EUL MS 50a/2/2/6; EUL MS 68/PERS/3/1/22; EUL MS 397/10/8/57; EUL MS 389/PUB/3/2
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