Archive of diaries, manuscript papers, photographs and drawings

Item author: Dr Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff
Item date: 20th century
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 15,000
Item date acquired: 1999
Item institution: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Town/City: Edinburgh

This archive minutely documents the research and other activities of the British Surrealist Group. Includes a significant body of correspondence with Sir Roland Penrose and the poet David Gascoyne who were the prime movers in bringing Surrealism to Britain