[1] Milly Harris, Diary, April 8th, 1898, “Jaipore, Burma, Cairo”, The diaries of Milly and of her mother Lucy Ronalds Harris are in the Harris family fonds, Archives and Special Collections, Western University, London, Ontario.
[2] David Pepper, Treasures from Japan. Exhibition Catalogue. London, Ontario. Eldon House and London Regional Art and Historical Museums, 1997. 32-34.
[3] Milly Harris Travel Diary, ‘Jaipour, Burma, Cairo,’ Box B 1452, Harris family fonds, Archive and Special Collections, Western University, London, Ont.
[4] Pepper, Treasures.
[5] Pepper, Treasures, 34-35.
[6] Diary of Lucy Ronalds Harris. Harris family fonds, Archive and Special Collections, Western University.
[7] Pepper, Treasures, 43-44.
[8] Royal Ontario Museum Object Report, for #960.69.499. World Cultures: Textiles and Costume Department to author, July 24, 2019.
[9]Photo published in “Eldon House Curio’s go to ROM,” London Free Press, 2 March 1960. Photographer K. Smith. London Free Press Photo Negatives Collection #1365, Archives and Special Collections, Western University.
[10] The photograph of the camels is in Milly Harris’ diary of her trip to Egypt, March 1898. Milly Harris Diary, “Jaipore, Burma, Cairo,” Harris family fonds, Archive and Special Collections, Western University.
[11] David Pepper “Artifact Descriptions,” typescript, Eldon House, 2001, p.11.
[12] Tara Wittmann to author, Dec. 1, 2019. Personal communication re. information on tantalus and manufacturer Rowland Ward Ltd.
[13] From “The First of May,” a poem by American poet Anne Porter, b. 1911. Kate Farrell ed., Art and Nature: An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 34.
[14] “The Art of Ancient Egypt,” Chapter 3 in Marilyn Stokstad, Art History, 2nd ed, New York: Prentice Hall Inc. and Harry N. Abrams. 2002), 95-96.
[15] Phyllis A. Ryerse and Thomas A. Ryerson, The Ryerse-Ryerson Family, 1994, p.39. Robin Harris and Terry Harris, The Eldon House Diaries: Five Women’s Views of the 19th Century. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1994, pp. xxxiii-xxxiv. See also, The War of 1812, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-of-1812
[16] Pepper, Treasures, 46.
[17] Ibid, 46.
[18] Joe Earle, An Introduction to Netsuke. London, Eng.: Victoria and Albert Museum, pp. 3-8.
[19] Pepper, Treasures, 46.
[20] Pepper, Treasures, 36-37.
[21] Edward Wenham, Old Furniture: For Modern Rooms from the Restoration to the Regency (London: Spring Books, 1964), p. 47.
[22] Ibid. Treasures, 31.
[23] Felicity L. Leung in her research paper “Japanese Wallpaper in Canada: 1880s-1930s,” (1988, p. 1) describes the birds as “owls perched on acanthus leaves.” David Pepper describes the birds as “parrot-like.” Treasures, p. 31.
[24] See for example, textile designs by Charles Voysey, and wallpaper and tapestry designs by William Morris in, Michael Robinson, International Arts and Crafts, London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2005.
[25] Robin and Terry Harris eds., The Eldon House Diaries: Five Women’s Views of the 19th Century. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1994, p. xxxiv.
[26] Pepper, Treasures, 45.
[27] Quotation from Emily Carr, Growing Pains, 1946.
[28] Suggestions for further reading on Emily Carr, the National Gallery of Canada exhibition catalogue, Emily Carr, New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon; and biographies by Maria Tippett,, Emily Carr: A Biography (1979), and Susan Crean, The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr (2001), and Carr’s autobiographical writing, Klee Wyck (1941), The Book of Small (1942), and Growing Pains (1946).
[29] Artifact information page for John Campbell, Jacquard Coverlet, T94,0022. Narrative Threads. Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto. http://www.narrativethreads.ca
[30] Quoted from the didactic text for the ‘red bedroom,’ Eldon House.
[31] Deborah Livingston-Lowe, “Weaver Account Book of John Campbell 1859-1885, Middlesex County. Ontario,” M.A. in History, OCAD, Paper, July 2017, p. 1, 4-5.
[32] See Jacquard Coverlet, T94,0022, Textile Museum of Canada, above.
[33] Pepper, Treasures, 41.
[34] Handwritten packing list on Kioto Hotel, Kioto, Japan, stationary, dated November 1897. Harris family fonds, Archives and Special Collections, Western University.
[35] Pepper, Treasures, 41.
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