Dear Pia,

We do regret to inform you at this late date that due to its sensitive nature the Club is placing restrictions on the photograph you requested and its companion shot with a ship. Use of these photographs are restricted to research purposes only: no photographs will be made of them. Chairman of the Archives Committee, Penelope Bodry-Sanders, has had much experience with such matters when she was Archivist at the American Museum of Natural History and I defer to her sound advice.

I am so pleased that you took the time to come and view the collection and I do hope that you will visit upon your return. Again thank you for the photographs you so generously donated to the Club. John Flint, whose collections of ivory and bone carvings you saw in the entrance hall, says he must have known your father – as he knew all the telegraph operators…

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request.

Best wishes for your presentation.

Sincerely,

Janet E. Baldwin

Curator of Archives

May 8th, 1995