Footsteps [antikvár]

Cbaptei- One Present I i ¦¦ On the morning of that day Helena received a letter from a | stranger. / : I F/atj, 2j Greville Rd, N' Putney SWis |i March igg2 Dear Helena Mayrick, ^ * I am writing to you because you are a researcher and the granddaughter of Hubert Donaldson, the photographer. My interest in Donaldson is twofold. In the first place I am a photographer myself and have always been a great admirer of his work. Secondly, I have been commissioned to compile a retrospective of his life and photographs, and thought you might like to collaborate, or at least advise on the project. If you are at all interested, perhaps you would get in touch. Yours sincerely, Nick Broadbent Helena read the letter twice and then put it aside, taken aback by so abrupt and unexpected an approach. You can have | no idea, Nick Broadbent, she thought, of the distress such an f . undertaking will cause my family. ' She was aware that the mention of Donaldson's name had already aroused in her a familiar sense of oppression. i ;