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3 September 1993
Jonathan Brind,
3 St Helier's Road
Leyton
London E10 6BH
Dear Jonathan,
Thanks for the two large bundles which awaited me on my return from holiday. Of course I don't mind what you've done with my data: I think you've done a jolly good job on it. My little booklet was written with some fictional elaboration to bring it to life for mum, you've pared it back down to hard fact very well. You've also done a super job with the appendices, bringing together the vast reams of material we both have to date. It was interesting to hear Victor Brind's comment about how my gran worshipping young Will Brind.
I haven't checked the appendices yet, to see whether I have anything further to add, but I hope to do some work on it this autumn (I am on study leave from work).
In answer to your query about post 1906 marriages, I don't have records of them, as one condition of my research was that I promised my mother not to go behind my gran's generation.
You mention putting the work so far through a DTP. We have a 486 machine which has Pagemaker loaded (as well as Wordperfect). If you could supply the text in ASCII text, with suggestions for how you want it typeset we could do it for you.
Given your print trade connections, you would have been fascinated with one of our discoveries in Crete: a print shop in the middle of the modern city where they were still typesetting with old typesetting blocks. It was like a vision from the past: he had the door open as it was a very hot day, even by Cretan standards, so it was a genuine business, rather than some curio for the tourists. It's only when you see something like that, that you realise how much computers have revolutionised printing.
Cheers for now - and CONGRATULATIONS
Chris Willmore |
