But despite all the obstacles, Kevin, shouldn't there be an authoritative, edited collection of the Walker letters? - from as many as people can find?KevClifford wrote:Fairlies Birthday: Similar letters to Mr Hassan's were written to lots of people. I have copies very similar to Mr Hassan's and seen several others written to people like Chris Ball (by the way Chris knew a long time ago that suprisingly no photos of the 58 existed). It says much about Dick that he didn't get sick to death of writing the same replies to the same questions. Others in Dick's position might have had standard copies made and just signed them. Before the mid 70s Dick used to write most of them in longhand, but during the 70s it probably got too much and he had a secretary type them from his dictation.
I certainly meant no slight at all concerning Chris Ball when I mentioned the missing 58 pic - I think, if my memory serves me correctly, he mentions his surprise, in "The King Carp Waters", that no picture seems to exist: that's odd, given Walker's fondness for photography...
Perhaps, one day, we'll all be pleasantly surprised?