The magazine article was in the “Pall Mall” magazine. There was another in the “English Review”. Both magazines are now unobtainable, but as I wrote the articles, I can tell you they are both incorporated in the book. So you can do without them.

Turk’s Hill
Abbotsbury
Dorset
1 Feb 1940

Dear Mrs. Walker,

Your guess is right. “The Sea and the Jungle” mentions your father as The Skipper; & his friend (my brother-in-law) the Chief, John B. Crew. The Surgeon is Dr. Sydney Jones, still living, but old & blind. The “Capella” was the “England”, owned by Fred Drughorn of Greenwich St. We sailed from Swansea on Dec 19. 1909, & your Dad & Chief engineer Crew & I spent the night before sailing at the house of a friend of your father, Phillips, a wine merchant of Swansea. I see it all now as plainly as if it were last week. The facts of the voyage out to Para & Porto Velho are fairly given in the book, including some tales your father told me. He & I hit it fine. He was a rigorous disciplinarian, of course, and mocked me as a journalist (can’t make out) but had sufficient confidence in me to give me charge of the bridge one middle watch, when he was tired out (we only had 2 mates) & the Chief Officer was ill. I liked him. He was a sailor. He & the Chief & I used to meet every night in the Chief’s cabin (gin). The last I saw of him was when I left the ship; Tampa, Florida, where she loaded phosphate. I remember buying some nuts for your father’s macaw. What happened to that big parrot? Mack, we called him. The bird is in the book. The “England”, I have heard, was mined or torpedoed in the last war. Mr Crew told me of your father’s death, & I remember how grieved he was. Jack Crew himself died a few years ago. Dr Jones & I are the only survivors of the voyage.

I sent your father an inscribed copy of “ The Sea & the Jungle” in 1912. If you have that very book, it is as well to know that a first edition is a rarity, & worth some pounds; & especially your father’s copy.

Yours Sincerely

H. M. Tomlinson

P.S., I ought to say that I was on the ship’s articles as Purser, wages 1/- per month.