George Mallory- Bibliotheca Himalayica

Consequently, I have drawn much from letters and from conversations. Beridge Robertson began the sorting of papers left by her parents, and since her death in 1953 I have had most generous help from other members of the family: John Leigh Mallory and Clare Millikan, the son and elder daughter of George and Ruth; George's sisters, Mrs. Ralph Brooke and Mrs. Harry Longridge; and Ruth's sisters, Miss Marjorie Turner and Mrs. Robert Morgan.

I am particularly indebted also to Mr. T. S. Blakeney, Sir James Butler, Mrs. John Carleton (Janet Adam Smith), Sir Claude Elliott, Mr. Alan Goodfellow, Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, Mr. R. L. G. Irving, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, the Right Reverend E. R. Morgan, Professor Noel Odell, Lady O'Malley (Ann Bridge'), Mr. H. E. L. Porter, the late Sir David Pye, Lady Pye, the late Geoffrey Winthrop Young, and Mr. Jocelin Winthrop Young.

My father read the first three chapters not long before his death in Baltimore. For assistance in the United States, I am grateful also to Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bates, Mr. Henry S. Hall Jr., Professor and Mrs. Craig Hugh Smyth, and Dr. J. Monroe Thorington. To my wife, Victoria Bryer Robertson, I give particular thanks.

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