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Letter to Lincoln
This issue of the Newsletter bears the unhappy burden of the news that for personal and family reasons you will no longer be providing us with your regular contributions, which gave us all such interesting insights into life in Taplow. Your involvement with the Society’s newsletter goes back at least 25 years and I count 47 articles over that time. (I am missing copies of the newsletter predating issue number 38 and a few intermediate ones so I have no means of knowing of contributions earlier than that.)
I have now been editor since issue number 70, in autumn 1998, and have produced 16 issues during that time, and it was always your copy arriving earlier than anyone else's that finally got me off the pot and signalled the beginning of the production stage. (Usually, in fact, the arrival of your copy triggered an almighty panic since I am an inveterate last-minuter.) Your stories were the anchor pieces and allowed me to start the process of deciding how it was all going to look, since my amateur editorial method used to involve me in using the format of the previous issue as a pro-forma of the current issue, and I gained great satisfaction from putting your material into place. I had started. Without this impetus, how am I going to cope in future?
However, I have been browsing through the old copies of the Newsletter and I intend to resurrect a number of my favourite ones to reprint from time to time and I hope you won’t mind. I think I speak for all your faithful fans, Lincoln: your whimsical contributions will be greatly missed in these pages.
Fred Russell