Dick-

I didn't know that your family has such an intriguing connection. I have admired the work of Richard Pankhurst in Ethiopia as well, having run across him while I was there in the Peace Corps in the 1960's, and when I ladst visited Addis Ababa last year the Ethiopian Studies Center was still going strong.

It's also interesting that Cicely Fox Smith went to the same school as Sylvia and her sisters, The Manchester High School for Girls, and had many a battle with them over the Boar War. Smith was a militant conservative at the time, very patriotic, and one of her brothers was a soldier in South Africa. At one time years later Smith recalled with some relish gathering and flushing some of the Pankhurst anti-war flyers down the toilet at the school.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble