SI Bredin West Indies Eaq) 
AIR MAIL * June li, 1956 
Cept* Desiaond Nicholson 
Box 103 
St. Johh*s , 
Antigua, B« W, I. 
i ■ • I 
. -jv 
Dear Desmonds 
I' ■ ■ 
I know you are wondering ^diat has become of me, but I have been up to 
neck in office routine ever since ray return from one of the most enjoy- 
able ciruises I ever took part in. 
Just the other s day I received copies of the FREELANCE kodachrome 
slides. They were apiece, and so we got a few more for your 15 than 
I anticipated. Regrettably, at the time I ordered only three more, when 
I should have asked for six* In all, I paid the photo shop |6 for 20 
copies, and since I am Only sending you ll*, I am return youfl American 
money to take care of the three slides that otherwise would have come to 
you. In the same little shipment are six pictures of the faggot lobster 
fishery at Barbuda. I had a number of duplicates, but the series is no 
more complete than "(diat I sent you, thef encircling^ net pitching over the 
faggots and the lobster catch in the boat. Regrettably, I did not get a 
picture of the sailboat from which the men operate. As you will recall, 
I had to run for it on the west shore of the lagoon, and then after we 
moved away, I failed to get a shot of the departing sailboat. Still, that 
is the least important part of the fisheiy. 
Also, I am sending you one slide of yourself "(diere you are leaning 
on a boom forward, talking to the roan on the deck, I believe it was 
fennet who was dissecting the black Crevally, When I glimpsed your pose, 
I said to myself, ”It looks just as though the Captain was sea sick," and 
so I took the picture more as a lark than otherwise. Many more interest- 
ing things occurred on the cruise than I was able to photograph. Before 
long I want to have black and white prints, lix5, or 5x7, made from a slide 
series, but that will have to wait until we poSl our several pictures at 
this end and take out a suitable sequence for reproduction. I just cannot 
afford to do them all in color, though I shall, within the next week or 
two, get copies of ihe picture I took of the crew grouped about you at 
the wheel at the stern of the FREELANCE. Fortunately, that snap turned 
out very well indeed. 
You will recall my coi^laining of shutter trouble, and I lost a not in- 
considerable number of shots due to a vertical idiite streak across the film, 
I cannot understand it, but have not yet consulted the manufacturer of the 
camera or the shutter, A few of these I have been able to salvage by pasting 
a slip of dark paper over the white streak. The resulting picture is as 
though one had looked out of a window. 
I sorry that everything concerning the photographs in our collec- 
tions tp taking so long* Rresently, I will have to go back and complete 
