BANKERS oo Se C/O BARCLYS BANK 
BARCLAYS BANK, NAIROBI __ JOHN SE AGO = BOX 30011, NAIROBI 
BARCLAYS BANK, NORWICH ~ KENYA _ 
CHARTERED BANK, NEW YORK . 
PHONE KABETE 330 
E. A. MANAGER: PSOE OS OP Oe SOmECIORSOFRMES MIP 
D. ANTHONY PARKINSON ° ms . oe : : 
Dr. Theodore H.' Reed, | 
National Zoological Park, | | co 
Washington D.C. 20009 | RECEIVED 
NAIROBI 
JUN 1 6 1968 | : 2th June 1968 
Dear Ted: 
We all enjoyed your long letter very much indeed and will 
detail later this week. But I hasten to thank 
you for making: the enquiries regarding the eland ranching : 
proposition in Brazil. 
We are all very worry that Elizabeth won't be with you, 
put of course appreciate the responsibilities of college 
selection, We hope there will be an opportunity some other 
time for her to see and enjoy this country so that you can 
share some of your own experiences together. Oe 
We enjoyed the picture of you pontificating in Delphinian 4 | 
manner. No doubt long experience of Government bureaucracy 
enabled you to give ambiguous answers: | 
I would like to say a word now about Simon Trevor. We 
understand that Mr. Doyle of the National Geographic has not 
a lot of confidence in Kenya photographers. We believe this is 
due to a rather unsatisfactory experience with a Kenya photo- 
grapher named Campbell who failed to cover the subject entrusted 
to him from sufficient angles to allow a good television film t 
be made from his material. Simon Trevor is very much more 
experienced in the field of television and even cinemascope. 
As I said in my previous letter he has just finished a long 
consignment for Ivan Tors. We understand that the TV series 
‘Cowboy in Africa’ is still running, and Smon Trevor shot all 
the African material used in the series. Whilst you may well 
find the story very poor we have been told by several people 
that the photography and animal scenes in Africa are very good 
and should have been given a much larger proportion of the whole 
Pilm. soo 
I am giving you this information in the hope that you may 
through your contacts with National Geographic be able to 
reassure Mr. Doyle on this point, because both Tony and 1 feel 
it is frightfully important to have a camera man with us wWo 
is well used to photographing wild game under very difficult © 
circumstances. Bearing in mind that the Bongo is the shyest 
of all antelopes and lives in the most difficult country from / 
the photographer's point of view, I think knowledge of game and — 
