In this section

• Peter Marrian
• A short history of Mweiga Estate
• Letters from Martha Gellhorn
• Monograph and other documents
• Colin Campbell's tribute
• Obituary - by Miles Maskell

There were no cuckoos, no sycamores
We played about the forest floor
Underneath the silver maples, the balsams and the sky
We popped the heads off dandelions
Assuming roles from nursery rhymes
Rested on the riverbank
And grew up by and by, and grew up by and by
(Anna McCarrigle - from Goin' back to Harlan, and the version that thrills me every time is Emmylou Harris's on Wrecking Ball)

 

Letters from Martha Gellhorn

Martha remained a good friend throughout her life (I was once summoned to Cadogan Square to give her a cooking lesson!) and would have written the Mzee many letters. These, curiously, were found amongst his brother's posessions after he died. How Morton came to have them is not known but he saw worth in them and they give a little snapshot of Martha's visits in late 1964 and early 1965