Some memories of Marge

Abstract

The first time i ever saw Marge was in December 1938, when I visited the East London Museum to see the remarkable fish that had been caught a few days earlier and I remember her as a slender, dark-haired young woman seated at a desk near the top of the stairs, poring over a book. I was not to see her again until 1951 when I called on her at the new museum as a result of Nils Andersen’s coming down from Durban to open the Queenstown Society of Artists Exhibition. Nils came to stay with me for a few days before he returned to Durban and he met Marge when he visited the museum. He was very impressed with her and insisted that I make her acquaintance.