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In a letter to Cornell Plant's younger brother Charles, he wrote Their deaths create a great gap in the Upper River community life and your brother's experience was so great and his work up here consequently so good that it is impossible to adequately replace him.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks are due for the research carried out by AC Bromfield and Rosemary Lee and the information provided by the Melik Society and the National Maritime Museums at Greenwich and Falmouth. I am also most grateful for the help and advice provided by the many other Plant enthusiasts around the world, in particular Fraser Stuart of Aberdeen and John Parkinson of Johannesburg.