Monday, August 17, 2020
I was so lucky to be among the one hundred or so people that Bridget corresponded with over the years. I met Bridget and Heinz through my husband John Wood, also a photo historian. I am also a medievalist by profession, and Bridget generously helped me with invaluable material, and more importantly, with enormous moral support and cheering, for my first book, The Chaucer Songbook. As the years went by, our correspondence became more concerned with family, food, groundhog babies, and life in general, and Bridget's letters are so charming and full of her sweet wit that I have saved every one of them. Now I am more glad than ever to have done that.
In recent years, Bridget has been a great model for me. I admire so much the way she was able to carry on somehow after the terrible and sudden loss of her dear husband. I also admire the way she continued to research and write and plan her books right up to the end. The last letter that I had from her (around Easter of this year) was full of happy plans for the new book.
