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Remembering Professor Raymond T. Smith
Dear Editor,
I read a recent letter about the anthropologist Professor Raymond T. Smith and noted the debate about the origin of his nationality. Allow me to add some spice to this intriguing situation. In 1960, while on a visit to London, I did temporary secretarial work, at the well-known firm ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’. For two weeks I shared office space with a middle-aged, courtly gentleman, always in a three-piece suit, striped shirt, bow tie, wearing a fob watch at which he constantly glanced. Head down, always beavering away, he was there presumably to update his entry. During one morning coffee break, he asked me what part of the world I was from. When I answered that I was from British Guiana, he lit up, and told me that his very good student was an anthropologist there and had married a local girl. I am wondering now whether the student he referred to was Professor Raymond T. Smith. Our chat was interrupted by the Deputy Editor, who had come to find out how “Dudley” was getting on. I never got round to asking Professor Dudley Stamp of ‘World Geography’ fame whether his ‘very good student’ was Professor Raymond T. Smith. Nor was I able to let him know how much his World Geography had helped me in the Cambridge Uni. exams.
Geralda Dennison
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