Cecil Trevithick correspondence with Arthur Carol Alvarez, 1934-1937

7 Braeben Avenue Epsom Auckland

14.12.34.

Dear Professor Alvarez.

It is a long time since we received your card posted while you were on your travels. What an intensely interesting time you must have had & what a fund of information you would accumulate! We still have our "shakes" over in New Zealand. Though we in Auckland are lucky that we are not on one of the faults, & it is very seldom that we feel anything. We had a note from our old friend Captain Nimitz of the "Agusta" [Augusta] He was in Melbourne during the Centenary celebration, & regretted that N.Z. was not included in his itinerary. We would have been

delighted to welcome him to N.Z. once again.

We are both very fit & rejoicing in hot summer weather. Xmas is right on top of us now & we are busy planning holidays & outings, but another trip to California is a very long way off I'm afraid. The architectural profession has been bit very hard during the last few years. there doesn't seem to be any boom in sight at the moment. but we seem to get our share of what is offering. Please remember me very kindly to Captn Stewart when you see him. With all the very best of good wishes to you & Mrs Alvarez for Xmas & the New year.

Yours faithfully

Cecil Trevithick

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Professor A. C. Alvarez. 2600 Buena Vista Way. Berkeley. California. U.S.A.

7 Braeben Avenue Epsom Auckland N. Z.

March 19. 1937

Dear Mr Alvarez.

I don't know whether I ever acknowledge & thanked you for the P. C. of one of the pics of your great briedge which I received many moons ago. It is a delightful piece of work & so simple & yet so charming in its lines. Your Engineers have certainly carried through a wonderful piece of work. It surely ranks as one of the Engineering wonders of the world today. Would that I could see it. Several of my friends in San Francisco have sent me the papers showing the bridge at various stages of its construction, & also of the opening of it. All extremely interesting & very fascinating

reading. I may work up a short popular lecture on the subject illustrated with a couple of dozen lantern slides. I think I have plenty of illustrations for my purpose. At the moment I have just finished preparing a talk on the building of the "Queen Mary" & have 3 dozen slides. I have been asked to give it to the Yacht Club here & also to the local branch of hte Navy. I think I can interest them. We are so far away from every thing 'big' out here that I feel that talks such as these are of educational value. So maby of our people have never been out of this little country & are in consequence inclined to be a bit narrow in their outlook & unfortunately a bit self satisfied.

Life goes on with us in the same