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By Brendan Griggs Marti Wilson, who died at the age of 92 in Tucson Arizona on 23 February, was a close friend of the Trust and will be greatly missed by all of us in Cambridge who knew her.  Marti was born and raised in New Richland, Minnesota. Trained as a therapist at the Adler Institute of Chicago, she married Howard Wilson, a distinguished scholar of comparative religions, with whom she travelled the world, visiting over 50 countries. They were married for 44 years, settling for a while in Cambridge, …

We were saddened to hear that Bill Martin, a longtime Friend of the Trust, passed away on on 17 February 2024 at the age of 96. Bill and and his wife, Sandra Mason, have been regular attendees of Trust events for many years. They also acted as Friends Coordinators for us in a voluntary capacity for ten years until 2018, organising Friends events and building support for the Trust’s work. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was a particular passion of Bill’s. He was an avid collector of different editions and …

by James Cormick ‘It must be something in the air’, people often say when remarking upon someone’s surprising longevity.  While that is true of the Trust’s house in Brooklands Avenue, which is situated in an oasis of green south of the centre of Cambridge, it is certainly not the whole truth.  I am convinced that books, particularly old books, add to the environmental mix that prolongs a person’s life.  How else can we explain the fact that four people closely associated with Trust have approached, reached, or exceeded 100 years …