Dear Editor,
Ray Porter’s obituary notice of Dorothy Marx (February en) brought back distant childhood memories for me. She and I shared the same piano teacher, the redoubtable Enid Bulow of Sutton, though Dorothy was 15 years my senior. She was a far more accomplished pianist than I ever became, as Mrs Bulow took great pride in her star pupil being awarded an LRAM (Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music) diploma.
I grew up within the family of Cheam Baptist Church and my father, Wesley Capon, was a member of the church’s Missionary Council and Treasurer of its Missionary Fund, so he was quite heavily involved in Dorothy’s call to missionary service with the China Inland Mission (as it then was) in 1953. His diary in January of that year records him entering her name on the church’s Missionary Roll. A year later, in January 1954, he notes that he spent an evening inscribing the flyleaf of a copy of Young’s Analytical Concordance presented to her at her valedictory service at the end of the month. Five days later he was at Waterloo Station to see her off on the morning boat train to Southampton.
