AN UNFORGETTABLE CONTRIBUTION

Dear Ines Graham-Yooll and family, It was an year ago, in July 2018 in London, having lunch at the Argentine Ambassador’s Residence, that I suggested to your father that he deliver a lecture on a subject he would prefer. He told me that he would like to do so the following year, when coming back to the UK in July, 2019.

I really enjoyed his conversation, not only for his wisdom but also for his sense of humour.

That event was also going to be a good opportunity to inform and promote all his work, the work that helped to create a better and democratic Argentina, as well as help record the history of the Scottish-Anglo-Argentine communities that has contributed to the development of our civil society, as he perfectly recorded in his work, The Forgotten Colony: A History of the Englishspeaking Communities in Argentina.

When we spoke, a few days ago, you told me that he had prepared his lecture to be delivered on July 23 at the Residence, at a conference organised by the Embassy and the Anglo-Argentine Association in London. Destiny has decided that you instead will deliver his lecture, on behalf of Andrew GrahamYooll’s family.

Thank you so much to the family for that decision. It will be a tribute to his literary work, to his courage, to his contribution to the truth, justice and democracy in my beloved country Argentina. I am personally thankful for that.

I will do all my best to continue to promote his work, as a representative of Argentina in the United Kingdom and wherever my job will take me.

Please, accept my condolences and thoughts, on behalf the Argentine Embassy in London.

I am looking forward to meeting you and the rest of Andrew’s family at the Memorial Service in London on July 22 and at the conference on July 23. Yours sincerely,

R. Carlos Sersale di Cerisano, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic

London United Kingdom