MISSING . . . and FOUND!
THE DAILY MAIL offers readers a unique opportunity to re-establish contact with long-lost relatives and friends. Each week, MONICA PORTER features the story of someone trying to find a missing loved one, as well as a tale of people reunited. This column is produced in conjunction with the voluntary tracing service Searching For A Memory, run by Gill and John Whitley.
HERE is an unusual request from Marguerite Merchent, of Bayswater, West London.
A few years ago, she bought a job lot of 15 Enid Blyton books in a charity shop, fell in love with them and started a collection.
‘ Several months ago, I visited the Oxfam shop in Notting Hill Gate, West London, looking for Enid Blyton books,’ she writes.
‘Another customer, a quiet, gracious man, told me he had boxes of her books from the Fifties at his home in France. He offered to let me have them. A dream come true!
‘I was living in temporary accommodation, so I gave him the address of a friend to use as a point of contact. Sadly, the friend had a stroke and died soon afterwards. Can anyone identify this mystery man?’
According to Marguerite, he is of medium height and build, with a fair complexion and aged in his 60s.