At the time of her death, I was overwhelmed to find how greatly my dear daughter was appreciated as a friend as well as a cosmologist by those brilliant people among whom she worked. As stated in my foreword, I had only a limited selection of readers in mind when I wrote the memoir, but I am very happy to think that someone as experienced as Virginia Trimble should believe that it will make people who never knew Beatrice appreciate her and wish they had known her. I can only say a heartfelt "thank you" for her review.
Having said this, I must add that to me the principal author of the book is Beatrice herself. For without her letters, it would be nothing. I still marvel at how clearly she could express herself through them and at how she ever found time to write many of them. If the ...
