A small nondescript courier package containing assorted letters will shortly be making its way from Paraparaumu to New York.
Staff at the not-for-profit Conjuring Arts Research Center will delicately handle the package's letters and methodically examine them, before carefully preserving them in the center.
The letters belonged to my late grandfather, Francis Haxton, a notable world-class card magician, who lived in London and then Leicester.
The centre's founder and executive director William Kalush got in touch with me via local magician Anton van Helden, to see if my mother Marian Haxton, Francis' daughter, would consider offering it any of Francis' correspondence that she still holds.
"We have a sincere interest in it and we can assure you that we would expend the considerable resources needed to preserve and make it selectively available to scholars and researchers," William wrote to my mother.
