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My dear, these are not for you, they are for my batteries. I must keep my batteries warm so they will operate, because if they freeze up my camera won't work, and if my camera doesn't work, we may as well stay home. Mary Wilmar Article: I love Polar Bears (1955)

I managed to reprint one of the photos, but should not say it too loudly. Hugo Wilmar Quote from letter to parents dated September 28, 1945

(…) I ended the year 1947 - worthy of a rock-hard Marine - quite singular and original. Hugo Wilmar Quote from letter to his father, January 17, 1948

As free as a petrel on the Atlantic Hugo Wilmar Quote from a letter to Jan van Eyk, January 29, 1946

The song of fear dominates the night. The unrecognizable sounds, every time, wherever you were. Henk van Slooten Quote from an interview with Henk van Slooten about the Dutch East Indies and Hugo Wilmar

(…) The dyed jaguar kitten has faded so rapidly within the last 2 weeks (although the hair on my hands is still black) that he has become completely unusable and as a matter of fact looks terrible. † Hugo Wilmar Letter to Mary Eddy, October 28, 1957

Holland – England was generally miserable; the food position hopeless; the road: long, dangerous but magnificent; people and organizations: unreliable, powerless, also afraid. (…) Hugo Wilmar Quote from letter to parents, July 17, 1945

(…) As far as publication is concerned, it is blocked and prevented as much as possible. Disgraceful! Hugo Wilmar Quote from letter to parents, May 29, 1946

The American people are otherwise nice: there were large signs everywhere with “WELCOME HOME SKINNY” (Skinny) something we would not easily do in Holland with someone who has just received the highest accolade. Hugo Wilmar Quote from letter to parents dated September 28, 1945

It is disappointing to see that most of the rare scenes are almost all set up with care either with the help of tame animals or by means of captive specimens placed in a grid invisible to the viewer Hugo Wilmar Letter to parents dated June 8, 1954

The Dutch people live in the firm conviction that we are sitting here in our beautiful Indies and that we are lucky. Hugo Wilmar Quote from letter to Jan van Eyk, May 29, 1946

…) Few people in the world are paid to hunt for deer and fish for trout, and in such a grand environment. Hugo Wilmar Quote from letter to parents, July 7, 1952

It isn't everyone who gets the opportunity to spend a few months in the Arctic photographing its wildlife. Mary Wilmar Article: I love Polar Bears (1955)

(…) So I finally walked around London after half a year at large, (..); I had yet to start! Hugo Wilmar Quote from letter to parents, July 17, 1945

Incognito and using American. “Slang” I cheated the entire republic for 2 weeks. Hugo Wilmar Quote from a letter to Jan van Eyk, January 17, 1948

Caught in flight like a game bird Mary Wilmar Epitaph grave Hugo Wilmar

(…) Jan, America is, in a word, pussies, so shit pussies, that I'll go back later and I've often thought about why you never came. Hugo Wilmar Quote from a letter to Jan van Eyk, January 29, 1946

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