14
June 1981
Dear
Mr Plant,
Your
letter of the 4th of June arrived here in Crosswicks two
days ago. I was dismayed to hear that you have had such a difficult time over
so long a time span in caring for your wife and her problems. I wander if the
element Lithium has been used in treating your wife’s illness. It is used
quite commonly today to try and stabilize those subject to depression,
I
was pleased to hear that the businesses of your son seem to be prospering and
hope that they will continue to do so. It was intriguing to read that you are
contemplating starting an enterprise at age sixty. That was the time in years
when I was most productive and at the height of my earning power. You
certainly have at least fifteen years to look forward to become a greet
entrepreneur. I wish you luck.
If
Australians buy nursery products as Americans do you cannot help but succeed.
The only trouble locally has been the several drought years we have
experienced which led to water-use restrictions that were difficult for the
nurserymen to surmount.
With
the help of my son-in-law, we have reviewed your Chapter 22 on the Pekin
Bantam. We were amused by your introductory material to the bare standard and
admired your clever way of attempting to put the dissenters in an awkward
position. The way you wrote the material certainly should diffuse some of the
Australian clannishness to the use of British and American Standard materials
while getting an important message across to the Judges and some of the old
died-in-the-wool breeders. We noted one typing error in the Glossary where the
word Cock was listed twice;
the second listing should have been Cockerel.
I greatly admire all the effort you have expended to get your materials ready
the publishing. I will make certain that I will try to get some publicity for
your manuscript in the ABA Quarterly
after I have had a chance to read your whole publication. I look forward
anxiously to reading it.
I
would like to know whether the illustrations your son is preparing for you
will be the quality that we can use to accompany the Pekin
Bantam Standard to be used here in the US. I hope that we
could obtain those three photographic views of the ideal pair of Australian
Pekin so that I can expose the standard In the next yearbook.
Glad
to see that you are starting your fall shows as we move into Summer’s heat.
Kindest
personal regards.