June
19, 1984
Dear
Mister Plant:
Sometime
ago a letter was forwarded to me concerning Mrs. L. Hering of Saratoga,
California. Mrs. Hering has passed away. She donated a good bit of her
material to Kansas State University at Manhattan, Kansas. A Professor, Paul
Sandford, there is very knowledgeable about the inventory of things she
forwarded to them. I believe that plus a lot of material assembled by Prof.
Payne (deceased) while he was at Kansas State is now in storage there. The
future of this material is very much in question at this time.
Several
of us here in the US have assembled quantities of old poultry material and now
don’t know what to do with it. Perhaps we can recruit some new collectors to
carry on as we phase out. However, the costs for space, insurance, etc. are
almost prohibitive when you get into large collections.
Sincerely
yours,
John
L. Skinner
Archivist - Official Historian