October
20, 1987
Dear
Mr Plant,
I
am glad to hear from you again, and I do hope your problems solved now. I am
looking forward to your coming book.
I
can understand the needs of an own Standard for Australian breed chicken.
Speaking on Pekins, we have in our country no blackred/wheaten or blue red,
brown red, splash, barred and columbia. The other colors you mention you have
standardised and also pearl-gray (lavender) and blue mottled.
The
fancy is very alive and each year during the national show new creations are
showed, hoping to be standardised.
This
summer my husband was very ill, but is recovered now. Formerly he always
accompanied me when I was going to the shows to judge. But this fall after
being so ill, he decided to stay home. So I miss my driver and secretary on
the shows.
I
go by train now, I cannot stay home when I did promise to do the job.
Mr
Stromberg is a regular writer now. He is asking a lot about the breeds in
Europe, because of his intention to write an Encyclopaedia about chickens of
the word. For me a monograph of a breed is more valuable because is a small
booklet is always more information of a breed as in Encyclopaedia, in which is
only possible a single page and a picture of each breed. But I look forward to
that book.
In
fact, beside the beautiful American
Standard, the rare notes so much chicken manuals with other as standard
facts about the breeds. And I miss a good article in the Poultry
Press about the breeds.
Best
wishes and kindly regards,