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Dear Bill,

How nice to receive a letter from you, but this pleasure was saddened by your news that you most probably will need another cornea operation.

It is interesting how small the word is for poultry fanciers. In addition to writing to you I have recently written to New Zealand (3), Moscow, California, Canada, Dallas, Texas, Germany and South Africa. Most peculiarly of all we supplied the feathers to the British Museum for the reconstruction of the Archaeopteryx. I think they went to Dr Barbara West too.

Yes, poultry research is never ending. I was successful in constructing a laced-tailed laced Bantam similar in pattern to a Silver Sebright but laced with blue instead of black. This was from the F2 of Blue Andalusian x Silver Spangled Hamburgh.

I sincerely hope everything goes well for you in your eye problem.

Best wishes,