Dr
Elio Corti
Valenza
- Italy
1-2-1996
Dear
Elio,
I
have been very busy, busy in answering letters as I have been receiving quite
a few. I got behind while I had the shingles (5 weeks) but now I have
recovered and feeling much better.
I
have another contact from the US who read my article on Avicultura.
He is interested in the origins of chickens and pigeons. I sent him material
and he has sent me some. I will send you a copy of the material when I get the
opportunity.
I
have to reply to Moscow, Ukraine and Rudi in Germany and have had work to do
on the Club Newsletter. We are getting orders from Veronica for the Pekin
book think it will sell well in the UK. I had a letter from Veronica. She gave
me details of how to get to her house just out of London.
The
Rhode Island book is ready to print and I received orders for the Australorp
and OEG Colours books from Veronica. I have to get Tony to print some more of
these.
You
mentioned you may travel to Brazil. I think it would be difficult to get to
Araucana territory and also difficult to find any good Araucana chickens.
Someone went down there some years ago and could not find any birds that were
even close to pure breed. I think the Araucana is a very mixed up race of
chickens. You should find blue eggs in Brazil. That seems to be the only trait
that breeds true.
Romanov
gave me some very constructive comment on my work. He is very knowledgeable.
He wrote a long letter and sent me some material. I would enjoy meeting all
the people at Bergamo and also Professor Prota. I think there would be much to
learn from these meetings.
The
Czech Standard sounds interesting. All countries seem to have standards except
Australia, I contacted a fellow I knew who before he retired was head
Librarian at the University in Newcastle, asking his advice as to what
procedure I should use in an endeavour to get some assistance for my
researches. He advised me to write to the General Director of the National
Library of Australia and explain my situation. I have done this and hope that
I might get some ideas. He also suggested other avenues, so I am also going to
contact a representative here in Australia of the World
Poultry Science Association. I think Romanov is involved in this
organisation. I have lodged my application for the passport. It should not
take very long to arrive I am told.
I
have put the ex libris stickers in some of my books. It looks good. Tomorrow I
start again with the old people. There has been a vacation over Christmas
period. Joyce and Max are going on holidays again on Saturday for one month.
I
hope your book is progressing well. Stromberg tells me his Encyclopaedia will
be published in March. There should be some interesting information in it.
Pleased to hear you made contact with Hoffmann. I haven’t heard from him for
sometime. He travels a lot to check up on his experiments. We have had some
very hot days but this summer the weather is very unstable.
I
hope the material I sent you a couple of weeks ago has arrived OK. I have
another aboriginal book. I will send you later. I think if there had been any
blue eggs around Darwin would have noted them. Romanov told me there is a
Darwinism Museum in Moscow. I guess you visited it. Should be interesting.
Must
press on. Will write again soon.
Regards.