Jan. 30, 1989

Dear Bill:

Well your tape presented a real problem to me. I am not electronically inclined, don’t have a tape recorder, or even a tape player in my car. The last of a vanishing race. I priced a tape recorder in the stores but didn’t want to pay that much to listen to one tape.

Anyway, I took it with me when I visited my son in November on my way to Saudi Arabia and the Far East. I felt kind of stupid when he told me to play it on his car radio.

Your tape made me very sad because you especially need your eyesight so much.

Yesterday I again referred to the copy of Willoughby for which I have you to thank and I determined I would write no later than today.

I finished the manuscript on quail and have a proof. But the duck manuscript will take forever. I enclose a little revision on the origin of the name Muscovy which reflects my current thinking.

Perhaps you can get someone to read it to you.

Well I won’t strain your eyes any further. If you feel inclined send me another tape, I won’t be so tardy listening to it because now I know the ropes and realize they play perfectly well on a can radio and I can easily find one of them.

All the best.