23/07/95

Dear William,

First of all many thanks, indeed, for your most kind letter and all excellent help you gave me! At the moment I really don’t Know how to reciprocate. But at one of the next evenings I’ll try to reach the president of the German Pekin Bantam Club to ask for new and further information beside the promised book which I hope will be on it’s way to you.

Round about two weeks before I was stopped suddenly in all my efforts to get the “hand book” ready until July 31st by a telephone call from my friend and "boss" Josef Wolters telling me that the appointed printing-office wouldn’t be able to print in this year because of an intervened commission. So I don’t need to be ready before nest year’s spring which is a big lightening for me, of course! So I don’t have to go on in extreme hurry like I had to do till now and will be able to have my investigation much more profound.

But never the less there are some very pressing engagements which normally would have had to wait until finishing the manuscript of the “hand book” but on the other hand should have done several months (!) before. for example a couple of show reports about nearly half a dozen Club Shows from 1994 for the three German fancier journals. Normally you have to send those manuscripts until the end of the March being the deadline. In this year I got special rights by way of exception because all editors knew about my time pressure in circumstance with the handbook. But now I have to do all those things having priority.

So please give me another two or three weeks to find out all you should Know about breeding Pekin Bantams in Germany! You will hear from me again as soon as I will be ready in reporting about the last year’s show season (shows in Germany are only held from September until January).

At last I wish you all the best and very may your Annual Club Show be a success!

Regards,