Dr Elio Corti
Valenza - Italy

1-8-1995

Dear Elio,

I thank you for your letter and information. Tony and Frank have told me they have also received letters from you and David received a card.

I am overwhelmed by your invitation to visit you in Italy. For this I will always appreciate. I think I will be able to come providing my health keeps OK. I will make enquiries regarding passport etc etc. I think your European spring would perhaps be around the month of April. I would like to leave it until around the end of April as I like to see my friends with whom I served in the Army in Sidney during. Let me know if you think this would be a suitable time. We can arrange a particular date a little later on. It would be interesting to talk with Carefoot etc. He is very knowledgeable.

I am going to Brisbane next week for about 3 weeks. I meet many poultry breeders at the show up there and enjoy the time with my cousin and family.

Bob is OK now. I had to get the doctor to him who gave him medication which took down the swelling in his ear and cleared up the skin problem on his back.

We had a very good Pekin Show at Newcastle last weekend. David and I were very busy organising. There were 3 breeds: 260 Pekins, 200 Anconas and about 300 Leghorns. Just the 3 breeds. Frank came down and we had an enjoyable weekend. The weather was quite good also.

I have not heard any more from Germany yet, but expect a letter shortly. Thank you for the reference, very good. Fred Jeffrey also sent me a reference. I have not heard any more about my approach to the Government, I do not know whether I will have any success, but it is worth trying.

Noted you are working on my material. I am been very very busy answering enquiries once I have had orders for my booklets and have to get Tony to reprint some of them.

Could you do on your computer a front cover master copy for my next booklet on Rhode Island? I will enclose a layout, no need to worry about any picture on it. I will fix that just the writing. I hope to publish this one shortly.

Joyce and Max have returned from their holiday, they enjoyed it. It has been very cold here this winter. I will be looking forward to getting into the warmer weather in Brisbane. The weather is usually pretty good up there at this time of the year.

OK on cost of Wright’s book. I knew it was pretty expensive. The cost of old books has risen over the last few years. I was lucky when I bought mine. The price was quite low and our exchange rate was the opposite to what it is today.

OK on Eduardo. I guess you will be pleased to see him back in Italy to look after the animals. I have not read the material on pigmentation yet, but will get onto it when I get the opportunity. I had a letter from Stromberg the other day. He mentioned about the genetics book of Crawford. Also had a letter from a chap in the Unites States ordering 2 Australorp books. That’s about all for now.

Regards.