Dr Elio Corti
Valenza - Italy

24-10-95

Dear Elio,

Received the material yesterday and your letter today. Thank you very much. The introduction is quite OK. Thank you. I am now waiting on Tony to copy the rest of the material, then I will put the book together and will send you a copy. I will then work on a Plymouth Rock booklet as I have some interesting information on this breed.

By now you will have the answers to your asks as I sent you a copy of Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle and a suggested date for travelling to Europe.

I have not read the article yet for the Bartlett but will do so. Thank you for the magazine. I will show it around. Of course I could not read the other article in Czech language.

I am sure David received the book OK although I have not seen it yet. He has been very busy with his work over the last few weeks but that is the way it needs to be.

OK on the cost of cigarettes in different countries. They are very expensive here, mostly tax. I found the book on monastery very interesting. I may do a short article on Mendel for our Club Newsletter. It was good you were able to visit the monastery where Mendel worked and the town where he lived. According to the booklet he studied many subjects and also put forward the idea of sunspots affect the weather which has proved to be correct. The sunspots also affect short wave radio communication. Work in 11 years cycles. Most interesting that Mendel talked about it.

Husky had trouble with milk fever. Frank had to take the pups away from her. However she is now OK and so are the pups. Two of them are gone sold, I don’t know whether Frank will set her up again.

The trip to Moscow should be interesting, you are certainly getting around. Bob is going OK. He is not very active, but seems OK. Joyce and Max going away for a month of Saturday, so it will be quiet here. All for now.

Regards.