11-11-1995

Dear Bill,

I write my annual letter on holiday some what belatedly this you because we have been having executive house alterations this summer. Hence we have grabbed a week in the warmth, leaving frost and ice back home in England.

I am still working with the chocolate gene which segregated from black Orpingtons. I now have got both sexes in good colour and shape.

In addition I have shown it to be a sex-linked recessive gene. So it is not a gene which has been recorded before. I hope the gene will be preserved, because it would look nice on the Orpington shape and could be interesting for Prof John Brumbaugh to study. He is the expert at finding how things go “wrong” in the pigment process.

How did the Pekin book get on I have recommended the procedure you adapted to several other Breed Clubs secretaries. Creative Poultry Breeding is now fully sold out. Perhaps it will be more appreciated when it is History but I must confers I have been very happy with the interest it has created here. There will not be a reprint, I don’t think.

All the best.

Sincerely yours,