6542 Lime street,
Vancouver, B.C. Canade.
Oct. 27.1951.
Dear Dr. Harrison;
I was very pleased to receive your letter of Oct.21 st. and also your last pareel containing the rook, the two Spotted
Woodpeckers and the Razor-billed Auk. Unfortunately the container was not quite strong enough to withstand the six
thousand mile journey and was crushed flat. However I am relaxing the four birds and will remake them. These are all
very nicely
plumaged specimens and I am glad to have them.
Yes, we were all very pleased and happy to see and welcome the Royal Visitors. I thought the Princess was perfectly
lovely, but the poor girl looked very white and tired out and we felt very sorry for her. The Duke was fine and being
more robust could stand the strain of shaking hands wiht twenty thousand persons across Canada. However they had
three days rest over on Vancouver Island and returned looking rested and refreshed. Up to the time of their arrival here
more than thirty thousand photographs had been taken of them. I think reporters and alderman were altogether too much
in evidence all over the country. and to see and nelcome
the Aoyal Visitors.
We are more than pleased to hear the result of your recent election, but the Tories will have a long and hard uphill job to
repair in some measure the damage done to the Empire during the past six years. I most sincerely hope that the new
Government will do its utmost to better relations with Canada and prevent any further slipping towards our friends to
the south who practically control this country financially. The late McKenzie King was much too pro American to suit
many of us.
I now have a male Barrow Goldeneye and and a male Pintail made up for you, but will not send them until I have a
decent number of the specimens you desire to make a worthwhile shipment.
No, the Pomarine Jaeger does not usually come along this coast altho' it has been frequently taken on the Californian
coast. I thik they migrate far out to sea and we only have a very few records for B.C. over the past fifty years.
Thank you for the information you have given me relative to the food shortages in England and which is as I feared. I do
not like to think of so many being so short of necessary supplies and creature comforts.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
Kenneth Racey
P.S.
Would you like a specimen of our Northern Raven, Corvus corax principali Ridgeway? Can get you one or two next
time I go north.
KR

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