“Bowerwood House”
Sevenoaks, Kent.
Dear Mr Racey,

I am afraid I have been a somewhat long time in acknowledging the safe receipt of the box containing the eight nice skins: I am very pleased to get these particularly those new to my co

The delay in writing you earlier is due to the fact that I have been inordinately busy both in the practice, as well as in other directions. The work on the book has demanded a good deal o
Anyway I have now sifted and looked out the following fourteen specimens and packed them up, though yet have to fix a wooden lid for the box. You should find the following birds:—

3 ■ and 1 ■ Linn. (Cockshaw); 5 Bitterng; 4 Quail; 9 Jack Snipe; 5 Great Snipe; 6 Little Crake; the Turnstone, inadvertently omitted from my last consignment to you; a Corn-Crake; 6 W

With reference to the species mentioned in your list, I shall find it difficult to get the Thrush, but I will send you what I can from time to time. I shall presently be seeing what Anstrade I ma

In this country we are now overrun with the species Bird-Watcher, and the acquisition of specimens becomes more and more difficult one way and another. There is some recognised po

A friend of mine, Forrer, who made a fine collection which is now in the Zoological Museum, Cambridge University, lives at Cley in Norfolk, which as you know is a famous bird resort, es
Well I think that is about all the news at present,
I hope you are fit and flourishing, and that you will have much of ornithological interest,
Believe me, with kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely,
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P.S. I hope to have the box off to you during the latter part of this week or early next week.

“Bowerwood House”
Sevenoaks, Kent.
Dear Mr Racey,

I am afraid I have been a somewhat long time in acknowledging the safe receipt of the box containing the eight nice skins: I am very pleased to get these particularly those new to my coll

The delay in writing you earlier is due to the fact that I have been inordinately busy both in the practice, as well as in other directions. The work on the book has demanded a good deal of
Anyway I have now sifted and looked out the following fourteen specimens and packed them up, though yet have to fix a wooden lid for the box. You should find the following birds:—

3 ■ and 1 ■ Linn. (Cockshaw); 5 Bitterng; 4 Quail; 9 Jack Snipe; 5 Great Snipe; 6 Little Crake; the Turnstone, inadvertently omitted from my last consignment to you; a Corn-Crake; 6 Wa

With reference to the species mentioned in your list, I shall find it difficult to get the Thrush, but I will send you what I can from time to time. I shall presently be seeing what Anstrade I ma

In this country we are now overrun with the species Bird-Watcher, and the acquisition of specimens becomes more and more difficult one way and another. There is some recognised pol

A friend of mine, Forrer, who made a fine collection which is now in the Zoological Museum, Cambridge University, lives at Cley in Norfolk, which as you know is a famous bird resort, esp
Well I think that is about all the news at present,
I hope you are fit and flourishing, and that you will have much of ornithological interest,
Believe me, with kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely,
[signature]
P.S. I hope to have the box off to you during the latter part of this week or early next week.