"Bowerwood House"
St Botolph’s Road,
SEVENOAKS, Kent.
April 5th, 53.
Dear Mr Racey,

Firstly may I say how glad I am that you are better. Thank you very much for the fourteen nice skins just arrived; I am pleased to have them all. I will try the method of relaxing, but unfortunat

I have looked out some skins for you during the past couple of days, these include 1 Buteo buteo buteo ad. this as you doubtless know a very variable species, and the one I am sending you
2 Calidris maritima
2 Charadrius hiaticula hiaticula
2 Loxia curvirostra curvirostra
1 Chloris chloris chloris
2 Coccothraustes coccothraustes ad.
2 Anthus spinoletta strepsus
1 Anthus pratensis
14 specimens.
These I will despatch immediately after the Easter holidays.
I do not think I shall need the American representative of Buteo buteo as accommodation for the larger skins is necessarily restricted. I was particularly pleased to get the series of Redpolls.

We are well away from the flood area, but in actual fact I, both my sons and my elder son’s fiancée, Pamela Carter Brain got off the Island of Sheppey just two hours before the road was cu

David has now joined up to do the two years National Service as a Medical Officer in the R.A.F. He is moving Heaven and earth to get abroad to the Middle East, its the bats and rats etc he
Please excuse more for the time being; I shall hope to hear good news of you ere long, and sincerely hope you will like the skins I shall presently be sending off to you.
With kind regards from us all,
Believe me,
Yours very sincerely,