ALS in pencil signed “Bob, Robert Stroud, 594,” one lightly-lined page both sides, 8 x 10.5, Alcatraz, March 5, 1945. Letter to his sister, Mamie E. Stroud. In part: “I had a letter from Mark Friday and every thing is going fine with him there…He says that things are going well with the book, too, and we will probably be paid out soon. I also had a letter from Miss Virginia Moe, Curator of the Trailside Museum of Natural History. She had a copy of my book and liked it very much. She wanted some advice of feeding wild birds. She said that it was a pleasure to read a book written by a practical person who is also a careful investigator, that most scientific writers just read what others have written and then passed the other man’s errors as well as their own along to an already gullible public. There is no particular news here. I am still up to my ears in hematology—the study of blood, and when I get through with these books I will know about all there is on that subject. I am a first class hematologist as it is, and these books contain a complete review of the entire subject. If I ever get a microscope again, I will show all of them things they don’t know on blood.” Stroud also signed at the top of the front page, in the ‘from’ address area. Intersecting folds, a uniform shade of toning, and a few ink and pencil notations, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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