ALS signed “Bob, Robert Stroud #594,” one page, 8 x 10.25, Alcatraz prison stationery to which he adds his full name and prison address, May 24, 1949. Letter to Fred E. Daw, his longtime friend and president of the Chicago Bird Club, in part: "All sulfa drugs are given in 1/10 gram doses to canaries into the crop but the new drugs can also be given in 0.01 to 0.05 percent solution as drinking water. The best of the lot for this purpose is sodium sulfamethazine, one 1/2 gram tablet to a quart of water or to five quarts as the case may be…Now, about the keets. I know nothing in particular about their breeding. Sex-linked means that the character is carried in the sex chromosome, of which the female bird has one and the male bird two…Smell: Darwin credited birds with having no sense of smell, Many biologists agree. I do not. The organs are not as well developed as in mammals, but I have examined them in microscopic sections and they are undoubtedly functional. Also, blind birds can find food and water, but normally birds have such wonderful eyes and ears that they do not make much use of their sense of smell…About the business, I know nothing. There are a number of things that were promised that have not been done. Why, I don't know. One published report I saw said that the story had been written and would be shot in July. I am to get ten Gs with the start of production and ten percent of the net on the picture. If it is a hit that will run into real money. The book I am working on now is called Bobbie. It is the first volume of a projected eight volume autobiography…It is not a pretty book, Fred. In it I have treated all circumstances that had any influence on the development of my character. I have shown the origin, growth, and development of an edipus [sic] complex and have traced step by step its development from my earlier sexual experience at the age of five…the earliest objective experience at nine, the first bilateral experience at eleven, complete physical development at the age of twelve, up to an attempt to kill my father a few days after my 14th birthday." In fine condition.
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