TLS signed “Yours ever, Ian,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, personal letterhead, July 22, 1964. Letter to ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy, in part: "A thousand thanks for 'Fish-Shape' and congratulations on the brilliant idea of having it so splendidly illustrated. What a beautiful draughtsman mount was! He reminds me slightly of the Irishman, Chinnery, who did a lot of rather similar work a little bit earlier and is buried, of all curious places, on the island of Macao. Anyway it makes a most handsome and informative little book which I am really delighted to have. By the way, why don't you some time sit down and put aside 90% of science and write a series of essays on the adventures you must have had throughout the course of your scientific life? It would be wonderful to read of some of the thrilling discoveries you have made in the course of that life, and also to read about some of the places you have visited and the adventures you had in the process. Please think this over carefully and don't spurn the non-scientific aspect of my suggestion. Lord Grey of Falloden wrote a classic of this nature and it's time there was another one." In fine condition.
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