TLS signed “Bob Stroud,” one page, lightly-lined both sides, 8 x 10.25, June 6, 1940. Letter to his sister Mamie. In part: “The birds are doing pretty good now. Those in the flight—these are birds that were turned into the flight after several nests in the cages gave me no birds—hatched eight birds in the last couple of days…I had a letter from a lady in St. Louis, in the same mail with your letter, telling me that all of her birds had died. She had about three hundred when she got a contagious disease in her flock. She went to the National pet shop and they told her that if there was anyone in the world who could cure her birds it was me. She had lost two hundred before writing to me, and the rest died before she got my letter. She did not tell me enough about the disease for me to be absolutely certain just what it was; but from what she did tell me it appeared to be a disease I could have cured easily had I known of it in time. She says that she will be in the market for my book as soon as it is out, and well she might be. Had she had it this time she could have saved all but the first two or three of her birds.” Intersecting mailing folds, a censored stamp to reverse, and uniform toning, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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