ALS signed “Bob, Robert Stroud #594,” one page both sides, 8 x 10.25, January 15, 1950. Letter to Fred E. Daw, in part: "If your friend Martin has a pair of slim york of the quality you describe, there is only one thing he should do—sell or choke everything else he owns and breed from them. Breed that pair this year, breed mother to best son, father to best daughter, and brother to sister next year, always breeding yellow to buff. Each year, the chicks in four groups. Keep the top twenty-five percent for breeding, sell the next fifty percent to other breeder. Choke or sell to pet shops the poorest twenty-five percent. If he will follow that rule. He will always have prize-winning yorks, and he will have a good reputation for selling good birds…There is nothing wrong with mating brother and sister, only it doesn't fix qualities as fast as breeding in line…Frank Bires has written a book on my life and wishes permission to publish it, using my name…I think it will be best for him to wait until I have finished this latest book, which will be in April, if everything goes well. I am sure it is a work that will create a sensation because I have written intensely interesting work, and in expressing the convict's point of view, I have trod on conventional toes at every step of the way." In fine condition.
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