From F. B. Goodacre   8 September 1879

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged to you for your very kind letter,¹ I have just heard from my friend who I thought would like your old goose, he says he intends keeping his present pair but does not wish to keep more stock birds: however if you would rather return the old gander & goose than kill them I find I could easily find homes for them, as a neighbouring clergyman said he would keep a pair of geese for me & help in the experiment of crossbreeding   I leave it therefore to you to send the old birds or not or either of them as most convenient to yourself & merely enclose a label that there may be no mistake about the Station should you send them. A goose I have lately rec^d. from my brother in law a very beautiful bird is now laying²   she is $\frac{3}{4}$ Chinese & is paired with $\frac{3}{4}$ Common gander I hope I may be able to rear a few goslings to see if $\frac{1}{2}$ bred obtained this way are exactly like those got by first cross

Believe me | yrs truly | F B Goodacre