SZ/OEMU/5/14/2 - [Letter, A.E. Hamerton to SZ, 18/9/40]

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/5/14/2

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, A.E. Hamerton to SZ, 18/9/40]

Date/s

1940

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript and MS)

Subject

E. Gerrard & Sons

Creator

Hamerton, A. E.

Creator

Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Hamerton is sending a sample of armadillo skin. There is no pachyderm skin available "but a big-time bomb is lying near the den of the £2000 [sic] Indian Rhinoceros! We expect the bomb to explode at any minute and bump off the Rhino - We will send along any scraps of skin that may be left after the explosion - if it occurs." If the bomb does not explode there will be a long wait for a pachyderm to die naturally. If the need is urgent Hamerton suggests SZ try Gerrards.

SZ's reply on verso.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/5 - [OEMU. Splinters, experimental]
    - SZ/OEMU/5/14 - [OEMU. Splinters, experimental. Animal skins]
      - SZ/OEMU/5/14/2 - [Letter, A.E. Hamerton to SZ, 18/9/40]

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