This reads very like the excerpts Durrell used to quote from fan mail.

Sir:

Gerald Durrell writes in My Family and Other Animals that among his collection in Corfu, preserved in methylated spirits, was a four-legged chicken. This would have been in the late 1930s. Has Greece once more led the world?

MICKY GWILLIAM

London SW11

The Independent, London.
March 18, 1999.