"Thank you very much for your letter, article and suggestion. I enclose a cutting, which you may find of interest. It concerns a dead duck, frozen stiff and then brought back to life.

I am not certain that it would be particularly fruitful to offer myself as a companion to the duck. It is possible that the noises we make are similar, but I should imagine that the results would be slightly more dissimilar."

"P.S. You might be interested to know that Edgar Allen Poe has done several stories along the lines you mention."

[Re freezing BR]