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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James N. Forsyth, 02 April 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/12
Scope and Contents Forsyth writes that Arthur Cecil will send his horse to Benbecula or South Uist. He has seen the negative letter from Calgary and encourages Ewart to make a reply if he thinks fit. He has forwarded Pipon's letter to the Secretary of State for Scotland with a suggestion that the Congested District Board and War Office now cooperate. He would like the yellow dun mare to go to Monkstadt (the experimental farm of the Congested Districts Board), perhaps in exchange for the two-year old filly from...
Dates: 02 April 1908

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Major General H. Pipon, 22 March 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/8
Scope and Contents

Pipon writes to arrange a talk with Ewart about the subject of the breeding of horses in relation to remounts and the Highlands.

Dates: 22 March 1908

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, 19 February 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/4
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Haldane, writing from the War Office, Whitehall, writes that he has spoken to the Quarter Master General about the question of army remounts and the Hebrides.

Dates: 19 February 1908

Letters and telegrams between Thomson, the War Office, and the Scottish Education Department, 1 Oct 1944-4 Oct 1944

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Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/1/9
Scope and Contents

The correspondence regards a confidential post in Germany in the English Department of Education, which Thomson declined.

Drafts of Thomson's responses and his notes are written on the reverse side of draft programmes for Orpheus performed at the Moray House Training College.

Dates: 1 Oct 1944-4 Oct 1944

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