Blunt, Wilfred Scawen, 1840-1922 (traveller, politician, and poet)

Blunt advises Ewart to purchase a mare that is currently at Luckington in Wiltshire and informs Ewart of Blunt's forthcoming horse sale.

Blunt quotes from an article he is writing for the Encyclopaedia of Sport where he discusses the possible origins of the species of Arabian wild horse called 'Kehailan'. He asks if he Ewart can direct him to any of his (Ewart's) publications about this case which he can cite in the article.

Blunt says how much he agrees with Ewart's volume about animal hybridisation. He explains that his latest horse sale was not a great success. He also includes a list of the dams, sires and their produce at his horse farm for the year 1900.

Blunt states that he is returning Thomas Huxley's American addresses, which Ewart had loaned him. He also asks Ewart's opinion of his article in the August number of the XIXth Century, 'How to Breed Horses for War'.

Cockerell states that he wishes he could conduct experiments on horses in New Mexico as the conditions are very favourable. He mentions that Wilfred Blunt is also of the opinion that the native American horse may have lived to Columbian times. At present he is looking for mixed blood in the skulls of American horses. He points out that the old horses of Europe also had large heads. He also adds that he has found a copy of an aboriginal pictograph representing a man on a horse.