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Ewart nee Muir, Edith Fairlie, 1878-1953 (third wife of James Cossar Ewart)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Edith F. Ewart from Peter Henry Buck, 23 December 1924

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/30/14
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Buck sends Christmas greetings to the Ewarts and reminisces about their meeting at the Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Australia. He writes that the Board of Maori Ethnological Research has been busy and that they have established a Maori Improvement Fund to promote practical and higher education among the Maori people. He also reports that the Government has granted him leave to accompany an American scientific expedition into Polynesia.

Dates: 23 December 1924

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Samuel Henry Butcher, 28 July 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/24
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Butcher asks Ewart to remind him who a certain Melville Foster is, who introduced himself to him recently. He invites Ewart and his wife to visit him when he is in Dublin for the British Association meeting, and asks the whereabouts of Ewart's daughter Jessie.

Dates: 28 July 1908