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Guernsey Cow, showing typical broken colouring, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/150
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Photograph of a Guernsey cow with typical broken colouring standing in the grass in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A.J Pressland, 27 January 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/6
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Pressland offers information on heredity, following a paper Ewart gave at the Royal Society in London. He cites several instances of cattle with exceptional colouring.

Dates: 27 January 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lieutenant-General Walter Norris Congreve, [c. July 1905]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/18
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Congreve writes that he has been put in touch with Ewart by Colonel Spencer Ewart. He describes the small herd of wild white cattle at Chartley which had been sold to the Duke of Bedford by Chartley's previous owner. Congreve wishes to introduce fresh blood into the herd in order to rescue dwindling numbers, and asks for Ewart's advice.

Letter is undated but it is assumed to date from shortly after the letter to Ewart from Spencer Ewart at Coll-14/9/11/12.

Dates: [c. July 1905]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lieutenant-General Walter Norris Congreve, [c. July 1905]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/19
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Congreve thanks Ewart for his advice concerning the Chartley cattle. He asks Ewart to put down the names of the herds he recommended for breeding with the existing herd at Chartley.


Letter is undated but it is assumed to date from shortly after the letter to Ewart from Spencer Ewart at Coll-14/9/11/12.

Dates: [c. July 1905]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 03 August 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/25
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Cecil writes that both the brown calves are Jerseys and that Ewart is welcome to have them. He remarks on the colouring of Chillingham cattle and speculates on the true source of the Vaynol blood.

Dates: 03 August 1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil and Frieda Cecil, 28 July 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/23
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Cecil writes that the Chartley-Vaynol bull has set three Highland cows again and he now wishes to send the bull away although he is reluctant to have it killed.

Frieda Cecil finishes the rest of the letter after her husband has been called away. On behalf of Lord Cecil she offers to bull to Ewart if Cadzow won't take him, as well as two brown calves, and makes arrangements with Ewart about staying with him.

Dates: 28 July 1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 07 November 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/30
Scope and Contents Alexander writes that he will buy the mare once he knows how much of his own livestock he has managed to sell. The agent at Somerford has promised to keep aside the head and legs of the dam of Alexander's polled cow if she is selected for the butcher, and Alexander will negotiate with his Norfolk friend for the head of the red polled cow. He asks for first refusal on one of Ewart's heifers by the black Chartley bull, and wonders whether the Chartleys are descended from the neighbouring...
Dates: 07 November 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 06 June 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/38
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes that he is enclosing a cheque for the half-bred ponies, and he would be delighted to have a Siberian lamb to cross-breed with. He asks whether Ewart would have any use for mismarked calves of the white cattle, as well as any black 'Soa' ewe lambs.

Dates: 06 June 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 22 February 1915

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/2
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes concerning what money he would take for the sale of the filly, and invites Ewart to come and see his lambs. He adds that he has got a perfectly marked white calf from a pure fawn Jersey by the white bull.

Dates: 22 February 1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 21 June 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/68
Scope and Contents Ridgeway discusses some of Ewart's critiques of the manuscript of his book. He reports that he is troubled about whether he is justified in stating that that the hock callosities are frequently absent in North African horses and ponies and asks Ewart to check a French reference from the work of Sanson. He asks Ewart for the loan of some illustrative blocks. He posits that changes in colour of horses and cattle could be due to domestication, and thanks Ewart for correcting some of his zebra...
Dates: 21 June 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Alexander, Sir Claud, fl 1910-1930 3
Cecil, Arthur, Lord, 1851-1913 (captain) 2
Cecil, Frieda, fl1904 (wife of Lord Arthur Cecil) 2
Ewart, Spencer, Lieutenant Colonel, fl1905 (military secretary at War Office) 2
Fernley, C A, c1900s (photographer) 2
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Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England)) 2
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Congreve, Walter Norris, Lieutenant-General, 1862-1927 1
Gordon, William, fl 1913 1
Pocock, Reginald Innes, 1863-1947 (British zoologist) 1
Pressland, AJ, fl1899 (Cambridge geneticist) 1
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 1
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 1
Sanson, M., fl 1904 (zoologist) 1
de Azara, Felix, 1742-1821 (Spanish naturalist, geographer and engineer) 1
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