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Letter from James Cossar Ewart to Robert Alexander, 08 November 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/116
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Alexander thanks Ewart for telling him about the model he saw in London recently and discusses the colourings of Arab horses. He writes that he would gladly undertake a modelling commission and hopes to meet Ewart to discuss the matter further.

Dates: 08 November 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Boyd Dawkins, 12 December 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/45
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Dawkins thanks Ewart for his paper on ancient British horses and states that the horse figured by the cave-man at Cresswell agrees with those figured in the caves of France.

Dates: 12 December 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Ridgeway, 06 March 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/27
Scope and Contents Ridgeway offers his opinions on Ewart's 'excellent paper'. He states that he is sceptical as to the accuracy of cave drawings of horses, but is glad that Ewart expresses doubts as to the domestication of the horse. He recommends that Ewart provide explicitly the evidence of orseus remains from La Monthe, and is unsure about the claim that there are two different stocks in Arabian horses. He enquires as to the relative sizes of the ergots (growths) in Ewart's Mongolian pony and Przewalski's...
Dates: 06 March 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Professor Gerard Baldwin Brown from Alexander Henry Hallam Murray, 13 December 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/116
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Murray states that he has ordered a printing plate of the horse's head from the Parthenon and would be glad to let Ewart have it.

Dates: 13 December 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Potscard to James Cossar Ewart from Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, 12 February 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/9
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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.

Dates: 12 February 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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