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Invoice to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 03 March 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/13
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The invoice notes the transportation of three horses from Hamburg to Leith, and the return transportation of one pony.

Dates: 03 March 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Andrew Linton, 22 August 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/87
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Linton asks Ewart to send some items of horse tackle along with the horse to be shipped, and refers him to the individuals who will be accompanying the horse by rail.

Dates: 22 August 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 16 June 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/46
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Hagenbeck states that the hybrid and Arab mare have just arrived in Hamburg in good health following their shipment from Scotland. He has also sent on the skin of the Przewalski's horse to Ewart.

Dates: 16 June 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 21 June 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/49
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Hagenbeck informs Ewart that the Arab mare has safely left Hamburg (for India). He also requests a list of the pedigrees of the hybrids that Ewart has sent him, and intends to take the hybrids to shows at Berlin and Hamburg.

Dates: 21 June 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 30 September 1905

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/36
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Hagenbeck writes that the Przewalski's stallion with a longer mane than the others is now in the Zoological Gardens, Cincinnati. He is sorry that Ewart lost his Przewalski's horse without having a foal from him, and offers to send him one of his stallions for a year. He hopes to find a customer for Ewart's hybrid Onager and will send Ewart a photograph of his Java pony, which he will have to sell. He will also try to find out where the skin of a mountain zebra can be obtained.

Dates: 30 September 1905

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 13 April 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/11
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Oliphant writes that the Duke of Bedford wishes to send Ewart three Przewalski's hybrids, a Mongolian pony mare and a Przewalski's stallion and he warns Ewart that they are not tame.

Dates: 13 April 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 21 April 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/12
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Oliphant asks Ewart to give his opinion on sending the three Przewalski's hybrids in separate crates due to their wildness.

Dates: 21 April 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 05 May 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/15
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Oliphant asks on behalf of the Duke of Bedford for confirmation on when the ponies are likely to arrive at Woburn. He also asks with what stallion Ewart would like them to be crossed.

Dates: 05 May 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Frieda Cecil, 05 September 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/96
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Cecil recommends a saddle manufacturer to Ewart and provides details about a horse, 'Jean', who is travelling up to Edinburgh to stay with the Ewarts.

Dates: 05 September 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from George A. Oliphant, 01 March 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/8
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Oliphant writes that he will communicate further with Ewart about the Indian cattle. He dispatched the Przewalski's mare and hybrid filly to Claud Alexander, but the stallion could not be sent due to being too violent.

Dates: 01 March 1911

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Cecil, Arthur, Lord, 1851-1913 (captain) 5
Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913 (German animal dealer and trainer) 4
Oliphant, George A., Colonel, fl 1898-1910 (employee on Woburn estate, Bedfordshire (England)) 4
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Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 3
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Alexander, Sir Claud, fl 1910-1930 2
Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison, 1866-1948 (American naturalist) 2
Anchor Line (1865:-) 1
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) 1
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (1903-1919) 1
Cecil, Frieda, fl1904 (wife of Lord Arthur Cecil) 1
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden (1875-:) 1
Clemens, Earnest Allen, 1859-1924 (American ranch owner and chemist) 1
Congested Districts Board (Scotland) (1897-1911) 1
Duchy of Cornwall (1337-:) 1
Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Foreign Office (1782-) 1
Forsyth, James Noel Muller, 1844-1923 (landowner, Quinish, Tobermory) 1
Gidley, James William, 1866-1931 (American vertebrae palaeontologist) 1
Gordon, William, fl 1913 1
Graham, James Noble, 1846-1928 (justice of the peace and commissioner of supply) 1
Haveley, Charles R., Lieutenant-Colonel, fl 1912 1
Henderson, W.R.G, fl1902 (Anchor Line (Henderson Brothers) Ltd) 1
Hill, Sir Clement Lloyd, 1845-1913 (superintendent of African protectorates, Foreign Office) 1
Hogarth, William Gray, c.1848-1927 (agriculturalist) 1
Howard, Henry, 1877-1917 (19th Earl of Suffolk) 1
Linton, Andrew, fl1903 1
Mackenzie, J.H Munro, fl1902-1908 (Scottish pony breeder) 1
Malcolm, Edward Donald, Colonel, 1837-1930 (16th Laird of Poltalloch) 1
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 (American palaeontologist) 1
Mendel, Johann Gregor, 1822-1884 (Austrian biologist and botanist) 1
Murray, Alexander, 8th Earl of Dunmore or 'Viscount Fincastle', 1872-1962 (British soldier and politician) 1
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York) 1
Peacock, Walter, Sir, 1871-1911 (deputy keeper of the records, Duchy of Cornwall Office and treasurer to the Prince of Wales) 1
Sinclair, John, 1st Baron Pentland, 1860-1925 (Secretary of Scotland 1905-1912 ) 1
Stewart-Murray, John, 8th Duke of Atholl, 1871-1942 (soldier and politician, 'Marquess of Tullibardine') 1
War Office, Whitehall (1722-1964) 1
Willoughby, Digby Wentworth Bayard, 9th Baron Middleton, 1844-1922 1
de Montmorency, Rachel Mary Lumley Godolphin, 3rd Viscountess Frankfort de Montmorency, fl 1906-d.1936 1
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