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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Hayward, 10 January 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/3
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Hayward writes that he would like to capture some Burchell's zebras for his estate in South Africa and enquires whether a hybrid zebra and horse stallion would be fertile. He has heard that the Burchell's zebra mixes more freely with donkeys and mules than with horses.

Dates: 10 January 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Arnold Lang, 21 April 1914

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/6
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Lang asks for permission to publish some figures from Ewart's work in his own forthcoming volume on heredity and to borrow some of Ewart's papers, including The Penycuik Experiments. He also asks for advice on where to purchase good photographs of equidae-hybrids.

Dates: 21 April 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 26 October 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/114
Scope and Contents Hagenbeck writes that Baron von Falz-Fein from Russia and the Baron de Parana both have eight to ten zebra hybrids, and agrees that if their usefulness and strength were more widely known, they would only breed zebroids rather than asses and horses. He asks for the price of Ewart's two zebra hybrids and his Shetland pony and offers his Korea stallion to him as a present, as he wishes to be rid of it. He reports that the Mongolian mares which he got as foster-mothers for the first...
Dates: 26 October 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 08 June 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/64
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Hagenbeck states that he is unable to tell Ewart where the mare that he sent to him was caught. He writes that it will be difficult to find a customer for the Przewalski's stallion but that he will try to find a buyer for Ewart's kiang/horse hybrids.

Dates: 08 June 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from C.L Thylor, 16 August 1900

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/24
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Thylor states that he will gladly visit Ewart to view his hybrids. He supplies him with the addresses of several military men who he believes may be able to give him the information he requires regarding the use of horses, and in particular hybrids, in military action. Thylor proffers the opinion that the hybrids, because of their conspicuous stripes, may not be suited to military work in the field, though they would be suited to ambulance work.

Dates: 16 August 1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 14 June 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/24
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Oliphant reports that the little pony mare had a colt foal and that one of their crossbred ponies has been injured.

Dates: 14 June 1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913 (German animal dealer and trainer) 4
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Falz-Fein, Frederic von, Baron, fl1903 (Russian animal breeder) 1
Griffiths, Joseph, fl 1913 1
Harmer, Sir Sydney Frederic, 1862-1950 (zoologist) 1
Hayward, A., fl 1913 1
Hunters Improvement and National Light Horse Breeding Society (fl 1913) 1
Hurst, D Ewart, fl1903 (merchant and shipper) 1
Lang, Arnold, 1855-1914 (Swiss naturalist) 1
Lort-Phillips, John Frederick, 1854-1926 (Lawrenny Park, Begelly, South Wales) 1
McLeod, Malcolm, fl1903 1
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York) 1
Parana, Baron De, fl1899 1
Reid, Charles, 1837-1929 (Scottish photographer) 1
Thylor, CL, fl1900 1
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