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Count de Madre on "Mademoiselle", a Weight-Bearing Hunter in Miniature, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2163
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Count de Madre [Jean Pierre M. J. de Madre, Comte de Loos] ,ready to play polo, on his horse, "Mademoiselle", a weight-bearing Hunter in miniature in the early 20th century.

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

Dartmoor Ponies, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3085
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a herd of Dartmoor ponies on the moorlands of Devon, England in the early 20th century.

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

Dartmoor Pony, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3084
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Dartmoor pony standing in a field in the early 20th century.

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

Duncan, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3090
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a wild pony named "Duncan" from the 19th century.

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

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

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/13
Scope and Contents

The invoice notes the transportation of three horses from Hamburg to Leith, and the return transportation of one pony.

Dates: 03 March 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alexander McHardy, 29 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/21
Scope and Contents

McHardy attempts to negotiate a time when his pony stallion 'Braemore' can be spared to serve some of Ewart's mares and states that he can acquire some ponies for Ewart if he wishes.

Dates: 29 February 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Barbara Martin, 20 April [1912]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/23
Scope and Contents

Martin asks for Ewart's advice on various questions relating to polo pony breeding from Connemara ponies.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 20 April [1912]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Claud Alexander, 08 January 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/1
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes that his friend Tyrwhitt-Drake, the secretary of the Menagerie Club, is coming to Edinburgh and would like to meet Ewart. He also reports that he thinks both his ponies are in foal and that the colt is now very quiet to ride.

Dates: 08 January 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm, 06 August 1906

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/12/24
Scope and Contents

Malcolm writes that he can offer both the Arab ponies a home. He asks Ewart's advice on when fresh water ceases to damage the digestive organs of salmon.

Dates: 06 August 1906
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/15
Scope and Contents

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Cecil, Arthur, Lord, 1851-1913 (captain) 7
Congested Districts Board (Scotland) (1897-1911) 6
Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison, 1866-1948 (American naturalist) 3
Forsyth, James Noel Muller, 1844-1923 (landowner, Quinish, Tobermory) 3
Malcolm, Edward Donald, Colonel, 1837-1930 (16th Laird of Poltalloch) 3
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Oliphant, George A., Colonel, fl 1898-1910 (employee on Woburn estate, Bedfordshire (England)) 3
Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England)) 3
Woburn Abbey 3
Alexander, Sir Claud, fl 1910-1930 2
Clemens, Earnest Allen, 1859-1924 (American ranch owner and chemist) 2
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 2
Hayes, Matthew Horace, 1842-1904 (veterinarian and author on horses) 2
Mackenzie, J.H Munro, fl1902-1908 (Scottish pony breeder) 2
Murray, Alexander, 8th Earl of Dunmore or 'Viscount Fincastle', 1872-1962 (British soldier and politician) 2
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York) 2
Reid, Charles, 1837-1929 (Scottish photographer) 2
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 2
de Montmorency, Rachel Mary Lumley Godolphin, 3rd Viscountess Frankfort de Montmorency, fl 1906-d.1936 2
Al-Masudi, Abu-al-Hasan Ali, d 956 (Arab traveller and historian) 1
Amateur Menagerie Club (fl 1912) 1
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) 1
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (1901-:) 1
Cecil, Frieda, fl1904 (wife of Lord Arthur Cecil) 1
Dublin Science and Art Museum (1878-:) 1
Fairfax-Blakeborough, John, b.1883-fl.1908 (writer and social historian) 1
Fraser-Tytler, Edward Grant, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1856-fl1908 1
Gadow, Hans Friedrich, 1855-1928 (German ornithologist) 1
Galbraith, Charles, c1900s (horse owner) 1
Gidley, James William, 1866-1931 (American vertebrae palaeontologist) 1
Graham, James Noble, 1846-1928 (justice of the peace and commissioner of supply) 1
Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913 (German animal dealer and trainer) 1
Harris, Walter Burton, 1866-1933 (traveller, explorer and author) 1
Hurst, D Ewart, fl1903 (merchant and shipper) 1
Loos, Jean Pierre M. J. de Madre, Comte de, 1862-1934 (British polo player) 1
MacDonald, James Alexander Ranald, 1881-fl.1907 (Balranald, Lochmaddy) 1
MacKenzie, Osgood H., 1842 - 1922 (garden architect | Inverewe | Ross and Cromarty) 1
Macleod, J.J, fl 1908 (horse breeder) 1
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 (American palaeontologist) 1
Martin, Barbara, fl 1912 1
McDonald, John, fl 1902 1
McKinnon, John, fl1903 1
Mendel, Johann Gregor, 1822-1884 (Austrian biologist and botanist) 1
Muntz, J. Oscar, fl 1905 (horse breeder) 1
Norris, G, fl1900s (horse breeder) 1
Ritchie, John, fl 1905 1
Sanson, M., fl 1904 (zoologist) 1
Scharff, Richard Francis, 1858-1934 (naturalist, keeper of the Natural History Collections, Science and Art Museum, Dublin) 1
Stewart-Murray, John, 8th Duke of Atholl, 1871-1942 (soldier and politician, 'Marquess of Tullibardine') 1
Tyrwhitt-Drake, Hugh Garrard, Sir, 1881-1964 (mayor of Maidstone) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
Watson, Archibald, Professor, 1849-1940 (Austalian anatomist) 1
Willoughby, Digby Wentworth Bayard, 9th Baron Middleton, 1844-1922 1
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