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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 09 December 1902
Hayes enquires how he could get a copy of Ewart's paper about 'Callosities and the wartless pony'. He also would like to know whether the breed Equus caballus came directly from North America or through its ancestors pliohippus or protohippus. He mentions a paper that Professor William Ridgeway has sent him on the origin of the thoroughbred horse. He also invites Ewart to visit him for hunting.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 28 January 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 14 March 1903
Ridgeway refers to the existence of the small zebras in upper Africa and mentions that Africa has been much neglected in scientific and anthropological studies. He also states that he has evidence that the Equus hemionus was in Paphlagonia in Homeric days. He invites Ewart to visit him in Cambridge.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 06 October 1903
Ridgeway asks if there is a chance of seeing Ewart in Cambridge before his University session begins in October. He reports that his book has gone to press and that he has incorporated the results of Ewart's experiments with the Kiang horse. He reports on his visit to Southport for a British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 15 September 1904
Ridgeway congratulates Ewart on the announcement of his marriage. He reports that he has finally got a photograph of the Somali wild ass in Regent's Park from Dando. He mentions forthcoming papers about quaggas from Pocock and Lydekker and concludes by enquiring whether the quagga's markings and its bay colour are to be attributed to its living under the same climactic conditions as the Libyan horse.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway (incomplete), 03 December [1904]
Ridgeway provides some details about historical accounts of the first horses brought into Mexico and Texas by the Spaniards, in preparation for Ewart's visit to Mexico. He also passes on information from a local farmer, John Thornton, about bronchos in Mexico, and Hans Gadow about dun and roan horses. He congratulates Ewart on his forthcoming marriage.
The latter part of the letter is not present. The letter also bears the incorrect date of 1905.