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Letter from Joseph Black to his father, 16 May 1758

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/4-5
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Letter from Joseph Black to his father, John Black, relating family news and that he is thinking of buying a horse.

Dates: 16 May 1758
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore or 'Viscount Fincastle', 17 August 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/91
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Fincastle requests to visit Ewart to see his Highland ponies as he is interested in the improvement of existing Highland breeds and their utilisation for military purposes.

Dates: 17 August 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Captain J.H Greer, 16 May 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/22
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Greer writes that he would be delighted to meet Ewart to discuss aspects of national horse breeding, and that he hopes Ewart will one day come to Ireland to visit the National Stud. Otherwise, he himself will shortly visit London.

Dates: 16 May 1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Captain K.J.W Dunn, 15 August 1928

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/34/4
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Dunn requests a meeting with Ewart as he is visiting Edinburgh and has an interest in the evolution of the horse.

Dates: 15 August 1928
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 Claud Alexander, 08 January 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/1
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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 Einar Lönnberg, 08 October 1906

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/12/27
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Lönnberg thanks Ewart and his wife for their hospitality to him during his recent visit and states that he is sending Ewart some papers on veterbrates which might be of interest to him. He describes a horse skull which has been dug up in Stockholm at the site of the Battle of Brunkeberg, fought between Denmark and Sweden in 1471.

Dates: 08 October 1906
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Florence E. Sexton, 18 September 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/104
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Sexton encloses a photograph (not present) of a striped mouse dun pony and recalls seeing an unusually striped bay horse. She also mentions visiting Ewart to see his hybrids some years ago with the agricultural college.

Dates: 18 September 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry F. Osborn, 07 May 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/48
Scope and Contents Osborn writes concerning his forthcoming trip to England and asks if he might meet with Ewart at Woburn Abbey when he will be visiting the Duke of Bedford. He mentions that he will see Ewart's zebra hybrids in St Louis in the autumn and that he will send Ewart a photograph of Neohipparion, 'the most deerlike horse yet discovered'. He states that he will be requiring some images from Ewart to illustrate his lecture series on the evolution of the horse at Columbia...
Dates: 07 May 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 28 August 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/92
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Osborn thanks Ewart for his visit to Penicuik and asks him for some glass slides and photographs. He recommends that when Ewart visits the British Museum again he studies the hoofs of Onohippidium as they resemble a zebra more than an ass or horse. He asks Ewart to procure him a hoof of an ass or Przewalski's horse if he is able.

Dates: 28 August 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Names
Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England)) 4
Hayes, Matthew Horace, 1842-1904 (veterinarian and author on horses) 3
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York) 2
Alexander, Sir Claud, fl 1910-1930 1
Amateur Menagerie Club (fl 1912) 1
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American Museum of Natural History (1869-:) 1
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) 1
Black, John, fl1728-1766 (father of Joseph Black) 1
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1
British Museum (Natural History) (1881-1991) 1
Capitan, Louis, 1854-1929 (French doctor and historian) 1
Columbia University (1754-:) 1
Dando, W.P, fl 1904 (official photographer to the Zoological Society, London (England)) 1
Dunn, K.J.W, Captain, fl 1928 1
Gadow, Hans Friedrich, 1855-1928 (German ornithologist) 1
Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (1348-) 1
Hurst, D Ewart, fl1903 (merchant and shipper) 1
Irish National Stud 1
Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 (palaeontologist) 1
Lönnberg, Einar, 1865-1942 (Swedish zoologist and conservationist) 1
Mackenzie, J.H Munro, fl1902-1908 (Scottish pony breeder) 1
May, Maud, fl 1903 1
Murray, Alexander, 8th Earl of Dunmore or 'Viscount Fincastle', 1872-1962 (British soldier and politician) 1
Pocock, Reginald Innes, 1863-1947 (British zoologist) 1
Regent's Park (1835-:) 1
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 1
Salensky, Wladimir, fl1902 (Russian biologist) 1
Thornton, John, fl 1904 (farmer) 1
Thylor, CL, fl1900 1
Tyrwhitt-Drake, Hugh Garrard, Sir, 1881-1964 (mayor of Maidstone) 1
Woburn Abbey 1
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