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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Clement Lloyd Hill, 20 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/16
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Hill passes on a report from Stordy that no zebra mares had yet been bred with stallions in England. He mentions that he is awaiting Stordy's report on the zebra farm, and hopes to meet Ewart at the next Polo Pony dinner.

Dates: 20 February 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Fred J. Baillie, 25 September 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/106
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Baillie provides details on the differences in markings on his zebra skins, and asks if Ewart would like to see them. He thanks Ewart for hosting himself and Mrs Baillie.

Dates: 25 September 1904
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

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, 29 March [1915]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/8
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Russell, who signs himself 'Bedford', suggests that Ewart visits Woburn when he comes to London, as he has a fine Italian donkey-zebra hybrid.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 29 March [1915]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 28 January 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/9
Scope and Contents Ridgeway states that he would very much appreciate a cliche of 'Matopo' (a zebra stallion). He adds that he has some blocks of the Kilimanjaro and Somali zebra that would be of interest to Ewart in his research on the zebra. He thinks that his knowledge of the Achaen horse would be of interest to Ewart, as he believes them to be the same as both the small horses of Northern Britain in the time of Caesar, and those of the Danube area. He discusses the spread of the horse into Africa. He...
Dates: 28 January 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 14 March 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/32
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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.

Dates: 14 March 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 (curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York) 2
Ridgeway, Sir William, 1853-1926 (classicist and Disney professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge (England)) 2
Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 2
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American Museum of Natural History (1869-:) 1
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Baillie, Fred J., fl1904 1
Bateson, William, 1861-1926 (English biologist and professor of genetics, University of Cambridge) 1
British Museum (Natural History) (1881-1991) 1
Capitan, Louis, 1854-1929 (French doctor and historian) 1
Columbia University (1754-:) 1
Hayes, Matthew Horace, 1842-1904 (veterinarian and author on horses) 1
Hill, Sir Clement Lloyd, 1845-1913 (superintendent of African protectorates, Foreign Office) 1
National Pony Society. Polo Pony Society (1893-:) 1
Salensky, Wladimir, fl1902 (Russian biologist) 1
Stordy, Robert John, Colonel, fl 1904 (chief veterinary officer for British East Africa) 1
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