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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 390 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Robert E. Holding, 24 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/19
Scope and Contents

Holding thanks Ewart for the tickets for 'Zoo' and says he will send him a photograph of an old St Kilda sheep as well as a photograph of a stuffed head which was eventually purchased from him by J.G Millais. He offers Ewart an exchange of a St Kilda ewe's skull for a pair of Roebuck horns.

Dates: 24 February 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 16 February 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/4
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes that he accepts the Duke of Bedford's offer. He will try and get Ewart a photograph of the Mysore heifer's head.

Dates: 16 February 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 27 September 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/63
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes that he cannot afford to buy Ewart's clouded leopard but that Ewart should not let her go too cheaply. He offers his young Mysore bull to Ewart's Celtic shorthorn, and will try to get a photograph of the hybrid and provides details about piebald lambs.

Dates: 27 September 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1911

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 24 June 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/29
Scope and Contents

Alexander writes that he would be glad to have a copy of Ewart's 'sheep paper'. He will be rounding up the ponies shortly and will try to get a photograph when they are in the yard.

Dates: 24 June 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 16 September 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/28
Scope and Contents

Alexander offers Ewarts some ponies, as he can no longer afford to keep them. He comments that the stripes on the mare in Ewart's photograph is also visible on his mare at times.

Dates: 16 September 1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1916

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Francis Galton, 06 January 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/2
Scope and Contents

Galton suggests that Ewart contact Dr Walter Heape for research into insemination and fertilisation. He suggests how beneficial it would be for the Duke of Portland to keep records (including photographs) of his adult pedigree stock. He enquires when Ewart will next be publishing anything concerning hybrid zebras.

Dates: 06 January 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Sydney Frederic Harmer, 19 April 1922

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/28/6
Scope and Contents

Harmer returns three photographs which Ewart sent him in 1919 (photographs not present), and apologises for the delay. He enquires whether Ewart has come to any conclusions about the publication of his 'Terra Nova' report.

Dates: 19 April 1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1922

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Theodore Andrea Cooke, 01 February 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/3
Scope and Contents

Cook offers to publish Ewart's article on horse breeding in The Field and enquires whether there are any diagrams or photographs Ewart wishes to include.

Dates: 01 February 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1912

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 07 February 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/17
Scope and Contents Ridgeway thanks Ewart for the photograph of a pony's head. He asserts that the conclusion that no asses had evolved west of the Nile is incorrect and cites a renowned Arab historian and geographer, Al-Masudi. He mentions the appearance of curiously striped wild asses in the province of Nubia, on the West side of the Nile. Ridgeway discusses the implications of the infiltration of asses into this area and explores its possible origins. He states that he is writing to Walter Burton Harris, who...
Dates: 07 February 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 24 April 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/46
Scope and Contents Ridgeway thanks Ewart for sending him photographs of the Ward's zebra, which he asks permission to mention in his forthcoming survey of zebras. He goes on to discuss the ponies at Garran Point, Ireland that Ewart has mentioned, and cites some classical and historical references to the Irish 'Hobbie' and its debated connection to Spanish breeds imported in the sixteenth century, although Ridgeway feels that this must have occcured earlier. He concludes that he is in agreement with Ewart that...
Dates: 24 April 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

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