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Found in 1920 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from N.G Johnson, 22 May 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/40
Scope and Contents

Johnson, writing from the rural affairs publication company Orange Judd, requests that Ewart send some photographs of zebra hybrids. He also enquires whether Ewart has attempted to cross a zebra with an ass.

Dates: 22 May 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Philip J. White, 21 November 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/39
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White thanks Ewart for his support of his application for the Examiner to the Secretary of the Court. He reports that University College of North Wales, Bangor, has two skulls of Bos indicus and the premaxillas do not meet the nasals. He adds that is going to get the skulls photographed.

Dates: 21 November 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Collett, 01 March 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/10
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Collett writes that the sheep in Ewart's picture do not resemble the old breed of sheep in Norway.

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

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Lydekker, 15 September 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/57
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Lydekker asks Ewart for a photograph of his Burchell's zebra 'Matopo' and the colt 'Romulus', with permission to reproduce them. The top of the letter is annotated in Ewart's hand 'Sent 3 photos 26 September 1911.'

Dates: 15 September 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1911

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

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/19
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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
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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, 24 June 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/29
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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
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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 Claud Alexander, 27 September 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/63
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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 Francis Galton, 06 January 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/2
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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