Photographs
Found in 1947 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 25 June 1902
Hayes repeats his desire to visit Ewart again in Scotland and to take photographs of his animals.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 14 July 1902
Hayes provides information about the twice winner of the Grand National, 'Manifesto'. He adds that he does not consider any of the photographs Ewart had enclosed sharp enough for reproduction.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 30 January 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 01 March 1903
Hayes writes that he encloses five photographs of the feet of zebra (photographs not present), and that he wishes to have blocks made to scale. He offers Ewart cliches of the blocks. He asks if Ewart has a foot of a Przewalski's horse, as he would like to photograph it.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 21 February 1904
Hayes writes that he has sent 'Master Arthur' a postcard about acquiring backing pads. He writes that he has obtained the head of a horse which was over 44 years of age and offers Ewart photographs of his teeth.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 19 January 1904
Hayes offers advice on photography in poor light and says he hopes Ewart received a copy of his book Points of the Horse.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 03 September 1902
Hayes states that he is enclosing two pulls from blocks that he has made from Ewart's son's photograph of a Norwegian pony.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 05 September 1902
Hayes states that he hopes Ewart received the pulls of blocks he had produced from the negatives of the Norwegian pony and the long-maned pony, bay and foal. He has also recently received some photographs of typical Australian and Chinese ponies. He is pleased that Ewart thinks favourably of the idea of the two of them collaborating on the writing of a book on horse breeding and proposes to first publish a few articles in the Live Stock Journal.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from N.G Johnson, 22 May 1902
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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Philip J. White, 21 November 1910
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.
