Skip to main content

Mares

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 15 July 1915

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/15
Scope and Contents

Alexander gives instructions for Ewart to return the pony to him and comments that due to the war his stock is greatly reduced. He provides details of the offspring of a piebald mare which he considers to be breeding very oddly.

Dates: 15 July 1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1915

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

 Item
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 Clement Lloyd Hill, 15 May 1903

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/51
Scope and Contents

Hill writes to confirm that the Foreign Office have got the mare zebra from the zoo. He says he will send a report to Ewart if it is not printed by the Society of Arts and enquires whether Ewart has heard anything more about the dwarf ponies.

Dates: 15 May 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir George Watt, 08 June 1899

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/24
Scope and Contents

Watt thanks Ewart belatedly for sending a copy of his Penycuik Experiments. He mentions Frank Finn having sent Ewart a pamphlet relevant to his researches. He discusses the possibility of being able to procure for him a pure 'Katiawar' mare for cross-breeding purposes and writes that he has arranged to have two Indian rock pigeons sent off to him.

Dates: 08 June 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, 15 May 1903

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/52
Scope and Contents

Mitchell informs Ewart that the Council of the Zoological Society of London have granted Sir Clement Hill's request of a loan of a a zebra mare for a hybridisation experiment in the Orange River Colony. He informs Ewart that the mare is now at his disposal.

Dates: 15 May 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, 28 April 1903

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/47
Scope and Contents Ridgeway thanks Ewart for allowing him to reference Ewart's information concerning the Ward's zebra in his forthcoming work, but states he will be careful not to give away too much information about Ewart's own work before he has published his findings. He reminisces about the introduction of Clydesdale stallions to his native Kildare, and the inferior offspring which cross-breeding with the local mares produced. He encourages Ewart not to lose heart in the face of criticism over 'the...
Dates: 28 April 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from T I Maughan and Co. Limited, 16 July 1903

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/77
Scope and Contents

The auctioneers inform Ewart that they have been unable to find him a stallion or mare of the colour Ewart requires and without chestnut callosities, but that they will inspect the new shipment of dun ponies coming from the north of Iceland for suitable specimens.

Dates: 16 July 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from the Ganson Brothers, 14 May 1904

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/51
Scope and Contents

The letter requests more detailed particulars about Lord Cecil's pony than Ewart previously provided. The purchasers intend to cross the stallion with Shetland mares to produce a reliable carting and ploughing pony for crofters.

Dates: 14 May 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Thomas Dykes, 02 March 1904

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/23
Scope and Contents

Dykes offers his opinions on what horses are best to cross with, choosing the modern Hackney and an Arab Highland cross. He says he will inform Ewart about the white maned mare which belongs to a carting contractor whose stables are in Portobello.

There is also a copy, in Dykes' hand, of the programme for the Highland and Agricultural Society, Inverness Show, 1839 and a copy of a letter to Dykes on behalf of Lord Lovat about a pony stallion 'Alan Kingsburgh'.

Dates: 02 March 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from unknown author (incomplete), 08 October 1902

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/81
Scope and Contents

The author relays the address of an acquaintance, C.E Green, who is interested in pony breeding and had expressed a desire to see Ewart's horses. He also enquires whether Ewart would be interested in photographs of 'Johnnie', 'Roderick' or a black mare he has in his possession.

The latter part of the letter, including author's signature, is not present.

Dates: 08 October 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Privacy & Cookies | Takedown Policy | Licensing & Copyright | Accessibility | Centre for Research Collections | LHSA | Contact us at is-crc@ed.ac.uk

ArchivesSpace release-v3.4.x

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all material is copyright © 2018 University of Edinburgh.