Hybrids
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 169 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles L. Sutherland, 05 January 1904
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/1
Scope and Contents
Sutherland asks if Ewart would like him to send him some Rockbeare white wild rabbits. He wonders if he should inform another potential buyer that Carl Hagenbeck will be purchasing Ewart's two zebra hybrids. He informs Ewart that the zebra 'Matopo' has died and says that he is trying to find out more information. He enquires whether or not Ewart ever did anything in the way of the wood pigeon cross.
Dates:
05 January 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles L. Sutherland, 09 January 1904
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/3
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Sutherland expresses interest that Duff Assheton-Smith has purchased 'Romulus' and the wild asiatic ass. He refers to Percy St Michael Podmore's recent article in The Feathered World, asks where he can obtain one of his pamphlets to which Ewart refers and discusses aspects of Podmore's dove breeding. He states that he has sent for two Rockbeare white wild rabbits to be sent to Ewart in Penicuik. He concludes by stating that if Henry Flower had been a practical...
Dates:
09 January 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles L. Sutherland, 01 June 1904
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/62
Scope and Contents
Sutherland provides some notes on the white wild rabbits of Rockbeare and asks if Ewart has been able to make use of the surviving rabbit he sent for. He hopes to shortly get a report on the two zebra hybrids in India.
Dates:
01 June 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from C.L Thylor, 16 August 1900
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/24
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Thylor states that he will gladly visit Ewart to view his hybrids. He supplies him with the addresses of several military men who he believes may be able to give him the information he requires regarding the use of horses, and in particular hybrids, in military action. Thylor proffers the opinion that the hybrids, because of their conspicuous stripes, may not be suited to military work in the field, though they would be suited to ambulance work.
Dates:
16 August 1900
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel Alfred Keene, 13 August 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/84
Scope and Contents
Keene reports on the progress of the zebra hybrids who are being used in a Battry near Simla, India. He writes that the Indian government are complaining at the high price of zebras as opposed to mules, but Keene comments that the price would have been less had they bought the hybrids from Ewart in the first place. He asks if zebra/pony hybrids can produce their own offspring and if Ewart knows of any zebra/donkey hybrids. He asks if Ewart would be able to procure a zebra stallion, as the...
Dates:
13 August 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 29 September 1910
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/16
Scope and Contents
Oliphant writes that the Duke of Bedford has consented to take the Przewalski's mare and hybrid foal back to Woburn at the request of Mrs Collier, whose husband was in charge of the matter. Oliphant asks Ewart to resolve the issue, as the mare is his property.
Dates:
29 September 1910
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 03 October 1910
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/17
Scope and Contents
Oliphant reminds Ewart that the matter of the Przewalski's mare and hybrid foal was between Ewart and Mr Collier at the stud farm and that the Duke of Bedford has only agreed to keep them at Woburn as a favour owing to Mr Collier's illness.
Dates:
03 October 1910
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 14 February 1911
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/3
Scope and Contents
Oliphant reports that the Duke of Bedford will gladly send a young stallion along with the Przewalski's mare and the hybrid filly, on the understanding that the Woburn estate gets the first-born Przewalski's filly foal.
Dates:
14 February 1911
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 14 June 1907
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/24
Scope and Contents
Oliphant reports that the little pony mare had a colt foal and that one of their crossbred ponies has been injured.
Dates:
14 June 1907
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 21 August 1907
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/38
Scope and Contents
Oliphant writes that the little donkey came from Ceylon and he will provide further information about him shortly. The Grevy's zebra has not foaled yet and Oliphant will try to tame the Przewalski's hybrid when the weather turns cold.
Dates:
21 August 1907