Mongolian Pony
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 17 March 1915
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/4
Scope and Contents
Oliphant, on behalf of the Duke of Bedford, offers Ewart a yearling filly by a Przewalski's stallion out of the Mongolian mare. If Ewart would not like to have the mare, perhaps the 'Edinburgh Garden' would.
Dates:
17 March 1915
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from D.B Montefiore, 28 November 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/131
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Montefiore requests a donation from Ewart to raise support for the London Show.
Dates:
28 November 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 16 January 1902
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/2
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Osborn states that he has already obtained a photograph of the Przewalski's colts and hopes that the Duke of Bedford will take some enlarged photographs showing their development, and also a watercolour painting showing the colour changes in their coats. He hopes that Ewart will put his views of the Mongolian pony down in a book. Many of the dun striped variety are to be found in Texas and Mexico. He also asks to be informed if a suitable Shetland pony comes on to the market, and would be...
Dates:
16 January 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Mabel Peacock, 09 October 1900
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/26
Scope and Contents
Peacock who, having read with interest Ewart's accounts of the results of cross-breeding experiments with zebras and horses, is sending him a passage from C.F Romilly Allen's Book of Chinese Poetry regarding the colouring of Mongolian ponies.
Dates:
09 October 1900
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 09 December 1902
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/112
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Ridgeway thanks Ewart for his comments about his own thoughts on the thoroughbred horse. Ridgeway hopes to have the paper printed by January 1903. He believes the Nisaean (or Caspian) breed owed its superiority and size to the crossing of Libyan blood with Asiatic. His paper also discusses the portrayal of small-headed horses portrayed by the cavemen of France. At present, his research revolves around the Norwegian pony with a stripe on its back. He is also greatly interested in Ewart's...
Dates:
09 December 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Ridgeway, 06 March 1904
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/27
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Ridgeway offers his opinions on Ewart's 'excellent paper'. He states that he is sceptical as to the accuracy of cave drawings of horses, but is glad that Ewart expresses doubts as to the domestication of the horse. He recommends that Ewart provide explicitly the evidence of orseus remains from La Monthe, and is unsure about the claim that there are two different stocks in Arabian horses. He enquires as to the relative sizes of the ergots (growths) in Ewart's Mongolian pony and Przewalski's...
Dates:
06 March 1904