Balfour writes regarding Ewart's wish to obtain a particular type of horse from Norway. Lord Walter Rothschild has suggested that he might contact Ethelbert Lort-Phillips who is interested in scientific natural history and is often in Norway.

Balfour states that she is returning Carl Hagenbeck's letter to Ewart. She states she has also written to Lord Stanley in connection with Ewart's hybrids in an attempt to persuade him to purchase them. She also enquires whether, during his experiments, he has noticed if offspring from two different species of horse, with strong markings, hark back to a more ancestral type. She enquires whether the mustang is a descendant of the Spanish horse.