Highland Pony
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James N. Forsyth, 27 March 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/31
Scope and Contents
Forsyth recommends that Ewart consider publishing his report on Highland ponies through the Congested Districts Board. He assumes that his memo on the Antrim horse has reached Ewart.
Dates:
27 March 1904
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James N. Forsyth, 11 February 1908
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/3
Scope and Contents
Forsyth asks Ewart to accompany him to Monkstadt (the experimental farm of the Congested Districts Board) to see the ponies. He also wishes to consult him about the some public allegations that the Congested Districts Board are reviving the Highland ponies by crossing them.
Dates:
11 February 1908
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 08 October 1905
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/38
Scope and Contents
Cecil is puzzled that Ewart mixed Spanish and horse blood and produced a Celtic pony, as he would have thought the mix would have produced the Island pony. He reports that Ritchie is annoyed that his neighbours prefer to use a crofters' pony to the Arab breed. He has written to Forsyth asking him to let the pony 'Atholl' to stand at the head of the Monkstadt stud (the experimental farm of the Congested Districts Board) on the Isle of Skye. He writes that he saw the best Highland ponies he...
Dates:
08 October 1905