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Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Hammond, 19 July 1933

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/38/4
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Hammond writes that he is sending a paper by a Hungarian who had studied in Edinburgh two years previously.He asks for Ewart's opinion on whether or not he considers it worth publishing.

Dates: 19 July 1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1932-1935

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 29 December 1927

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/33/14
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Gregory writes that the lower jaw of a horse has been discovered in the upper drifts filling the pre-glacial valley of the Clyde at Lanark. He suspects that it dates from around the Early Neolithic period. He asks Ewart to look at the specimen and write a short note on it for inclusion in the Hunterian Museum glacial vertebrate fossils.

Dates: 29 December 1927
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1927

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 03 February 1928

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/34/1
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Gregory enquires after Ewart's note on the horse for the Museum catalogue, as it is ready to go to print.

Dates: 03 February 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1928

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J.U. Duerst, 14 February 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/3
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Duerst acknowledges receipt of Ewart's paper 'On skulls of horses from the Roman fort at Newstead' and states that he will send Ewart a copy of his own treatise on the animal remains from Anau when he has received it. He proposes that the desert horse from Anau must be the first domestic horse, or else the first desert or oriental horse.

Dates: 14 February 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1909

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 01 December 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/81
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Cecil confirms details of the transport of the cow in calf to his Jersey bull from Southampton to Glasgow. They have nearly succeeded in altering the title of the stud book to the 'National British Pony Stud Book'. He wishes the Highland breeders would submit their entries, as he does not think it wise to have separate publications in England and Scotland.

Dates: 01 December 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1912

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 05 September 1896

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/14
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Cecil thanks Ewart for 'the photo of Mulatto and Romulus' (Ewart's first zebra/horse hybrid and dam) and mentions that the Scottish Farmer should be sending 'Reid of Wishaw' (Charles Reid, the photographer). Cecil suggests that Reid should photograph Ewart's various animals (zebra, mule, donkey as well as Mulatto and Romulus) to highlight the differences in stripes between father and son, and the absence of stripes in the non-hybrid animals.

Dates: 05 September 1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1893-1896

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 29 March 1897

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/3/2
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Cecil congratulates Ewart on his recent paper and remarks on the possible behavioural changes of mares resulting from being served in late April and early May and then turned out to soft grass at night. He believes the paper to be easily accessible to the layman and suggests publishing it in The Field and The Livestock.

The end of the letter appears to be wanting.

Dates: 29 March 1897
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1897

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, 26 January 1901

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/1
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Lord Moreton thanks Ewart for sending two pamphlets and wishes to know how the markings on Shorthorn cattle might be controlled.

Dates: 26 January 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1901

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Mabel Peacock, 09 October 1900

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/26
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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1900

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Matthew Horace Hayes, 22 March 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/23
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Hayes requests photographs of Connemara ponies for the third edition of Points of the Horse which he is preparing.

Dates: 22 March 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

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