Animals--Colour
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD,Use For = Coat colour of animals
Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lieutenant-General Walter Norris Congreve, [c. July 1905]
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/19
Scope and Contents
Congreve thanks Ewart for his advice concerning the Chartley cattle. He asks Ewart to put down the names of the herds he recommended for breeding with the existing herd at Chartley.
Letter is undated but it is assumed to date from shortly after the letter to Ewart from Spencer Ewart at Coll-14/9/11/12.
Letter is undated but it is assumed to date from shortly after the letter to Ewart from Spencer Ewart at Coll-14/9/11/12.
Dates:
[c. July 1905]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 12 May 1907
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/17
Scope and Contents
Cecil writes concerning the pony 'McNeil' and asks if Ewart could keep him a little longer until he decides what to do with him. He is trying to get him to Barra and the white-maned horse to Uist or Dunvegan.
Dates:
12 May 1907
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 03 August 1908
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/25
Scope and Contents
Cecil writes that both the brown calves are Jerseys and that Ewart is welcome to have them. He remarks on the colouring of Chillingham cattle and speculates on the true source of the Vaynol blood.
Dates:
03 August 1908
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 20 December 1901
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/29
Scope and Contents
Cecil outlines details of a dun-coloured mare that he has just purchased, with a chestnut stripe down its back. He also mentions some hybrids that he is hoping to transport to India.
Dates:
20 December 1901
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, [c. January 1902]
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/7
Scope and Contents
Cecil states that he is returning Cockerell's letter. He goes on to discuss the arrangements for a horse show and mentions trying to persuade Herbrand Arthur Russell (the Duke of Bedford) to attend the show and purchase a hybrid. He discusses the similarities between the moorland breeds and the brown donkey.
The letter is undated.
The letter is undated.
Dates:
[c. January 1902]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 12 November 1902
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/89
Scope and Contents
Cecil thanks Ewart for the offer of a terrier, which he accepts. He states that he had travelled to Kingairloch to see a two year-old horse out of a pure Highland mare as well as a brown breed of 'a very old kind of Scottish Terrier'.
Dates:
12 November 1902
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 20 April 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/45
Scope and Contents
Cecil writes that he thinks Ewart's 'Cushendall discovery' by far 'the most important and interesting you have yet made' (presumably referring to Ewart's reported sighting of some dwarf horses during his visit to Northern Ireland). He then goes on to make observations on what Cecil calls 'Irish-looking' features of chestnut ponies with white manes and tails.
Dates:
20 April 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 07 May 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/49
Scope and Contents
Cecil states his preference for the Barra pony ' 'Mais', although he is also interested in 'the Jumping Connemara' pony. He enquires about the ancestry of 'the Gondal mare' in relation to her colouring and mentions the colouring of the foals belonging to mutual acquaintances.
Dates:
07 May 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 14 May 1896
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/10
Scope and Contents
Cecil suggests where Ewart might procure whole-coloured Arabian ponies in the Edinburgh area for hybridisation purposes
Dates:
14 May 1896
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 06 October 1896
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/17
Scope and Contents
Cecil thanks Ewart for updating him on news of the development of the foal 'Romulus', particularly the changes in the colour of its coat. He describes a pony stallion called Lord Ronald that his father once bought 'of the same breed as my stallion Highland Laddie years and years ago but no-one can trace it ever going to Rum.' He also remarks 'what you say about artificial fertilisation is most interesting and I am awaiting news of your Faroe Iceland pony most anxiously'.
Dates:
06 October 1896