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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 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
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, 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
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, 11 October 1896

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/18
Scope and Contents

Cecil explains the breeding and ancestral history of the West Highland pony 'Mulatto', describing the possible reasons for her colouring and markings. He also refers to documents and sketches enclosed for Ewart (not present).

Dates: 11 October 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 and Frieda Cecil, 28 July 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/23
Scope and Contents

Cecil writes that the Chartley-Vaynol bull has set three Highland cows again and he now wishes to send the bull away although he is reluctant to have it killed.

Frieda Cecil finishes the rest of the letter after her husband has been called away. On behalf of Lord Cecil she offers to bull to Ewart if Cadzow won't take him, as well as two brown calves, and makes arrangements with Ewart about staying with him.

Dates: 28 July 1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1908

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1900

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Marion MacGregor, 24 November 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/94
Scope and Contents

MacGregor provides information about a black mare that she is selling and wonders whether Ewart might be interested.

Dates: 24 November 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Mrs Gartley, 25 June 1914

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/16
Scope and Contents

Mrs Gartly writes in answer to Ewart's advertisement in The Scotsman for a Shetland dun mare and asks for further particulars.

Dates: 25 June 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1914

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Osgood H. Mackenzie, 22 January 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/6
Scope and Contents

MacKenzie thanks Ewart for sending him some pamphlets. He gives details about a three year old cream-coloured pony in his local district and about a horse of his own.

Dates: 22 January 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Roderick McLeod, 03 September 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/93
Scope and Contents

McLeod states that he has heard there are still a few of the old breed of dun yellow ponies in the Assynt district and recommends some individuals whom Ewart can contact about them.

Dates: 03 September 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Roderick McLeod, 07 September 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/95
Scope and Contents

McLeod informs Ewart of some yellow dun ponies that he has heard about in the Assynt area and refers Ewart to an acquaintance who can inform him further.

Dates: 07 September 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

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