E. Nettleship to K. Pearson, 11th Nov. 1909.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Edward NettleshipSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 11 Nov 1909
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Sent fromEdward Nettleship
11 Nov 1909
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‘My dear Pearson,
Tong’s certificate says she was born Aug. 24. 09 [sic] so she is now past 5 & getting on in life for a dog of small & fancy breed.
I remember last autumn when we first had her, & on quite into the winter, shelost a good deal of hair but as she was (1) pregnant in Dec-Jan. & (2) sickly all Feb. into Mch. we did not think much of it; & she never shed so much as to look unkempt.
Does she have oatmeal in any form? It is said to make dogs’ skins irritable. We had a lot of bother in that way some years ago from giving a little dog porridge (he was a common little rough coated sort of mongrel): he got all right when the oatmeal was stopped.
May I come Saturday morning 13th...?...
I am tempted to bring our puppy (Wang, 29th July) for comparison with yours if he is not too heavy & weather is not too bad &c.: I shall see.
Tong herself was one of a litter of 5 all “albinos”, both the parents being “albinos”. She (Tong) had had “several” litters of pups. by red dogs before she came here & “all the puppies were red.” Here & with you she had (1) 5 by Jack (albino) all as white as she is i.e. rather whiter than Jack: (2) 3 by Jack 1 Aug. last your lot, less albinotic than the former. Can this mean that Jack (the more coloured of the two) & much the younger, is getting prepotent over Tong? Note that though Tong’s parents were albinotic, Jack & Jill were of a litter of 5 in which the other 3 were coloured; both parents being coloured & indeed the ascendants for several generations. Jack & Jill & Tong meet in a celebrated coloured sire (Goodwood Lo) 3-4 years up, but one cannot tell whether the albsm. comes from him or from some of the various, apparently unrelated dams that have intervened, - none of which however were albinotic.
Yrs, E. Nettleship.
Jack & Jill have a more pronounced dark spectacle mark than Tong & the coat whitish cream, not true white. If the pigment of Jack’s spectacle mark were diffused over the whole coat of his puppies would it explain the light fawn or your’s [sic] & of my Wang?’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
11 Nov 1909
Description:
‘My dear Pearson,
Tong’s certificate says she was born Aug. 24. 09 [sic] so she is now past 5 & getting on in life for a dog of small & fancy breed.
I remember last autumn when we first had her, & on quite into the winter, shelost a good deal of hair but as she was (1) pregnant in Dec-Jan. & (2) sickly all Feb. into Mch. we did not think much of it; & she never shed so much as to look unkempt.
Does she have oatmeal in any form? It is said to make dogs’ skins irritable. We had a lot of bother in that way some years ago from giving a little dog porridge (he was a common little rough coated sort of mongrel): he got all right when the oatmeal was stopped.
May I come Saturday morning 13th...?...
I am tempted to bring our puppy (Wang, 29th July) for comparison with yours if he is not too heavy & weather is not too bad &c.: I shall see.
Tong herself was one of a litter of 5 all “albinos”, both the parents being “albinos”. She (Tong) had had “several” litters of pups. by red dogs before she came here & “all the puppies were red.” Here & with you she had (1) 5 by Jack (albino) all as white as she is i.e. rather whiter than Jack: (2) 3 by Jack 1 Aug. last your lot, less albinotic than the former. Can this mean that Jack (the more coloured of the two) & much the younger, is getting prepotent over Tong? Note that though Tong’s parents were albinotic, Jack & Jill were of a litter of 5 in which the other 3 were coloured; both parents being coloured & indeed the ascendants for several generations. Jack & Jill & Tong meet in a celebrated coloured sire (Goodwood Lo) 3-4 years up, but one cannot tell whether the albsm. comes from him or from some of the various, apparently unrelated dams that have intervened, - none of which however were albinotic.
Yrs, E. Nettleship.
Jack & Jill have a more pronounced dark spectacle mark than Tong & the coat whitish cream, not true white. If the pigment of Jack’s spectacle mark were diffused over the whole coat of his puppies would it explain the light fawn or your’s [sic] & of my Wang?’
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