'Every Dondo that has been brought to me or that I have received any report of – and Dondos occur sporadically among the Pekingese – is ultimately descended from a certain pair Ah Cum and Goodwood Meh. Five Pekingese – the first to come to England – arrived after the looting of the Imperial Palace in 1860 – one ‘Sooty’ went to Queen Victoria [note: ‘the Queen, I mean’], was kept in the Royal Kennels & never bred from. Schlorff and Hytien went to Lord John Haye, and formed the basis of his extensive kennel. He has bred once a white [2-3] dog with dark eyes & black nose, but never had an albino. The other pair of the 1860 batch Guh[?] & Meh were rich chestnut brown with black masks & points. They were kept going by direct descent at Goodwood till the early nineties without record of albinism. Then 1996, Ah Cum & Minosa were brought from the Imperial Palace at Pekin by Mrs Douglas Murray, and from the mating of Ah Cum with Goodwood Meh – a descendent of the 1860 Meh – or from his supposed sister Minosa – all the albinos that I have been able to trace descended. The only rule to avoid an albino Pekingese appearing sporadically in your kennel is to avoid the Ah Cum & Meh stock, or imported Pekingese, who are likely to come from their ancestry.' (ff. 2-3)

'Thus far we have not deduced any black [15-16] dogs or red dogs which exhibit pure dominance, there is always an occasional albino turning up. But the albinism tends to be less & less perfect, and, I believe, it will be possible ultimately to obtain almost any grade of albinism. I have at present  a bitch with one normal and one albinotic eye, and a brown skewbald coat, Choo Ko, or ‘Wan eye’. Mated with her own father, however, she has not yet perpetuated her hetero-chromia, but given me three skewbald puppies, one of whom Ming Wang, I show you tonight. He has imperfectly pigmented mucous membrane – the liver colour. Choo Ko is like our Dondos a piebald Pekingese directly descended from Ah Cum & Goodwood Meh on one side.' (ff. 15-16)