Sent from Edward Nettleship
10 Mar 1910
Description:

‘I should think Tong’s coat shedding may be only the normal spring occurrence; Jack is “coming off” a good deal too & did so last spring also.

But Tong should come in season again before very long of course & it will be well to be prepared.

I am, on reflection, not certain that Mrs Dew-Smith can get at a black Pug; she at first said she could but I rather think that the possibility fell through on enquiry & had to be substituted by a coloured Pekingese with as nearly as possible an independent pedigree, her sister-in-law possessing such a dog. – But I am now writing to Mrs D.S. to find out for certain.

I am also writing to Doyne (Ophth. Surg.) who used to keep pups & may possibly know something.

Usher’s Edinburgh one seems all right.

I am going to make a suggestion though I don’t suppose it will commend itself to you? Could you not make your section or chapter on the Pigment problems into an independent paper to come out as soon after the albino memoir as possible, indicating just such an outline or suggestion of what it wd. be like as to make it join on naturally when it did appear. – You wd. then get out the whole of the clinical, historical & geographical parts as originally planned & leave the Chemico-Physiological, - which after all had been grafted on since the inception – to its quite legitimate & natural separate growth.

Anyhow it will (the pigment section) be done entirely by you, or at any rate I can take no share whatever because I know nothing about the subject; & if this pigment section is to be included in the memoir your sole authorship must be made perfectly clear.

Please think of it & work it on the separate lines suggested if you possibly can.

...’