C.H. Usher to K. Pearson, 2nd Aug. 1918.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Charles Howard UsherSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 2 Aug 1918
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Sent fromCharles Howard Usher
2 Aug 1918
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'Dear Pearson,
I am very glad to get your letter this morning and am pleased to hear you are having a rest which you must greatly need after such prolonged and strenuous work. My friends in Salonika said it would be very unwise for me to be there during another summer and urged me to leave. The only way of leaving is to be invalided, but there was nothing wrong with me. Although “boarded” I was not really examd. There is no urgency about the dog schedules and I shall keep the stoat notes & skins until you return to London.
I have no tow-coloured dogs. There have been two litters from a white pom bitch (black mucous membrane of nose) and pekinese albino dog. (1) In one litter there was only one pup, a dog, and he is very like Bertha, the bitch you sent here. He was mated with Bertha who has recently produced 4 pups that I have not yet seen. (2) In the other litter there were two dogs born Nov. 1914, therefore a description of them should be amongst the schedules. Sheila mated your Donach m[?]adh & had 2 ♂ pups on 25.1.14 – she also mated with a black pom-pek and had 3 pups on 30 Dec. 1914, one was an albino. Their schedules are no doubt with you. I believe the experience here has been the same as yours regarding small litters, difficulty in rearing the pups and in some cases no result after satisfactory mating. There are no albino pek. bitches here, but two or three dogs that could be got at if wanted.
I am sorry to hear of the loss of your friends. I know Macdonell by sight.
The colour-blind pedigrees are lying here untouched and whether there will be any time in the near future to get at them remains to be seen. It is to say the least doubtful. They are all however in ‘tree’ form.
Yours sincerely,
C.H. Usher.’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
2 Aug 1918
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'Dear Pearson,
I am very glad to get your letter this morning and am pleased to hear you are having a rest which you must greatly need after such prolonged and strenuous work. My friends in Salonika said it would be very unwise for me to be there during another summer and urged me to leave. The only way of leaving is to be invalided, but there was nothing wrong with me. Although “boarded” I was not really examd. There is no urgency about the dog schedules and I shall keep the stoat notes & skins until you return to London.
I have no tow-coloured dogs. There have been two litters from a white pom bitch (black mucous membrane of nose) and pekinese albino dog. (1) In one litter there was only one pup, a dog, and he is very like Bertha, the bitch you sent here. He was mated with Bertha who has recently produced 4 pups that I have not yet seen. (2) In the other litter there were two dogs born Nov. 1914, therefore a description of them should be amongst the schedules. Sheila mated your Donach m[?]adh & had 2 ♂ pups on 25.1.14 – she also mated with a black pom-pek and had 3 pups on 30 Dec. 1914, one was an albino. Their schedules are no doubt with you. I believe the experience here has been the same as yours regarding small litters, difficulty in rearing the pups and in some cases no result after satisfactory mating. There are no albino pek. bitches here, but two or three dogs that could be got at if wanted.
I am sorry to hear of the loss of your friends. I know Macdonell by sight.
The colour-blind pedigrees are lying here untouched and whether there will be any time in the near future to get at them remains to be seen. It is to say the least doubtful. They are all however in ‘tree’ form.
Yours sincerely,
C.H. Usher.’
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