Sent from Florence E. Franklin
1 Mar 1909
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‘Dear Sir,

Tong’s pups, if a month old, ought to be fed about twice a day in addition to what they get from their mother, & with a little teaching will soon learn to lap. I give mine warmed sweetened new milk, or cream with a little hot water & sugar added, but if we did not keep cows I should use Lactol. I do sometimes use it & I like it very much, & puppies always do well on it. When about 5 weeks old I encourage them to eat a little raw scraped beef & then I often mix a little hard boiled egg with it, or Melox, but raw meat is beef if you can get it. At 6 or 7 weeks the puppies should be fit to leave the mother. I am surprised at what you tell me about Tong. We thought her a most inoffensive little thing. I don’t remember her attacking any of the other dogs once. We always thought her too meek.

As regards the puppy – I suppose one could find a dog without any cross of Ah Cum, Meh, or Mimosa, but I don’t know. My dog by Peiching Pakling I have sold as I did not care for his puppies at all. I have a sweet little dark red dog I intend to keep. He is by Wong-ti of Alderbourne ex a little bitch by Ch. Chu-êrli[?] & I find there is one cross, far back in Wong-ti’s pedigree, of Mimosa, & in my dog’s mothers of Ah Cum & Meh (1 cross).

Wang Chia T’ing[?] is full of Ah Cum & Meh blood, having 6 crosses in his pedigree of these dogs. I am buying a dog of the Peiching Pakling strain, & I find there is one cross of Ah Cum, very far back. But if I had one of the puppies there would be plenty of time to look out a dog of the strain you require. What do you think about the price? Frankly I don’t care to give much for an albino puppy, with so much albino blood in her, for I expect she would breed albinos, bred as she is, but one never knows, of course. So far as I know Tong’s red puppies have bred reds, but of course I do not know what has become of all of them.

Yrs very truly,

Florence E. Frankllin.’