E. Nettleship to K. Pearson, 25th Oct. 1908.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Edward NettleshipSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 25 Oct 1908
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Sent fromEdward Nettleship
25 Oct 1908
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‘My dear Pearson,
About these dogs. They are fancy or toy Pekingese with slightly creamy coat, “pink noses & pink eyes”. F.E. Batten, a London Ophthalmic Surgeon, quite trustworthy saw them last summer & told me of them; I was to have seen them then, but there were mishaps & I have only now got into touch with them. They live near Banbury & I have the offer of them to buy. My difficulty is what to do with them if I do buy them. Unluckily none of my household are “doggy” enough to undertake such difficult & valuable pets as these, nor do we know anyone to ask who would undertake them without payment for an indefinite time, “till death do them part”. I cannot go to cost of both buying & permanently boarding them out. I have asked Chalmers Mitchell (Zoo.) but he says they have to draw the line at domestic races except in quite occasional cases.
Do you by chance know anyone of the right sort? There are pet dog ladies (or men for anything one knows) in all sorts of places whom one never hears of except by chance.
There is a lady (Lady Alington) who has a collection of all-white animals on one of her farms near Wimborne, & under conditions that might do;- I am getting into connexion with her or her manager.
It is possible Bateson might be willing, but as he & you are not very “pathetic” (opposite of antipathetic) one wd. rather go elsewhere if possible. Also an objection (for me personally) for both Lady Alington’s Dorsetshire farm & Cambridge wd. be the distance; one wd. like to be able to be within touching distance, or that you shd. be if I am not. These dogs are probably delicate, may trn out sterile, & may not live very long, & if they, or one, died, we shd. want the specimen fresh.
Here is then [a] photograph from [the] owner a few days ago; but please return it soon; I cannot let you keep it at this exciting stage of the business. They are I fancy not a year old yet. You can see that [their] pupils are not black.
I have asked for the owner to give me a few days {law/grace} but must decide something as soon as possible.
Sorry to be so lengthy.
Yours sincerely,
E. Nettleship.
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[in reply to Pearson’s letter of 26th Oct.:]
The albino dogs: I don’t know the pedigree beyond the parents as yet, but shall of course try for it whether I buy the dogs or not.
The father is “red”
The mother is “red & white”
There were some other sibs of the albinos, coloured in some way. That seems enough to go upon I think? – i.e. the albinos may be either a new start (mutation &c.) or possibly a recessive with intermediate non-alb. generations.
We might even create a pure race of alb. dogs, like ferrets!’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
25 Oct 1908
Description:
‘My dear Pearson,
About these dogs. They are fancy or toy Pekingese with slightly creamy coat, “pink noses & pink eyes”. F.E. Batten, a London Ophthalmic Surgeon, quite trustworthy saw them last summer & told me of them; I was to have seen them then, but there were mishaps & I have only now got into touch with them. They live near Banbury & I have the offer of them to buy. My difficulty is what to do with them if I do buy them. Unluckily none of my household are “doggy” enough to undertake such difficult & valuable pets as these, nor do we know anyone to ask who would undertake them without payment for an indefinite time, “till death do them part”. I cannot go to cost of both buying & permanently boarding them out. I have asked Chalmers Mitchell (Zoo.) but he says they have to draw the line at domestic races except in quite occasional cases.
Do you by chance know anyone of the right sort? There are pet dog ladies (or men for anything one knows) in all sorts of places whom one never hears of except by chance.
There is a lady (Lady Alington) who has a collection of all-white animals on one of her farms near Wimborne, & under conditions that might do;- I am getting into connexion with her or her manager.
It is possible Bateson might be willing, but as he & you are not very “pathetic” (opposite of antipathetic) one wd. rather go elsewhere if possible. Also an objection (for me personally) for both Lady Alington’s Dorsetshire farm & Cambridge wd. be the distance; one wd. like to be able to be within touching distance, or that you shd. be if I am not. These dogs are probably delicate, may trn out sterile, & may not live very long, & if they, or one, died, we shd. want the specimen fresh.
Here is then [a] photograph from [the] owner a few days ago; but please return it soon; I cannot let you keep it at this exciting stage of the business. They are I fancy not a year old yet. You can see that [their] pupils are not black.
I have asked for the owner to give me a few days {law/grace} but must decide something as soon as possible.
Sorry to be so lengthy.
Yours sincerely,
E. Nettleship.
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[in reply to Pearson’s letter of 26th Oct.:]
The albino dogs: I don’t know the pedigree beyond the parents as yet, but shall of course try for it whether I buy the dogs or not.
The father is “red”
The mother is “red & white”
There were some other sibs of the albinos, coloured in some way. That seems enough to go upon I think? – i.e. the albinos may be either a new start (mutation &c.) or possibly a recessive with intermediate non-alb. generations.
We might even create a pure race of alb. dogs, like ferrets!’
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