E. Nettleship to K. Pearson, 1st March 1909.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Edward NettleshipSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 1 Mar 1909
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Sent fromEdward Nettleship
1 Mar 1909
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Tong: a very nice mannered lady in absence of other females: about size & weight of a smallish Scotch terrier. Clean. I don’t know whether she wd. follow safely in the street, but she is all right in the house or garden. Age 4 ½ years about.
Usher will take 1 ♂ & 1 ♀ pup. I shall keep Jack & Jill & possibly 1 ♀ pup or Tong.
Tong’s former owner is very anxious to have 1 of the pups & I am saying yes if she will do what I want as to mating. It will be settled soon.
So Tong is the only certain residue. But if Mrs Pearson would take the ♀ puppy that I was thinking to keep in preference for Tong that wd. be a reason for my letting the pup[?] go; mating cd. be arranged. – The disposal of Tong is the real difficulty.
One wants 3 sorts of mating
1. Albino x albino – this will now be easy to repeat.
2. Albino x coloured but of albino-bearing stock: - this should be attainable; it is a question of choosing some sire with due regard to his pedigree & to his “stud fee” being tempered to the show experimenter – I am enquiring.
3. Albino x coloured of non-albino bearing stock. This not so easy because nearly all the British bred Pekingese extant have some blood of Ah Cum (♂) & Mimosa (♀) or Meh (♀) to whom (one or other of them) the current albinos are related.
None of those three are, or were themselves, albinos, & as they were imported direct from Peking in or about 1896, nothing more can be learnt. There is another strain (the Goodwood strain) going back to dogs brought over in 1860 after the sack of the Summer Palace. – These 2 chief strains have been a good deal mixed since 1896 or so, & I don’t yet know whether any dog free of 1896 blood is available but I am trying to find out.
New dogs are imported now & again (1907 &c.), but I suppose they are all from Peking & as likely as not to be related to Ah Cum & co. – Therefore they are probably unsafe.
Doubtless the best way wd. be to use a home made dog of some quite different breed.; but on [the] other hand that might introduce some other modifying factor & give a fallacious result?
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There is no doubt our albino dogs’ sight is defective relative to most ordinary dogs; it comes out gradually in a number of ways. Also no doubt they are intolerant of bright light (sunlight).
A portrait of Miss Albino[?] Huntingdon in last week’s “Gentlewoman.”’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
1 Mar 1909
Description:
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Tong: a very nice mannered lady in absence of other females: about size & weight of a smallish Scotch terrier. Clean. I don’t know whether she wd. follow safely in the street, but she is all right in the house or garden. Age 4 ½ years about.
Usher will take 1 ♂ & 1 ♀ pup. I shall keep Jack & Jill & possibly 1 ♀ pup or Tong.
Tong’s former owner is very anxious to have 1 of the pups & I am saying yes if she will do what I want as to mating. It will be settled soon.
So Tong is the only certain residue. But if Mrs Pearson would take the ♀ puppy that I was thinking to keep in preference for Tong that wd. be a reason for my letting the pup[?] go; mating cd. be arranged. – The disposal of Tong is the real difficulty.
One wants 3 sorts of mating
1. Albino x albino – this will now be easy to repeat.
2. Albino x coloured but of albino-bearing stock: - this should be attainable; it is a question of choosing some sire with due regard to his pedigree & to his “stud fee” being tempered to the show experimenter – I am enquiring.
3. Albino x coloured of non-albino bearing stock. This not so easy because nearly all the British bred Pekingese extant have some blood of Ah Cum (♂) & Mimosa (♀) or Meh (♀) to whom (one or other of them) the current albinos are related.
None of those three are, or were themselves, albinos, & as they were imported direct from Peking in or about 1896, nothing more can be learnt. There is another strain (the Goodwood strain) going back to dogs brought over in 1860 after the sack of the Summer Palace. – These 2 chief strains have been a good deal mixed since 1896 or so, & I don’t yet know whether any dog free of 1896 blood is available but I am trying to find out.
New dogs are imported now & again (1907 &c.), but I suppose they are all from Peking & as likely as not to be related to Ah Cum & co. – Therefore they are probably unsafe.
Doubtless the best way wd. be to use a home made dog of some quite different breed.; but on [the] other hand that might introduce some other modifying factor & give a fallacious result?
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There is no doubt our albino dogs’ sight is defective relative to most ordinary dogs; it comes out gradually in a number of ways. Also no doubt they are intolerant of bright light (sunlight).
A portrait of Miss Albino[?] Huntingdon in last week’s “Gentlewoman.”’
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