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Sent From (Definite): Edward NettleshipSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 14 Sep 1909
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Sent fromEdward Nettleship
14 Sep 1909
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The photog. of Tong & children is very satisfactory & pretty & you have evidently improved Tong’s general get-up very much. – Are the puppies as white as she? Or were they less illuminated? It is like the Aboriginal Australian’s photog.; no-one wd. guess these puppies to be white. – In your letter telling of them when a few days old you said you thought they were all quite white, but the mother was jealous then & good inspection not possible. - I want to know because our new puppy by Jack out of his sister Jill,- both you know quite white with pink noses & albinotic eyes,- is not by any means pure white. He (♂) is a fat chubby vigorous little chap 7 weeks (born 29 July) with pink nose & irides more decidedly blue than the other dogs, & the coat on head, ears & fore-quarters decidedly brownish. – The colour difficult to describe, a dark dirty cream colour, or a pale diffused mousey brown, or watery liver colour brown, is as near as I can get. Tong, if I remember rightly, has a very faint suggestion of some colouration in certain lights especially on the ears? Most noticable when one looks approximately “sidon”[?] at the hair?
In this puppy the entire coat is slightly coloured in some way, but far less than head, & my man says the body generally is getting much more nearly white than it was. On the breast, between the forelegs, is a large spot or blaze of pure white conspicuous in the darker surrounding fur.
The fellow puppy (she had only 2) died at 1 day (♂); the man says he was coloured like the one that lived but had a white stripe across shoulders & another across loins; but as he had very little hair at birth I don’t put too much reliance on this description.
I will of course hope to cross[?] Jack & Jill again.
I seem to be no good judging people to take these dogs. Usher said a while back he could do with a third, so perhaps he would take Tong; or he may know someone who would. – He wd. tell you at once if he could not I am sure. Let me hear later what you are able, or unable, to do?
When do you return?
Yrs, E. Nettleship.’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
14 Sep 1909
Description:
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The photog. of Tong & children is very satisfactory & pretty & you have evidently improved Tong’s general get-up very much. – Are the puppies as white as she? Or were they less illuminated? It is like the Aboriginal Australian’s photog.; no-one wd. guess these puppies to be white. – In your letter telling of them when a few days old you said you thought they were all quite white, but the mother was jealous then & good inspection not possible. - I want to know because our new puppy by Jack out of his sister Jill,- both you know quite white with pink noses & albinotic eyes,- is not by any means pure white. He (♂) is a fat chubby vigorous little chap 7 weeks (born 29 July) with pink nose & irides more decidedly blue than the other dogs, & the coat on head, ears & fore-quarters decidedly brownish. – The colour difficult to describe, a dark dirty cream colour, or a pale diffused mousey brown, or watery liver colour brown, is as near as I can get. Tong, if I remember rightly, has a very faint suggestion of some colouration in certain lights especially on the ears? Most noticable when one looks approximately “sidon”[?] at the hair?
In this puppy the entire coat is slightly coloured in some way, but far less than head, & my man says the body generally is getting much more nearly white than it was. On the breast, between the forelegs, is a large spot or blaze of pure white conspicuous in the darker surrounding fur.
The fellow puppy (she had only 2) died at 1 day (♂); the man says he was coloured like the one that lived but had a white stripe across shoulders & another across loins; but as he had very little hair at birth I don’t put too much reliance on this description.
I will of course hope to cross[?] Jack & Jill again.
I seem to be no good judging people to take these dogs. Usher said a while back he could do with a third, so perhaps he would take Tong; or he may know someone who would. – He wd. tell you at once if he could not I am sure. Let me hear later what you are able, or unable, to do?
When do you return?
Yrs, E. Nettleship.’
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