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I have Received your Letters and regarding the Red deers Horns, they don't appear untill 10 or 11 Months after Birth and the Roe Buck about 9 months but it depends a good deal upon the Pasture and the climate, in low grounds or in Parks the horns appear much earlier than in high ground where the climate is colder,⁴ a stag born in a park where there is a rich Pasture the Head of Antlers are as good at 4 year old as the wild deer on the mountains are at 6 years   a stag is not at his best untill 10 years, the Hind carrys her calve between 8 and 9 months but I may mention that the young males when they are castrated will never have horns, or if a Stag is casterated when the horns are at full growth he will never cast the horns, they will remain as they are when cut with the Velvet or without the Velvet, those deer that we castrated when young are in Season when the Stags are out of Season   we call them Heaviers and are very fine venison when they are 8 or 9 years old; I cannot give you any information about Fallow deer as we have none in this quarter but I think the horns will appear much earlier than on the wild deer being on richer Pasture and more Sheltered than on the high mountains

I was glade to Receive your likeness for to put in my album   I am Sorry that I cannot Send you mine at present although I have a number of my pictures in large Plate in different ways by Sir Edwin Landseer⁵ and other artists   I have no carte de visits but when I will be in Town I will be glade to get one for you   I do not know of any fine deerhounds except those I mentioned to you before in Glengarry   I believe they are handsome pair of deerhounds

I remain | Dear Sir | Yours very Respectfully | Peter Robertson