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Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

A gift note addressed to Irene J. Young ("Mrs. Cairns") from The Department of Agriculture for Scotland, 12 December 1946

 Item — Box CLX-A-1619: Series Coll-1657/9
Identifier: Coll-1657/9/4
Scope and Contents

This is a gift note addressed to Irene J. Young ("Mrs. Cairns") from "her friends in the Department of Agriculture for Scotland" on 12 December 1946. Although the occasion for the note is unclear, it is decorated with a festive holly border.

Dates: 12 December 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Irene J. Young / Miscellaneous

Correspondence, 1925-1992

 File — Box EUA-A-63
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/A1/3
Scope and Contents Correspondence is all in photocopied form, apart from original correspondence between F.A.E Crew and Charlotte Burghes (later Haldane) of the Science News Service concerning the submission of articles written by Crew. Most of the correspondence is from or to the International Education Board (a subsidiary of the Rockefeller Foundation, whose £30,000 grant in 1927 went towards the endowment of a Chair of Animal Genetics) and the Board of Agriculture for Scotland. Matters concern the...
Dates: 1925-1992
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Institute of Animal Genetics

Correspondence with the Agricultural Research Council, 1946-1951

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Identifier: Coll-41/8/2
Scope and Contents

The correspondence chiefly concerns the ARC'S financial support and the establishment of the Poultry Research Centre. Also contains draft typescripts of reports written by Waddington, including 'Constitution of a Self-Contained University Department of Genetics and Re-Organisation of the Present Institute of Animal Genetics' (1946), copies of memoranda of meetings between ARC representatives, the Department of Agriculture for Scotland and the University (1946-1947).

Dates: 1946-1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Conrad Hal Waddington / Material relating to the University of Edinburgh

File containing reference, correspondence, and notes relating to Irene J. Young's career in the Civil Service, St. Andrew's House, Edinburgh, between 1944-1946, 1947-1990

 File — Box CLX-A-1488: Series Coll-1657/2
Identifier: Coll-1657/2/1
Scope and Contents 1 folder: Reference (1947), correspondence (1950), and notes relating to career in the Civil Service, St. Andrew's House, Edinburgh, between 1944-1946. A letter of recommendation for Irene J. Young, written "To whom it may concern" from H.M. Ritchie (Assistant Establishment Officer at the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, St. Andrews's House) on 5 November, 1947, describing her service and the...
Dates: 1947-1990
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Irene J. Young / Records of professional activities

File containing testimonials and references for Irene Cairns [Irene J. Young], 1946-1947

 File — Box CLX-A-1488: Series Coll-1657/2
Identifier: Coll-1657/2/2
Scope and Contents

1 folder: Particulars and qualifications of Irene Cairns; Testimonials and references from Edinburgh University staff, Arthur Melville Clark, George Kitchin, J. Dover Wilson, 1946; Ms letter from J. Dover Wilson, 26 May 1946; Ts reference signed by J. Dover Wilson, 26 May 1946; Ts reference signed by George Kitchin, 30 May 1946; Testimonial/reference from Principal, Secretarial College, London, 1947; Testimonial/reference from Dept., of Agriculture for Scotland, St. Andrew's House, 1947.

Dates: 1946-1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Irene J. Young / Records of professional activities

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 12 August 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/49
Scope and Contents Ewart writes from Lerwick, Shetland, that he would be happy to arrange to keep the 15 ewes and lambs at Fairslacks for a year at a fair price, although it will be best not to add to the permanent stock until the farm is taken over by the University in October or November that year. At an exhibition on Shetland he saw a ewe as small as the one in the British Museum from Papa Stour with goat-like horns and a very short tail, as well as a hornless, short-tailed ewe with white patches at Foula;...
Dates: 12 August 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1912

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 26 May 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/19
Scope and Contents

Ewart reports that the Board of Agriculture see no reason why someone should not be sent to purchase all the sheep that may be rented by him and others, but they are reluctant to move towards forming a Shetland sheep society.

Dates: 26 May 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 29 September 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/49
Scope and Contents

Ewart writes that he has written about the 'Murrayshire' sheep which he heard about at the Board of Agriculture. Ten Shetland fleeces and some Soay-Southdown wool have been sent to Sanderson. He asks Elwes to return the Soay-Southdown and the Siberian fleeces sent to the Bristol show as they belong to the University.

Dates: 29 September 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 09 November [1913]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/54
Scope and Contents

Elwes asks for Ewart's opinion on the Iceland skins and for him to return them. He has just received some new cloth and enquires whether Mrs Ewart or any of their friends would like some before he hands it over to the tailor to sell. Wallace has written that he has a fine ram from Russia which he is sending to a farm for the Scottish Board of Agriculture.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 09 November [1913]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Wood, with draft of Ewart's reply on the verso, 16-18 October 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/30
Scope and Contents

Wood provides details of the two grants paid by the Board for the maintenance of sheep at Fairslacks and states that no further grant has been made.

Ewart's reply, dated 18 October 1916, requests Wood to supply him with the amounts paid between February and May 1914 and May and August 1914, which will allow him to make an appeal to the Factor to complete his statement.

Dates: 16-18 October 1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1916

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