Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 16 August [1912]
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/50
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that he has heard that the sheep at Greystoke will be transported once the restrictions in Peebles are lifted. He recommends that Ewart take a photograph of the Foula ewes while they are alive. He is buying some of Lort's Manx and Manx-Soay crosses, and a black bull with a broad white belt. He would like to put his fat-tailed ewes to Ewart's fat-tailed ram.
The year is not written on the letter.
Dates:
16 August [1912]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 23 November 1921
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/27/8
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that the Zoological Society no longer wishes to keep his three-year old Soay ram, and he wonders whether the Edinburgh Zoological Society might like him. He asks whether Ewart knows of anyone who will make him cloth made from Moorit wool.
Dates:
23 November 1921
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- Animal Markings 1
- Animal sale 1
- Animals--Colour 1
- Animals--Transportation 1
- Bulls 1
- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 1
- Embargo 1
- Ewes 1
- Fat-tailed sheep 1
- Hybrids 1
- Manx Loaghtan sheep 1
- Photographs 1
- Physical Characteristics 1
- Sheep, Breeding 1
- Societies and Clubs 1
- Textile fabrics 1
- Wool 1 + ∧ less
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