Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 26 May 1913
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.
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 05 June 1913
Ewart writes that Watson has started for Shetland with sufficient introductions. Ewart's paper will appear in the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. He asks what Elwes wants done with the Shetland hoggs when shorn and with the wethers.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 11 April [1911]
Elwes writes that he is glad that Ewart does not object to joint work, and suggests starting the study with 'the Highland Society' before doing something more ambitious in a few years' time. He asks Ewart to seek out the papers of a society formed more than a 100 years earlier in Edinburgh for the improvement of sheep and wool.
The year is not written on the letter.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 06 September [1911]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 13 August 1920
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 23 November 1921
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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 01 June 1912
Alexander thanks Ewart for sending him the pony, and asks his age. He also requests Elwes' address to thank him for sending him one of his papers on sheep. He asks if he thinks Lord Arthur Cecil would join the 'Menagerie Club', as they hope to be able to put on a show and exhibit some hybrids the following year.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Wool 4
- Shetland sheep 3
- article 3
- Animals--Transportation 2
- Hybrids 2
- Meetings 2
- Publications 2
- Sheep 2
- Soay sheep 2
- Agricultural Experiment Stations 1
- Agricultural exhibitions 1
- Animal Breeding 1
- Animal breeders 1
- Animal sale 1
- Authorship, Collaboration 1
- Blackface sheep 1
- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 1
- Cheviot sheep 1
- Climate 1
- Cross-Breeding 1
- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 1
- Experiments 1
- Icelandic sheep 1
- Lectures and Lecturing 1
- Meat quality 1
- Photographs 1
- Rams 1
- Research Institutes 1
- Sheep-shearing 1
- Textile fabrics 1 + ∧ less