Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
Person
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 17 September [1913]
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/44
Scope and Contents
Elwes makes arrangements for visiting Ewart after his trip to Yorkshire. He thinks that he will soon discard the Hebridean and spotted breeds and confine himself to brown Shetlands which he will cross with Manx, Black Welsh and White Cheviots crossed with Norfolk. He also plans to try some Exmoors this year, which thrive well on Salisbury Plain. He asks whether Ewart or Cowan have any Shetland sheep arriving that year.
The year is not written on the letter.
The year is not written on the letter.
Dates:
17 September [1913]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c. May 1914]
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/9
Scope and Contents
Elwes asks Ewart to let him know when he can visit his sheep. He has shorn the rams but the brown Siberian will have to be killed as he has a cancerous growth on his jaw. He describes what sheep cross-breeding he intends to do and states that he must move the Wallachian sheep from Hungary.
The letter is undated.
The letter is undated.
Dates:
[c. May 1914]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 19 April 1915
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/9
Scope and Contents
Elwes enquires whether Ewart thinks it worthwhile to import any sheep from the Faroes, and if so, could Lord Bute or Cowan take them, as he has no room. He refers to a letter from a Mrs Taylor which mentions crossing a fox-coloured ram with a black ewe. He reports that Ewart's Blackfaces are the most profitable of his sheep so far, except for their wool. He will be selling the remainder of Ewart's hoggs.
Dates:
19 April 1915
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c.1913]
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/62
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that he has looked over the ram and proposes to send it to Edinburgh Zoo or to Ewart if he wishes to have it, as well as the horned white ram that he bought as an Icelander. He wonders if the Edinburgh Museum would like to have his best old Hebridean. He describes the sheep crosses he is planning to conduct.
Letter is undated but marked 'Sunday'.
Letter is undated but marked 'Sunday'.
Dates:
[c.1913]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 23 September 1911
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/60
Scope and Contents
Elwes reports that Hall, a mutual acquaintance, approves of Ewart's paper and feels that it paves the way for something on a larger scale later. Elwes has received a pair of Rocky sheep, and asks Ewart if he wants a long-tailed black Welsh ram lamb. He has heard that the Board of Agriculture are trying to get a farm where animals for exporting will be tested for tuberculosis and imported animals received in quarantine.
Dates:
23 September 1911
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 10 June 1914
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/11
Scope and Contents
Alexander writes that he doesn't have very many old sheep but plenty of piebalds and shearling rams for 30 shillings each as well as a black ewe which interested Elwes. He asks Ewart to let him know which sheep he wants as he must send all his spare stock to market due to the drought.
Dates:
10 June 1914