Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist)
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 17 September [1912]
Elwes writes concerning the restrictions on his sheep leaving England to be tupped, and urgently asks when Ewart can send his fat-tailed ram. He also enquires whether Ewart thinks a curly lamb could be produced by crossing a Wensleydale with a white Shetland sheep.
The year is not written on the letter.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 17 September [1913]
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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c. May 1914]
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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 19 April 1915
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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c.1913]
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 to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 10 June 1914
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.
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- Rams 12
- Sheep 8
- Animals--Transportation 7
- Cross-Breeding 7
- Shetland sheep 6
- Lambs 5
- Sheep, Breeding 5
- Animal sale 4
- Ewes 4
- Photographs 4
- Sheep breeds 4
- Animal Markings 3
- Castlemilk Moorit (sheep) 3
- Fat-tailed sheep 3
- Social Interaction 3
- Welsh mountain sheep 3
- Wool 3
- Agricultural exhibitions 2
- Embargo 2
- Farms 2
- Hebridean Sheep 2
- Horns 2
- Jacob sheep 2
- Manx Loaghtan sheep 2
- Museums 2
- Ovis nivicola 2
- Physical Characteristics 2
- Soay sheep 2
- Animals--Health 1
- Blackface sheep 1
- Bulls 1
- Cheviot sheep 1
- Crofters 1
- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 1
- Exmoor Horn (sheep) 1
- Hybrids 1
- Icelandic sheep 1
- Livestock--Breeding--Economic aspects 1
- Norfolk Horn (sheep) 1
- North Ronaldsay (sheep) 1
- Prehistoric animals 1
- Publications 1
- Quarantine 1
- Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep 1
- Scottish Dunface (sheep) 1
- Sheep shows 1
- Sheep-shearing 1
- Tail 1
- Textile fabrics 1
- Tuberculosis 1
- Wallachian sheep 1
- Wensleydale (sheep) 1
- Zoos 1
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