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Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 12 August 1912
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles Douglas, 27 August 1914
Douglas writes that he will send an 'Argalian' sheep skull and horns to Ewart at the University for investigation. He would like to talk the matter over with Ewart, as he believes that this type of horn is found in no other breed than the 'Argalian'.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from D.P. Henderson, with enclosed letter to Henderson from D. Keith-Murray, 25 April 1911
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 27 September 1911
Noble thanks Ewart for his letter and admits that he had overlooked the fact that no wild sheep have four horns. He is currently trying to breed rams with both pairs of horns turned down, but is having difficulty. He hopes Ewart will visit him when next in London.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 11 April 1912
Noble will send Ewart the skin, head and fore quarter of the four-horned sheep when it is killed, and describes some of his ewes and lambs.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 13 April 1912
Noble confirms that the four-horned wether has been killed, and he will send Ewart the head, skin and fore quarter, although the quality of mutton is not good. Carl Hagenbeck has answered his enquiry and stated that he has never come across a breed in North Africa which could be inferred to be the ancestors of the English type.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 17 May 1911
Elwes recommends that Ewart write to the Jardins des Plantes for the carcass of one of the chabin (a goat/sheep hybrid) to ascertain whether or not it is a hybrid, and that someone should inspect and sketch their sheep specimens before they decay much further. He has heard of the existence of a black-faced heath sheep with long curved horns still existing in North Holland which could be related to the old Norfolk sheep.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 08 July 1912
Elwes writes that he is sending Ewart a photograph of the 'so-called Cabul sheep' at Tetbury, which he thinks look like St Kildas. He asks Ewart to bring with him the Takin horns which he left in Ewart's house when he visits Elwes.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 14 February [1913]
Elwes writes that he is away in South France and that two men in Algeria informed him that in Morocco there is a race of sheep which could be the origin of the Spanish Merino, and that the spotted sheep are much like a breed which now exists in the Constantine province and which occasionally has four horns. He has seen three or four more or less distinct breeds of sheep in the Basque country.
The year is not written on the letter.
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'.