Showing Records: 1 - 10 of 13
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 28 April 1911
Ewart writes that he will show Elwes Mr Cowan's Shetland sheep at Penicuik and compares features of the Soay and the dun-faced sheep.
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 12 August 1912
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Cecilia Graham Menzies, 16 April 1910
Menzies writes concerning the black Persian sheep from Lord Tredegar's estate in Wales, and provides some details concerning their appearance.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel George A. Oliphant, 11 February 1910
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from George Henderson, 30 March 1914
Henderson writes that he is sending Ewart two photographs (photographs not present) of a cart used to carry Punjab sheep tails. He remarks that the tails are not as large as some of the ones he has seen.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P. Lort, 06 November 1910
Lort writes that he has not yet been able to buy any Welsh ewes that have not been with a ram, but when he does he will send one with a 'Soa' ewe to Pocock and four to Ewart along with a Shropshire and St Kilda cross and Manx and St Kilda cross. He provides some information about the tails of various sheep breeds.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 16 August [1912]
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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, 11 December 1913
Crichton-Stuart, who signs himself 'Bute', confirms that the sheep have arrived safely on the Isle of Bute and seem healthy. He comments that two sheep appear longer than the others, and he wonders whether these could be crosses with the Siberian from Ewart's farm or perhaps twins from Shetland.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Douglas-Boswell Campbell, 28 April 1931
Campbell wonders if Ewart could advise on where to get a pure Soay ram. He writes that when he was at Ailsa Craig the previous year, the Mouflon had seemingly got hold of the sheep there, as all the rams he could see were large and heavy with a distinct Mouflon crest of hair.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Guy Dollman, 06 January 1929
Dollman writes that he will send on the photographs Ewart requires as soon as possible. The photographer at the Natural History Museum has already sent photographs of the skull of Ovis sairensis. Dollman provides the measurements of the horns on the specimen.
The reverse of the page contains Ewart's handwritten notes concerning prehistoric settlements.