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Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 04 April 1911
Ewart thanks Elwes for his information on sheep, which he will need for a paper he is to write. He writes that William Eagle Clarke did not land on Soay but hopes to do so on his next visit to St Kilda.
Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 13 March 1913
Ewart writes concerning a paper which has gone missing in the post. Some of Elwes' lambs have been infected with parasites and are paralysed. He asks whether Elwes would like to give a couple of lectures indicating what vets should know about sheep as part of a course Ewart is organising.
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 A.B Burn, 31 December 1915
Burn thanks Ewart for his paper and enquires whether he has published anything recently on his sheep breeding experiments. He would be interested to hear what the progeny of the Siberian sheep are like.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 13 July 1925
Barker asks Ewart to send him the skins of the Shetland and the Siberian-Shetland cross and seeks permission to mention Ewart's work and forthcoming book in an article he is writing for The Graphic. He also asks if Ewart would be willing to talk about the exhibits at Bradford the following week.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from George Bolam, 16 December 1921
Bolam thanks Ewart for his paper 'The Nestling Feathers of the Mallard' and makes some remarks on the applicability of Mendelism to sheep breeding.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Harry Sanderson, 10 July 1914
Sanderson provides the approximate retail value of the various wools Ewart has sent him. He compliments Ewart on his article on the Argali type of sheep.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 20 October 1912
Noble asks Ewart again to return his paper on the piebald sheep.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 08 April 1911
Elwes suggests that he and Ewart write a joint paper on sheep. He proposes to visit and photograph each different variety of sheep if they are not mongrels. He has heard of a flock of Faroe sheep near Peterborough as well as sheep in Brittany and Iceland.
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.