Wool
Found in 124 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Augusta Lamont, 27 June 1927
Lamont writes that she will forward a sample of the wool from the Blackface sheep belonging to her brother which was awarded the prize for 'best fleece manufacturing purposes' at the Dunoon Agricultural Society's show that year. She would be interested to hear what Ewart has to say about the wool.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Frederick G. Taylor, 25 October 1923
Taylor writes to enclose an account of Ewart's lecture at Armidale, and he promises to also send a better account from another newspaper as well as some of his wool samples.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P Lort, 23 June 1911
Lort writes that the largest of the ewes is a Shropshire cross, the smaller ewe with close short wool was running with a pure Southdown, and the St Kilda ewe was put to a pedigree Welsh ram of Professor Winter's.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Harry Sanderson, 02 April 1912
Sanderson writes that he has had to close the mill due to a coal shortage, but he will send Ewart some cloth samples shortly. He is also sending him a sample of Alpaca wool showing the different colours and enquires whether Ewart will give a lecture on sheep to his Technical School students.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Harry Sanderson, 10 April 1912
Sanderson is glad Ewart has agreed to give a lecture at the Technical College. He encloses samples of cashmere and camel hair (not present) for comparison with the Alpaca.
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 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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, [c.11 June 1911]
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 04 July 1911
Elwes is sending Ewart the fleece of a Cheviot-Shetland cross from Shetland and that he will also receive a fleece of a first-prize shearling Welsh ewe. He is also enclosing photographs of sheep showing four generations and asks Ewart's advice on what would be the most interesting cross out of them. He asks when Ewart and Wallace are going to examine the wools.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 12 August 1911
Elwes is sending Ewart samples of Iceland wool which he would like him to compare them with Cowan's. He judges it to be less fine than the Shetland and not as long as the white wool. He also lists the names of the recipients of the circular he has sent.