| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily relating to the general business and activities of the Woodlands and Forestry Department. Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Wilfred E Hiley; J R Currie; Tom Brown, Dartington Hall Woodlands Office; the Torquay Natural History Society; Barrington Moore; K Starr, Leonard's secretary; J Laurd; P Coutts; Nigel A Orde-Powlett, Royal English Forestry Society president; G Johnstone; Sir Roy Robinson, Forestry Commission; Max Nicholson, PEP; and J Grant.
Subjects include: the American Forestry Association; oak wattle hurdles for the gardens at the Chalet; visits to Dartington Hall and North Wood by the Torquay Natural History Society; trout hatcheries; forestry as an investment; the Mid-Devon Hunt; training courses for Woodmen by the Forestry Commission to be held at Dartington Hall; the collection of seeds from China and conifer seeds from America; private estate forestry; peek plantation; and dead trees at Huxhams Cross.
Additional material in this folder includes: a printed pamphlet 'The Development of Co-operative Timber Marketing and Forestry in Great Britain'; and memoranda including 'Notes by the Woodlands Research Department on the Policy of the Sawmills Department', 'Note on Protection of Woodland and Farm Land from Damage due to the Careless Use by the Public', and 'Land Charter'. |