| Beskrivelse | This folder contains Leonard Elmhirst and J R Currie's correspondence primarily regarding the future developments of the site at Oxford, 31 St Giles', and the leases that go with it. Correspondents include: T Scrivenor, and J O Jones, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau; J Raeburn, Aberdeen University; Dr J Ackerman, Farm Foundation; D G Karve, Asian Regional Secretary for the International Association of Agricultural Economists; S E Johnson, economic consultant, Virgina; Michael Young; H C Trelogan, United States Department of Agriculture; and N Westermarck, University of Helsinki.
Subjects include: a bid for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics from the Government of India; an official decision to set up a permanent Bureau of Agricultural Economics to date from 1 Apr 1966; the location of the office for the World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts; creating space for a main central library and the possible sale of all their properties fronting on to St Giles' in order to make possible the erection of a building on the rear half of their site, to provide accommodation sufficient for the housing of the three institutes in Oxford, now engaged in research into agricultural economics. This folder also contains notes on a visits to Oxford by Leonard Elmhirst and J R Currie. |