| Beskrivelse | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the general business and activities of the Woodlands Department and the Dedication Scheme. Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Wilfred E Hiley; The National Trust; Dr E Bergmann, Grovernser Laboratory; Roffey Park Rehabilitation Centre; M Hill, and F Taylor, the Central Landowners' Association; Arthur Champernowne; Professor Champion, and J J MacGregor, Imperial Forestry Institute; B Urquhart, Landowners' Co-operative Forestry Society; Sherborne Estates; A Rodger; N Francis; O Sanger, and W Guillebaud, the Forestry Commission; S Longhurst, timber merchant; E Savill, Crown Estate Office; Robert H Hide, Dartington Woodlands; F Robertson; Lord Bolton; E Fritz, University of California; W Marsh, Home-Grown Timber Merchants Association; E Buxton; B Mortimer, The Recorder; K Rand; and Rudolph Lehtpere.
Subjects include: proposals for Killerton Estate to be used as a Forestry School; the sale of Budleigh and Kingwell Farms; the loan of Wilfred E Hiley's services to advise the Roffey Park Rehabilitation Centre; visits to Kew and a survey of Betula grove; a foresters short course at Dartington; a brief history of Dartington Woodlands from A Champernowne; the activities of the Private Forestry Committee, and the Royal English Forestry Society; visits to Dartington Hall; employment and appointments; the future of the home grown timber saw-milling industry; the Society of Foresters of Great Britain, Dartington Meeting; a British Field Sports booklet; redwood seeds; and pit prop prices. Additional material in this folder includes: memorandum 'National Parks'; a press cutting; a brochure for 'A Social Experiment, Craigston Castle'; and a photograph of Craigston Castle.
Also includes two black and white photographs. 1 photograph of the Excursion Party of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain, Dartington Meeting 1946, With a key to the photograph. Photograph by Dr S E Wilson. 1 photograph of a group of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain including: Leonard Elmhirst; Lord Morley; The Duke of Somerset; and W E Hiley (LKE/FOR/8/E/001,002). |