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Ref nrLKE/FOR/8/F
TitelGeneral correspondence and other records
BeskrivelseCorrespondence and other records primarily regarding the general business and activities of the Woodlands Department; Wilfred E Hiley's tour of America and India; and Leonard Elmhirsts involvement with the United Kingdom Forestry Committee.

Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Wilfred E Hiley; J McQuiller, and W Mutch, Oxford University Forest Society; S Bowkett, Childrens Department Warwickshire County Council; S Longhurst; W Ricketts; F Forge, the Federated Home Timber Association; F Henderson, and C Scott, Forest Products Research Laboratory; R Ross, and O Sanger, Forestry Commission; the Duke of Buccleuch; H Champion, A Lloyd, J J MacGregor, and F Robertson, the Imperial Forestry Institute; J Johns, Forester Training School; G Clark, Director of Planning Devon County Council; G C Wolryche-Whitmore; Sir John Milne Home; B Urqyhart, Co-operative Forestry Society; M Rose, William C Whitney Foundation; H Blandford, Empire Forestry Association; C Venables, Board of Trade; W Smialowski; Tom Brown, consultant Forester; C Coniam; and Robert H Hide, Dartington Woodlands Ltd.

Subjects include: a tour of Cromer; education and training courses; meetings of various societies and organisations; the uses and treatment of timber from the Western hemlock; a copy of a photograph entitle 'Ash, Dartington Hall Estate' for the Forestry Commission "as we should like to pretend that the trees are ours"; proposals for a panel of foresters to advise the County on their forestry policy; Leonard Elmhirst's visit to woodlands in Edinburgh; the price and transportation of pit props; the dedication scheme; and the purchase of American tools for use in Dartington woodlands. Additional material in this folder includes: a postcard picturing a Tea Garden in the Eastern Districts, Rhodesia; a map of Cromer; a report on Wilfred E Hiley's tour of America; and a paper on the 'Problems and Methods of Assuring Prices for Home-Grown Timber'.
Dato1948-1949
FormatManuscript
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