| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the general business and activities of the Woodlands Department. Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Wilfred E Hiley; the Duke of Buccleuch; William K Slater; Sir William Jowitt; H Michelmore, solicitor; D Martin, Dartington Hall Estate Steward; the Ministry of Health; Dorothy Elmhirst; K Starr, Leonard's secretary; S Ivey, Woodlands Department; R Gardner, and J Genese, secretaries for the Royal English Forestry Society; and G Goulding, the Ministry of Supply.
Subjects include: felling in Harts Wood; forestry education in Britain; the place of forestry in post-war rural reconstruction; problems with rabbits; the purchase of woodland; and a request to release Wilfred E Hiley from his duties at the Ministry of Supply to prepare a case for privately owned woodlands. Additional material includes: a map showing the position of Harts Wood, Gara Bridge; a report of Wilfred E Hiley's Scottish Tour; a draft memorandum to Sir William Jowitt; and a copy of an address by Leonard Elmhirst. |