| Description | Archive of Leonard Elmhirst documenting work with the independent research organisation Political and Economic Planning.
The collection is arranged into subseries including alphabetical correspondence; personal and organisational correspondence with Max Nicholson; correspondence with PEP directors R J Goodman and Richard Bailey; correspondence with Kenneth Lindsay (1925-1976); personal and PEP correspondence with Israel Sieff (1932-1972); notes for histories of PEP by Kenneth Lindsay, and an oral history transcript about PEP completed by Elmhirst in 1961. There are two boxes of PEP Directorate and Executive Committee papers including reports, agendas, minutes, and records of PEP social functions. The final 10 boxes contain a range of PEP bound printed reports including a set of the broadsheet publication PLANNING, dating from 1933 to 1967.
General member correspondence includes letters from Gerald Barry; Basil Blackett; Henry Bunbury; John Dower; Maxwell Fry; Arthur Goldschmidt; Fred Gwatkin; Noel Hall; William Holford; Julian Huxley; David Mitrany; Lawrence Neal; Geoffrey Whiskard; and Michael Zvegintzov. Records include agendas, and meeting notes kept by Leonard Elmhirst. Correspondence in 1972 is with Eric Roll and John Pinder among others and mentions a PEP Executive meeting held at Dartington Hall in 1972. Other major correspondents include Israel Sieff, Richard Bailey, R J Goodman, and Kenneth Lindsay. Lindsay as first secretary of PEP, sends letters relating to its founding history in 1931. Letters of Max Nicholson are also significant. Letters of David Owen in 1940 describe PEP activities and life in London during the sustained bombing of the Blitz. |