| Description | This series records Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst's involvement in, and financial assistance to, The Withymead Centre, Countess Wear, Exeter, Devon. The records were accumulated by Leonard Elmhirst through his role as Trustee and Chairman of the Withymead Trust (1949-1960). They include: correspondence; memoranda; reports; copies of deeds and leases; accounts; budgets; applications and receipts for grants from the Elmgrant Trust; plans and minutes from meetings of the Withymead Management Committee, the Withymead Trustees and the Elmgrant Trust.
Other correspondence relates to: finance, purchase, development, repair, alterations and sale of land and property. Other information relates to The Withymead Centre Policy and Appeal, staff appointments, training and advice from doctors. There is correspondence between Leonard Elmhirst and Gilbert and Irene Champernowne; and Withymead Trustees including: John Trevelyan; Maurice Ash; Anthony Belton and Frank S Walters. Records of Withymead staff and medical advisors include: Joanna Hogg; Ben Belton; Hilary Bates; Sylvia Weiss; Elizabeth Collyer; Carol Paul-Jones; Dennis Hill; Molly Kemp; Dennis and Margaret Scott-Maxwell; Dr Hardy Gaussen; Dr Barbara Hannah and Dr Geoffrey Wilcock.
Other material in this series includes: photographs; press cuttings; The Withymead Centre prospectus and programmes for courses; pamphlets; publications; and lectures (including lectures by Irene Champernowne); journals; poems and poetry publications. |