| Description | About 18 letters and telegrams by Leonard Elmhirst, and three letters and telegrams of Dorothy Straight. Leonard's letters to Dorothy describe his journeys in Bengal; the Punjab (where he visits Ajit Singh), the Non-Cooperation Movement and imprisonment of students; the Tagore Family; sanitation at Surul [Sriniketan]; a proposed conference bringing together Tagore, Romain Rolland, Anatoli France, Bertrand Russell, Lowes Dickinson, G Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, John Dewey, and Dorothy Straight (Calcutta, 16 Jan 1922); purchase and development of the farm and land at Surul; his first lecture, 'The Robbery of the Soil'. Dorothy writes from Coconut Grove, 19 Feb 1922. |