| Description | Correspondence primarily regarding the general business and activities of the Woodlands and Forestry Department between Leonard Elmhirst and: Lord Ebury; Wilfred E Hiley; H Gibbon; K Starr, Leonard's secretary; the Earl of Chichester; F Potter, Whitney Realty Company; H Stephens, timber merchant; A Middleton; S Baldwin; F Hassard; William K Slater; L Pym, Llanover Estate Office; A St A Warde-Aldam, Royal English Forestry Society; Wigram, the Keeper of the Privy Purse; Francis Hemming, the Economic Advisory Council; and Laminated Barrels (Holdings) Limited.
Subjects include: Estate Management courses in woodland; employment and appointments including Wilfred E Hiley as a government representative at the Second International Forestry Congress; the Newton Abbot unemployed centre; South Devon Regional Planning Scheme Stent Wood; a meeting of the Timber Marketing Conference; Royal English Forestry Society Election to the Council; a meeting of the South Devon Woodland Owners' Association to be held at Dartington Hall; railway rates; a proposed Agricultural Economic and Social Survey of Devon and Somerset; the granting of the King's patronage to the Royal English Forestry Society; a forestry congress in Budapest; a paper by Leonard to the Agricultural Economics Society; and barrels made from laminated wood.
Additional material in this folder includes: an article 'The Growth of Spruce and Fir on the Whitney Park in the Adirondacks'; memoranda including 'Marketing Organisation', 'The Future of Land Ownership', and 'Sustained Timber Crop Grown on Big Forest'; and an invitation to a meeting of the Coronation Planting Committee. |