| Description | The MESC series consists of three boxes of records documenting Leonard Elmhirst's wartime work (1942-1943) as Agricultural Adviser to the Middle East Supply Centre. Surviving records include: minutes; correspondence with organisations; reports on aspects of agriculture (including machinery, crops, cultivation, irrigation, supplies, rations of oils and fats, and education); diary notes and ephemera. The material, which includes Leonard Elmhirst's reports and notes, offer a broad survey of the industrial and agricultural resources of Egypt; Iraq; Palestine; Turkey; Persia; Cyprus, Syria and Lebanon; Hadramaut, Yemen and Transjordan; East Africa and Sudan. This resulted in an official report, 'Agricultural Report No 5, Middle East Supply Centre' by L K Elmhirst, Anglo-American Agricultural Mission, Jul-Nov 1942. This report includes references to postwar reconstruction. Publications also include Jewish and Zionist printed matter. |