| Description | Correspondence between Leonard Elmhirst and: S Dasgupta; Mukul Dey; A E Foot; Horace Foot. Also letters arranged alphabetically by correspondents with surnames beginning with 'E and F', to and from Leonard Elmhirst. Letters cover a broad variety of topics, including: discussion of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, Sriniketan (administration and structure); social policy, community development; requests for funding; YMCA; poultry; broadcasting; Visva-Bharati scheme for research in agricultural economics submitted to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research; Church and religion; General Strike 1926; religious education classes.
There is one folder containing material related to Family Planning Research 1952-1954, and includes letters to and from Charles Madge; W F Ogburn (with paper 'A Study of Population Control'); Barbara Ward (Mrs Robert Jackson); Howard Norman; application to the United Nations for assistance in the setting up of a Family Research Unit for the Damodar Valley and adjoining areas of West Bengal and Bihar; paper 'Proposed Family Research Unit for the Damodar Valley and adjoining areas.' Other correspondents include Humayan Kabir (Ministry of Education); Albert Mayer; Eleanor Hinder (United Nations). |