| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily relating to the finance, status, and future of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Oxford. Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Joseph Duncan; Wilfred E Hiley; William K Slater; W Topley, Agricultural Research Council; J P Maxton, Institute of Agrarian Affairs; R Greig; Clement R Attlee, MP; A Ashby; J McClement; J R Currie; F Garner; O Beilby, Agricultural Economics Society; J Smith; and B Jobson.
Subjects include: an International Conference at Cornell; the Horace Plunkett Foundation; the Agricultural Research Council; the conversion of the International Conference of Agricultural Economist into an Association; PEP; the activities of the Agricultural Economics Society; proposals for an Economic Advisory Service; the Imperial Bureau of Agricultural Economics; the finance and future of Agriculture and the Land; Joseph Duncan's obituary; and Joe Smith's book on Joseph Duncan; and a second edition of 'Joe Duncan, The Scottish Farm Servants and British Agriculture' with a handwritten preface by Leonard Elmhirst and letter to Maurice Ash from presumably Rachel Elmhirst.
Additional material in this folder includes: an index list by Leonard Elmhirst of the contents of this folder; a publication 'The Scottish Farm Servant' (1926); a 'Report on the Economic Department, Dartington Hall', by Joseph Duncan, (1935); telegrams; notes form a meeting with Joseph Duncan, Leonard Elmhirst, and Sir Donald Ferguson, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (1943); and a report on 'Agricultural Economics Research', (1951). |