| Description | Records primarily about the activities of the Horace Plunkett Foundation including: the study and research of the agricultural co-operative movement, an honorary degree for Margaret Digby, secretary of the Foundation, and the establishment of the Plunkett Foundation for Co-operative Studies at 31st Giles (Dartington House). Correspondence between Leonard Elmhirst and: Horace Plunkett; K Walter, M Digby, Horace Plunkett Foundation; Dorothy Elmhirst; E Donovan; G Heard; C Orwin, Agricultural Economics Research Institute; William K Slater; J Brown; S Morris, R Ross, F Clayton, University of Exeter; J Raeburn, University of Aberdeen; J Morley, Agricultural Central Co-operative Association Limited; F Webster, and J Hall, the Plunket Foundation for Co-operative Studies.
Additional material includes: a printed pamphlet 'Agricultural Co-operation in the British Empire'; a 'Bulletin of the Co-operative Reference Library' (1915); typescript paper by Horace Plunkett 'The Agricultural Problem in South Africa'; a press cuttings regarding 'The Farmer's Plight', and 'Co-operation in Agriculture'; a Report on the Horace Plunkett Foundation; a printed leaflet 'The Needs of The Horace Plunkett Foundation' (1930); a report of the Committee of the 'Conference of Agricultural Co-operative Societies' (1931); a report to the Horace Plunkett Foundation by A Richmond (1952); printed leaflet 'An Introduction to The Plunkett Foundation for Co-operative Studies' (1970); and an invitation to Leonard Elmhirst to the opening of the Plunkett Foundation. |