| Description | This folder contains correspondence and other records primarily about: Wilfred E Hiley's appointment and activities as Advisor in Forestry and Chairman of Dartington Woodlands Limited; Hiley's book, Woodland Management; proposals for the development of a full postwar forestry programme with Sir William Jowitt; Redwood seeds and the properties; and the purchase, development, and sale of Hiley's house, Green Westerland. Correspondents include: Wilfred E Hiley; Leonard Elmhirst; professors and members of Universities and Agricultural departments including A Bridges, C H Guise, Emanual Fritz, E Thomas, R Boutflour, G Baptist, G Minderhound, J Sykes, F Sturrock, A Stensgard, L Norton, and O Jesness; John Maxton, Institute of Agrarian Affairs; Adam Curle (sociologist); Max Nicholson; R Ede, Agricultural Department, British Embassy; E Englund, American Embassy; L Samuel, the Ministry of Agriculture, Israel; N Westermarck, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Helsinki; C Evelpidis; S Johnson, United States Department of Agriculture; P Cardon, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations; Peter Sutcliffe; W Foot, Dartington Hall Estate Steward; A O (Pom) Elmhirst; T Rayson; Robert Michael Harley, Dartington Woodlands Limited; and F Hiley.
Additional material includes: a prospectus for Wilfred E Hiley's work; a copy of a poem by Celia Congreve regarding logs burning on a fire; a list of names and addresses to whom to send a copy of Wilfred E Hiley's book ; a memorandum by Wilfred E Hiley 'The Future of the Woodlands Department'; a plan of the proposed site for the new house for Wilfred E Hiley in the back garden of Green Westerland; a press cutting regarding the auction of Green Westerland, and a press cutting regarding forestry developments on Dartmoor with the aim to preserve natural beauty. |