| Description | Correspondence primarily regarding the general business and activities of the Forestry Department between Leonard Elmhirst and: Inland Revenue; R Galloway, Society of Foresters of Great Britain; C Hanson, Forestry Commission; Wilfred E Hiley; C Marriott, Royal English Arboricultural Society; L Fielding-Bucknell; Lord Mildmay of Flete; Sir J Stirling Maxwell; G Parker, Central Landowners' Association; Sir Francis Acland; and L S Fortescue.
Subjects include: Income Tax on respect of woodlands; membership to the Society of Foresters of Great Britain; the establishment of the forestry department; meetings of the Royal English Arboricultural Society; Richard St Barbe Baker book; employment and appointments; clearing houses for civil intelligence; proposals for a liaison in woodland management between the Flete Estate and Dartington Sawmill and Woodlands Department; the formation of a Committee of Timber Owners; the denotation of christmas trees for the children of the unemployed at Newton Abbot; a proposed scheme for amenity planting; and afforestation. Additional material includes: particulars for the Forestry Department; a 'Memorandum on the Ownership and Management of the Woodlands belonging to Dartington Trustees'; and a report of Wilfred E Hiley's pit props tour of the Midlands. |