| Description | 37 letters including:
- 1 letter Aug 1948
- 1 letter March 1949
- 12 letters 1966-1967, including 4 postcards
- Copies of 8 letters from HW to Rolf Gardiner 1940-1948
Also includes other materials, such as a book of Poems ‘Love and Memory’, inscribed by Rolf Gardiner, Springhead Journals, copies of articles, and a Copy of Service of Memorial for RG, Feb 1972
With notes by Anne Williamson, including notes made at meeting with his daughter Rosalind Richards Aug 1994 |
| AdminHistory | Henry 'Rolf' Gardiner [1902-1971] was an ecological campaigner and youth leader. Gardiner spent part of his childhood in Berlin, and went on to study languages at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1924. He acquired Gore Farm in Dorset in 1928, and expanded in into the Springhead Estate, later the Springhead Trust, which became a centre for his movement of moral, communal and ecological regeneration. Gardiner maintained strong links with Germany throughout the 1930s, but severed ties when war broke out in 1939. After the Second World War, he went on to advocate for sustainable agriculture and organic farming more broadly, and received the Peter Joseph Lenné Gold Medal in 1971 for his efforts. |