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"Extract from Mr Driver's agreement for planting in Dean Forest."

On planting acorns together with mixed saplings.

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Requests Davies to have Benjamin Broad destroy mice in [Dean] Forest on Andrew Knight's recommendation.

Signed A. Milne. (Alexander Milne was Commissioner of Woods, etc., 1834-1850.)

Annotated: ...wrote Mr B. June 20 1813. Dated from annotation and item 1. Mentions His Majesty, so before 1838.

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We send you 2 sorts of acorns with their descriptions collected by the engineer Tierney Clark (Clark, William Tierney, 1753-1852) while building a bridge over the Danube in Hungary; please plant and observe.

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Description of the acorns, tree, and timber.

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Description of the acorns, tree, and timber of the "Grape Oak."

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On why oak saplings spring up as soon as the ground is enclosed; refers to New Forest. Begins "p.116 "--perhaps note inserted in MS E234?

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MP's memorandum to the Treasury backing the resolution made by Gloucestershire electors and others in the Speech House in Sept 1870 requesting that the Forest of Dean be enclosed in allotments, History of reserving the Forest for ship-timber-growth; oak timber no longer wanted; increase of inhabitants and their miserable living conditions; mining statistics since 1821.

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Sir Henry Loch thanks you for your letter of the 17th concerning transplanting oaks in Dean Forest.

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Experiment in transplanting oaks in Dean Forest; chart of measurements made 1861, 1866, 1880, 1886.

Recipient probably George Culley, 1834-1893 (a Commissioner of Woods, etc, 1884-1893. Born George Darling, changed name 1851; see Boase.) Campbell Dep. Surveyor of Dean Forest, 1855-1893.

Scope and Contents A report from the Deputy Surveyor of the Forest of Dean to the Commissioner of HM Woods, on his survey of the French State Forests made with 3 Crown Woodmen from Dean Forest and Highmeadow Woods. Describes present practices, some of which have survived several 150-year cycles. Recommends natural regeneration (although the immediate profits will be less) and French-type "High Forest" management for Dean Forest. Covers oak-beech, stool, and coniferous. Baylis died in 1907 aged 58 at Whitemead...

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"This Volume is presented by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to Glanamman Rdg Room and will, in the event of the Library being broken up, be returned to the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Westminster."

Printed form, filled up in pencil. Probably Victorian. First letter of "Glanamman" uncertain. There is a village Glanamman in Dyfed (?) about 4 ½ miles north of Swansea; but it is 60 miles over the Black Mountains to the Forest of Dean.

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From Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, baron, 1743-1823. What sort of brushwood and soil is in the Forest of Dean? How far down do the oak roots go which your father, you, and I saw after my reappointment?

Annotated: Ans'd Dec 1 1813.

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Answers G's questions about acorns, particularly those of the Cluster Oak. Raising elms by grafting, layers, or seed.

Marked "Copy." On paper watermarked 1812, with round file hole.