| Ref No | MS 466/1/1/2/2/1/5 |
| Finding Number | MS 466/69/10 |
| Title | Letter from Henrietta Barnett to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury and George Cadbury |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 22 November 1898 |
| Description | In this letter Henrietta Barnett provides the Cadburys with some confidential information relating to Bournville and town planning. Remarking on the deep impression which Bournville had made on her and her husband Canon Samuel Barnett, Henrietta Barnett writes that she had 'told many & many a person of the works & the village'. She informs the Cadburys that her husband had written to a 'very wealthy man' about the development of a similar village in Essex. She writes that the unidentified man had offered to provide twenty four acres of land to begin the development. This letter is significant as it reflects the influence of the Cadburys' work at Bournville on wider town planning developments. Indeed, Henrietta Barnett was later responsible for a similar development which began in 1903, the Hampstead Garden Suburb which she often referred to as 'the grandchild of Bournville'. |
| Extent | 1 |
| Format | Item |
| Related Material | Information about Henrietta Barnett and the Hampstead Garden Suburb taken from Seth Koven, 'Barnett, Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston (1851-1936)' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30610] accessed 26th August 2009 and Richenda Scott, 'Elizabeth Cadbury: 1858-1951' (London: Harrap, 1955), p. 94. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |