Two Autograph Letters Signed and two Typed Letters Signed, to "Mr Epps", writing on behalf of the "S.E. Union" (natural history society?).

Total 7pp., 8vo, some sunning, creasing, but texts clear and complete. (1945) Epps has alerted him to the "position of the S.E. Union in relation to teh proposal to make Pagham Harbour . . . a Nature Reserve". He explains his position and involvement (a reluctant "leader") and what was happening, including problems with current buildings and landowners. He needs to examine the "map". (1945) He thanks Epps for a pamphlet on Nature Conservation in GB and will arrange for the County Planning Officer to see it. The latter would be able to outline the "best course" for creating the Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve. (1946) Further requirments, including a "paid warden", whose salary would have to raised by donation - "in order to protect a certain part of the foreshore and a strip of land above it from becoming a kind of Butlin's Fun Fair". £200 should be enough(!) [Little did he know that a Butlin's Holiday Camp would occupy land near the sea at Bognor Regis, his home town.] (1947) He discusses a letter from the Ministry of Town & Country Planning, the attiitude of the local council towards Pagham Harbour. Th Note: it became an LNR in 1964.e Ministry have to withdraw before the area can be a Nature Reserve.