PP/4/1/5/10 - [Letter, Jack Pritchard to A.E. Blake, 12/12/33]

Reference code

PP/4/1/5/10

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Jack Pritchard to A.E. Blake, 12/12/33]

Date/s

1933

Quantity & Format

2 leaves Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Nicholson, Max, 1904-
Smith, Norman E.
Clark, N. J. Gordon

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Creator

Blake, A. E.

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Jack Pritchard writes that he is greatly encouraged by Blake's letter [PP/4/1/5/9] agreeing that "the great danger of Max Nicholson's work is that a comparatively efficient planning machine will be evolved but its aims and objects will be either nil or misguided". He leans more to Blake's view "than the reformist attitude".

Describing the concluding phase of work on "the document" [A View of Planning?] he says that "the rest of the group got `flabby' and, except for Max and Smith, and sometimes Gordon Clarke, there was no energy left". A new "Argument" is being prepared which will make clear that the authors do not want "planning for planning's sake" and that the plan is a minimum, interpreting their principles.

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/4 - Political and Economic Planning (PEP)
  - PP/4/1 - Political and Economic Planning (PEP). Correspondence
    - PP/4/1/5 - Political and Economic Planning (PEP). Correspondence. A.E. Blake
      - PP/4/1/5/10 - [Letter, Jack Pritchard to A.E. Blake, 12/12/33]

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