ABSTRACT
Raymond Unwin had changed tack and offended the Garden City purists. When he left Letchworth in 1907, it was to design Hampstead Garden Suburb for Dame Henrietta Barnett. And this effectively split the infant movement ideologically, for though it had the appearance of a Garden City and some of its community spirit, it was in every respect a pure commuter suburb. Ebenezer Howard had entered into private correspondence with Lord Salisbury to try to persuade him to sell part of his estate for a second Garden City. Frederic James Osborn and C. B. Purdom both opposed the idea of a second privately-sponsored Garden City, and already Purdom was barely on speaking terms with Howard. As early as January 1944 Osborn had been instrumental in persuading the chief technical adviser of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning to set up an internal committee on new towns, and submitted a long memorandum to it.
