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GB 249 T-TYR/8/36 · Item · No date
Part of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt papers

Shows men of various occupations - hunter, shepherd, farmer- working on a slope. At the top of the slope is a town with a cathedral. At the bottom of the slope is a harbour town (also with a cathedral) and several boats in the harbour. [Possibly related to Patrick Geddes’ valley section diagrams].

Endorsed: ‘William Hume, 14 Lothian Street, Edinburgh’.

GB 249 T-TYR/8/39 · Item · No date
Part of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt papers

Showing a [sculpture or architectural detail] of a woman, possibly a goddess , playing a harp.

Endorsed: ‘Definé par Bartolini. Gravé par Pierre Fontana de Rome’.
[Possibly Pierre Fontaine (1763-1853), French architect and decorator, who lived and worked in Rome at various points throughout his career].

GB 249 T-TYR/8/38 · Item · No date
Part of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt papers

A landscape, with a snow-capped mountain in the background and various trees in the foreground.

Endorsed with a label ‘[] Milliken Photo, Kirkcaldy N . B’ and manuscript label ‘P.G’.

GB 249 T-TYR/1/24 · Item · no date
Part of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt papers

Summary of the courses provided in the Faculty of Letters at Collège des Ecossais, Montpellier. Mention of: Chateau d'Assas; Dr. M.M. Barber; Miss Moya Jowitt; Les Eyzies museum and its conservator, M. Peyrony; the Dordogne valley; Paul Réclus. Typescript.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
GB 249 T-TYR/2/3 · Series · 23 January, 9 and 11 February 1920
Part of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt papers

Three lectures, Numbers IV, XI and XII taken from a series of twelve in [Bombay]. Topics covered include: war; economics; European and Indian religion; Indian education and leadership; the classical, medieval, renaissance, industrial, imperial, financial and technical ages; universities; science; medicine; ethics; art and artists; citizenship and civics; city and regional survey (especially in Indore, Jerusalem and Bombay); town planning; the neotechnic movement; synthetic philosophy; social laboratories like the Outlook Tower, Edinburgh; political evolution; reconstruction; differences between the sexes; progressive education and Mme. Montessori. Mention of [Victor] Branford, [Henry Vaughan] Lanchester, J[agadis] C[handra] Bose, [Rabindranath] Tagore, [Mahatma] Gandhi. Typescript.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
GB 249 T-TYR/2/4 · Item · c 1924
Part of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt papers

Typescript. Attached: sheet with manuscript notes by [Jaqueline Tyrwhitt], describing the document as a 'second and incomplete copy' which 'could have been printed in Sociology Review [sic], Jan. 1924'.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
GB 249 T-TYR/2/6 · Item · September 1927
Part of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt papers

Comparing and contrasting Western and Eastern (especially Indian) culture and education. Mention of: Town and Gown Association; Masques of Learning; Indian students in Edinburgh; Tagore; Bose; Sir Atul Chatterjee; Sir Michael Sadler; Dr. [Ananda Kentish] Coomaraswamy; Mr. [Ernest] Havell; the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition in Bombay and Patrick Geddes' surveys in India (Bombay, Poona, Surat, Broach, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Ajmere, Amber, Jaipur, Muttra, Delhis, Agra, Cawnpore, Lucknow and Allahabad). Typescript with manuscript annotations.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
GB 249 T-TYR/2/5 · File · 26 June 1923
Part of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt papers

Presented at the New School for Social Research, New York City. Relating to city and regional planning, including discussion of the following: history, education, geology, regionalism, Zionist planning schemes in Palestine, wheat and rice-based agriculture; the Outlook Tower, Edinburgh; regional survey; valley section diagram and its various types of occupations; city development. Mention of [Frédéric] Le Play, Frazer's Golden Bough. Typescript with some manuscript amendments.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner