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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.

Autobiographical, and relating to education in Paris. Mention of [Thomas] Huxley, [Yves] Delage, Lavisse, Lacaze, [Louis] Pasteur, the national library of France, the Sorbonne, the Comedie Française, the Odeon, Sarah Bernhardt [Henriette Rosine Bernard], the Louvre, the Salon, the Conservatoire, the Opera and the Jardin des Plantes. Discussion of morality and various cities. Typescript with manuscript amendments.

Autobiographical, and relating to biology and botany, nature study, town planning in Edinburgh, Outlook Tower, Summer Meetings and regional and city survey. Mention of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Linnaeus, Humboldt, [Charles] Darwin, Gottfried Wilhelm] Leibnitz, [René] Descartes, [Emmanuel] Kant and [Henri] Bergson. Typescript with manuscript amendments.

With plan, perspective and 136 illustrations. Edinburgh and Westminster: Geddes and Company/Bournville, Birmingham: The Saint George Press.

Stamp and label: Library of the Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction.

A Pageant of Education from Medieval to Modern Times. Fourth edition. Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes and Colleagues. 1913.

Stamp: '4 June 1947'. Stamp and label: Library of the Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction.

A Pageant of Education from Primitive to Celtic Times. 6th Edition. London: Sociological Publications Ltd. Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes and Colleagues. Bombay & Karachi: The Modern Publishing Co.

From The Sociological Review, pp. 40-63. Vol. [ ]. January 1927.

Attached: notes by [Jaqueline Tyrwhitt] on 'The Charting of Life'. Manuscript.

Draft letter which outlines Patrick Geddes' questions regarding his scheme for an Armenian labour colony in Cyprus. Requests to meet with Bryce in order to discuss the matter. Refers to the Sultan, the Westminster relief fund, widows, children and prisoners and the potential role of the Foreign Office and outlines Geddes' for social reform in Cyprus.

Asks that his signature be included in a memorial to the General Medical Council. Makes some suggestions regarding the memorial.

'City of Colombo'

Two copies of a map of the City of Colombo, differently annotated.

Scale: 1 inch to 16 chains

'Published under the direction of W. C. S. Ingles [... ] Surveyor General, Ceylon'

'The University of Jerusalem: general plan showing main departments'
'Prof. P. Geddes F. C. Mears December 1919'

Scale: 1:500

From 'The Architect, June 11th, 1920'.

Annotated in manuscript in pencil and coloured (crayon).

Notes by Patrick Geddes in manuscript in pencil on the reverse.

Two small architectural sketches on the reverse.

Two perspective views of the Hebrew University design.

From an unidentified publication.

Illustrations by Hendrik Willem Van Loon.

'A Schoolboy's Bag and a City's Pageant' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. 53. pp. 525-529, 553-554. With an introduction: 'Who Is Patrick Geddes?' by Lewis Mumford. Survey. Vol. 53. pp 523-524. 1 February 1925.

'Cities, and the Soils They Grow From' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. 54. pp. 40-44. 1925.

'The Valley Plan of Civilisation' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. 54. pp. 288-290, 322-325. June 1925.

'The Valley in the Town' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. 54. pp. 396-400, 415-[16], 1925.

'The Education of Two Boys' by Patrick Geddes. Survey. Vol. [54], pp. 571-575, 587-590. 1 February 1925.

Mention of university renewal in Calcutta and Dacca, and proposals for the University of Jerusalem. Typescript.

Refers to non-political scheme of action for the purposes of relieving the distress of Amernian refugees, and to renew co-operation between eastern races.