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GB 249 T-GED/22/1 · Series · 1574 - 1954
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of Afghanistan, Africa, Algeria, Antarctica, Arabia, Arctic and North Pole, Asia, Australasia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, British Isles, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Indies, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland and Greenland, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Natal, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, North America, Norway, Nyasaland Protectorate, Pacific Islands, Palestine, Panama, Persia, Poland, Polynesia, Portugal, Rhodesia, St. Helena, Scandinavia, Siam, South America, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tibet, Transjordan, Turkey, Uganda, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United States of America, West Indies, The World, Yemen and Yugoslavia, various countries and unidentified and unallocated cities, landscapes, gardens and architecture. There is also a series of ideal and speculative town planning schemes and architectural designs.

The series reflects the national-political background against which Geddes was pursuing his idea of regionalism.

GB 249 T-GED/20/2 · Series · [c 1932 - 1954]
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Includes:
Book containing minutes of the Improvements Sub-Committee, October 1932, The Sub-Committee on the Winter Programme 1935-1936, and the Patrick Geddes Memorial Committee, 1935; loose minute of the Improvements Sub-Committee 1933; various minutes, reports and notices of the Association;
list of pamphlets and articles by or about Patrick Geddes in the possession of Dr. Mabel Barker; correspondence between Mabel Barker and [Edward] McGegan, 1935-1949; volume noting material borrowed from the Forbes Trust, 1953-1954.

GB 249 T-GED/20/1 · Series · [c 1947 - 1949]
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Papers, chiefly correspondence, relating to the listing and proposed publication of Patrick Geddes's manuscripts, undertaken by Arthur Geddes, Stephanie Smith and Allan C. Frazer. Many of these letters provide information regarding the provenance of Geddes's papers.

Correspondents include:
Arthur Geddes, Allan C. Frazer, Stephanie Smith: passim.
Messrs. Anderson, Fyfe, Littlejohn & Co., Glasgow (The Stevenson Trustees): 5, 129
A.N. Argalwala, Managing Editor, Indian Journal of Economics: 39
James R. Atkinson, Durham University: 124-126, 136, 137
G. Bell Barker, Planning Department, Greenock Corporation: 165,172
Dr. Mabel Barker: 6, 10, 26, 31, 55, 59, 62, 63, 67, 69, 70, 95, 100, 131, 156, 159
John Davidson, re. Dictionary of National Biography: 169
Desmond Donnelly, editor, Town and County Planning: 163, 164
Ian Finlay, Royal Scottish Museum: 128, 161,162,167
Elizabeth Galloway: 113, 181
John Grant, bookseller, Edinburgh: 46
Dr. L.S. Hakim: 4
Miss Herbertson: 80
H.H. Maharajah Holkar of Indore: 108
Municipal Improvement Trust, Indore: 109
Institute of Sociology: 48
Norman Marshall Johnson: 83, 92, 130
S.K. Gifford Kerr: 8, 45, 127,133
Le Play House: 47, 106, 187
Herbert Loebl: 104,105
A.T. Mclndoe: 12,166
Professor MacMurray, Edinburgh: 168,193
Mr. Marquis: 9,120
Norah Mears: 34, 35, 41, 119, 145, 147, 190, 191
Richard [Moira]: Regional Planning Group, Outlook Tower: 20
Lewis Mumford: 81, 94, 140, 185
Rev. J.A.C. Murray: 7, 24, 144, 148, 170, 182
Dr. Jean Pattison, University College Dundee: 23, 192.
Margaret Pease: 113, 179
Mile. [Pornon]: 82
William Ramage: 116,117
James Ritchie, Professor Natural History, Department of Zoology, Edinburgh: 183, 184
Mary Ritchie: 37, 113, 139, 189
John Ross: 174
R.N. Rudmose Brown: 30, 33, 113, 171
Sir John Russell: 44
Ellen G. Schoendorff, Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction: 103
D.M. Sutherland, Bodleian Library: 84
Margaret Tatton: 51, 52, 72
Lady Margaret Thomson: 113, 180
Phipps Turnbull, [St. Andrews University]: 25, [73], 77, 160
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction: 54, 60, 64, 90, 91, 93, 110

Among the other items in the bundle are:
Memorandum of British Association relating to collection of information on the revival of British Geography from 1880. 1947. (22)
Minutes and papers of the Outlook Tower Publications Committee. 1948. (32, 74, 86, 122)
List of proposed publications on Sir Patrick Geddes's work being prepared, c. 1948. (85)
Progress reports on publication programme. 1947-1948. (87, 88)
Notes on disposal of material from Cities and Town Planninq Exhibition. No date (111)