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Consists primarily of verse written by Patrick Geddes, though also includes some poems by other writers. This series also includes galley proofs etc. for booklets produced in 1930 to commemorate the visit of the French branch of the Franco-Scottish Society to Edinburgh, the 'Centenaire de Jeanne d'Arc', and the folk song collector Marjory Kennedy Fraser.

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.

In 1894, the company Patrick Geddes and Colleagues was formed as a publishing venture. One of its first publications was 'The Evergreen', which appeared in 1895-1896 [for copies, see GB 249 T-GED 24/357]. The papers relate to its publication. A number of poems and articles also survive in pre-publication form.