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Sending him proof of papers, including one by Mr. Ratcliffe. Suggestion for an exhibition by Alasdair Geddes about war. [John] Ross and [ ] Berrington are working on 'the emergency exhibition'. Business involving [ ] Robinson, [ ] Ford, Lady Aberdeen and [ ] Nolan. Alasdair's literary promise.

Relating to financial affairs with some personal remarks as regards health and acquaintances. Mentions Madame de Ligne, Nevile Foster and [ ] Schiff. Also includes lists of securities belonging to Victor Branford's estate. Typescript and manuscript.

Relating mostly to shares, dividends, income tax and the settlement of his estate. Typescript, manuscript and printed.

Typescript.

Concerning shares in General Theatre Corporation Limited.

11 documents.

1669/1: Purchase of Argentine Land shares.

1669/2: Purchase of Argentine Land shares.

1669/3: Sending of cheque to Laurie, Milbank and co. re purchase of shares. No name of sender.

1669/4: Letter to Victor Branford re purchase of Argentine Land shares, from Laurie, Milbank and co.

1669/5: Sending of receipt for purchase of shares to Laurie, Milbank and co. No name of sender.

1669/6: Sending of cheque to Victor Branford re purchase of shares, from Laurie, Milbank and co.

1669/7: Letter to Victor Branford from Laurie, Milbank and co. noting that a cheque will be forwarded to him shortly.

1669/8: Receipt to Victor Branford from Laurie, Milbank and co., enclosing certificate for shares [not extant].

1669/9: Letter to Laurie, Milbank and co. regarding Paraguay Government Bonds. No name of sender.

1669/10: Letter to Victor Branford from Laurie, Milbank and co. regarding selling of Paraguay Government Bonds.

1669/11: Letter to Laurie, Milbank and co. enclosing certificate for 200 shares of the British North Borneo Company and receipt [not extant].

Concerning shares in the Financial News. 2 documents.

Regarding amendments and additions to a [bibliography] which Mumford has been compiling. Mention of: Patrick Geddes; Gooch; J.M. Robertson; Farquharson, Ruskin and his St. George's Guild; August Comte; J.J. Findlay; Herbert Spencer; F.S. Marvin; R.M. Maciver; Harriet Martineau; the Masques of Learning; [Eliseé Reclus]; [Halford John] Mackinder; H.J. Fleure; J.W. Slaughter; Amelia Defries; Jane Harrison; [William Richard] Lethaby; C[harles] R[obert] Ashbee; Sir W.H. Hadow; Brother Lawrence; Richard Rolle; Walter Hinton; AE [George William Russell]; George Meredith; Rachel Annand Taylor ['Banabhard']; Michael Foster; Claude Bernard; and A. H. Gibson.

Branford's descriptions of a visit to Rome, especially the new University City (Citta Universitaria) in Rome and the possibility of establishing a Sociological Institute there. Also mention of a new fruit and vegetable market; an agricultural co-operative bank; a working class quarter in the style of a garden-city; textile factories; the transformation of a street into an incipient 'Rue des Nations'; the Pincian gardens; Villa Medici; Ludovisi Quarter; International Institute of Agriculture; Mussolini; fascism in Italy; St. Peter's cathedral. Branford plans to use these observations in a lecture on 'Incipient Rome and its Region'. He suggests a town planning exhibition in Rome would be a modest beginning to 'a sociological mission to the Fascists'. Typescript with manuscript annotations.
La Colline, Territet, Switzerland.

With reference to articles on the Religion Congress and their publication in the [Sociological] Review, to Patrick Geddes's article 'Mapping of Life'; and to forthcoming Congress in Naples on Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology. Mention of Christopher Dawson.

Manuscript.

Reprinted from The Sociological Review.

Thanks her for letter enclosing unspecified cutting from The Scotsman and a cheque for Outlook Tower subscription to the Sociological Society and asks if his subscription for the Outlook Tower is paid up. Mentions Dr. Muniston's work in Durham. Discusses a manuscript relating to the Northern College, and says he will restart quarterly issues of the Sociological Review. He is interested in the 'Blue Laides' [sic] and would like information. Typescript.

From The Scotsman.

Refers to [ ] Montague and the possibility of an introduction for Patrick Geddes to Jagadish Chandra Bose. Discusses the printing and publishing of 'Cities in Evolution'; to Alasdair and Arthur Geddes; to Town Planning Review and Sociological Review, to [H. J.] Fleure's 'Human Geography - Western Europe' and to issue of pamphlet 'Spirit - Creature - A Study in Social Renewal' by George Sandeman.