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Programme endorsed: '1893'.

Endorsed: '1895'.

Section relating to Patrick Geddes' valley section, pp. 134-143.

From 'The Valley Plan of Civilization' by Patrick Geddes.

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.

Thanking Tyrwhitt for her letter advising of the availability of Geddes material at Harvard, and arranging a meeting to view the documents. Manuscript. 1 document. 20 April 1959.
Attached note: Pierre Clavel to Prof. [Jaqueline] Tyrwhitt. Listing items he has taken. Manuscript. 1 document. 4 May 1959.

On localisation and communities. Mention of Elberfield in Edinburgh and of John Ruskin's Fors Clavigera. Manuscript.

Mention of: the valley section; 'The Classification of Statistics and its Results' (1881); 'An Analysis of the Principles of Economics' (1885); 'A First Visit to the Outlook Tower' (1906); 'Civics as Applied Sociology' (1904); 'Nature Study and Geographical Education' (1902); 'A Suggested Plan for a Civic Museum' (1906); 'City Deterioration & the Need of City Survey' (1909); 'Problems of the War' (1914). Typescript.

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'.