2 letters of correspondence between Patrick Geddes and G. H. Perris
Sans titreRamsay Gardens. Setting out Geddes's negotiations with Mr and Lady Steele regarding the price of purchasing Mr Steele's annuity. Refers to his employment of Mr James Slater as an independent and impartial expert to value the property. Includes a note to advise that Geddes will incur additional costs due the architects instruction to have an engineer sink special foundations and abandoning plans to erect studios upon a portion of the ground. Includes mention of Messrs Condie & Co., and the Royal Scottish Academy.
Sans titreIllustrations 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.
Sans titreOn localisation and communities. Mention of Elberfield in Edinburgh and of John Ruskin's Fors Clavigera. Manuscript.
Sans titreSummary 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.
Sans titreMention of university renewal in Calcutta and Dacca, and proposals for the University of Jerusalem. Typescript.
Sans titreComparative analysis of universities in the West and East (Japan, India and Palestine). Mention of the International Conference on University Progress and resolutions from the International Educational Conference [Edinburgh].
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.
Sans titreRelating to the old and new phases of the industrial age - the Paleotechnic and Neotechnic - and social problems. Typescript.
Sans titreAutobiographical, 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.
Sans titreTypescript. 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'.
Sans titreComparing and contrasting Western and Eastern (especially Indian) culture and education. Mention of: Town and Gown Association; Masques of Learning; Indian students in Edinburgh; Tagore; Bose; Sir Atul Chatterjee; Sir Michael Sadler; Dr. [Ananda Kentish] Coomaraswamy; Mr. [Ernest] Havell; the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition in Bombay and Patrick Geddes' surveys in India (Bombay, Poona, Surat, Broach, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Ajmere, Amber, Jaipur, Muttra, Delhis, Agra, Cawnpore, Lucknow and Allahabad). Typescript with manuscript annotations.
Sans titreFor the [Sociological Review]. Typescript with manuscript annotations.
Sans titreWith plan and note by Professor Geddes. Reprinted from The Scottish Geographical Magazine. March 1902. pp. 1-7. Also includes reprinted letters to Patrick Geddes from James Bryce, Clements Markham and Archibald Geikie. Reprinted from The Scottish Geographical Magazine. April 1902. pp. 1-4.
Endorsed: '1902' and 'J. Tyrwhitt'.
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