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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.

Comparative 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].
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Mention of university renewal in Calcutta and Dacca, and proposals for the University of Jerusalem. Typescript.

Relating to reconstruction, city and town planning (which Geddes believes complements the tasks of the peace movement), 'Hague resolutions' [from the International Conference of Women, The Netherlands, April 1915, [see T-TYR 1/6 [https://www.ica-atom.org/strathclyde/folder-enclosing-correspondence-and-miscellaneous-notes-mostly-related-to-peace-activities-during-world-war-1%3bisad]]. Manuscript. 2 documents, one incomplete.

Summary 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.

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

Topics include: history, literature, philosophers and librarians, mythology, subjective-synthetic, synthetics and synergies, classification of the sciences.
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Illustrations 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.

Letter from Patrick Geddes at Dunfermline to Mrs C.H. Grinling, an early Fabian socialist activist and editor and publisher of the 'Woolwich Pioneer' newspaper, discussing Geddes' Dunfermline town plan and his approach to town planning in general. Alludes to Andrew Carnegie and refers briefly to Paul Desjardin.

Invitation to an 'At Home' from Patrick Geddes at London to Mr and Mrs C.H.Grinling.

Ramsay 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.

Confirms receipt of diagrams sent from Charles Staniland Wake. Advises that he must delay thinking on them and the subject of graphics until December due to other commitments and will write thereafter.

Acknowledges receipt of note and enclosures [not extant]. Discusses attempts to publish in USA, attempts to find a buyer for 'Evergreen' and 'Celtica' stock. Requests removal of cartography from subject matters to be presented to publishers. Alludes to the programming of exhibitions in America, St. Louis or Pittsburg.