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GB 249 T-GED/7/10/3 · Item · 7 April 1905
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Asks to be enrolled as a member of a new 'Synthetical Association' and suggests Patrick Geddes as president. Discusses the 'Edinburgh influence' on the growing insistence on the need for co-ordination and co-operation; describes the influence of the Outlook Tower ideas on the University Settlement at Manchester. Typescript.

Marr, Thomas R., fl. 1898-1909, Warden of Manchester University Settlement
GB 249 T-GED/7/10/13 · Item · 17 April 1903
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Describes study carried out with [George] Guyou on proposed Forth and Clyde Canal and asks if given new circumstances a short article on the subject to The Times would be appropriate. In a crossed-out post-script he mentions an 'Index Museum' which has grown up between the Outlook Tower and a proposed 'Encyclopaedia Graphica'.

GB 249 T-GED/7/10/27 · Item · 24 May 1920
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

Thanks her for the 'vivid account of the Rowe Conference' which he hopes to use in the Autumn number of Sociological Review. Sends copy of Sociological Review with account of Edinburgh meeting. Gives details of a 'Paper for the Present' he is doing on Sir R. Ross's story, Sandeman's review of Geddes's Indore Report and a paper on poetry and town planning.