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Correspondence related to Patrick Geddes' appeal regarding Crosby Hall and Chelsea University Hall, and his plea for the cooperation between the Town and Gown Association and the University and City Association of London. Typescript.

Mention of: Freudians; novelists; life; Durée; inertia; biology; botany; graphics; education of occupations (fishing); life and thought game of occupations; 'Weltweisheit'; 'University senescent and adolescent'; fruit cultivation; windmills; organic development; sub-phases [of life]; epistemology; B[ertrand] Russell; logic of methodology; terminology; 'world as vanity fair'; 'elementalism of thought'; ignorance; public schools; classical and modern [education]; 'school-bag future'. Manuscript with diagrams.

Subjects include: biological collaborators; national characteristics; his circle of friends and business associates; notes based on LIF/RSA scheme; transition from LIF to NGE; the organisation of botanical studies. Manuscript.

Includes examples of 'valley sections' and a note on the psychology of [Andrew Carnegie]. Also references to Lamarck, Spencer, Ruskin and Darwin. Quotes from Gibbon, Plato and Kant. Manuscript.

'David Foggie 1910' signed on plate.
'David Foggie 1911' signed bottom right corner.

Two letters relating to the Crosby Hall Pageant Play.

Prospectus, July 1911. Also programme: 'A Pageant of Hackney', to be performed by the pupils of the school. January 1913.

• The Playground. Vol. IV, No. 11 and Vol. V, No. 9. 2 documents. February and December 1911.
• The American Monthly Magazine. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 3. Incomplete. 1 document. March 1911.
• The Vermonter. 1 document. Midsummer, 1911.
• The Pageant of Thetford, Vermont by W.C. Langdon. 1 document. August 1911.

Also letter to Patrick Geddes from the publishers Rebman Ltd.' Printed and typescript.

Regarding the mounting of the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition by the University of London.
Also copy letters from Patrick Geddes to Charles Robert Ashbee and John Ross. Mentions Raymond Unwin and Thomas Adams. Typescript.

On the classification of the sciences; life notations; evolution; symbols; 'social Law of Retribution'; 'Hellways'; the Braille alphabet. Also includes chart endorsed 'symbols, graphs, images' and graphic summaries of biological and social theses. Manuscript, typescript and printed with diagrams.

On the classification of the sciences; sociology; social evolution; education; symbols; life theory; 'Dramatis Personae'; 'realities of life'; and 'personal synthesis'. Manuscript with diagrams.