From 'The Valley Plan of Civilization' by Patrick Geddes.
Relating to various theories of evolution, and botany. Mention of Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Goethe, De Vries, Malthus, Wallace, Huxley, Mendel, Weismann, Linnaeus, De Candolle.
Typescript with manuscript annotations.
Reprinted from the Journal of the American Institute of Architects.
Reference to Victor Branford's Science and Sanctity (1923).
Regarding amendments and additions to a [bibliography] which Mumford has been compiling. Mention of: Patrick Geddes; Gooch; J.M. Robertson; Farquharson, Ruskin and his St. George's Guild; August Comte; J.J. Findlay; Herbert Spencer; F.S. Marvin; R.M. Maciver; Harriet Martineau; the Masques of Learning; [Eliseé Reclus]; [Halford John] Mackinder; H.J. Fleure; J.W. Slaughter; Amelia Defries; Jane Harrison; [William Richard] Lethaby; C[harles] R[obert] Ashbee; Sir W.H. Hadow; Brother Lawrence; Richard Rolle; Walter Hinton; AE [George William Russell]; George Meredith; Rachel Annand Taylor ['Banabhard']; Michael Foster; Claude Bernard; and A. H. Gibson.
Branford, Victor Verasis, 1863-1930, sociologistThe Sociological Review, contents page and pp. 108-119. Vol. XIX. No. 2. April 1927.
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town plannerComparing 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.
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town plannerBranford'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.
Typescript with manuscript annotations. Endorsed 'Presidential address of P.G. before Regional Survey Section of South-Eastern of Scientific Societies at Hastings on 28 May 1927'. 18 pp. [1927]
Attached: notes by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt on Patrick Geddes' 1927 paper, 'The movement towards synthetic studies in its educational and social bearings'. Manuscript. 1 p. September 1971.
For the [Sociological Review]. Typescript with manuscript annotations.
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town plannerLetter: Lewis [Mumford] to Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. Manuscript. 2 documents (original and copy). New York, 21 July 1951.
Original and copy of article: 'Patrick Geddes, Insurgent' by Lewis Mumford. The New Republic, p. 295. 30 October 1929. 2 documents. Endorsed: 'For Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, Lewis Mumford'.
Copy of article: 'The Disciple's Rebellion: A Memoir of Patrick Geddes' by Lewis Mumford. Encounter. Vol. XXVII. No. 3. pp. 11-21. September 1966.
Notes and diagrams by Patrick Geddes on 'Interaction'. Including a small valley section diagram. Manuscript. 1 document. No date.
Endorsed in different hand '[1930-32]'.
Notes and diagrams by Patrick Geddes. Relating to cities, philosophy, synthesis, etho-polis. 3 documents. No date.
Cardnotes, many with diagrams, by Patrick Geddes. Relating to religion, the arts, occupations, valley section, Cities Exhibition, Aberdeen exhibit and survey, folk/work/place, town/city/school/cloister, town/city/university/temple, museion, temples, regional tower and cosmic dome, alcohol, the natural environment. Manuscript. c. 40 docs. No date.
Typescript with manuscript annotations by [George] Pepler. Attached: compliments slip of the Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction, London. Endorsed in typescript 'Copy of Geddes blurb with Pepler's amendments.'