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Typescript with corrections by [Patrick Geddes].

Manuscript.

'The bottom of the crater of Bandai [ ] just after the eruption [ ] by V[ictor]. V[erasis]. B[ranford]'

Anon. [Victor Verasis Branford].

Title by [Patrick Geddes] in manuscript in blue crayon in bottom right corner.

11 documents.

1669/1: Purchase of Argentine Land shares.

1669/2: Purchase of Argentine Land shares.

1669/3: Sending of cheque to Laurie, Milbank and co. re purchase of shares. No name of sender.

1669/4: Letter to Victor Branford re purchase of Argentine Land shares, from Laurie, Milbank and co.

1669/5: Sending of receipt for purchase of shares to Laurie, Milbank and co. No name of sender.

1669/6: Sending of cheque to Victor Branford re purchase of shares, from Laurie, Milbank and co.

1669/7: Letter to Victor Branford from Laurie, Milbank and co. noting that a cheque will be forwarded to him shortly.

1669/8: Receipt to Victor Branford from Laurie, Milbank and co., enclosing certificate for shares [not extant].

1669/9: Letter to Laurie, Milbank and co. regarding Paraguay Government Bonds. No name of sender.

1669/10: Letter to Victor Branford from Laurie, Milbank and co. regarding selling of Paraguay Government Bonds.

1669/11: Letter to Laurie, Milbank and co. enclosing certificate for 200 shares of the British North Borneo Company and receipt [not extant].

Concerning shares in General Theatre Corporation Limited.

Concerning shares in the Financial News. 2 documents.

Bartholomew has asked Branford to produce a chart by the Spring, showing chronological racial evolution. Branford states he is having difficulty expressing diagrammatically all that Bartholomew wants. His desire not to lose this opportunity of advertising Geddes's 'diagrammatic historic method'. He is also working on an economic and historical bibliography, and on the Eastern Question, showing the 'historic degeneration of the Turks'. Agrees with Geddes that military energies should be directed to engineering. Comments on 'the Grassmarket at 11 p. m.'

Reprinted from The University Review, December 1905, pp. 243-54, and January 1906, pp. 329-44.

1. Letter from Victor Branford to [ ].
   Arrangements for a Religious conference. Mention of AE (George Russell). Fragment.

2. Paper, probably relating to above, found with letter, concerning science and religion.

He and J. Arthur Thomson believe that the professor [possibly Patrick Geddes] should keep the Dundee chair. Financial business involving [ ] McLeod and [ ] Hellyer. Incomplete. Headed notepaper: 'Sociological Society'.

Sending him proof of papers, including one by Mr. Ratcliffe. Suggestion for an exhibition by Alasdair Geddes about war. [John] Ross and [ ] Berrington are working on 'the emergency exhibition'. Business involving [ ] Robinson, [ ] Ford, Lady Aberdeen and [ ] Nolan. Alasdair's literary promise.

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.

Relating to financial affairs with some personal remarks as regards health and acquaintances. Mentions Madame de Ligne, Nevile Foster and [ ] Schiff. Also includes lists of securities belonging to Victor Branford's estate. Typescript and manuscript.