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Instructing James H. Walls to proceed with work at 545-549 Castle Hill and setting out conditions.

Acknowledges receipt of letter of 13 November from Patrick Geddes. Advises copy letter from Professor Robert Flint enclosed [extant] regarding a 'Chair of Sociology' and offering to provide a lecture on 'history as a science'. Mention of Mr Carnegie and his friend Mr Thomas Shaw MP.

Encloses some papers with his letter [not extant]. Offers his support for the lectures on the Technical Education Movement. Mentions the relation of the Technical School to Froebel’s philosophy of education.

Gives a list of prices for publishing the advertisement of the Edinburgh Summer Meeting in various journals of the time.

Robert Davies Roberts extends an invitation for a meeting on 21 May 1908 concerning the London Pageant of 1909 organised by the London University Extension Board. The meeting will discuss the suggestion of the Historical Committee of the London Pageant (1909) to arrange historical lectures in various boroughs of London on the history of the city and its relation to the history of the nation. The meeting will also address the opportunities the University of London offers through its University Extension Scheme. Municipal authorities, mayors of all boroughs and members of the Extension of University Teaching were also invited. Mentions H.J. Mackinder, Lord Avebury, Lord Milner, Lord Shuttleworth, Lord Bishop of Stepney, Canon Barnett.

Tells Patrick Geddes he will address the Directors of the University and City Association on the Crosby Hall Pageant Play and the School Decoration Exhibition to be held at the Outlook Tower in November and December. Encloses a copy of his letter [extant] to the Directors of The University and City Association regarding the Crosby Hall Pageant Play. Mentions Mrs. Macdonald.

1. Offers his services for the upcoming summer conference in Darjeeling. Regrets being unable to visit Patrick Geddes in January. Encloses memo relating to buildings for the Hindu University [extant]. Advises Geddes the plans for the university buildings are getting ready. Mentions Miss Josephine Macleod and Miss Sarojin Naidu.

2. Enclosed memo relating to buildings for the Hindu University prepared by P. Seshadri, Vice Principal, Central Hindu College, for Rai Jwala Prasada, Chief Engineer of the Hindu University, Benares.

Acknowledges book sent by John Branford as a memento of Victor Branford.

Typescript.

Manuscript.

Publishing business.
Proposes a book which would be 'a sort of index volume of our whole opus'. Manuscript. Headed notepaper: Zionist Commission to Palestine. Incomplete.

Personal. Asks Geddes to write testimonial for him. References to Lady Geddes, T[homas] R. Marr and Montpellier.

Sending some essays (awanting). The writer's son Maurice is working in Ireland with Felix [ ] and AE [George William Russell] for the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society. Reference to a lecture by Dr. Brock.