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Showing various traditional occupations and their contemporary feminine equivalents; lady mayoress, cook, housemaid, nurse-girl and charwoman.

Birds- eye view of Olympus, as an open temple on top of a table-top mountain.

Label ‘William Hume, 1 Lothian Street, Edinburgh’.

Showing plan of a temple to various gods and goddesses, with their contemporary inversions (eg drudge, harlot, hag, hooligan and doltard).

Relating to ‘I. Everyday World’; ‘II. Corresponding Education’ and ‘III. Geographical Interpretation of I’. Relating to the classification of knowledge, Montesquieu’s “Esprit des Lois”, and geographical determinism. Mention of Montesquieu, Buckle, Taine, Le Play, Tourville and Demolins. Reference to January 1905 edition of La Science Sociale.

Various diagrams, relating to ‘Course of Life’, ‘Curves’, ‘Periods’, ‘Crises’ and ‘Phases’.

‘Phases as Norms of Life’; Super-norms/Norms/Sub-norms; ‘Contrast of Sexes’.

Showing relationships between body and mind, acts/facts/thoughts/deeds, town/city/school/cloister.

Individual (Indolence/Apathy/Ignorance/Poverty) and Social (Diseases/Follies/Vices/Crimes).

Cranks/Dreamers/Pedants/Philistines and Industry/Experience/Meditation/Expression.

School of Geography, Outlook Tower, Edinburgh.

Extraite du volume des Comptes rendus de l‘Association francaise pour l'Avancement des Sciences, pp. 192-193. Congrés du Havre. 1914.

Mention of university renewal in Calcutta and Dacca, and proposals for the University of Jerusalem. Typescript.

Thanking Tyrwhitt for her letter advising of the availability of Geddes material at Harvard, and arranging a meeting to view the documents. Manuscript. 1 document. 20 April 1959.
Attached note: Pierre Clavel to Prof. [Jaqueline] Tyrwhitt. Listing items he has taken. Manuscript. 1 document. 4 May 1959.

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'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.