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Helen Lewise Dougal Archive relating to Patrick Geddes and Scots College, Montpellier
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1534
Identifier: Coll-2045
Content Description
This fonds consists of material of Helen Lewise Dougal relating to Patrick Geddes and the Scots College in Montpellier. Includes photos (originals and copies), booklets, letters, and a CD containing photos.
Postcards of Sète and Montpellier, 1929.
Article entitled Patrick Geddes in his Montpellier setting by A.D. Peacock, ca 1927.
Print...
Dates:
1927-1934
Letters from Patrick Geddes to R. E. Muirhead
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1159
Scope and Contents
Two of the letters are Geddes' autograph, one dated 23 November 1928, the other 4 December (1928), and both are written on headed notepaper: College des Ecossais, Plan des Quatre Seigneurs, Montpellier, France. The third is a typescript which forms a postscript to the second letter. At the time of writing, Geddes was living in his old age at Montpellier. As ever, Geddes is urging change and new perspectives. The letters are from Geddes to R. E. Muirhead, chairman of the National...
Dates:
1928
Material relating to the Outlook Tower Current Events Club
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-800
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of press cuttings made by the Outlook Tower Current Events Club c. 1895-1914. The subject material ranges from: Africa, agriculture, America, architecture, art, music and literature, astronomy, the Balkans, the British Empire, China, civics, the Congo and the Nile, Dreyfus, Ireland, the Philippines, education, eugenics, Europe, gardens and garden cities, finance, hygiene, industries, labour, medicine, Parliament, polar expeditions, nature and science, meteorology, the...
Dates:
1895-1914
Papers of Lewis T. Waters
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1264
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the following copies of letters:
letter, manuscript, from Arthur Geddes to Mrs. J. Unwin [undated]
letter, typescript, from Mrs. J. Unwin, London, to Arthur, 7 May [no year]
letter, manuscript, from Arthur Geddes, Edinburgh, to Mr. Waters, 9 May 1967
letter, typescript, from Unwin at the Greater London Regional Planning...
Dates:
1904-1967
Papers of William Speirs Bruce
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-72
Scope and Contents
The Papers of William Speirs Bruce consist of a substantial number of manuscripts and ephemera including pamphlets; notes and notebooks; annotated typescripts; annotated offprints; picture postcards; photographs; examination papers; sketch maps; diaries; press cuttings; correspondence; lists of specimens; book catalogues; soundings; lecture engagements; lectures; and, maps. The Papers handle a wide variety of subjects including the 'Balaena', fish and fisheries, Franz Josef Land, the...
Dates:
1892-1923
Patrick Geddes Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1167
Scope and Contents
The collection contains original exhibits from Patrick Geddes' replacement Cities and Town Planning Exhibitions (which was constituted 1914-1924, after the original exhibition was lost at sea during transit to India in October 1914). Also included are items from Geddes' Survey of Edinburgh (which formed part of the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition as an illustration of Geddes' city and region survey). The Survey of Edinburgh includes over 250 glass plate negatives which were commissioned...
Dates:
1753-c 1985
Records relating to the Mechanics' Library and University Hall, Riddle's Court
Item — Volume: Dk.1.4
Identifier: Coll-1841
Scope and Contents
A single volume in two parts. The first part relates to the buildings use as the Mechanics Library, the second relates to its period as University Hall. In the front is bound an architectural plan and two engravings of the buildings.Section I begins with a Preface based on extracts from Daniel Wilson, 'Edinburgh in Olden Time'. Bound in before the Preface is a two-sided illustration, one side titled "M'Morran Superintends his bigging". Thererafter follows a table of contents...
Dates:
1850s, 1890s