Correspondence

Scope and Content

Correspondence consists of:

  • family letters
  • photographs
  • poems & songs
  • postcards
  • presscuttings
  • professional correspondence

Administrative / Biographical History

Much correspondence was conducted between different members of the Geikie family, such as James Geikie, his wife Mary (nee Johnston) and children Mary Dorothea, John (Jack) Somerville, James Stewart and George Ramsay. Professional correspondents with James Geikie included Robert Boog Watson.