Covent Garden market, Natural History Museum and Kew gardens as sources of garden plants; alterations to house; Mr Sharpe's health; Mr Pascoe's "Museum" at Westbourne Park.
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Covent Garden market, Natural History Museum and Kew gardens as sources of garden plants; alterations to house; Mr Sharpe's health; Mr Pascoe's "Museum" at Westbourne Park.
Violet's expenses; alterations to house; new neighbours the Nichols.
Violet attending a [public political] demonstration, labour conditions, the eight hour day, wages; gardening; neighbours.
ARW's lecture in Dundee; visit to York; family members, enclosing letters (not present); (Samuel) Butler and Darwinism.
ARW's lecture tour; gardening; Violet's lessons on seeds, sending book by Lubbock.
Sending Malay beetles to Violet; Madame's (Madame Michaelis) opinion of ARW's article; lecture by Mrs Besant; ARW's health.
House at Godalming; family; Violet's order for pair of hedgehogs; bookbinding costs; horses; ARW's review of Pampas book; new medal.
Tickets for Zoo; servants; socialism; Examiners meeting; Land Nationalisation meeting; horticultural exhibitions.
Gardening; writing; examining; Geographical medal; (Linnean Society) medal; family.
Growing grape-vines; marking exam papers, including examples of some answers; ARW's address to Land Nationalisation meeting; Nutwood cottage garden.
Land nationalisation meeting; visit to Kew gardens; reading proofs of Australasia; article for Natural Science; Violet's career; lecture by Mrs Britten; family.
Excursion to Kimmeredge Bay; Venerable Bede; payment from the Nineteenth Century (magazine).
Violet's career; loss of a parcel of books sent by rail.
Marking of exams; upcoming holidays; attempts to let the house; discovery of missing parcel of books; anatomy of flowers, including an ink sketch of a flower section with parts labelled; Violet's career.
Attempts to let house; Violet's expenses; flora and fauna of Chee Tor and Chee Dale; Deepdale.
Attempts to let house; article on House of Lords sent to Harris; letter from her brother William.
Letting house and proposed holiday in the Lake district; her brother William's new lodgings in Newcastle-on-Tyne; loss of the ship Victoria, Violet's expenses.
Train journey from Dorset; description of Dove Dale and surrounding area; costs of accommodation; tourists; death of "H.H.H." (Henry Higgins).
Describing walks around Ambleside; visit to Mrs Pritt.
Violet's career; ferns from Cumbria; house repairs; work on second paper on the geology of the Lake District for the Fortnightly.