Tract on small-holdings and Parish Council, Dorset County Council, Board of Agriculture and public meetings on small-holdings; entries and prizes for a Reading Contest.
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Tract on small-holdings and Parish Council, Dorset County Council, Board of Agriculture and public meetings on small-holdings; entries and prizes for a Reading Contest.
Offering William the opportunity to edit My Life for a proposed shorter, cheap edition, describing the sections to be cut. Work will be offered to the Casey's if William cannot do it.
New edition of My Life with instructions for cutting sections and ink sketch of method of marking deletions.
With instructions to William for editing proof sheets for new edition of My Life.
Enclosing notes (not present) for William and Benham; building of fences; D.N. [Daily News] reading competition; work on proofs, (of Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes by Richard Spruce, ed. and condensed by ARW, [Dec. 1908]), discovery of Spruce drawings by Mr Slater.
With instructions for editing new edition of My Life; progress of fence-building; Daily News reading competition.
An enclosure [Income tax form not present] William's career, health, income tax, and jobs available in Australia.
With instructions re. marking up proofs for new edition of My Life; William's health and income tax; silver medallion of ARW by Bruce Joy on display at the Royal Academy.
Editing proofs for new edition of My Life; exercise with a chair; gardening.
Order of Merit and Grand Cross Order of the Bath, knighthood, precedence and Whittaker's (Almanack).
Books sent to his son William Wallace for Christmas, Scottish artist Strang's visit, portrait in chalks [of ARW] for Windsor; William's sister Violet going to Hurst; lecture sent to London to be typed.
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ARW thanks Macdonald for the new year gift of an almanac; apologies for lateness, due to not knowing where she went for her holidays; weather; his daughter Violet's lack of work.
Thanks Macdonald for her Christmas present; description of his investiture with Order of Merit at home by the King's equerry Colonel Legge; intends to wear it once in public at a lecture he is to give at the Royal Institution "on the world of life" on 22 Jan 1909, offers tickets for herself and a friend.
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