Violet's career; loss of a parcel of books sent by rail.
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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.
Violet's career; local friends; ARW's lecture at Parkstone Institute on "The Colours of Animals"; the Nineteenth Century; conservative journalism and the coal strike; articles in progress on glacial lakes.
Geological Survey; books read; Psychical Science Congress; delayed publication of article in the Nineteenth Century; Sharpe suggests article on House of Lords suitable for The Speaker; articles on the glacial epoch and the formation of lakes in the Fortnightly; garden plants; building of a pond.
Violet's club visits, her request for moss and peacock feathers; building and stocking of garden pond; delay of publication of article.
Violet's visits to a club for working girls; [Liverpool Museum]; advice on bookshelves with ink sketch plan; Christmas plans and gifts.
Violet's career and writing; Lake Tahoe; books read; shipwrecks in recent storm; garden pond; broken boiler; death of Mr Seller.
Journalist's interview; articles on the unemployed and House of Lords, Daily Chronicle; Contemporary Review; storm damage to local houses and shipping; plans for Christmas; night skies.