Thanking Miss Macdonald for a gift of shortbread on his birthday, which he unfortunately cannot eat but others will appreciate. [copied by Miss E? Macdonald and sent to Violet Wallace from Broomhill, Sheffield 19 Jan 1914].
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Thanking Miss Macdonald for a gift of shortbread on his birthday, which he unfortunately cannot eat but others will appreciate. [copied by Miss E? Macdonald and sent to Violet Wallace from Broomhill, Sheffield 19 Jan 1914].
Thanking her for gift of an almanac and wishing her a happy new year. [copied by Miss E? Macdonald and sent to Violet Wallace from Broomhill, Sheffield 19 Jan 1914].
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.
Discusses a press cutting sent by Macdonald on the spiritualist medium consulted by Abraham Lincoln; an American book recently published on Lincoln's spiritualism.
Thanks Miss Macdonald for the gift of a book by G K Chesterton; ARW's and Chesterton's appreciation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; Christmas greetings.
Thanking her for the gift of a book; has just finished writing Social Environment and Moral Purpose which he thinks will interest her; quotes from a 1905 postcard re. fate of nations in the new year. [copied by Miss E? Macdonald and sent to Violet Wallace from Broomhill, Sheffield 19 Jan 1914].