Sending Meldola a copy of Is Mars Habitable?.
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Sending Meldola a copy of Is Mars Habitable?.
Sending slides with examples of colouration and mimicry, used for his American lecture tour.
Has been working on Studies Scientific and Social, a school reader of the Wonderful Century and some articles for America. House hunting -in Sussex. Will returned from America in March and is now working for Macartney and McElroy in London. Violet is headmistress of a kindergarten belonging to the Frobel Institute. Discusses recent inventions and telescopes at the exhibition.
About colour photography for new edition of the Wonderful Century.
About slides, his son and plan to live in a co-operative with 5-6 friends.
Wants to know location of Brown University, for new edition of Darwinism.
Arrangements for visit to Meldola.
Thanks for the list of products sent. Expresses socialist view of invention and production.
Description of new house at Broadstone. Is beginning a new book to cover the balance of the house, which was expensive. Violet has started a school at Wadhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, with a friend. Will is working on application of electrical power to mining.
Wants to purchase back numbers of the Royal Astronomical Society's monthly notices. About his article in the Fortnightly, and book on same subject. Asks about Ranyard.
Enquiring whether a Mr. Everett would read his MS on astronomical subject, for a fee.
Thanks for the present [which appears to be a small bookcase, possibly the one given to the Royal Society after ARW's death].
Talks about the length of, and reviews received by My Life. An enclosed note congratulates Meldola on his club jubilee.
Sending a paper to Meldola. Comments on gardening and the radical government.
Will not stay with Meldola in London. Had promised Dresser that he would stay with him, if ever in London overnight.
Has had a new idea for a lecture, which will put Darwinism in a new light and leave mutationism nowhere.
Problems with reading his lecture - Crookes has offered to read the main body of it. Will stay with H. G. Dresser. Criticises F. A. Bather.
Seeking information about the origins of graphite and diamonds.
Arranging a visit from the Meldola's.
Compliments Meldola on his article on "Darwin and modern science" in Nature. Comments on papers printed in a volume for celebration of Darwin's work. Is struggling with his new book.