Weather, silk handkerchiefs, school-boy jokes.
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Weather, silk handkerchiefs, school-boy jokes.
Health insurance.
Books ARW has been reading; liberal and social politics; William's sister Violet's health; house alterations; progress of book [autobiography].
Proposed alterations to house roof (with sketch plan above part of text); progress of work on autobiography.
William's career, application for job with tramways at Southampton.
Alterations to house roof; visit from Lord Wimborne's agent, negotiations over private road; proposal to build a bungalow for use after ARW's death; Ma (William's mother Annie Wallace) going to Hurst and then visiting Montreux with Dr Lunn's party; William's sister Violet; final chapter of book.
William's drawing of the "Maen LLia" stone, inscription to illustrate autobiography (sketch on second page of letter); MS complete and all but last chapters sent to printers; progress of alterations to house roof.
Thanking William for inscription from Maen LLia stone; L N [land nationalisation] Society affairs; visitors; conveyancing of land for road; proofs of book arriving.
Progress of alterations to house; illness of gardener; gardening; correcting proofs of book.
Progress of road to house; reviews [of autobiography]; gardening, plants from La Plata; writing essay on "evolution in character".
Cheque for "Scottish Widows"; Americanisms; weather.
William's birthday; Mr and Mrs Meldola and friend's visit to house; politics.
Gift of paper-knife; draining soil near house (with ink sketch of pipe layout); gardening, trees, shrubs and flowers planted; Christmas greetings.
Proposed sale by Lord Wimborne of land surrounding ARW's house and possible multiplicity of buildings and people, proposal that the family combine to buy extra land near house.
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Thanks for Kropotkin's Life; feels strong similarity of his own early life to Kropotkin's despite differences of wealth, rank and country. Is also reading Whiteing's No. 5 John Street (1899).
Eleanor's postal address; progress of drainage work; Macmillan's magazines Temple Bar and Macmillans; Oliver Lodge on Shaw's Major Barbara in The Clarion; Kropotkin on the Russian people; book criticising Haeckel; regards to Mrs Fisher; letter sent to Reggie.
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